Museum events
6. 3.-30. 3. 2025
Uglies: The puppets of Zlatko Bourek
“Grdači”, or “uglies”, is a term coined with a good deal of humour by the Croatian erudite artist Zlatko Bourek to describe his unusual puppets.
One of the most prominent Croatian visual artists and puppet makers, Bourek left an indelible mark on Slovenian puppetry. His uglies leave no one indifferent, inviting us into a world of the aesthetics of ugliness, the grotesque, but also of expressive, lascivious sexuality – a world that both repels and...