The International Centre of Graphic Arts is both a museum containing a collection of prints from the 20th century onwards, a gallery that hosts exhibitions of contemporary graphic art by Slovenian and foreign artists, a publisher of prints produced in graphic workshops and the producer of the International Biennial of Graphic Arts that takes place in Ljubljana every other year and is considered to be the oldest running event devoted to graphic arts in the world.
The Biennial was first held in 1955, in the middle of the Cold War, and has in the more than sixty years of its existence constantly responded to the continuously changing socio-political context while at the same time transforming its own identity and strategies. Its existence has placed Ljubljana and Slovenian fine art on the world map. The Biennial has been internationally acknowledged as a high-quality event and has helped Slovenian art also gain recognition abroad.
