Muzika - Ejti Štih

This summer, Bled Castle will showcase the work of academic painter Ejti Štih at two exhibition venues: STOLP Gallery and Bitenc Hall.

The STOLP Gallery will be filled with the artist’s characteristic vivid red canvases depicting musicians. The figures play a variety of instruments, and their gestures and expressions reveal both their enthusiasm and their devotion to the art of music.

Muzika (Music) is particularly well suited to the intimate setting of the STOLP Gallery, for if one listens closely enough, it almost seems possible to hear the sounds emerging from the paintings themselves.

The exhibition will be on display from 15 June to 31 August 2026.

Ejti Štih was born on 25 November 1957 in Slovenia. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana and completed her postgraduate studies in the workshop of Krsto Hegedušić in Zagreb. Following her marriage, she became a Bolivian citizen. Since 1982, she has lived and worked in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

Throughout her artistic career, she has worked across painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, and printmaking. She has also created illustrations for books, magazines, newspapers, and posters. She taught drawing and painting at the Visual Arts Workshop and at Puerta Abierta in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

Štih has designed costumes and stage sets for more than fifty theatre productions in Slovenia, Bolivia, and Spain, as well as carnival costumes and garments. She has also created stage designs for several editions of the International Festival of Renaissance and Baroque Music of the Americas (Misiones de Chiquitos).

She has held more than 170 solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous biennials and group exhibitions in Slovenia, Bolivia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Panama, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Portugal, France, the United States, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Brazil, the former Yugoslavia, Ecuador, Colombia, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Guatemala, and Martinique (French Antilles).