NLB starting Southeast Europe art collection

Slovenian banking group NLB will start a new art collection called SEE ART to showcase contemporary artists from the region. The bank plans to invest €100,000 annually to acquire works of art.

The bank already keeps an art collection, having purchased and collected around 2,000 works in the past. It now wants to resume purchases of art.

They want to "support mainly contemporary artists from the region in which NLB Group is present," NLB chairman Blaž Brodnjak said on 25 January. He made a special mention of Croatia, where the bank is not present.

The new collection will...