Painted Pivka is a multi-year project (2022–) of the Hiša kulture in Pivka gallery, which explores wall painting, its expression, scope and significance in the public space, using the example of a small town like Pivka.

As known, the central significance of mural painting is that it brings art into the public sphere. In this way, the artwork reaches the widest possible audience, including visitors who never venture into the gallery, and can at the same time become (or is) an effective medium of social communication. Given that Pivka had no public murals before this project, it seems particularly apt to investigate what effects murals can have on the town's residents, the relationships between them and the overall social atmosphere. Hiša kulture therefore, considers the project as a kind of laboratory for exploring the relationship between art and society, and hopes that it will make an important contribution to the development of the visual image of the town and the promotion of visual art in general.

In 2022, painter Leon Zuodar created a mural entitled Artist at Work in the courtyard behind Hiša kulture, which thematises the work of the artist, their contribution to the development of society and the social perception of contemporary art.

The following year, painter and illustrator Petra Preželj depicted a mural on the supporting wall of Vrtec Mavrica. Interweaving figures of animals, plants, people and fantastic creatures on a background of abstract patterns and landscape elements, the mural remains open to interpretation, as the artist suggests with the title – Tell a Story.

In 2024, painter Marko Šajn created a mural on the wall of a building near the Pivka railway station. Entitled ARRIVAL / DEPARTURE, the mural refers to Pivka as a place of passage, showing it as a place that everyone uses to merely pass through or cross or change trains, and where nobody stops, so in a sense, as a non-place.

This year, painter Iva Tratnik created a mural on the supporting wall of a private estate in Radohova vas. The wall painting, entitled 7 Dwarves 7 Samurai, conceptually refers to the world of (animated) film. It consists of a sequence of images in which beetles and dwarfs are hidden among diverse vegetation. The vegetation represents a fixed element, while the beetles and dwarfs change from image to image. The dwarfs are reminiscent of characters from the animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Walt Disney Productions, 1937), while the beetles resemble red goblins (which can also represent African ceremonial masks) or stag beetles (whose "antlers", as symbols of power, are often part of samurai armour). Colour is also not insignificant in this sense, as it changes from red to pink to blue in the beetles, while the dwarfs remain black and white throughout. Using these associations and references, the whole can be interpreted in different ways, including as a playful exploration of the concept of masculinity and the associated social expectations in different places and times.