Premio Combat Prize

Born in 1982 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2006 participated in the CEEPUS exchange program on the Fine Art Academy in Zagreb. Graduated in 2008 in the field of painting on the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Currently working the MFA in painting. Lives and works in Skofja Loka and Ptuj in Slovenia, EU.

Artist statement
In my painting endeavors I originate from the reinterpretations of the digital image, from its immaterial position in cyberspace. The idea of transferring the digital image to the material sphere is essential to me. The painting process itself is concentrated in the transfer of the image from digital screens to the canvas, which is covered with ducktape in a specific order with which I then transfer the image to the finished carrier. The painting is not restricted to the traditional easel painting, but it bends to the process and concept. The end result is not necessarily a painting. I primarily draw from the photographic registers on the internet, from the pool of historical images, chronicles, from rural traditions, hunting documentations and sporting events. For me, painting is a process of framing and revealing the distances and spaces in which I move forms and neglected images that are dumped in mass virtual depots, with which I wish to create a new carrier object for them.

CV
Solo Shows (selected):

2013 - Očetnjava/Fatherland, Sokolski dom in Škofja Loka, SLO, EU
2013 - Likovni kritiki izbirajo/Art critics choose: Mito Gegič, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, SLO, EU
2013 - Očetnjava/Fatherland, painting, Narodni dom in Trieste, ITA, EU
2011 - Online/Offline, multi-media, Gallery Media Nox, Maribor, SLO
2010 - Online/Offline, paintings, Art Factory Majšperk, SLO

Group Shows (selected):

2014 - Arte Laguna Prize 13.14, Arsenale, Venice, ITA
2013 - Veliki črni bik, koga kličeš?/Big gray bull, who are you calling? Group show with Tina Dobrajc in Gallery Equrna, Ljubljana, SLO
2012 - DISORDER: WHEN, WHERE, THE ARTISTS, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, ITA
2012 - WEYA: World Event Young Art, Lakeside Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2012 - Disorder, ŠKUC, SLO
2012 - ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES 2012: THE MEDITERRANEAN, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, ITA
2012 - Not Only: 2012 PROJECT BERLIN, Factory-Art Gallery, Berlin, GER
2011 - Symbiosis? 15th Biennale de la Mediterranée, Thessaloniki, GR
2011 - Nord Art 2011, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Carlshütte, GER
2010 - We want to be free as our fathers were, MGLC, Ljubljana, SLO

Awards and Acknowledgements:

2014 - Arte Laguna 13.14 - Artist in gallery prize
2013 - Grand prize on the International Ex-tempore in Ptu
2010 - Finalist of Henkel Art Award Slovenia
2010 - Nomination for the OHO prize for young artists
2005 - Academy award ALUO for special artistic achievements, painting

Collections:

Loški Muzej, Skofja Loka, Slovenia
Art collection Talum, Slovenia

Publications (selected):

2013 - The State of Art - Representational & Abstract - Volume 1, 2013, Bare Hill Publishing, ISBN 9781909825017, web
2013 - 2013 Project Berlin, Factory-Art Gallery, 2013, ISBN 9781909093294, web
2012 - Lepo slikarstvo je za nami/La belle peinture est derriére, 2012, Kultura 21, ISBN: 9789612697556
2011 - Symbiosis? XV Biennale de la Méditerranée, 2011, web
2010 - Hočemo biti svobodni, kot so bili očetje/We want to be free as the fathers were, Ljubljana : Mednarodni grafični likovni center, 2010, ISBN: 9789616229326