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Final exhibition of 15th generation of the World of Art, School for Curators and Critics of Contemporary Art
26 May–15 July 2016
Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana
BORIS BEJA (1986, Trbovlje) is a graduate of Graphic Technology (Faculty of Natural Sciences) and Sculpture (Academy of Fine Arts and Design). In 2012, he received the student Prešeren Award for Sculpture, as well as the Award for the Contribution to the Sustainable Development of Society (Public Fund for Cultural Activities Republic of Slovenia). He was nominated for the OHO Group Award in 2015 and 2016.
Solo exhibitions:
Dormitory, Ravne Gallery, Ravne na Koroškem, 2015
Between the lines, Simulaker Gallery, Novo mesto, 2014
ID grad.: BB/SB 14 – n. 3/3, Božidar Jakac Art Museum, Kostanjevica na Krki, 2014
Minuet for Him, Pentagonal tower – Ljubljana Castle, Ljubljana, 2014
Človek človeku žival (Man is an animal to his fellow man), Krško Gallery, Krško, 2013
Splendour ART P-5124 JUS NI 5.110, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, 2013
Works, in collaboration with Suzana Brborović, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, 2013
Work in Art, in collaboration with Suzana Brborović, Town Hall Gallery Brno, Czech Republic, 2013
The Silence of the Absent, New Gallery DDT, Trbovlje, 2012
Working Title; Untitled, New Gallery DDT, Trbovlje, 2011
Group exhibitions:
Us and Them, Studio Place Arts, Barre, Vermont, USA, 2016
Pogledi na slovensko kiparstvo 1975 – 2015 (Views on Slovenian Sculpture 1975-2015), Piran City Gallery, Piran, 2016
Attention, Work!, Le Comptoir, Liege, Belgium, 2016
ALUO LXX. Past, Present, Future, Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana, 2016
MEM Experimental Arts International Festival, MEM Exhibition Hall, Bilbao, Spain, 2015
Twilight Zone, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, 2015
Alptraum / Cauchemar / Nightmare, Galerija Visual Voice Art, Monteral, Canada, 2015
The 10th Annual OHO Group Award, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, 2015
Memory of Violence – Dreams of the Future, Kibla Portal, Maribor, 2015
Slovenska grafika (Slovenian graphic), Check Point Paint Art Gallery, Trieste, Italy, 2015
Expanding Sculptural Structures, City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 2014
Alternative Worlds, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, 2013
Attention, Work!, The Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia, Velenje, 2013
Preview Berlin, Art Fair, Berlin Opera Workshops, Berlin, Germany, 2013
Start Point SLO, selection of the best works of the Academy of Arts, Mikl House Gallery, Ribnica, 2013
Production 2010 – 2012, MGLC, Ljubljana, 2013
Hotel Obir Reception, Vorspann Gallery, Bad Eisenkappel, Austria, 2013
Materiality, Kibla Portal, Maribor, 2013
Premiere 2012, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, 2012
Le Printemps de Septembre a Toulouse, Toulouse, France, 2012
NINA ČELHAR (1990, Postojna) is a Painting graduate (Academy of Fine Arts and Design) and is currently continuing her studies on a Masters programme in Painting (Academy of Fine Arts and Design). She also spent one year studying at the Academy of Visual Arts – Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany. In 2012, she received the Academy Award for Outstanding Academic Achievements (ALUO), and in 2015, the Collector’s Invitation award for promising young talent (ESSL Award).
Solo exhibitions:
Dwelling Atmospheres, Tir Gallery, Solkan, Nova Gorica, 2016
Fleeting Atmospheres, UGM Studio, Maribor, 2015
Spaces of Belonging, Škrlovec Tower, Kranj, 2015
Additional Areas, ZDSLU Gallery, Ljubljana, 2015
States of Sensitivity, Bežigrad Gallery 1, Ljubljana, 2014
Group exhibitions:
ALUO LXX. Past, Present, Future, Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana, 2016
Diverstiy of Voices, Essl Art Award 2015, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg bei Wien, Austria, 2015
3rd Triennal od Young Artists – Premiere 2015. Time, Mood, Identity, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, 2015
ESSL ART AWARD CEE Nominees’ Exhibition, MSUM+, Ljubljana, 2015
Atopic Body, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, 2014
Preview Berlin Art Fair 2013, Opernwerkstaetten Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2013
Surviving with Creative Practices, Mikl House Gallery, Ribnica, 2013
Transform: Pandora’s Box, Telogleion Foundation of Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2012
Entrance: Painting Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts Students, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, 2012
NEŽA KNEZ (1990, Ljubljana) is a Sculpture graduate (Academy of Fine Arts and Design) and is currently continuing on a Masters programme in Sculpture (Academy of Fine Arts and Design). She is the recipient of several awards: Academy Award for Outstanding Academic Achievements (Academy of Fine Arts and Design, 2012), Academy Award for Outstanding Academic Achievements (ALUO, 2014), the Golden Press award for innovative approaches in printmaking (2015) and the student Prešeren Award (2015). In 2016, she was nominated for the OHO Group Award.
Group exhibitions:
ALUO LXX. Past, Present, Future, Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana, 2016
International Graphic Spring, The Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2015
International Graphic Spring, Graphic Arts Center, Maribor, 2015
Exhibition of Sculptural department of Academy of Fine Arts, UL Gallery, Ljubljana, 2015
PassKey, Montepulciano, Italy, 2014
Transform, National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania, 2014
Lighting Guerrilla, Ljubljana, 2013
MARUŠA MEGLIČ (1989, Ljubljana) is a Painting graduate (Academy of Fine Arts and Design) and is currently continuing her studies on a Masters programme in Painting (Academy of Fine Arts and Design). In 2015, she received the ESSL Award.
Solo exhibitions:
An Artist Needs Very Little, KIOSK Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, 2015
Something Pink, MGML, Bežigrad Gallery 1, Ljubljana, 2013
Group exhibitions:
Diversity of Voices, ESSL Museum, Klosterneuburg bei Wien, Austria, 2015
Common Space, Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia, 2015
ESSL ART AWARD CEE Nominees’ Exhibition, MSUM+, Ljubljana, 2015
Transform, Constantin Brancusi Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, 2014
Podporovaný format, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2013
What Happened?, accompanying exhibition of Biennial of Graphic Arts, MGLC, Ljubljana, 2013
Entrance, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, 2012
TEJKA PEZDIRC (1985, Novo mesto) is a Sculpture graduate (Academy of Fine Arts and Design). In 2009, she received the Academy Award for Special Achievements (ALUO).
Solo exhibitions:
Remains, Rojišče #32, Garderoba Gallery, Bazen, Vrhnika, 2015
Artefatto10, Reset, Trieste, Italy, 2015
Ribs, Nočna izložba Pešak, Metelkova City, Ljubljana, 2015
Transmitters, Gallery Srečišče, Hostel Celica, Ljubljana, 2014
Pocket Utopia, Porto Cesareo, Italy, 2014
Pocket Utopia, München, Germany, 2014
on-line exhibition, Gallery Blank, South Korea, 2014
AbSence, Channel Zero Gallery, Ljubljana, 2013
Video Match (ArtNetLab), Kiberpipa, Ljubljana, 2008
spatial intervention on streets of Altea, Spain, 2007
Group exhibitions:
3rd Triennal od Young Artists – Premiere 2015. Time, Mood, Identity, Gallery of Contemporary Art,Celje, 2015
4.4., Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, 2013
Start Point SLO, Mikl House Gallery, Ribnica, 2012
Art of Dreaming, Mikl House Gallery, Ribnica, 2012
Mc Gallery, Brežice, 2010
Exhibition of Sculptural department of Academy of Fine Arts, SOF, Portorož, 2008
Atrij Gallery, Tržič, 2005
ŽIVA BOŽIČNIK REBEC (1991, Ljubljana)
is a Unique Design – Glass and Ceramics graduate (Academy of Fine Arts and Design) and is currently continuing her studies on a Masters programme in Sculpture (Academy of Fine Arts and Design).
Group exhibitions:
Surface//Resistance, Castle Cmurek, Trate, 2015
Fashion Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2014
Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts Students, Gallery Srečišče, Hostel Celica, Ljubljana, 2013
Keep Yourself Busy, Stična Monastery, Stična, 2012
European Glass Context 2012, Bornholm, Denmark, 2012
Reflections, Ljubljana Town Hall, Ljubljana, 2012
PILA RUSJAN (1984, Šempeter pri Gorici)
is a graduate of Digital Arts and Practices (School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica) and is currently continuing her studies on a Masters programme of Media Arts and Practices (School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica). In 2011, she was nominated for the OHO Group Award and the ESSL Award. In 2012, she received the Tantadruj award of the Theatres of Primorska, and in 2013, the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) Goldilocks award. In 2015, she was again nominated for the ESSL Award.
Solo exhibitions:
Finding Balance, in collaboration with Dejan Štefančič, Central Station: Vitrines, Maribor, 2014
Girl With a Pearl Earring, VideoWall – urban open-air video gallery, Ljubljana, 2013
Bedtime Stories, in collaboration with Nung-Hsin Hu, MGLC, Ljubljana, 2012
Mapping the Memory 1999-2011, TukadMUNGA Gallery, Ljubljana, 2011
Memories Re-enacted – #1: São Paulo, Castanho Claro Gallery, Maribor, 2011
Re-Turn, Gallery of Contemporary Arts Ganes Pratt, Ljubljana, 2010
We are all Big Brother and Big Brother is just one of us, Festival of Contemporary Arts AKTO 4, Bitola, Macedonia, 2009
Just Being, City of Women Festival, Ljubljana, 2008
Looping Edge, Gallery Pop Planet, Ljubljana, 2008
Photo exhibition, Poljane Grammar School, Ljubljana, 2000
Group exhibitions:
Flatmates, A+A Gallery, Venice, Italy, 2014
DEJAN ŠTEFANČIČ (1972, Berlin) has been working in film and television as a stage worker, lighting technician and camera assistant for more than ten years. He has been collaborating with Pila Rusjan on visual art projects as a cameraman, lighting master, technical assistant and occasionally also co-author of artworks since 2012.
Solo exhibitions:
Ritual, VideoWall – urban open-air video gallery, Ljubljana, 2015
Finding Balance, in collaboration with Pila Rusjan, Central Station: Vitrines, Maribor, 2014