Prof. Žiga Kariž
Education:
- graduated in painting from ALU UL in 1973
- completed a painting specialisation at ALU UL in 2001
- exhibited his work Terror = Decor: Art Now in 2003 in the Slovenian Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale
- began an artistic collaboration in 2007 with artists Janez Janša and Janez Janša
- employed at ALUO UL since 2010 as an instructor at the Department of Painting
- co-founded an “artist-run” gallery in 2015 with a group of artists in the Šiška area of Ljubljana GalleryGallery, which is part of the art project Made in China
- in 2021, the same group of artists in the Ljubljana area of Bežigrad established an “artist-run” gallery GalleryGallery – 2, where Kariž also lives and works
Solo exhibitions (selection):
2021
- “Kariž Watches the Light”, Botegin Gallery, Koper, Slovenia
2018
- Paradise”, GalerijaGallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- “One, One, One“, Together with Janez Janša and Janez Janša, Spazio Gamma, Milan, Italy2017
- “Janez Janša®”, Together with Janez Janša and Janez Janša, + MSUM, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- “350 Janez Janša Bottles”, Together with Janez Janša and Janez Janša, Poznań Festival, Piraeus Culture Incubator, Poznań, Poland
- “Freud! Marx and I are Coming!”, Photon Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2016
- “All About You”, Together with Janez Janša and Janez Janša, Cultural Centre Tobačna 001, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- “Freud, Marx und Ich”, Galerie cubus-m, Berlin, Germany
2015
- “Freud, Marx and I.”, Cultural Centre Tobačna 001, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- “Trust”, together with Janez Janša and Janez Janša, Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013
- “Work”, Together with Janez Janša and Janez Janša, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2011
- Paradise Lost”, together with Vasja Cencič, Modern Gallery, Auditorium, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- “New Works”, together with Viktor Bernik, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010
- “Visual bureaucrats. Triple image separation / difficult image separation / multiple image exclusion. The most beautiful picture, the prettier picture, the pretty picture (no title).” Together with Bojan Gorenc and Alen Ožbolt, Maribor Art Gallery, Slovenia
Group exhibitions (selection):
2019
- “Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia”, MG +, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018
- “Places of Sustainability. Pavilions, Manifestos and Crypts”, + MSUM, Metelkova Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- “PORNO – POP”, The Concept Space, London, UK
- “Verknipt”, WARP, Contemporary Art Platform, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
2017
- “Make Truth Great Again”, Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France
- “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art (after Bochner)”, CAC Beech / Landskrona, Landskrona, Sweden
- “Go Canny! Poétique du sabotage”, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2016
- “Made in China: Prospective”, GalerijaGallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- “THREE ROOMS (AND A CORRIDOR)”, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- “Good Luck, Archaeologists!”, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
- “Made in China, Cocktail Party”, Art Market Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- “Coup de Ville, WARP ”, Contemporary Art Platform, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
- “Crises and New Beginnings: Art in Slovenia 2005-2015”, + MSUM, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015
- “Splice”, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- “The Magic of Art”, Künstlerhaus, Wien, Austria
- “Accumulation of Matter”, Lehrter Siebzehn, Berlin, Germany