Prinčič Barbara

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Education

2007 – Master of Arts on Ecology as a Way of Life at UL ALUO

1993 – received a scholarship from the Dutch government for postgraduate studies at the European Design Centre (EDC), Eindhoven, in cooperation with The Design Academy Eindhoven

1991 – Graduated from the Department for Design, UL ALU, majoring in Industrial Design

 

Work experience and guest posts

2024 – Professor of Industrial Design at ALUO

2018 – Visiting Lecturer at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

2016 – Associate Professor of Industrial Design at ALUO

2010 – Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at ALUO

2008 – two academic years as an invited lecturer at HTBL Ferlach Design College, Austria

1997 – UL ALUO; assistant professor of Industrial Design

1993 – freelance designer; fields of work: visual communication and packaging design, State of the Art research

1992 – DPC-CETRA=Design Promotion Center-China External Trade Development Council, Taipei, Taiwan; consultancy in the field of professional and promotional activities for the preparatory ICSID World Congress in Taipei, consultancy in the field of education and awareness raising of local manufacturers/companies on industrial design as a strategic tool for achieving higher added value in products and thus a greater competitive advantage in international markets.

1991 – Formitas Agency; visual communication design and project management

1990 – Secretariat of the 17th ICSID Congress at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Editor-in-Chief of the periodical At the Crossroads News

 

Projects (from 2015 onwards)

2023 – Hmm, just where to put it. Project from the PDPPIZŠDO call for proposals. Project leader senior lect. mag. Nevenka Ferfila, Faculty of Medicine, UL.

2023 – Engineering expo project as part of the Engineer of the Year project. Design of exhibition stands and participation in the exhibition set-up. Client Mediade d.o.o., in cooperation with MG Rohr.

2022/23 – Design and implementation project for the exhibition Intertwining, in collaboration with ALUO students.

2022 – Re-Lax project; development of two products (a bench and a chair) from discarded conveyor belts for outdoor or indoor use, in collaboration with the Port of Koper.

2022 – T-60 art installation project for the international festival Svetlobna gverila. Matic Čič, Boštjan Drinovec, Žan Girandon, Pia Groleger, Luka Pleskovič, Barbara Prinčič, Vid Lebič, Jo Zornik.

2021 – Project Extending the lifetime of scrap from the production of rubber products by Lonstroff d.o.o. (student R&D project).

2020/21 – Student Corner project (student R&D applied project). Work carried out for ALUO.

2020 – Design and implementation of the ŠIPK exhibition project Say NO! Disposable products. Collaborator Tina Nunar (graphic design).

2020 – This will be my home. Project leader: prof. Tadej Glažar, Faculty of Architecture

2019 – Innovative solutions to reduce packaging. Project management in the framework of the ŠIPK call.

2019 – Innovative treatment of household waste in the kitchen. PKP Project leader Prof. Dr. Joško Valentinčič, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, UL.

2019 – Jute project – project for the development of a new material from discarded jute coffee sacks and the development of potential applications; in cooperation with Droga Kolinska and the Institute of Pulp and Paper, Ljubljana. Collaborator Andrej Šinkovec.

2018 – project for the design and realisation of the exhibition Second Round – a transparent exhibition of ALUO students in courses with sustainable content.

2017/18 – project on the potential use of waste/residues from a selected (production) process (student R&D project in cooperation with Filc d.o.o.).

2016/17 – Smart Shelter Research project in collaboration with Martin Schieldkamp, a Dutch architect based in Asia, who contributed to the call for papers (student R&D project).

2016 – conceptual development of games for the Gardi brand, with the Shroomko playhouse realised as the first product. In cooperation with Exor Eti d.o.o.

2015 – Practical use of discarded materials with focus on textile products. Project management in the framework of the PKP call. Work carried out for ALUO.

 

Exhibitions (from 2015 onwards)

  • home

2022/23 – Intertwining exhibition. Small Lodge, Koper, 29.11.-19.12.2022 and Ljubljana City Hall, Right Atrium, 12.1.-16.2.2023

2021 – When I Close My Eyes. Solo exhibition of paintings made from discarded textiles. City Hall, Glass Atrium, Ljubljana

2020 – Exhibition Say NO! Disposable Products. Presentation of ten mentored student results from the ŠIPK Call for Innovative Solutions for Packaging Reduction. Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana

2018 – O…design, between vision and reality. Biennial exhibition of the Slovenian Designers Association, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana

2016 – Design Identity; solo presentation ‘Let’s Give Wood to Children’, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana

2016 – Images of Time; Biennial Review Exhibition of the Slovenian Designers’ Association, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana

 

  • abroad

2022 – Guiltlessplastic. Exhibition of the finalists for the RO Plastic Prize 2022, Galleria Rossana Orlandi during Milan Design Week. Milan, Italy

2017 – Venice Design; curated side exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Organised by the GAA Foundation as part of the European Cultural Centre. Palazzo Michiel and Marinaressa Garden, Venice, Italy

2017 – Boomerang 7; Czech and Slovenian art project organised by AAMI Institute, Quadrium Center, Prague

2016 – Slovenian Design – exhibition of Slovenian design in Milan; Slovenia Design Showroom, Milan, Italy. Organised by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the SPIRIT Agency.

2015 – Exhibition of A’Design Award-winning projects and products (LED chandelier 5×5) in the former church of St. Francis, Como, Italy. Exhibition also presented at the World Design Hub 2015 and Irish Design 2015 in Dublin, Ireland and at the Shengzu Industrial Design Fair in China.

 

Awards and nominations

2022 – European Product Design Award-winner

2022 – Ro Guilt Plastic Prize 2022-finalist, Italy

2022 – A’Design Award and Competition 2022-runner up, Italy

2015 – A’Design Gold Award, Italy

2014 – A’Design Silver Award, Italy

2010 – Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA 2010) Finalist: the 5×5 Column is placed in the permanent collection of the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan, USA.

1996 – BIO 15, ICSID Honorary Award (group),

1987 – ALU Prešeren Prize, 1987

1986 – BIO 11, special commendation

 

Conferences, lectures, workshops (from 2015 onwards)

2023 – Organisation of a three-day student workshop on biomimetics, led by Dutch invited expert Saskia van der Muijsenberg.

2022 – Invited lecture on “The path to a green product – what is a green product?” at the 2022 SRIP MATPRO Consultation “The path to a green product – sustainability outside the box” Portorož. Organised by SRIPMAT and the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The lecture is available here.

2022 – The Story of Jute. Invited lecture as a public event at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, organised as part of the BIO 27 side activities.

2022 – participation in the international scientific conference Mediteranean Islands Conference-Vis 2022, Croatia, with the paper Sustainable Design in Practice at ALUO – Reducing Waste, Saving Resources, Minimising Costs by Developing and Making Multifunctional Units as Equipment for Students. Vis, Croatia, 14-17.9.2022

2020 – Invited lecture on The challenge for a circular economy; instead of the dump, the market. Time for innovation – “circular design” or “sustainable design”. Organised by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the framework of the Interreg Central Europe project, Coco4CCI.

2020 – Participation in the international scientific conference Mediterranean Islands Conference with the paper From Initiation to New Design Solutions Based on a Circular Economy. Organised by Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences and Grupa Vern. Vis, Croatia.

2020 – Sustainable Design, Invited lecture for members of the Rotary Club Triglav Ljubljana.

2020 – Organisation of a two-day student workshop on Co-Creation, led by Dutch invited expert Liesbeth Scholten.

2019 – Conducting a full-day Creative Green Action Workshop for students of the Creative Design Department, College of Design, Yun-tech, Taiwan.

2018 – guest invited lectures and workshop on Upcycling, Sustainability and Aesthetics at Tainan University of Technology, Fashion Design Department and National Chiayi University, both in Taiwan.

2018 – Our Responsible Journey, Invited Keynote Lecture at the International Conference on Cross-Boundary and Integration & Symposium on Sustainable Products and Industrial Management. Organised by National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

2018 – Invited keynote lecture on Ecodesign and Product Value Added at the expert workshop From Material to Ecodesign – Packaging in the Circular Economy. Organised by Fit media d.o.o., Celje.

2017 – Awareness of the importance of environmentally responsible design among designers. Invited lecture at the Plastics Symposium. Organised by the Museum of Architecture and Design, Fužine Castle, Ljubljana.

2017 – Practicing Upcycling-Oriented Projects for a Circular Economy. Invited lecture at the Retrace partners meeting in Ljubljana. Organised by the Slovenian Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy.

 

Mentorships, co-mentorships (diplomas and award-winning projects since 2015)

2023 – GIRANDON, Žan, GROLEGER, Pia, PLESKOVIČ, Luka. Planning proposals and solutions to raise awareness and eliminate the problem of water pollution in local communities with their own water intake: master thesis A. Ljubljana. Also recipients of the Daljnogled award, given by the Slovenian Designers Association.

2023 – JARH, Bor. Product design with geometry optimization : bachelor thesis. Ljubljana: [B. Jarh], 2023. 45 p., illus. Mentor Lidija Pritržnik. [COBISS.SI-ID 149620483]

2022 – Matic Čič, Žan Girandon, Pia Groleger, Vid Lebič, Tena Palian, Satya Pene, Luka Pleskovič, Daša Šešerko, Jo Zornik. Co-mentor doc. Boštjan Drinovec. Recipients of the ALUO Prešeren Prize for the project T-60 and Reflection.

2022 – DIETNER, Jan. Refillable packaging for sustainable use : thesis. Ljubljana: [J. Dietner], 2022. 77 p., illus. [COBISS.SI-ID 130263811]

2021 – MERŠE, Lea. Sustainability aspects of the problem of discarded textiles : thesis. Ljubljana: [L. Merše], 2021. 56 p., illus. Mentor Lidija Pritržnik. [COBISS.SI-ID 77386755]

2021 – Dea Beatovikj, Tino Duralija, Martin Pevec, Valeska Rimele, Jon Schwarzmann, Žiga Žalec; mentoring on the project Student Corner, for which they received the Daljnogled award from the Slovenian Designers’ Association.

2020 – LESNIKA, Alja. Sustainable furniture : bachelor thesis. Ljubljana: [A. Lesnika], 2020. 63 p., illustrated. Mentor Rok Kuhar. [COBISS.SI-ID 28387843]

2019 – Julija Karas and Neža Medved. Recipients of the Daljnogled award for their project “Potential uses of waste/residues from a selected (production) process”. Development of a new biopolymer.

2019 – Ajda Auer, Ajda Bertok, Jernej Kapus, Ambrož Močnik. Saddles from discarded cerados. Semi-finalist in Young Balkan Designers 2019: Circular Design. Belgrade. Serbia.

2017 – Valentina Arčan and Maja Grobler. Mentoring on the project Bio Seedling Pots. 1st prize winners at the festival (and competition) Reci:Design, Images of Recycling, Celje. Organised by Outsider magazine.

2017 – Špela Čuk and Katarina Merslavič. Mentorship on the project Travel bag made from discarded car belts. Winners of the 2nd prize at the Reci:Design festival (and competition), Images of Recycling, Celje. Organised by Outsider magazine.

2017 – Lin Gerkman and Jakob Koncut. Mentorship on the project Multifunctional light (also as a pendant) KLO. Winners of the 3rd prize at the Reci:Design festival (and competition), Images of Recycling, Celje. Organised by Outsider magazine. 

2016 – JERMANČIČ, Damijan. Siesta-moments : lounging entertainers and comfortable touchscreens : bachelor thesis B. Ljubljana: [ D. Jermančič], 2016. 96 p., illus. [COBISS.SI-ID 3560046]

2016 – SEVER, Maja. Induction plate in incandescent appliances : bachelor thesis B. Ljubljana: [ M. Sever], 2016. 43 p., [1] p. f., ill. [COBISS.SI-ID 3560302].

2016 – TURK, Katja. Modular caravan with an emphasis on the development of functional pull-out modules. Ljubljana: [ K. Turk], 2016. 131 p., illus. [COBISS.SI-ID 3519598]

2016 – ČERVEK, Katjuša. Fast food packaging : diploma thesis. Ljubljana: [K. Červek], 2016. 98 p., [5] p. f., ill. Mentor Vladimir Pezdirc. [COBISS.SI-ID 3545710]

2016 – KAKER, Jelka. Re-use of waste objects and materials : diploma thesis. Ljubljana: [ J. Kaker], 2016. 90 p., illus. Mentor Vladimir Pezdirc. [COBISS.SI-ID 3546734]

2015 – BARBARIĆ, Rina. Series of covers for Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong music albums : thesis. Ljubljana: [R. Barbarić], 2015. 35 p., illus. Mentor Ranko Novak. [COBISS.SI-ID 3431278]

 

Job functions at the Academy and the University

2023-25 Head of the Department for Industrial Design and Applied Arts, ALUO

2023 on the basis of the decision of the Dean of ALUO on appointment – Member of the Working Group on Sustainability at ALUO

2022-2023 (October-February) at the request of the Head of the Parent Department Coordinator of the renewal of the Industrial Design and Applied Arts study programme in accordance with the ALUO A1 strategy

2022 onwards on the proposal of the Rector of the UL Chairperson of the University Disciplinary Committee for 2nd cycle students

2022 onwards on the proposal of the Dean Member of the University Commission for Extracurricular Activities

2020-2022 Head of the Chair for the Development of Design Education

2019 onwards Member of the ALUO Quality Commission

2017-2019 Member of the ALUO Recognition Commission

2015-2019 Administrator of the study programme Industrial Design and Applied Arts (also in the period autumn 2020 to spring 2021)

2015-2019 Head of the Industrial Design course

Berlot Pompe Uršula

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Education:

2010: Doctorate, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana

2002: Master of Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana

2000: DNSAP – diploma École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

1998: Diploma – academic painter, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana

1992 – 1994: study of philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

 

Work experiences:

2009 – present: teaches at the Department of Theoretical Sciences UL ALUO

2006 – 2010: Lecturer at the College of Design, Ljubljana

2003 – 2006: Lecturer at the Callegari Institute, Italian School of Design, Ljubljana

 

Memberships and collaborations:

2012–: member of the editorial board of the Journal for the Critique of Science, Imagination, and the New Anthropology

2016–: member of the editorial board of the journal Art Words

2010–: member of the Society for Aesthetics in Ljubljana

1999–: member of the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies (ZDSLU)

 

Awards and recognitions:

2021: Recognition of Rihard Jakopič, ZDSLU, Ljubljana

2020: International Award ‘Featured Artist’, ADA – Archive of Digital Arts, Austria

2006: Award – Schering Stiftung, residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien 2007, Berlin

2005: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, New York

2004: Henkel Art Award, KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna

 

 

Exhibitions:

In her artwork, Uršula Berlot Pompe deals with the intersections of art, science and philosophy. She explores relationships between the real and the virtual, between direct and technologically mediated perceptual experiences of reality, often using technologically advanced optical research tools (radiology, microscopy). In experimental and research-oriented artistic practice, she intertwines various media and genres, and explores the forms of mental spaces in video works, light-kinetic installations or drawings, the question of simulated nature and the relationship between mind, body and technological media.

International exhibitions include exhibitions at museums such as Today Art Museum in Beijing, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, BA-CA Kunstforum Tresor in Vienna, Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. She has also exhibited in national exhibitions such as Moderna galerija, UGM Maribor, Centre of Contemporary Arts Celje, Loža Gallery, Nova Gorica City Gallery, Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Equrna Gallery, Škuc Gallery).

 

Selection of international exhibitions:

2021 ‘Triennial of Central European Culture and Art: The Universal ‘, Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic (next)

2019 ‘Endemic vs. Global’, C3 Science Complexity Centre, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

2018 ‘Extra/Ordinary’ Plug-in New Media Art – Contemporary Istanbul, IKM Istanbul Congress Centre, Istanbul

2016 ‘Flat and Distant – China and Slovenia Contemporary Art’, Today Art Museum, Beijing

2013 ‘Museo Illuminato’, Museo Revoltella, Trieste, Italy

2012 ‘Scatole sonore/Sound Boxes, Palinsesti 2012’, Palazzo Altan, San Vito al Tagliamento,

Italy

2009 ‘Biennale Quadrilaterale 3: Media Art – Angles and Intersections’, Museum of Modern and

Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia

2009 ‘SCI-ART’, Enrico Astuni Gallery, Bologna, Italy

2008 ‘Glow: Forum of Light in Art and Architecture ‘, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2008 ‘Transmediale 08: Conspire ‘, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

2007 ‘Pulse / Intersections’, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (solo)

2006 ‘Art’Fab: L’art/ la femme/ L’Europe’, La Citadelle, Saint-Tropez, France

2006 ‘Our House is the House That Moves’, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

2001 ‘Sakaide Art Grand Prix 2001’, Sakaide Civic Art Museum, Sakaide, Japan

 

Selection of national exhibitions:

2020 ‘Bodyfraction’, City Gallery Nova Gorica (solo)

2019 ‘New Window. Duplicate Extension’ by Urs Bold, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana (duo)

2019 ‘SELFIE / sh / me – self-portraits’, Piran City Gallery

2017 ‘Polymorphic Imprint’, UGM studio, Maribor (solo)

2017 ‘Epilogue – Space, Body and Media in Transition’, Dvorec Novo Celje near Žalec

2016 ‘The Earth is Flat – Contemporary Slovenian and Chinese Art’, Art Gallery

Maribor (UGM), Maribor

2015 ‘Pixxelpoint 2015: Subject – 16th International Festival of Media Arts’, City Gallery Nova Gorica

2014 ‘La magia dell’arte; I protagonisti dell’arte Slovena contemporanea 1968 – 2013’, Villa

Manin, Passariano di Codroipo

2012 ‘Almost Spring – 100 Years of Slovenian Art’, UGM, Maribor

2012 ‘Vanitas’, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo)

2012 ‘Bodyscope’, Kibla – multimedia centre, Maribor (solo)

2011 ‘Contemporary Art from Slovenia’, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main

2010 ‘Drawing in Slovenia II. 1940 – 2009 ‘, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

2008 ‘Transience’, Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki (solo)

2008 ‘Poetics’, Carinthian Gallery Slovenj Gradec

2005 ‘Slovenian Art 1995-2005: Territories, Identities, Networks’, Modern Gallery,

Ljubljana

2005 ‘Towards Zero Gravity’, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. http: //zerogravity.mg-

lj.si/eng/svetloba/berlot.htm

2002 ‘Reflection’, Small Gallery – Modern Gallery, Ljubljana (solo)

 

References:

She is the author of a monograph on Duchamp and also articles on the field of art theory which thematically address issues of perception and representation of space in fine arts, technology and neuroaesthetics, and concepts of traditional aesthetics such as representation, simulation and mimesis.

Selection:

  • Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Complexity and Technological Biomorphism in Contemporary Abstract Painting. Proceedings for Tomaž Brejec: Special edition of the Proceedings of Art History, Ljubljana: Slovenian Art History Society, 2020
  • Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Pictorial Abstractions: Visualising Space in the Eras of Modernism and Information, AR / Architecture Research I / 2018 “Correspondences”. Ljubljana: Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, 2018
  • Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Space and the Spectator: Embodied Perception in the Art of Installation. Journal of Critique of Science, Imagination and New Anthropology XLVI / 274: 27-54. Ljubljana: Institute Journal of the Critique of Science, 2018
  • Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Intuition in Contemporary Art. Art Words, 106. Ljubljana: ZDSLU, 2017
  • Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Neuroart, Neuroaesthetics and the Question of Consciousness. ČKZ, XLIV / 265. Ljubljana: Institute Journal of the Critique of Science, 2016
  • Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Minimal Difference and Modern Mimesis. Art Words, 103. Ljubljana: ZDSLU, 2016
  • Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Space and Light in 20th Century Art Installations. Gaps (Praznine) 08/2015. Ljubljana: Praznine Art Education Association, 2015
  • Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Duchamp in Mimesis. Ljubljana: Research Institute of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, 2011
  • Berlot, Ursula. Duchamp and the Notion of Optical Tactility. Art, Emotion and Value. 5th Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics. University of Murcia, 2011
  • Berlot, Ursula. Biomimesis and Contemporary Art. Journal of Critique of Science, Imagination and Anthropology, vol. XXXIX, 2011, no. 244. Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 2011

 

 

Mentoring:

Doctoral thesis mentoring

GOLOB, Urška. The Influence of Digital Media on the Creative Process in Fine Arts: doctoral dissertation. Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, 2018

 

Mentoring of theoretical work in master’s theses

LEKŠE, Lene. Strategies and Expectations, ALUO, 2021

ERJAVEC, Nika. Sensory Perceptions at the Intersection of Art and Science, ALUO, 2021

ŠVET, Teodora. Layers of Reality, ALUO, 2021

MILOVANOVIC, Danilo. Artivism – Engaged Urban Art in the Public Space, ALUO, 2020

ZORZUT, Neja. Amorphous Object Fusion; Alohton, ALUO, 2020

PREZELJ, Tim. The Microscope as a Bridge Between Science and Art, ALUO, 2020

HOZJAN, Veronika. Neurological Foundations of Perception and Artistic Creation; Look at Me!, ALUO, 2020

KOSI, Janja. Everyday Life of Heterotopic Space, ALUO, 2020

KOCMUR, Tatjana. Body Installation – Between Performance and Object, ALUO, 2020

PREK, Urša. Movement in the Diversity of Time and Space, ALUO, 2020

VUČKO, Teja. The Outpouring of Presence into the Eternal and (Internalised) Spaces of the Landscape; Beyond, ALUO, 2019

DRVARIČ, Živa. Expansion of the Circle; (Un) happiness, ALUO, 2018

GRUDNIK, Jasmina. Time Capture; Model of my Life, ALUO, 2018

PORI, Zala. Art as an Intuitive Practice; Transparency and Abstract Field, ALUO, 2018

RESNIK, Mira. The Influences of the Formal and Conceptual Expansions of the Painting Space in the 1960s on Contemporary Art; My Works in Space and Time, ALUO, 2018

KLEVA IVANČIĆ, Rok. Illustration Portfolio – from Concept to Edition, ALUO, 2016

 

Co-mentorship in master’s theses

PREZELJ, Tim. The Microscope as a Bridge Between Science and Art, Biotechnical Faculty, 2020

BELTRAN, Jana. Spaces of Colour and Light, ALUO, 2016

 

Mentoring in diploma theses

AREH, Marko. Indoor and Outdoor LED Lights, Faculty of Design, 2011

JORDEVA, Marija. Uniqueness of Colour Effect: Subjective Influence of Colours in Interior Design, VŠD, 2010

 

Co-mentorship in diploma theses

MIHEVC, Matej. Neural Networks and the Future of Cultural Production, ALUO, 2021

KUCLER, David. It is Easier to Imagine the End of the World, ALUO, 2021

KOBAL, Pia. Taxonomy of the Visual, ALUO, 2021

PRISLAN, Katarina. Modern Man Seeks ALUO, 2021

KLINAR, Ema. Paradox Portrait, ALUO, 2021

BOJANIĆ, Maja. From Home, with Regards, ALUO, 2020

TOVORNIK, Nina. Everything is Worth Failing, ALUO, 2020

BAUMAN, Inja. Light Tolerance and Nature Conservation Ethics in Painting, ALUO, 2019

LEKŠE, Lene. Mountain, ALUO, 2018

KOCMUR, Tatiana. Body Image in my Practice, ALUO, 2015

OBLAK, Jerca. The Role of Drawing in Contemporary Art and my Practice, ALUO, 2014

MEGLIČ, Maruša. The Confessional Art of Louise Bourgeois. Discovering Aspects of Women through Art, ALUO, 2012

KUMAR, Voranc. Projection and Space of Difference, ALUO, 2012

HRUP, Anamari. Synthesis Between the Subject and the Abstract in the Pictorial Field through the Analysis of One’s Own Work and the Work of Selected Authors, ALUO, 2012

 

Čehovin Eduard

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Education:

Prof. Eduard Čehovin graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, the Department for Graphic Design, Graphic Communication and Typographies.

 

Professional experience:

He teaches the elective subjects of interactive design, kinetic typography and graphic design at the Department for Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.

Member of the Committee for Academic Affairs

He lectures and writes articles on graphic design and is a member of many international juries in the field of design.

 

Scholarships, specialisations:

As a scholar of IREX – International Research and Exchanges Board, USA – he spent one year at the University of Buffalo and at Parsons School of Design in New York.

 

Awards:

He won the most prestigious international awards, such as Type Directors Club (TDC), Art Directors Club Award (ADC), Good Design Awards, Graphis Annuals Awards in Design Quarterly (USA), and D&AD (UK).

 

Publications:

His works were published in all major international graphic-design publications and books, such as Graphis Annuals, Communications Arts, Print, HOW, Visible Language, Typo Directors Club Annual, Art Directors Club Annual, Creative Quartely . USA; Linea Grafica – Italy; Novum – Gemrany; Etapes – France.

 

Exhibitions:

He exhibits in solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and around the world, including Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Taiwan and the USA.

His works are included in the permanent collections of the International Trademark Centre in Zandhoven, Belgium; Museum of Applied Arts in Zagreb, Croatia, Les Silos – Maison du Livre et de l’Affiche – Contemporary Collection in Chaumont, France; Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Serbia; MGLC – International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia; Museum of Design (Poster Collection) in Zurich, Switzerland; The Chicago Athenaeum in Chicago, USA and the private collection of Merrill C. Berman in Rye, USA.

 

Memberships:

Member of TDC (Type Directors Club), New York.

 

References:

 

AWARDS

2014 – Winner, za plakat 92nd ADC and 11th YG exhibition, QUAD INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS, Kassel, Germany

2013 – Gold Award, za plakat THE RESISTIBLE RISER OF ARTURO UI, GRAPHIS POSTER ANNUAL 2013, New York, USA

2012 – Gold Award, za logotip INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DESIGN, GRAPHIS LOGO DESIGN 8, New York, USA

2012 – Gold Award, za BILLBOARD FOR 10th SEASON, GRAPHIS POSTER ANNUAL 2012, New York, USa

2008 – Good Design Award 2008, za časopis DVA (TWO) MAGAZINE, THE CHICAGO ATHENAEUM – Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago, USA

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • 2013 – Eduard Čehovin, Kinetic Zebra, Novum+, Outdoor, NOVUM, 07.13; Marta Almeida; Magazine Verlag GmbH, Munchen, no. 42 (review)
  • 2012 – Functional, Constructivist, NEW MODERNIST TYPE; Steve Heller and Gail Anderson; Thames & Hudson, London, UK; no. 23, 77
  • 2011 – Slovenia, Best in Europe & Africa, GRAPHIS POSTER ANNUAL 2014, B. Martin Pedersen; Graphis, New York, USA; st. 197 (Knjiga)
  • 2111 – Theater, Resistible rise of Arturo Ui, GRAPHIS POSTER ANNUAL 2013, by B. Martin Pedersen; Graphis, New York, USA; p. 227-228 (Knjiga)
  • 2008 – Editorial, GRAPHIS DESIGN ANNUAL 2009 by B. Martin Pedersen; Graphis, New York, USA; p. 101 (Knjiga)

 

EXHIBITIONS

  • 2014 – MANDELA POSTER PROJECTS, National Museum of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia (skupinska)
  • 2104 – 1ST ASIAN INVITATIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN EXHIBITION, Daejeon Linli Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea (skupinska)
  • 2012 – Artistic ZEBRA/ Street Art Project; Front of Museum of Contemporary Arts, Novi Sad, Srbija (samostojna)
  • 2010 – Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things, Weil am Rhein, Nemčija (skupinska)
  • 2009 – 80+80 PHOTO_graphisme, Pariz, Francija (skupinska)

 

CONGRESSES

  • 2015 – Na tipografskem kongresu TYPOGRAPHIC DAY 2015 – TYPOGRAPHY, SENSITIVITY AND FINENESS je pod International Speakers sprejet in predstavljen projekt EUROPE 2020, Industrial Design Centre (IDC) na Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India
  • 2012 – Na tipografskem kongresu TYPOGRAPHIC DAY 2012 – TYPOGRAPHY AND PUBLICATION je pod International Speakers sprejet in predstavljen projekt Dva (Two) Magazine, Magazine for Visual Relations, Industrial Design Centre (IDC) na Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India

Fras Domen

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Domen Fras is a graphic designer and typographer who feels great among students, especially when he passes on knowledge of typography and typefaces – the fields of his practice, study and research. www.fras.si www.aparat.org  

Education

  • 1998: graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana
  • 2000: received his master’s degree from Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London
 

Professional experience

  • 2019 visiting professor at Umjetnička akademija u Splitu, Croatia
  • 2017 employed at Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Univeristy of Ljubljana, associate professor
  • 2011 employed at Faculty of Natural sciences, University of Ljubljana, assitant professor
  • 2002: co-founded the Trajekt Institute for Spatial Culture
  • 2001-2011: self-employed person in culture, established the Aparat type & design studio
  • 2000–: In two decades of intensive design practice, he has participated in numerous public and cultural projects in various media linking architectural, graphic and typographic design, some of which have been awarded.
He complements his teaching with organizing international summer schools, mentoring Tipo Brda typographic workshops, and conducting educational workshops.  

Participations in conferences

  • 2014: speaker at the conference Association Typographique Internationale in Barcelona
  • 2020: speaker at the conference ATypi All Over (on-line)
 

Memberships

  • 2018: expert member of the committee for the Prešeren Fund for Design and Architecture
  • 2016: member of the jury for the Book of the Year of the Chamber of Book Publishers and Booksellers
  • Member of the Associtaion Typographique Internationale
 

Awards

  • Award at 21st Salon of Architecture, Novi Sad, 2018
  • BVSS Ljubljana, Excellence Mention, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015
  • BVSS Ljubljana, Jury Mention, 2015
  • 24th Slovenian Book Fair, Most beautiful Slovenian book, 2008
 

References (selection)

  • Š. Kuhar & R. Potokar: Stories of Slovenian Architecture, book design, Beltrina, Ljubljana, 2020
  • Types and Faces of Ljubljana (Type Walk), short film for the conference ATypi All Over, 2020
  • Looking Back up Close – solo review exhibition, display of prof. Fras’s planning process and design approaches Domžale Gallery, February 2019; UMAS/DVK Gallery Split, Croatia, May 2019; Razstavišče na gradu, Ravne na Koroškem, March 2020
  • D. Fras: Nazaj od blizu: Aparatove črke & oblike 1998–2018, book, 2019
  • N. Charney: Eternal Architect: The Life and Art of Jože Plečnik, Modernist Mystic; book design, Muzeji in galerije mesta Ljubljane & Totaliteta (Award 21st Salon of the Architecture, Novi Sad, Serbia), 2018
  • Impresionists by Drago Tršar; exhibition design, Pomurski muzej Murska Sobota (Jury Mention, 7. BVSS, Ljubljana), 2014
  • 20th anniversary of Slovenia’s independence; collectors coins design, Bank of Slovenia, Ljubljana (1st Prize, public competition), 2011
  • Š. Kuhar & R. Potokar: Let’s See the City; book design, Ustanova Fundacija Piranesi, Ljubljana (24th Slovenian book fair, Most beautiful Slovenian book), 2008
  • Bus stops LPP Ljubljana; Information design, Proreklam –Europlakat, Ljubljana (Excellence Mention, 2nd BVSS, Ljubljana), 2005
 

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Mladi smo in živi: 100 let šole za arhitekturo v Ljubljani (10. mar.–23. avg. 2020); skupinska razstava študentskih del UL Fakulteta za arhitekturo & Cankarjev dom
  • Nazaj od blizu – samostojna pregledna razstava, Galerija Domžale, februar 2019, Galerija UMAS/DVK Split, Hrvaška, maj 2019, Razstavišče na gradu, Ravne na Koroškem, marec 2020
  • 9 kovancev; samostojna razstava, (z Majo B. Jančič), 8. dec. 2009–31. dec. 2009, Mestni muzej Ljubljana, Ljubljana

Botas Kenda Boštjan

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Education:

  • Graduated in publishing design from the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), Milan

 

Work experience and collaborations:

  • 2022 – 2024: Head of the Design+Science Learning Unit at EUTOPIA Universities
  • 2020 – current: co-founder of the Design+Science Summer School
  • 2017 – current: full professor of visual communication at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana (UL ALUO)
  • 2017-2019: Vice-Rector for Arts at the University of Ljubljana
  • 2017: chaired the commission for the national strategic document on design.
  • 2015 – current: participation in the promotion of the research-based Doctorate of Arts in Practice through CA²RE, ADAPT-r (PRS) and the Doctorate of Arts programme at the University of Ljubljana.
  • 2013-2017: Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design
  • 2011-2013: Head of the Department of Visual Communication at UL ALUO
  • 1994: founder and partner of studiobotas, a graphic design studio focusing on book design and signage in public space

 

References, exhibitions (selection):

  • 2011: solo exhibition Jeste li mislili studiobotas? (Did you mean studiobotas?) ULUPUH Gallery, Zagreb,
  • 2010: exhibition All Shades of Green, studiobotas in cooperation with AKKA represented Slovenia at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture,
  • 2006: solo exhibition Invisible Design in Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana

 

Awards:

  • 2018, 2019: 4x Best Slovenian Book, Ljubljana
  • 2018: IDA/International Design Awards, Los Angeles, USA
  • 2018: Plečnik Award, Ljubljana
  • 2017, 2018: Golden Pencil, ZAPS, Ljubljana
  • 2015: ADI Compasso d’oro – Design for Food and Nutrition, Milan, Italy
  • 2013: Best of Alpe Adria Awards, Venice, Italy
  • 2009: 2x Best Slovenian Book, Ljubljana
  • 1997: Premio d’Arte Filatelica, Asiago, Italy

 

Selected bibliography:

  • 2006: Monograph studiobotas isbn 961-238-649-8,
  • 2010: Jeste li mislili studiobotas?
  • 2015: studiobackstage isbn 978-961-281-853-1

Gumilar Marjan

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Education

Graduated in painting from UL ALUO.

Studied at the College of Physical Education in Ljubljana between 1976 and 1980.

 

Work experience and collaborations

2007–: Employed as a professor of painting and drawing, habilitated in painting at UL ALUO.

1987-2007: Worked as a freelance artist.

During this period, in addition to painting, also worked more intensively on experimental film and video film.

2016-2018: Head of the Department of Painting at UL ALUO

2017-2018: Visiting Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb

 

Important scholarships and residencies:

2004: Study stay in New York with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Soros Open Society Institute.

1993: Study stay in Paris with a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the French Republic.

1991: Study stay in Paris with a scholarship from the Zoran Mušič Prize Fund.

Multiple study stays in Paris.

 

Awards and recognitions

2017: Richard Jakopič Award for painting opus.

2005: recognition of important works of art of the University of Ljubljana.

1993: Rembrandt Sequin Award of the Rembrandt Foundation.

ZDSLU Grand Prize, Majski Salon, 1993 Ljubljana.

1991: Grand Prize for Painting at the XVI. Yugoslav Biennial of Youth in Rijeka.

 

Ehibitions

Selection of solo exhibitions

1987

  1. Bensa, Z. Posega, M. Gumilar, City Gallery of Ljubljana.

1989

Anatomy of Red, Mala Galerija, Ljubljana.

1992

New acquisitions of the Modern Gallery. Lojze Logar, Marjan Gumilar, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana.

1993

Marjan Gumilar, Museum of Recent History, Ljubljana.

Download: Koper, Loza Gallery; Exh. salon Rotovž, Maribor.

1994

Marjan Gumilar, Unconditional Judgment of the View, A + A Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

1995

Marjan Gumilar, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

Marjan Gumilar 1986-1995, Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota.

Download:      1996 Lendava Gallery, Lendava.

1997 City Gallery of Ljubljana and Coastal Gallery of Piran.

1997

From the artist’s studio. Marjan Gumilar. Temptation, (European Wild Cats), Moderna galerija Ljubljana. (Presentation of the image in ICMG)

1999

Marjan Gumilar, Horizontal Shifts, Žula Gallery, Maribor.

2000

Marjan Gumilar, Horizontal Shifts, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

Marjan Gumilar.corpus artisti, City Gallery, Piran.

2002

Marjan Gumilar, Dnevnik, Galerija Miklova hiša, Ribnica.

2003

Marjan Gumilar, painter. Roman Makše, sculptor. Arts Place Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Marjan Gumilar, Forum Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia.

2004

Marjan Gumilar “O”, Bežigrad Gallery 2, Ljubljana.

Marjan Gumilar, Painting Exhibition, Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki.

2005

Marjan Gumilar, Paintings, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

2006

Marjan Gumilar, Paintings, Galerija Edita Mileta, Maribor.

2009

Macchie, Loza Gallery, Koper.

Download: Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

Organisms, Selection of paintings and drawings, 1996-2009, Murska Sobota Gallery.

2010

Trans. Moviments, Kunstlerhaus, Klagenfurt, transfer to the Equrna Gallery in Ljubljana.

2011

From the Riko art collection, Galerija Miklova hiša, Ribnica.

2012

Horizontal shifts, Gallery of the Research Centre ZRC SAZU, Petanjci.

Organisms, selection of paintings and drawings, 1996-2009 Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota.

Zeichnung: raum, Kunstlerhaus Klagenfurt.

2013

Photos, pictures and Polaroids, City Gallery of Nova Gorica, with Ana Sluga.

Focus, Božidar Jakac Gallery – former monastery church, Kostanjevica na Krki.

Atopic body, Städtische Galerie, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany.

2014

Atopic body, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

2017

Marjan Gumilar, Paintings.

Zlatni Ajngel Gallery, Varaždin.

2019

Marjan Gumilar, CUTS.

Gallery Academija Moderna, Institute of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.

Marjan Gumilar, CUTS.

City Gallery, Ljubljana.

 

Selection of group exhibitions

1985

Art of today – II. International exhibition Budapest, FMK Gallery.

1987

Abstract, non-subject directions in fine arts.

Ljubljana, Art exh. R. Jakopič.

1988

Controlled / supervised gesture.n.informel and abstrakt.ekspr., Koprivnica Gallery, Koprivnica.

Download: Ljubljana, Modern Gallery; Maribor, Art Gallery; Reka / Rijeka, Modern Gallery; Sarajevo, Collegium Artisticum; Subotica, Foyer of the National Theatre.

1989

Translimina, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana.

Download: Klagenfurt, Kuenstlerhaus Klagenfurt.

Gradišče ob soči / Gradisca d’is, Gal.reg.d’arte cont.l.spazzapa.

Kunst-zum beispiel…Slowenien/umetnost-na primer.Slovenia, Galerie an der Stadtmauer, Villach.

Download: City Gallery, Ljubljana.

Experience of the subject. Young Slovenian artists, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana.

1990 transfer to the Piran City Gallery.

Pannonia 89, Cc Miško Kranjec Gallery, Murska Sobota.

Download: Eisenstadt, Land. Gall. at Esterhazy Castle; Szombathely, Szombathelyi keptar.

1990

25th Zagreb Salon of Fine Arts, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia.

Contemporary Slovenian and Croatian drawing, Rotovž Exhibition Hall, Maribor.

1991 transfer to Ljubljana, Modern Gallery.

Download: Rijeka, Modern Gallery; Zagreb, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana.

Subject experience, Young Slovenian artists, Piran City Gallery, Piran.

3rd Celje International Painting Weeks, Art Salon, Celje.

1991

24th Herceg Novi Winter Art Salon, Josip-Bepo Benković Gallery, Herceg Novi.

From the edge of the area of Slovenian art 1985-1990, Maribor Art Gallery.

13th Zagreb Exhibition of Yugoslav Drawing, Graphic Cabinet JAZU, Zagreb, Croatia.

16th Youth Biennale, Modern Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia.

Young Slovenian Artists, Maison de l’Europe de Paris, Paris, France.

Coloured card, Free shipping plastic centre, Udine.

Young Slovenian Artists, Ljubljana Gallery, Ljubljana.

1992

Selection from the Ribnica Art Collection, Modern Gallery Ljubljana.

Selection from the Ribnica Art Collection, Piran City Gallery. Selection from the exhibition at the Modern Gallery in Ljubljana.

Pannonia ’92, Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota.

Salon des 4.z’arts, Lons-le-saunier.

1993

Didactic collection-oil, ZDSLU Gallery, Ljubljana.

Majski salon 93, Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana.

Slovenian contemporary art – a fragmentary view, Stockholm, Palace of Artists. Transfer to Geneva / United Nations Palace Gallery, 1994; to Rome, 1995. Download: Helsingborg, Galleri Gamla Stan.

1 art colony Rembrant, Radenska Gallery, Radenci.

1994

Von uns aus…neue kunst aus slowenien, Universitaetsmuseum, Marburg.

Transfer to Bonn, Brussels, Goettingen (1995), to Hanau (1996). Download: Wiesbaden, Umgang des Hessischen Landtags.

U3, 1st Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana.

 

Association of Fine Artists of Prekmurje and Prlekija 1994.

Murska Sobota, Murska Sobota Gallery.

Download: Ljubljana, Museum of Recent History, ZDSLU Gallery; Maribor, Gallery Dlum Slovenian contemporary art – a fragmentary view.

Geneva, Palace of the United Nations. Transfer from Stockholm / Palace of

artists, Helsingborg / Old Town Gallery, 1993; transfer to Rome, 1995.

The exhibition supposedly also visited Liechtenstein and Denmark.

U3,1.triennial of contemporary Slovenian art.

Ljubljana, Modern Gallery.

1995

Von uns aus…neue kunst aus slowenien.

Bonn, various exhibition centres. Bonn, exhibitions at the Gaestehaus der

Landesvertretung Hessen, and in Brussels in the Informationsbuero des Landes

Hesse. Transfer from Marburg and Wiesbaden (1994), transfer to Hanau (1996).

Download: Brussels, various exhibitions; Goettingen, Altes Rathaus.

Salon grands et jeunes d’aujourd’hui, Paris.

MGL Permanent Collection. original works on paper by selected authors, City Gallery, Ljubljana.

1996

2nd Vienna Painting Symposium (Prekmurje painters), Slovenian Cultural Centre Korotan, Vienna, Austria.

Real Presences, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

Majski salon 96, Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana.

Von uns aus neue kunst aus Slowenien, Stadhale Hanau, Hanau- transfer from Marburg, Wiesbaden (1994), Bonn, Brussels and Goettingen (1995).

Prekmurje people in Vienna, Slovenian Cultural Centre Korotan, Vienna.

Download: Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota.

Salon grands et jeunes d’aujourd’hui, Paris, selector Patrick- Gilles Persin.

1997

Salon grands et jeunes d’aujourd’hui, Paris, France.

Download: Luxembourg, Galerie d’Art Contemporaine

The Sublime and Romanticism in Contemporary Slovenian Painting.

Koper, Loza and Meduza Galleries. Lozs gal.: Šalamun, Oblak, Simčič, Sever, Kobal, Kirbiš, Gorenec, Meduza: Žido, Červek, Prančič, Fišer, Skrinar

Celje International Painting Weeks 1988-1997, Keleia Gallery, Celje

1998

A + A 1992-1997, Madrid, Circulo de bellas artes. A selection of works from the exhibition program of the M + M Gallery in Madrid. Download: Venice, Galleria A + A.

Pais Gallery, Osaka

EXPO ’98, Lisbon

Regards, Tours, St. Etienne. Download: Brussels, Centre for Contemporary Art; Koper, Loza Gallery

Ten years later, Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota, broadcast: Lendava Gallery, City Gallery Ljubljana, Loža Koper Gallery, Maribor Art Gallery

1999

Factor banka art collection for 1999, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana

Art in Slovenia 1976-1999, Piran, City Gallery. The exhibition was also held in the Praetorian Palace and in the Loza and Meduza galleries in Koper.

2000

May Salon 2000, Prvinski d-o-t-i-k, Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana

The Sublime and Romanticism in Contemporary Slovenian Painting, Loza and Meduza Gallery, Koper (download: City Gallery, Ljubljana)

2001

Factor banka Art Collection, Ljubljana, Modern Gallery.

The eye and its truth. Spectacle and reality in Slovenian …, Ljubljana, Modern Gallery.

2002

A look at painting during the transition from the 80’s to the 90’s, Ribnica na dolenjskem, Miklova hiša Gallery.

Black and White, Žula Gallery, Ljubljana.

A look at painting during the transition from the 80s to the 90s, Miklova hiša Gallery, Ribnica.

Žula Gallery Collection, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor.

Slovenian art in the office of Commissioner Verheugen, Brussels. In the office of Commissioner Guenter Verheugen in the European Parliament. Selected by Mr. Verheugen, in collaboration with the Equrna Gallery.

2004

Abstract painting from Mušič to Rimele, Loža Gallery, Koper.

Painting Policies, City Gallery, Piran.

Selection of works from the Riko Ribnica collection, Miklova hiša Gallery, Ribnica.

Experience of the Landscape in the Painting of Pomurje Artists, Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota.

Ten years later, ULUS Gallery, Belgrade.

Painting, gesture and materials, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka.

2005

Painting Policies, Piran, City Gallery. Download: Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom, Lyon, Gallery of Contemporary Art.

Slovenian Art 85 – 95, Ljubljana, Modern Gallery.

2006

Figure at the beginning of the century, Exhibition of the Slovenian Society of Art Critics, Velenje, Gallery.

7th Slovenian Biennial of the City of Kranj, Prešeren House Gallery, Kranj.

2008

Fragments – (selection of works by Slovenian artists from the collections of MMSU, Mali salon, Rijeka.

Exhibition of works by members of the Association of Fine Artists of Prekmurje and Prlekija, Cultural Centre, Budapest.

2009

Drawing in Slovenian II, Ljubljana, City Gallery.

A selection of works from the Riko collection.

Piran, City Gallery.

Drawing in Slovenia I, Ljubljana, City Gallery.

Zeichnung: raum, Kunstlerhaus, Klagenfurt.

Inter-acts, Professors and their selected students of the second year of ALUO master’s study

Ribnica, Miklova hiša.

2010

Selection of paintings 2010

Ljubljana, Equrna Gallery.

2011

A circle in the image, Ljubljana, Bežigrad Gallery.

Installation, Ljubljana, Isis Gallery.

New Works, Ljubljana, Equrna Gallery (Arne and Tomaž Brejc).

2012

Coincidences II, Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota.

2013

Buena Onda / Hommage a Damjan Cavazza, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

Exhibition, 50 Years of the City Gallery, Ljubljana.

Cultureshutdown, Public Call- Day of museum solidarity.

2014

The Magic of Art: Protagonists of Slovenian Contemporary Art 1968-2013, Villa Manin, Passariano- Codroipo.

Body Images, Expressive Figural Art in Slovene and Austrian Art, Carinthian Gallery of Fine Arts – Werner Berg Museum.

60! Panorama, exhibition of the UGM collection at 60. Years, Maribor.

2015

The Magic of Art… ..Kunstlerhaus, WIEN….

2016

Flat and Distant, China and Slovenia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing.

2017

Night of Short Films, M. Gumilar, View 2002, Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana.

2020

Loneliness. The Expression of Anxiety in “Prekmurian” Fine Art, Božidar Jakac Art Museum, Kostanjevica na Krki, Pilon Gallery, Ajdovščina.

Sedlaček Sašo

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Associate Professor Sašo Sedlaček is a new media and conceptual artist with a wide range of media interests, research and discovery in areas where science, society and art intertwine. He is an engaged artist who exhibits his works all over the world and is the recipient of various domestic and foreign awards.

 

Awards:

  • TREND Award, Awarded Surpluses of Visual Creativity, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2012
  • Siement Art Lab Award, Vienna, Austria, 2009
  • VIDA 11 Award, Fundación Telefónica Award, Madrid, Spain, 2008
  • SPAPORT Award of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, BiH, 2008
  • YVAA-Youth visual artist award / OHO Award for Young Visual Artists from Eastern Europe, Foundation for Civil Society in Trust, Slovenia / USA, 2006

Černe Oven Petra

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Petra Černe Oven is a designer, teacher, theoretician and author with a special interest in typography, information design and visual communications design.
Černe Oven received a Typographic Excellence Award from the Type Directors Club of New York, was the recipient of the Most Beautiful Slovene Book award (2011, 2017, 2018) and many other awards. She won the contest for designing the visual identity for the UNESCO event Ljubljana – World Book Capital 2010. She also won several awards for the best-designed Slovenian book (2011, 2017, 2018) and Slovene Designer’s Association awards.

Černe Oven completed her PhD at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading (UK) in the area of history, typography and language. She became research fellow and worked with professor Paul Stiff on the project “The Optimism of Modernity: Recovering Modern Reasoning in Typography”, for which, among other things, she curated an exhibition on the British artist and typographer Edward Wright and edited the companion book Edward Wright: Readings, Writings (Hyphen Press, 2007).

In 2009, she developed the concept for the international lecture series “Information Design 2009/2010”, which was organized in collaboration with the Slovene Museum of Architecture and Design and the Pekinpah Association. In 2011, she collaborated on an extensive research project on the Slovene designer Miljenko Licul, which culminated in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Slovenia in Ljubljana, for which she edited the accompanying book on the designer.

Since 2010, Černe Oven has teamed up with her colleague, Barbara Predan, to edit the collection entitled 42 (published by the Pekinpah Association), which publishes books on the subject of design theory. Up until now, 20 books have been published in the series. The books are always part of larger projects, seminars, workshops, and exhibitions. In 2012, she and Barbara Predan developed the project “Designing an Agenda, or, How to Avoid Solving Problems That Aren’t” (Pekinpah Association and the Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region), which looked at the fields of service and information design in both theoretical and practical terms. In 2013 they published a scholarly monograph under the same title. In 2014, Černe Oven and Predan were invited to contribute a text to the Information design: research and practice (Routledge 2017). In the same year they finished a project Death in Design (various workshops in 4 countries, book, exhibition) which examines the advantages and disadvantages of a world without death, and offers pointers on how to detect, depict, explain, kill, and survive death.

Černe Oven has also published professional and scholarly articles in Eye magazine, Typography Papers, Baseline, 2+3D, Emzin, Typomag, Hyphen, Oris, Likovne besede and other magazines and academic journals.

Černe Oven is a founding member and a member of the supervisory board of The Brumen Foundation, head of the section for information design of the Pekinpah Association, and co-founder of Institute of Design, a scientific research organization. She is the Slovenian representative and a board member at worldwide Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI).

Černe Oven is a member of several boards of international conferences (International Conference on Typography & Visual Communication, Cyprus, Greece; CIDI: Information Design International Conference, Brazil; Information+ conference, Vancouver, Berlin; ATypI, Antwerpen, Tokio) and regular peer reviewer for scholarly journals (Information Design Journal, Design Principles and Practices Research Network, AR Journal). In 2021 she was a member of the European Design Awards jury.

Under the auspices of various institutions and events in Slovenia, Černe Oven and Predan have hosted over thirty world-renowned experts in the field of design. Černe Oven regularly lectures at symposia and academic conferences at home and abroad. She teaches a course in the history and theory of design at the Department of Visual Communication Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana and serves as a Vice-Dean for International Cooperation.

 

Website: linkedin.com/in/petracerneoven

Bibliography: on request

Močnik Ramovš Lucija

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Assoc. Prof. Lucija Močnik Ramovš (MA), is professionally engaged in the conservation and restoration of paintings on canvas, with an emphasis on structural interventions and aesthetic presentation. She is a lecturer in the field of conservation-restoration of paintings at the first and second level of the university study program.  

Education:

  • 1999: completed her studies in restoration with Professor France Kokalj.
  • 1996: graduated from UL ALUO with Professor Andrej Jemac.

 

Scholarships:

She continued her studies at home and abroad.  

Work experience and collaborations:

  • 1999 – lecturer at UL ALUO, associate professor since 2013.
  • 2023-2025 Head of Department for Restoration UL ALUO
  • 2017–2021: Dean of UL ALUO.
  • 2013–2017: Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs.

In addition to her professional work, she is also involved in numerous working groups at the University of Ljubljana. She cooperates professionally with many national institutions in the field of cultural heritage protection.

  • 2020–: Chair of the Expert Commission for Immovable Cultural Heritage.
  • 2013 – 2018: President of the ZVKDS working group for professional exams in the field of conservation-restoration and rapporteur for the Ministry of Culture and a member or examiner of the examination group for the conservation-restoration subfield of fine art heritage – easel painting at the Ministry of Culture.

She organised and conducted several professional training seminars in collaboration with the ZVKDS Restoration Centre with the aim of educating and improving conservators-restorers.

Awards and recognitions:

  • 2008: Mirko Šubic Award for professional work – organising, leading and working on the conservation and restoration of the art material of Snežnik Castle.

 

References – restored works of art (selection):

  • Conducting conservation and restoration interventions on two dioramas at the Natural History Museum of Slovenia in 2018 and 2019.
  • Conservation and restoration works on paintings from the gallery collection of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, the National Gallery and the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia.
  • Management and conservation-restoration of baroque paintings from the cycle Four Seasons (Allegory of Winter, Summer and Autumn) from the collection of ZRC SAZU, 2014-2017.
  • Conservation-restoration of paintings and management of works on 11 paintings from the art collection of Strmol Castle, Cerklje na Gorenjskem, 2012.
  • Conservation-restoration of paintings for the project The Fading of a Period, An Outline of Late Baroque Painting in Carniola (author: Ferdinand Šerbelj). Exhibition: National Gallery, Ljubljana, 2011
  • Conducting conservation and restoration work on the interior of the Ortnek chapel, permanent installation of side altars in the National Gallery, 1999 to 2002.

 

Bibliography (selection):

  • From gluing to minimal interventions. V: NEMEČEK, Nataša, (editor). Conservator-restorer: (20 years): summaries of the 2020 international expert meeting: National Gallery, 2020. Ljubljana: Slovenian Society for Conservation-Restoration: Community of Museums of Slovenia, 2020. p. 62-68.
  • Aesthetic presentation of images – two steps forward, one back. V: NEMEČEK, Nataša, (editor).  Conservator-restorer: summaries of the international professional meeting 2018, National Gallery, 2018 Ljubljana: Slovenian Society for Conservation-Restoration: Community of Museums of Slovenia, p. 24-27.
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