Prof. Žiga Kariž

Office hours: Torek, od 13.00 do 14.00 ure
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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