Miha Štrukelj / Maribor

Friday 12 March 2010 at 8 pm, Kibela - the opening of the exhibition Maribor by Miha Štrukelj.

Miha Štrukelj (1973, Ljubljana) is a visual artist working primarily in painting and also focusing on drawing and site-specific work for the last two years. He examines the process and the boundaries of painting and explores urban environments and their perception. He has recently received three awards – the Pollock-Krasner Grant 2008, the Henkel Drawing Award 2008 and the working scholarship of the Slovenian Ministry of Culture. This year his work has also been included in the National Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. He has also been selected for “Slovenian Art 1995–2005” and “Seven Sins; Ljubljana–Moscow” at Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, and various other national and international selections. His work has been presented in “Vitamin P; New Perspectives in Painting” (Phaidon).

Education
- BFA Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana (1992-1996)
- MFA Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana (1999-2001)
- IUP Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Exchange program (2000)

Residencies
- ISCP – International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York (2009)
- Firestation Artists Studios, Dublin, Ireland (2007)
- Studio in New York, Residency program by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia, (2005)

Grants & awards
- HENKEL DRAWING AWARD 2008, Austria
- THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION GRANT 2008-09, USA

Selected solo exhibitions
2008 - VIRTUAL NETWORKS, hilger contemporary, Vienna, Austria
           - GRID STRUCTURES III., Simulaker Gallery, Novo mesto, Slovenia
         - GRID STRUCTURES II., Gas Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2007 - GRID STRUCTURES, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006 - Siemens_ArtLab, Vienna, Austria
2005 - CONTRA GALLERY, Koper, Slovenia
          - Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004 - LIKOVNI SALON CELJE, Celje, Slovenia
          - GO EAST!, Gas Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
          (Together with Jelena Vasiljev & Mariela Gemisheva)
          - DNA - Die Neue Aktionsgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2003 - CITY GALLERY, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2002 - MALA GALERIJA (Museum of Modern Art), Ljubljana, Slovenia
2000 - HOW CAN WE KNOW WHAT IS REAL, Center and Gallery P74, Ljubljana,
Slovenia
          - VIDEO GAMES, Arteconteporanea Gallery, Rassegna d’arte Catania, Catania,
   Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 - CITY GALLERY, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
          - BASEL – VOLTA 4, Basel, Switzerland
          - DREISPRUNG / TRIPLEJUMP, Kunstlerforum, Bonn, Germany
          - ARTBRUSSELS – YOUNG TALENT, Brussels, Belgium
      - SLOVENIAN FINE ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY – NLB COLLECTION, Brussels
    City Museum, Belgium
2007 - ARTISSIMA 14 – FEATURING THE FUTURE,Turin, Italy
- PRINTED IN MGLC , 27th Graphic Biennial , Ljubljana, Slovenia
          - ARTBRUSSELS – YOUNG TALENT, Brussels, Belgium
         - SALON NOUVEAU, Engholm Engelhorn Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2006 - SELECTION, Siemens_ArtLab, Vienna, Austria
          - 69th REGIMENT ARMORY, New York, USA
            ART(212) CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR AND EMERGING ARTISTS
          - VISUAL IMMORTALITY, 2. International Biennial for Contemporary art, Shumen,
Bulgaria
          - SEZIONE TRASVERSALE 2, Gas Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
          - CHECK IN – EUROPE; REFLECTING IDENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY ART, EPO
- European Patent Office, Munich, Germany
          - THE HISTORY PLACE, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, USA
2005 - A MOMENT IN TIME, TEMPLE BAR GALLERY, Dublin, Ireland
           - SLOVENIAN ART 1995-2005, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
           - (RE)TRACEABLE CHOREOGRAPHY, Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2004 - THE SEVEN SINS; LJUBLJANA – MOSCOW, Museum of Modern Art,      Ljubljana,
           - BIENNALE EUROPEA ARTI VISIVE LA SPEZIA CAMeC - Centro Arte Moderna e
   Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
           - ALL ABOUT... BERLIN 2, White Box Kultfabrik, Munich, Germany
           - DESTINATIONS; FIVE ARTISTS FROM SLOVENIA, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
           - VALUES , 11th Biennial of Visual Arts, Galerija Savremene Umentosti Pančevo,
   Serbia
           - MEDIA IN PAINTING, CANKARJEV DOM, Ljubljana, Slovenia
           - THE BALKANS; A CROSSROAD TO THE FUTURE, Artefiera Bologna (Special
   exhibition by Harald Szeemann), Bologna, Italy
2003 - TOXIC, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
           - BLOOD & HONEY, FUTURE'S IS IN THE BALKANS, Sammlung Essl, Vienna,
   Austria
         - FAR AWAY, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Eskilstuna, Sweden
           - INTERMEDIAL, A+A GALLERY, Venice, Italy
2002 - ORDERNBERG-GILDEWART FOUNDATION , City Gallery Ljubljana, Slovenia
           - DISCONTINUITIES IN TIME - PART ONE: TERORISM, Contemporary Art Gallery,
   Celje, Slovenia
2001 - SLOVENE WAY, Neon Gallery, Bologna, Italy
           - CHAOS & COMMUNICATION, 10th Biennial of the Young Artists of Europe and
             Mediterranean, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina
           - ALLURING, MGLC - International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
           - REVISIONS . PAINTING 70 + 90, Center and Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia

More about artist on: www.miha-strukelj.com/

The exhibition will be on view until 27 March 2010.

The exhibition is part of X-OP project, supported by European Commission – Program Culture and Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and Municipality of Maribor.