Nasce nel 1972 a Kranj, Slovenia.
Vive e lavora a Cambridge, Mass e Ljubljana, in Slovenia.

 

EDUCAZIONE
1997
Si è laureato presso l’Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

1997-98
Ha studiato presso Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germania

 

MOSTRE PERSONALI 

2021
Internal Affairs, Pinksummer, Genova, Italia
Tobias Putrih: Perceptron, curated by Igor Španjol, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

2016
Tobias Putrih – Group-Form, Galerie Greta Meert, Bruxelles, Belgio
Compressões, Galeria Luciana Brito San Paolo, Brasile
Obfuscation, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genova, Italia
Slight Agitation 1/4, Fondazione Prada, Milano, Italia

 

2015
Pale Guardians, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlino, Germania

 

2014
Solar Limb, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurigo, Svizzera (catalog)
Routine Inspection, Zollamt, Bad Radkesburg, Austria (part of Steirischer Herbst Festival)
Inspección rutinaria, Flora, Bogota, Colombia

 

2013
Death of Tarelkin, Galerie Greta Meert, Bruxelles, Belgio
Revolution Square, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Corea (catalog)
An Ode to the Egg, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

2012
White City, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germania (catalog)
Apropos Polly Magoo, Natalie Seroussi at Meudon, Francia
Book Tower Studio, SMAK, Ghent, Belgio

 

2011
When Language Goes on Holiday, Meulensteen/Protetch Gallery, New York, Stati Uniti d’America
Spogliando un vicino, Galleria Pinksummer, Genova, Italia
A,H,O,I,!, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlino, Germania

 

2010
Siska, International, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Parigi, Francia (catalog)
After Frei Otto, Ludlow38, New York, Stati Uniti d’America
Majestic, Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, Stati Uniti d’America

 

2009
Without Out, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stati Uniti d’America (catalog)
Overhang, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Regno Unito
Intervention #10, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Paesi Bassi

 

2008
Restless Subject, Kunsthaus, Zurigo, Svizzera (with Runa Islam)
White Cube, Londra, Regno Unito (with Runa Islam)
Cinéma attitudes, attitudes, Ginevra, Svizzera
Re-projection, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlino, Germania
Lost Cinema Lost, Galeria Civica, Modena, Italia (with Runa Islam) (catalog)

 

2007
Venetian, Atmospheric, Slovenian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venezia, Italia (catalog)
Quasi-Random, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, Stati Uniti d’America (catalog)
Repertoire, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, Stati Uniti d’America
Paradise, Pinksummer, Genova, Italia
Max Protetch Gallery – Project Space, New York, Stati Uniti d’America

 

2006
A Place by Two, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri, Stati Uniti d’America

 

2005
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, Stati Uniti d’America
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

 

2004
Galerie Almine Rech, Parigi, Francia

 

2003
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, Stati Uniti d’America
Mala galerija, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

2002
Science Fiction, Bezigrajska Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

2001
Movie Tales, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

1999
Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE)

2018
TEMPORARY STRUCTURES IV, PLATO Ostrava, Repubblica Ceca
Recollection – A Journey After 28 Years, PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Città del Messico, Messico
Futurologija – Kaj lahko umetnost jutri naredi za vas?, Mestna galerija Nova, Gorica, Slovenia
The Swamp School, Il Giardino Bianco Art Space, Castello, 16th International Architecture Exhibition, Venezia, Italia
Echigo tsumari art triennale 2018, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial Secretariat, Niigata-ken, Giappone

 

2015
1St Trio Biennial – Trio Bienal, Rio de Janeiro, Brasile
Reverse Order : Troika, Tobias Putrih, Larry Bell – Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie – Basel, Basel, Svizzera
The magic of art. protagonists of Slovenian contemporary art 1968-2013 – Glyptotheque – Sculpture Museum, Zagabria, Croazia
Mainzer Ansichten – Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germania
Die Magie Der Kunst-Protagonisten der Slovenischen Gegenwartstkunst 1968-2013 – Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
vanità/Vanitas, Museuo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy Timely Manoeuvres, Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore Galerie, Basel, Svizzera

 

2014
Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd\’hui – Centre Pompidou – Musée National d´Art Moderne, Parigi, Francia
Art & Me – MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Lussemburgo
Coffee & Ink – Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogota, Colombia
September Show – Galerie Gregor Podnar – Berlino, Berlino, Germania
La Magia Dell’Arte – I Protagonisti Dell’Arte Moderna Slovena 1968-2013 Villa Manin. Centro d’arte contemporanea, Codroipo, Italia
Urbane Perspektiven – Dark City – Schafhof – Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern, Frisinga, Germania
The Empty Pedestal – Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Bologna, Italia
Film Without Film, Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germania

 

2013
Triple Identity: Favaretto, Maljkovic, Putrih, Contemporary Museum Istria, Pula, Croazia
Off-Modern: Ruins of the Future, Special projects of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Ways of Working: the Incidental Object, Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italia
OK ExtraKino, OK Zentrum, Linz, Austria
Cinematic Scope, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

 

2012
TRACK, SMAK, Ghent, Belgio
Light and Landscape, Storm King Sculpture Park, Mountainville, New York, Stati Uniti d’America
One Sixth of the Earth, MUSAC, Leon, Spain travelled to ZKM Zentrum, Karlsruhe, Germania
Les Detours de L’Abstracion, Mudam, Lussemburgo
Cantenmus – Choirs, the Sublime and the Exegesis of Being, Argos, Centre for Art and Media, Bruxelles, Belgio
Wir sind alle Astronauten, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germania

 

2011
MärklinWorld. Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Paesi Bassi
Auditorium Moscow. A sketch for a Public Space. Bielie Palaty, Mosca, Russia
Un’Espressione Geografica, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italia
Spaceship Earth, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, Polonia
We Are All Astronauts – Universe Richard Buckminster Fuller, MARTa Herford, Germania

 

2010
Rehabilitation, Wiels, Bruxelles, Belgio
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
29th São Paulo Biennial, San Paolo, Brasile
Yesterday’s Tomorrows, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Material World, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, Stati Uniti d’America
Star City: The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Brave New World, Mudam, Lussemburgo

 

2009
Projections, Musée d’art contermporain de Nimes, Francia
Go East II, Musée d’art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Lussemburgo
Warsaw Under Construction, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Polonia
Tiempo como materia, Museu d’art Contemporani de Barcellona, Spagna
Là où je suis n’existe pas, Les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Tolosa, Francia

 

2008
Psycho Buildings: Architecture by Artists, The Hayward Museum, Londra, Regno Unito
Megastructure Reloaded, Berlino, Germania
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano, Italia
Fast-Forward, Project Space 176, Londra, Regno Unito
Transmediale 08 : Conspire, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlino, Germania

 

2007
Anachronism, Argos, Bruxelles, Belgio
Multiplex – Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA, New York, Stati Uniti d’America
Forms of Resistance, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Paesi Bassi

 

2006
Erzahlungen, -35/65+ Zwei Generationen, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Eldorado, Mudam – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Lussemburgo
ArtUnlimited, Galerija Gregor Podnar, ArtBasel 37, Basel, Svizzera
Dialogo II, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italia

 

2005
Certain Tendencies in Representation, Thomas Dane Gallery, Londra
Greater New York, PS1, Long Island City, New York, Stati Uniti d’America
Monument for America, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA; traveled to White Columns, New York, Stati Uniti d’America
Downtime: Constructing Leisure, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, Stati Uniti d’America
Trend, City Art Muesum Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

2004
Collective Effort, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, Stati Uniti d’America
Mediteraneo, MACRO Contemporary Art Museum, Roma, Italia
Den Haag Skulptuur, the Hague, Paesi Bassi
Seven Sins, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

2003
ArtUnlimited, Art Basel 34, Basel, Svizzera
In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germania
U3, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Peter Donaldson, Kalin Lindena,Tobias Putrih, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Regno Unito

 

2002
Manifesta 4, Francoforte sul Meno, Germania
September Horse, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlino, Germania
Kunstexpeditionen, Forum of Sony Center at Postdamer Platz, Berlino, Germania
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, Stati Uniti d’America
Skuc Gallery Project, Art Moscow, Mosca, Russia
Twinklings, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

2001
Becomings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tirana / City Art Museum Ljubljana, Slovenia
Shall I or shall I not?, Pavel-House, Laafeld, Austria

 

COMMISSIONI PUBBLICHE E COMPETIZIONI
2016
UMass Lowell Business School Art Commission, Lowell, Massachusetts, Stati Uniti d’America

 

2015
Southbank Tower commission, London
City of Ravne Public Art Commission, Ravne, Slovenia

 

2012
Public art commission at Public School 224, Queens, New York, Stati Uniti d’America

 

2011
Auditorium Moscow, Mosca, Russia

 

2010
WWB2 Auditorium, Museum of Modern Art, Varsavia, Polonia
Pavillon for Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (invited competition, 2nd place – with MOS architects), Varsavia, Polonia

 

2009
Sculpture park design, Canal & Varick Street, New York (with Interboro Architects), Stati Uniti d’America