Tobias Putrih
Bio and CV

Tobias Putrih (1972 Kranj, Slovenia) lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and Ljubljana, Slovenia.
SOLO SHOWS
2024
Order of Sweetness, Cukrarna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2022
Steel Industry, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška, Ravne, Slovenia
2021
Perceptron, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Internal affair, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
2016
Pa da, da, da, Galerija Kula, Split, Croatia
Slight Agitation, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Group Form, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
Compressōes, Galeria Luciana Brito, São Paulo, Brazil
Obfuscation, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
2015
Pale Guardians, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
2014
Solar Limb, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland
Routine Inspection, Zollamt, Bad Radkesburg, Austria (part of the Steirischer Herbst Festival)
Inspección rutinaria, Flora, Bogotá, Colombia
2013
Death of Tarelkin, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
Revolution Square, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, South Korea (catalogue)
An Ode to the Egg, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012
White City, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany (catalogue)
Apropos Polly Magoo, Natalie Seroussi, Meudon, France
Book Tower Studio, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
2011
When Language Goes on Holiday, Meulensteen/Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
Spogliando un vicino, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
A,H,O,I,!, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
2010
Siska, International, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (catalogue)
After Frei Otto, Ludlow38, New York, USA
Majestic, Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2009
Without Out, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (catalogue)
Overhang, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Intervention #10, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2008
Restless Subject, Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland (with Runa Islam)
White Cube, London, UK (with Runa Islam)
Cinéma attitudes, attitudes, Geneva, Switzerland
Re-projection, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
Lost Cinema Lost, Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy (with Runa Islam) (catalogue)
2007
Venetian, Atmospheric, Slovenian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennial, Italy (catalogue)
Quasi-Random, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA (catalogue)
Repertoire, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
Paradise, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
Max Protetch Gallery – Project Space, New York, USA
2006
A Place by Two, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (catalogue)
2005
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
2004
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
2003
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
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
GROUP SHOWS
2024
Moments, The Triennial of Central European Culture and Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Against the Stream, 10th Triennial of Contemporary Art, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2023
(Everything Is) Not What It Seems, Piran Civic Gallery, Piran Coastal Galleries, Slovenia
Counterimaginaries, Tromsø Kunstforenings, Tromsø, Norvegia
2021
Čudovitost spomina / The Wonderfulness of Memory, Cukrarna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bigger than Myself. Heroic Voices from ex-Yugoslavia / Più grande di me. Voci eroiche dalla ex Jugoslavia, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
2019
Cairo Biennale, Egypt
Fresh Window, MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Negativer Raum, ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
A World Viev: The Tim Fairfax Gift, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Gympie, Australia
2018
Temporary Structures, PLATO, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Echigo Tsumari Triennale of Art, Niigata-ken, Japan
Volcano Extravaganza, Villa Lunatica, Stromboli, Italy
Recollection – A Journey After 28 Years, PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Mexico City, Mexico
Futurologija – Kaj lahko umetnost jutri naredi za vas?, Mestna galerija Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
The Swamp School, Il Giardino Bianco Art Space, Castello, 16th Biennale of Architecture16ª, Venice, Italy
2017
Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba, Brazil
trigon 67/17. ambiente nuovo/ post environment, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria.
2016
A History. Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia – National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania
DeCordova New England, Biennale Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
Um die Ecke denken – Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Low-Budget Utopias – Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova , Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015
Reverse Order: Troika, Tobias Putrih, Larry Bell, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Crises and New Beginnings: Art in Slovenia 2005–2015, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Vanità/Vanitas, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
1st TRIO Biennale, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Timely Manoeuvres – Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore
The magic of art. Protagonists of Slovenian contemporary art 1968-2013, Glyptotheque, Zagreb, travelled to Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Mainzer Ansichten – Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
2014
Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd’hui – Centre Pompidou Musée National d ́Art Moderne, Paris, France
Art & Me – MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Coffee & Ink – Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
September Show – Galerie Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
La Magia Dell’Arte – I Protagonisti Dell’Arte Moderna Slovena 1968-2013 – Villa Manin. Centro d’arte contemporanea, Codroipo, Udine, Italy
Urbane Perspektiven – Dark City – Schafhof – Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern, Freising The Empty Pedestal – Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Film Without Film, Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2013
Triple Identity: Favaretto, Maljkovic, Putrih, Contemporary Museum Istria, Pula, Croatia
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, Turin, Italy
OK ExtraKino, OK Zentrum, Linz, Austria
Cinematic Scope, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2012
TRACK, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Light and Landscape, Storm King Sculpture Park, Mountainville, New York, USA
One Sixth of the Earth, MUSAC, Leon, Spain; travelled to ZKM Zentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany
Les Detours de L’Abstracion, Mudam, Luxembourg
Cantenmus – Choirs, the Sublime and the Exegesis of Being, Argos, Centre for Art and Media, Bruxelles, Belgium
Wir sind alle Astronauten, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germania
2011
MärklinWorld. Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Auditorium Moscow. A sketch for a Public Space. Bielie Palaty, Moscow, Russia
Un’Espressione Geografica, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Spaceship Earth, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland
We Are All Astronauts – Universe Richard Buckminster Fuller, MARTa Herford, Germany
2010
Rehabilitation, Wiels, Bruxelles, Belgium
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
29ª Biennale di São Paulo, Brazil
Yesterday’s Tomorrows, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Material World, Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
Star City: The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Brave New World, Mudam, Luxembourg
2009
Projections, Musée d’art contemporaine de Nimes, France
Go East II, Musée d’art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Warsaw Under Construction, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Warsaw, Poland
Tiempo como materia, Museu d’art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
Là où je suis n’existe pas, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
2008
Psycho Buildings: Architecture by Artists, The Hayward Museum, London, UK
Megastructure Reloaded, Berlin, Germany
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Bozen, Italy
Fast-Forward, Project Space 176, London, UK
Transmediale 08 : Conspire, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2007
Anachronism, Argos, Bruxelles, Belgium
Multiplex – Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA, New York, USA
Forms of Resistance, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2006
Erzahlungen, -35/65+ Zwei Generationen, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Eldorado, Mudam – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
ArtUnlimited, Galerija Gregor Podnar, ArtBasel 37, Basel, Switzerland
Dialogo II, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italy
2005
Certain Tendencies in Representation, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
Greater New York, PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA
Monument for America, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California, USA; travelled to White Columns, New York, USA
Downtime: Constructing Leisure, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
Trend, City Art Muesum Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004
Collective Effort, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimora, Maryland, USA
Mediterraneo, MACRO, Rome, Italy
Den Haag Skulptuur, The Hague, The Netherlands
Seven Sins, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2003
ArtUnlimited, Art Basel 34, Basel, Switzerland
In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
U3, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Peter Donaldson, Kalin Lindena,Tobias Putrih, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2002
Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, Germany
September Horse, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Kunstexpeditionen, Forum del Sony Center a Postdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
Skuc Gallery Project, Art Moscow, Moscow, 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
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS, COMPETITIONS
2016
UMass Lowell Art commission, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
2015
Southbank Tower commission, London, UK
Public Art Commission for the city of Ravne, Slovenia
2012
Public art commission at Public School 224, Queens, New York, USA
2011
Auditorium Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2010
WWB2 Auditorium, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Warsaw, Poland
Pavilion for the Museum of Modern Art of Warsaw (invited competition, 2nd place – with MOS architects, New York)
2009
Sculpture park design, Canal & Varick Street, New York (with Interboro architects, New York)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d ́Art Moderne, Paris, France
Musée d’art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Museu d’art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany