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