Born in 1972 in Kranj, Slovenia
Works and lives in Cambridge, Mass and Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

EDUCATION
1997 Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1997-98 Studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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

 

2016
Tobias Putrih – Group-Form, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
Compressões, Galeria Luciana Brito Saõ Paulo, Brazil
Obfuscation, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy
Slight Agitation 1/4, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

 

2015
Pale Guardians, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany

 

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

 

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

 

2012
White City, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany (catalog)
Apropos Polly Magoo, Natalie Seroussi at Meudon, France
Book Tower Studio, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium

 

2011
When Language Goes on Holiday, Meulensteen/Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
Spogliando un vicino, Galleria Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
A,H,O,I,!, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany

 

2010
Siska, International, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (catalog)
After Frei Otto, Ludlow38, New York, USA
Majestic, Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA

 

2009
Without Out, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (catalog)
Overhang, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Intervention #10, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

2008
Restless Subject, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland (with Runa Islam)
White Cube, London, United Kingdom (with Runa Islam)
Cinéma attitudes, attitudes, Geneva, Switzerland
Re-projection, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
Lost Cinema Lost, Galeria Civica, Modena, Italy (with Runa Islam) (catalog)

 

2007
Venetian, Atmospheric, Slovenian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (catalog)
Quasi-Random, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA (catalog)
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

 

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 EXHIBITIONS

2018
TEMPORARY STRUCTURES IV, PLATO Ostrava, Czech Republic
Recollection – A Journey After 28 Years, PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Mexico City, Mexico
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, Venice, Italy
Echigo tsumari art triennale 2018, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial Secretariat, Niigata-ken, Japan

 

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

 

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, Bogota, Colombia
September Show – Galerie Gregor Podnar – Berlin, Berlin, Germany
La Magia Dell’Arte – I Protagonisti Dell’Arte Moderna Slovena 1968-2013 Villa Manin. Centro d’arte contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
Urbane Perspektiven – Dark City – Schafhof – Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern, Freising, Germany
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, Brussels, Belgium
Wir sind alle Astronauten, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany

 

2011
MärklinWorld. Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, 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, Belgium
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
29th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil
Yesterday’s Tomorrows, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Material World, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
Star City: The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Brave New World, Mudam, Luxembourg

 

2009
Projections, Musée d’art contermporain de Nimes, France
Go East II, Musée d’art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Warsaw Under Construction, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Tiempo como materia, Museu d’art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Là où je suis n’existe pas, Les Abattoirs de Toulouse, France

 

2008
Psycho Buildings: Architecture by Artists, The Hayward Museum, London, UK
Megastructure Reloaded, Berlin, Germany
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Fast-Forward, Project Space 176, London, UK
Transmediale 08 : Conspire, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

 

2007
Anachronism, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
Multiplex – Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA, New York, USA
Forms of Resistance, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 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, CA; traveled to White Columns, New York, USA
Downtime: Constructing Leisure, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Trend, City Art Muesum Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

2004
Collective Effort, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Mediteraneo, MACRO Contemporary Art Museum, Rome, Italy
Den Haag Skulptuur, the Hague, 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 am Main, Germany
September Horse, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Kunstexpeditionen, Forum of Sony Center at 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 AND COMPETITIONS

2016
UMass Lowell Business School Art Commission, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

 

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

 

2012
Public art commission at Public School 224, Queens, New York, USA

 

2011
Auditorium Moscow, Moscow, Russia

 

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

 

2009
Sculpture park design, Canal & Varick Street, New York (with Interboro Architects)