In Biography

Tobias Putrih

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, Genova, 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, Genova, Italy
Slight Agitation 1/4, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

2015
Pale Guardians, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin

2014
Solar Limb, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (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
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
Majestic, Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio

2009
Without Out, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (catalog)
Overhang, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
Intervention #10, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The 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, NY (catalog)
Repertoire, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Paradise, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
Max Protetch Gallery – Project Space, New York

2006
A Place by Two, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri

2005
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

2004
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France

2003
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
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.

2017
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.
Um die Ecke denken, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland.
Low-Budget Utopias, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2015
1St Trio Biennial – Trio Bienal, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Reverse Order : Troika, Tobias Putrih, Larry Bell – Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie – Basel, Basel
The magic of art. protagonists of Slovenian contemporary art 1968-2013 – Glyptotheque – Sculpture Museum, Zagreb
Mainzer Ansichten – Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz
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, Switzerland.

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

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
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, 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, Brussles
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
Star City: The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary, England
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
Là où je suis n’existe pas, Les Abattoirs de Toulouse, France

2008
Psycho Buildings: Architecture by Artists, The Hayward Museum, London
Megastructure Reloaded, Berlin
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
Multiplex – Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA, New York
Forms of Resistance, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2006
Erzahlungen, -35/65+ Zwei Generationen, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
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
Greater New York, PS1, Long Island City, New York
Monument for America, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA; traveled to White Columns, New York, New York.
Downtime: Constructing Leisure, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Trend, City Art Muesum Ljubljana, Slovenia

2004
Collective Effort, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
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, England

2002
Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, Germany
September Horse, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
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

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

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

2011
Auditorium Moscow, Moscow

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)

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