Tobias Putrih
- 1972
- Kranj, Slovenia
- Lives and works in Cambridge, USA and Ljubljana, Slovenia
Education
1997-98
Studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Alemanha
1997
Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, Eslovênia
Exhibitions
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Order of Sweetness. Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2022
Tobias Putrih: Steel Industry. The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroska, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
2021
Perceptron. Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Internal Affairs. Pink Summer Contemporary Art, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy
2016
Compressões. Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
SLIGHT AGITATION ¼. Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Group-Form. Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Solar Limb. Haus Konstruktiv. Zurich, Switzerland
Routine Inspection, Zollamt. Bad Radkersburg, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Austria
Inspección rutinaria. Flora, Bogota, Colombia
2013
Revolution Square. ARKO Art Center, Seul, Korea
Death of Tarelkin. Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
An Ode to the Egg. P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012
White City. Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
Apropos Polly Magoo. Natalie Seroussi at Meudon, France
Book Tower Studio. SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
2011
When Language Goes on Holiday. Meulensteen Gallery, Nova York, USA
Spogliando un Vicino. Galleria Pinksummer, Genova, Italy
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Solo projects, Hong Kong, China
A,H,O,I,! Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
2010
Siska. International, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
After Frei Otto. Ludlow38, Nova York, USA
Majestic. Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2009
Without Out. MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
Overhang. BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
Intervention #10. Museum Boijmans Van Beuingen, Rotterdam, Holland
2008
Restless Subject. Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
White Cube, London, England
Cinéma attitude. Attitudes, Geneva, Switzerland
Re-projection. Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlim, Germany
Lost Cinema Lost. Galeria Civica, Modena, Italy
2007
Venetian, Atmospheric. Slovenian Pavilion, 52a Venice Biennale, Venice, italy
Quasi-Random. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA
Repertoire. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
Paradise. Galleria Pinksummer, Genova, 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
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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
U3 Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art: Against the Stream of Time. Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Morbid Palace. Ex Chiesa Dell’Angelo Custode, Genova, Italy
2023
Interstellar. Fondation Opale, Lens, França
(EVERYTHING IS) NOT WHAT IT SEEMS. Piran City Gallery, Piran, Slovenia
2021
The Wonderfulness of Memory. Cukrarna Art, Ljubljiana, Slovenia
2019
13th Cairo Biennale. Cairo, Egypt
2018
Art Triennale 2018. Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, Niigata, Japan
2017
Bienal de Curitiba, Brazil
post environment, trigo 67/17. Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
2015
15. Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
TRIO Bienal. Bienal do Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brazil
Rever Order: Troika, Tobias Putrih, Larry Bell, Anne Mosseri-Marlio. Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2014
Une histoire, art, architecture et design des années 80 à aujour´hui. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Art & Me. MUDAM Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Coffe & Ink. Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogota, Colombia
September Show. Galerija Gregor Podnar, 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 Pedestral. Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Bolonha, Italy
2013
Triple Identity: Favaretto, Maljkovic, Putrih. Contemporary Museum Istria, Pula, Croacia
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, Viena, Austria
2012
TRACK, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
Light and Landscape. Storm King Sculpture Park, Mountainville, New York, USA
One Sixt of the Earth. MUSAC, León, Spain
Les Detours de L´Abstracion. Mudam, Luxemburg
Cantenmus-Choirs, the Sublime and the Exgesis of Being. Argos, Center for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium
Performances da Abstração. Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
Wir sind alle Astronauten. Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany
2011
MärklinWorld. Kunsthal KadE, Amersfoort, Hollanda
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, Brussels, Belgium
21st Century: Art in the First Decade. Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
29a Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Yesterday’s Tomorrows. Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, Canada
Material World. Mass MoCA, North Adams, USA
Star City: The Future Under Communism. Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Brave New World. Mudam, Luxemburg
2009
Projections. Musée d’art contermporain de Nimes, France
Go East II. Musée d’art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Warsaw Under Construction. Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Tiempo como materia. Museu d’art Contemporani de 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
Meagastructure Reloaded. Berlin, Germany
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body. Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Fast-Forward. Projectspace 176, London, England
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, Holland
2006
Erzahlungen, -35/65+ Zwei Generationen. Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Eldorado, Mudam. Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
ArtUnlimited. Galerija Gregor Podnar, ArtBasel 37, Basel, Switzerland
Dialogo II. Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, Spain
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, USA
White Columns. New York, USA
Downtime: Constructing Leisure. New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA
Trend. City Art Museum Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004
Collective Effort. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Mediteraneo. MACRO Contemporary Art Museum, Rome, Italy
Den Haag Skulptuur. The Hague, Holland
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 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
Prizes
Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Award
Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Mudam, Musée d’ Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA
Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, USA
The Logan Collection, USA
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, USA