Mitja Ficko belongs to the generation of artists who graduated from the Ljubljana Academy of Art and Design in the late 1990s and became actively involved in the Slovene art scene at the start of the new millennium. This generation of painters responded to the notion of “new” painting in very different ways – by, on the one hand, continuing the tradition of the postmodern deconstruction of the hermetic and exalted status of the art image, or on the other, establishing intermedial dialogues and incorporating mass-culture image-making and the pop aesthetic in their work. Ficko pursued a third way, one that, fully aware of the limitless game of signifiers, references, and recycling and still greatly influenced by the “new image,” was interested in creating intimate personal worlds, poetics, and stories.

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1973 born in Murska Sobota, Slovenija

1994-99 has been studying painting arts on the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana with mentors Janez Bernik and Gustav Gnamuš
1998 he has studio in Ljubljana at AKC Metelkova City, Slovenija
1999-2000 a life turning- point, the journey to Mideast
2002 he has completed his master degree at the same institution with the mentor Metka Krašovec
2003 Great purchase award, Ex Tempore, Ptuj
2003 he received an award for fine arts Zlata ptica
2004 he works as an independent cultural worker. He owns a studio in Ljubljana since 1998
2005 he was assigned with work scholarship by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia

SOLO  EXHIBITION

2012 Gallery E2RD, (with Andrej B. Čop), EPK Maribor, SI
2012 "Prinašalka Luči"  Gallery TukatMunga, Ljubljana, SI

2011  MALA HIŠA_ MALI SVET; Gallery Salsaverde, Izola, SI
2011 "Miternachtschulle", gallery ART FACTORY, Majšperk, SI
2011 "3 Paintings", Gallery SREČIŠČE, Hostel CELICA, Ljubljana, SI
2011 Slovenische Botschaft in Berlin, Collection SOOR T. Rusche, Germany
2010 Paintings, Nova Gorica Citie Gallery
2009 Paintings, Salon of Savin, Žalec
2009 "Made in London", Veleposlaništvo Republike Slovenije v Londonu
2009 Small World, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana
2008  "Male slike", galerja PAC, Mirska Sobota
2007 "Odštevanje", OBALNE GALERIJE PIRAN
2006  "Tri slike",gallery STIČIŠČE, Hostel CELICA, Ljubljana
2006 gallery MIKLOVA HIŠA, Ribnica (katalog z Obal. gal. Piran,17 reprod., tekst A. Medved)
2005 gallery EQURNA, Ljubljana
2004 gallery KIBLA, Maribor (katalog 10 reprod., tekst N. Gnamuš)
2004 gallery MURSKA SOBOTA (zloženka, 2 reprod., tekst R. Inof)
2002 gallery ANTE TRSTENJAK, Ljutomer
2002 gallery EQURNA, Ljubljana, (book, 20. reprod., avtrski tekt) 2000 MIKK, Murska Sobota
1999 Zavod za kulturo in izobraževanje Ljutomer, exhibition of prints
1998 Kulturni Dom Šentilj, exhibition of prints
1997 KLUB CANKARJEV DOM, Ljubljana, (with Branko Hojnik) exhibition of prints

GROUP EXHIBITION

14. nov.2014- 28. feb. 2015  Mundus vadit retro, KIBLA- Portal, Maribor

2013 "Ergens tussen markt en maan" 27/06 - 07/07/2013 Korenmarkt 14, Mechelen, Belgium
2'13 "Schöne Landschaft – Bedrohte Natur. Alte Meister im Dialog mit zeitgenössischer Kunst", die in der Kunsthalle Osnabrück vom 9. Juni (Eröffnung: 11.30 Uhr) bis 13. Oktober 2013
Landschaftsbilder aus der SØR Rusche Sammlung Oelde/Berlin

 2013 "MATERIALNOST", KIBLA, Maribor
2013 "Tierstücke" der Sammlung SØR Rusche Oelde/Berlin Niederländische Tiergemälde des 17. Jahrhunderts im Dialog mit zeitgenössischer Malerei    10. Februar - 28. April 2013

2013 Spinnerei winter tour (winterrundgang) in LIA gallery, Leipzig

2012 CHANGING PERSPECTIVES, 15 years of the ECB,s art collection, European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany
2012 LIA TRACES: Fünf Jahre internationales Atelierprogramm, Atrium Messehaus, Leipzig Nemčija
2012 The Importance Of being original, galerija PERLINI Arte, Padova, Italija
2012, Die Sterne am Himmel über mir, galerija ZINK,Berlin -  + Rosilene Luduvico, Takeshi Makishima and Hiroshi Sugito
2011-12  16/16 - okus po slikarstvu, galerija Equrna

2011 Yung artist from the Pomurje, Gallery Murska Sobota, SI
2011 CONTEMPORARY ART FROM SLOVENIA, European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany
2011 Between the Narrative and Abstract, Private View, Berlin, Germany
2011 Figuralno, Figurativno, Figurabilno. Monfort Gallery,Portorož, SI
2011  Winter Spinereirundgand, LIA galerie, Leipzig
2010 gallery G11, Between Two Cities, Berlin, Germany
2010  September Spinereirundgang, Leipzig, Deutschland
2010 Trans Movimenti II, Equrna Gallery, Ljubjana
2010 Trans. Movimenti, KUNSTLERHAUS, Klagenfut- Celovec, Avstrija,
2009 Proposal for collection, GALLERY FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Maribor,(curator Tomaž Brejc)
2009 Zeihnung- Raum, KUNSTLERHAUS KLAGENFURT-CELOVEC, Avstrija
2008New Urgency for Urban Politics, Ljubljana-Venice,
11th INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION IN VENICE, gallery A+A, Venice, Italy
2008 I International fair of Art, MULTIMEDIJSKI CENTER MESTA ROVINJ, KRVAŠKA
2008 11 Painters of Prlekija, galery ANTE TRSTENJAK, Ljutomer
2008 Toskana, gallery GORENJE, Velenje
2006 gallery KRESIJA, Ljubljana, ustvarjalci Metelkove mesta
2005 Prekmurski Akademski Klub, Murska Sobota- mladi pomurski slikarji, dela na papirju/ works on paper
2005 gallery ALKATRAZ, Metelkova mesto v Ljubljani
2004 gallery ROMAN PETROVIČ, Sarajevo- 8 slovenskih slikarjev mlade generacije
2003 prvi EX TEMPORE, Ptuj
2002 umetnostna gallery Maribor, razstavni salon ROTOVŽ, udeleženci slik. tabora na Gaju (katalog, 1 reprod.)
2002 24. BIENALE, San Paulo, Brazilija- v okviru Metelkove mesta
2001 razstava 2.s. gallery MIKLOVA HIŠA, Ribnica, razstava del podipl. Študentov na ALU (katalog, 1. reprod.)
2000 razstava Most na meji, Gornja Radgona
1999 10. GRAFIČNI BIENALE, Varna, Bolgarija- katalog, 1. reprod.
1999 razstava slik na papirju, študenti ALU, Avstralija
1998 gallery MIKLOVA HIŠA, Razkrivajoča navzočnost telesa, razstava risb na papirju študentov ALU, Ribnica (katalog 6 reprod.), prenos razstave v Mestno galerijo Ljubljana
1998 MEDNARODNI GRAFIČNI LIKOVNI CENTER, Ljubljana, razstava grafik Nova generacija (katalog, 1. reprod.)
1994 gallery MEDIA NOX, Maribor, razstava risb na papirju
1993 MESTNA gallery LJUBLJANA, razstava del likovne pedagogike ljubljanske in mariborske univerze


GROUP BOOKS AND CATALOGUE (selection)

2012 CHANGING PERSPECTIVES, 15 let zbirke ECB, Evropska Centralna Banka, Frankfurt am Main
2012 The Importance Of being original, galerija PERLINI Arte, Padova, Italija
2011 CONTEMPORARY ART FROM SLOVENIA, Evropska Centralna Banka.
2011 RISING- YOUNG ARTIST TO KEEP AN EYE ON!, Založba DAAB, Nemčija
2010 PICTURA POESIS: Andrej Medved, Zbirka KODA, Študentska založba 2010
2009 POLETJE- Predlogi za stalno zbirko, UGM

COLLECTION

LIA- Leipzig international Art Programe
Evropska centralna Banka, Frankfurt am Main, Nemčija
Private collection von Bayern, Munhen & Berlin, Nemčija
Collection SOOR T. Rusche, Berlin, Nemčija
Mestna Galerija Nova Gorica
Factor banka, Ljubljana
Gorenje,Velenje
Mednarodni grafični likovni center, Ljubljana
A Banka, Celje
Zavarovalnica Triglav, Murska Sobota
Galerija Miklova Hiša, Ribnica
Private collection Žbona, Koper
Private collection Darja&Boris, Ljubljana
Private collection Maizel, Ljulbljana


AWARDS and SCHOLARSHIPS

2011 Rezidenčna štipendija Ministrstva za kulturo RS za LIA projekt v Leipzigu
2005 Delovna štipendija Ministrstva za kulturo RS
2003  Zlata ptica za likovno umetnost (za ciklus Kamni)
2003 Velika odkupna nagrada, Ex tempore Ptuj
2000-2 Štipedija Ministrstva za kulturo RS za podplomski štuij
1994-9  Zoizova štipendija za nadarjene učence


RESIDENCY
2012        LIA residenčni program, Leipzig, Germany, 3 mesece
2010-11   LIA residenčni program, Leipzig, Germany, 6 mesecev, ( udeležbo je podprlo Ministrstvo za kulturo RS) 
2009       Atelje Ministrstva za kulturo RS v Londovu, England, 1 mesec


FAIRS

2013  ART COLOGNE  (z galerijo ZINK, Berlin)
2013  ART BRUSSELS (z galerijo ZINK, Berlin)
2012, SWAB ART Barcelona (z galerijo Private View, Berlin)
2012,  ART BRUSSSELS (z galetijo ZINK, Berlin)
2012, ARCO MADRID ( z galerijo ZINK, Berlin)
2011, PREVIEW BERLIN (z galeijo Private View, Berlin)
2010, PREVIEW BERLIN (z galerija Equrna, Ljubljana)
2008, Rovinj (z Obalne Glerije Piran)

WEB: www.mitjaficko.com