Term: August 2020
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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Born in 1973, Murska Sobota, Slovenia
Lives and works in Ljubljana (Metelkova City) SI and Leipzig DEU
EDUCATION
1994-99 Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana
2002 master degree at the same institution
2017 doc. mag
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
-Time Out, Gallery Equrna, Ljubljana, (with Borut Korošec)
– Die Unfassbarkeit der Dinge, Staetische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen, (with Mandy Kunze), DEU
– Paper dog, Gallery Srečišče, Ljubljana
2017
– Concertino, Miklova hiša, Ribnica
– Verspätete Rückkeh , Galerie Sechzig, Feldkirch, DEU
– 13te Haltestelle , Kusthalle Ravensburg, DEU
2016
– Never before, never later, Kvartirna hiša, Celje
– Stezica ozka kot britev ostra, Alkatraz, Metelkova Mesto
– Prosim, čuti namesto mene, medtem ko me ni, UGM Studio, Maribor
– I can not bear seven years of solitude, Srečišče, Celica, Ljubljana
– Potenciali, talenti in pacienti, Obalne galerije Piran, Razstavišče Monfort, Portorož (cooperation with M. Jakše)
2015
– Singing fish Ijekaru, Kibla, Maribor (cooperation with M. Jakše)
– Nazaj v votlino, Equrna, Ljubljana
– Nazaj v votlino, Mestna galerija Mostovi Balkana, Kragujevac, SRB
2013
– Ocena globine, Equrna, Ljubljana (with Markom Matthesom)
– Das Ende von Labyrinth, galerie Zink, Berlin, DEU
2012
– Dve sliki, E2RD, EPK Maribor (with A. B. Čopom)
– Prinašalka Luči, slikarska instalacija, TukadMUNGA, Ljubljana
2011
– Small house, little world, Salsaverde, Izola
– Midnight school, Tovarna umetnosti, Majšperk pri Ptujski Gori
– Gott verlirer, Zbirka SØR T. Ruscheja, The embassy of the republic of Slovenia in Berlin, DEU
2010
– Slike, Mestna galerija Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica
2009
– Painting, Savinov likovni salon, Žalec
– Made in London, The embassy of the republic of Slovenia in London, GBR
– Little world, Equrna, Ljubljana
2007
– Countdown, Obalne galerije Piran, Piran
2006
– Countdown, Miklova hiša, Ribnica
2005
– Red carpet, Equrna, Ljubljana
2004
– Sign, Kibla, Maribor
– Sign, Galerie Murska Sobota
2002
– Painting, Ante Trstenjak, Ljutomer
– Mustard seed or art, Equrna, Ljubljana
1999
– Graphics, Zavod za kulturo in izobraževanje Ljutomer,
1997
– Graphics, Klub Cankarjevega doma, Ljubljana (with Brankom Hojnikom)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
– Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
– The Tremendous World I have Inside my Head (Metamodernism and metaromanticism in Slovenian painting), Gallery Slovenj Gradec
2018
– Festival Grda račka: Produkcija želje in užitka, Gallery Račka, Celje
– Prisotnosti, KIBLA- Portal, Maribor – SEDIMENTE, 10 years LIA- Leipzig international art programme, Werschauhalle Spinnerei, Leipzig, DEU
– FECIT Grožnjan, Gallery ULUS, Beograd, SRB
– FECIT Grožnjan, Gallery Grožnjan, Istra, CRO
– Trosi, NGM, Maribor (M. Ficko, P Pugel, R2RD)
2017
– Natur-al(l), Art strys, 15. festival of contemporary art, Ptuj
– Epilog, Dvorec Novo, Celje
– Spring Spinnerei Rundgang, LIA program, Leipzig, DEU
2016
– Pogled 8, Božidar Jakac, Kostanjevica na krki (kustos Barbara Rupelj)
– Hiša na hribu/ Marjeta in zmaj, Žlebe
– Ta je lovska, UGM Studio, Maribor (curator Denis Volk)
2015
– When East meets West, Instituts of Fine Arts Guangxi, CHN
– Embassy art exhibition, Galerie Patries van Dorst, Wassenaar, NLD
– Prophetae Domestici III, Galerija Miklova hiša, Ribnica
– Spring Spinnerei Rundgang, LIA programme, Leipzig, DEU
– Suddenly, sometimes, LIA programme, Leipzig, DEU
– Destroyed room/Sleepless nights, Relais Rione Ponte, Rim, ITA (curator Virginia Colonna)
2014
– Mundus vadit retro, Kibla portal, Maribor
– 60! PANORAMA, collection UGM , Fine Arts Gallery Maribor
– Spring Spinnerei Rundgang, program LIA, Leipzig, DEU
– Thriee views, Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke München, Haus der Kulturinstitute, DEU
2013
– Materialnost, Kibla portal, Maribor
– Ergens tussen markt en maan, Korenmarkt 14, Mechelen, BLG
– Schöne Landschaft – Bedrohte Natur: Alte Meister im Dialog mit zeitgenössischer Kunst: Landschaftsbilder aus der SØR Rusche Sammlung Oelde/Berlin, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, DEU
– Tierstücke, iz zbirke SØR Rusche Oelde/Berlin (nizozemsko slikarstvo živalskih motivov iz 17. st. v dialogu s sodobnim slikarstvom), Museum Abtei Liesborn des Kreises Warendorf, Wadersloh, DEU
– Winter Spinnerei Rundgang, LIA programme, Leipzig, DEU
– Rethinking Space, LIA programme, Leipzig, DEU
– Touch / Drawing, Koroška Galerija likovnih umetnikov, S. Gradec (kurator M. Zlatar)
2012
– Changing perspectives, 15 let zbirke Evropske centralne banke, Frankfurt na Majni, DEU
– LIA traces: Fünf Jahre internationales Atelierprogramm, Atrium Messehaus, Leipzig, DEU
– Sombody s room, LIA programme, Leipzig, DEU
– The Importance of being original, galerija Perlini Arte, Padova, ITA
– Die Sterne am Himmel ueber mir, galerija Zink, Berlin, DEU (z R. Ludovico, T. Makishima in H. Sugito)
2011
– 16/16 – okus po slikarstvu, Equrna, Ljubljana (kutator A. Brejc)
– Slovenian modern art, Evropean Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, DEU
– Between Narrative and Abstract, Private View, Berlin, DEU
– Figuralno, figurativno, figurabilno, Monfort, Portorož (kurator A. Medved)
– Winter Spinnerei Rundgang, LIA programme, Leipzig, DEU
– Še ena poroka?, Private View, Berlin, DEU (kurator M. Skerbot)
2010
– Za vsakega nekaj, a s konceptom, Private View, Berlin, DEU (curator M. Skerbot)
– Between Two Cities, galerija G11, Friedrichshain, Berlin, DEU
– herbst Spinnerei Rundgang, LIA programme, Leipzig, DEU
– Trans Movimenti II, Equrna, Ljubljana (cooperation with Kunstlerhaus Klagenfurt)
– Trans Movimenti, Kunstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Celovec, AUT
2009
– Spring, Fine Arts Gallery Maribor (curator T. Brejc)
2008
– Potovanje po Toskani, Likovna kolonija Toskana, Galerija Gorenje, Velenje
– 11. mednarodni arhitekturni bienale, Galerija A + A, Benetke, ITA
– Slikarji Prlekije, Galerija Ante Trstenjak, Ljutomer
2006
– Prostor mesta, Likovni ustvarjalci AKC Metelkova mesto, Galerija Kresija, Ljubljana
2005
– Mladi pomurski akademski slikarji, Klub PAC – Prekmurski akademski club, Murska Sobota
– Proces Metelkova, Galerija Alkatraz, 12. obletnica AKC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana
2004
– Osam slovenačkih slikara mlađe generacije, Galerija Roman Petrović, Sarajevo, BiH
2003
– 1. Ex tempore, Galerija Tenzor, Ptuj
2002
– Iconografias Metropolitanas, ART center Metelkove mesta na 25. bienalu, Sao Paulo, BRA
2001
– 2. s., razstava del podiplomskih študentov ALU v Ljubljani, Galerija Miklova hiša, Ribnica,
1998
– Razkrivajoča navzočnost telesa, razstava risb na papirju študentov ALU, Galerija Miklova hiša, Ribnica (prenos razstave v Mestno galerijo Ljubljana)
– Nova generacija, razstava grafik, Mednarodni grafični likovni center, Ljubljana
RESIDENCY
2017 LIA program, Leipzig, Germani (1months)
2015 Academy of fine arte, Ninnang, China, (1months)
LIA program, Leipzig, Germani (3months)
2014 LIA program, Leipzig, Germany & guest in studio S. Burger, Leipzig, (4 months)
2013 LIA program, Leipzig, Germany, (3 months)
2010-11 LIA program, Leipzig, Germany, (6 months)
2009 Studio Ministry of culturoe RSlovenia in London, England, (1 months)
