CV - TADEJ POGACAR


BIOGRAPHY

Tadej Pogacar (1960) is an artist, curator and artistic director of the P74 Center and Gallery, based in Ljubljana. From 1994 to 1999 he was a chief editor of the M'ARS magazine, a leading Slovenian magazine for contemporary art. He is a founder and director of the P. A. R. A. S. I. T. E. Museum of Contemporary Art, a virtual critical formation established in 1990
(http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/parasite/) and P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Product Corporation. He is theoretician of New parasitism, a model of alternative cultural and social activity. His most recent project involve collaboration with urban social minorities, use of various media, activism and intervention in new public domain. He exhibited recently on the 49th Venice
Biennial; ZKM Karlsruhe; Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City; Central house of Artist in Moscow; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; B2, Lepzig; MGLC, Ljubljana and Jyvaeskylae Art Museum, Finland. He has been recipient of the Franklin Furnace grant in 2001.

 

1960 Born in Ljubljana
1984 Graduated from the Ethnology and History of Art, University of Ljubljana
1988 Graduated with a degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana
1990 Postgraduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana
1993 ­ present Director of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art
1997 ­ present Founder and artistic director of the P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Lives and works in Ljubljana.

 

SOLO SHOWS

2003

e_shop II, http://www.parasite-pogacar.si/P74
CODE:RED. Sector Zagreb - Working Unite Z 01, Gallery NOVA, Zagreb, Croatia
with A.Plani__ek /
Perfect Place, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, U.K.
Lucciole in lotta, Fundazione Ado Furlan, Pordenone (with Irene Rubini, Cinzia Sarto), Italy
Reconstructions - Documents II, Contemporary Art Gallery, Celje, Slovenia

2002

Olympia from Moderna galerija, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
CODE:RED USA, New York, U.S.A.

2001

Agent of Change - Documents I, International Center of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia,

2000

Tales of Two Cities, Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia; Art Gallery, Ravne na Koro_kem, Slovenia

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003

"TAKE OFF 2" , Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria (cat.)
"Brand New Letchworth", The Place, Letchworth Garden, U.K.
"Autonomus Territory Mexico City", Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
"Form Specific", Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cat.)
"Far Away", Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Eskilstuna, Sweden
"Intermedial", A+A, Venice, Italy (cat.)
"Urban Utopias, Urban Realities", Art Gallery Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia (cat.)
2002

"OSTENSIV", Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
"LINE_ AT" , Kunstlerhaus, Klagenfurt, Austria
"Terrorism: Discontinuity in Time", Gallery for Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia
"ARTEAST COLLECTION 2000+" , ZMNK Karlsruhe (cat.)
"The Art of Balkan Coutries", S.M.A.C.K., Solun
"Do it !", Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico

2001

"Slovene Way", Galleria NEON, Bologna, Italy
"Multitudini", Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo, Italy
"CODE:RED Sex Worker", 49. Biennale di Venezia, Italy (cat.)
"VULGATA", Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (cat.)
"Never Stop the Action", Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
"VULGATA", Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
"What, How & for Whom?", WUK, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
"The Eye and Its Truth. Spectacle and reality in Slovenian art 1984 - 2000", Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"Revisions. Painting 70 + 90", Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"U3", Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cat.)

2000

"SNAPSHOT", Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, U.S.A.
"After the Wall", Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
"artisti.giovani@sloveni.si", Ca del Duca, Venezia, Italy (cat.)
"After the Wall" , Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary (cat.)
"EVA, Friends and Neighbours", City Hall Gallery, Limerick, Ireland (cat.)
"Worthless (Invaluable)", Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cat.)

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alan Moore,"Who Work Hard for the Money", 2002, http://www.parasite-pogacar.si/press.htm; Jaka Zele_nikar, "Tadej Poga_ar in New York", Mladina, 20 / 002, Ljubljana; Tadej Poga_ar, "Home Stories and Parasitical Economies", in: Giovani.artisti @sloveni.si, 2000, Venice, p.28; Mi_ko _uvakovi_, "The Transgressive Policy of Parasitism", in: Absolute One, 49.Venice Bienial, MGLC, 2001, Venice; Igor Zabel, "The Para-Mirror of the New Parasitism", in: Absolute One, 49.Venice Bienial, MGLC, 2001, Venice; Ralf Hoppe, "Der Buergerlichen Huren", in: Der Spiegel, 27.8.2001, Hamburg; Alenka Pirman, "The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum, in: Sculpture", Vol 16, No.9, 1997, Washington; Pamura Umetessi, "Kings of the Street", in: Journal for Anthropology and New Parasitism, Vol.3, No.1, 1996, Ljubljana; Igor Zabel, "Slovene Art of the Nineties - Some Remarks", in: The Collection of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.Museum, 1995, Ljubljana; Toma_ Vignjevi_, "Slikarska hermenevtika muzeja", in: Journal for Anthropology and New Prasitism, Vol.1, No. 2, 1994, Ljubljana.

CATALOGUES

Tadej Pogacar, text: Igor Zabel, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1990.
Tadej Pogacar, text: Lilijana Stepan_i_, Mala galerija, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenija, 1993.
Art of History - Through the Body, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, text: Tomislav Vignjevi_, Tadej Poga_ar, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1994.
Transalpin, Neue Kunst aus Slovenien, 1995, Galerie Maerz, Linz. Pp.22 - 25
Laboratorium, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, Journal for Anthropology and New Parasitism, text: Marina Gr_ini_, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1995.
Manifesta 1, Rotterdam, 1996, pp.82, 83
Kings of the Street, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, Journal for Anthropology and New Parasitism, text: Pamura Umetessi, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1996.
Cartographers, Geo-Gnostic Projection for the 21st Century, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia, 1997. P.109
Home Stories, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, Journal for Anthropology and New Parasitism, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1999.
Vulgata, U3, 3. Trienale sodobne slovenske umetnosti, Moderna galerija (Museum of Modern Art), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2000. Pp.34 - 36.
49.Biennale di Venezia, Absolute One, MGLC, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2001. Pp. 99 - 155
Tales of Two Cities, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, Journal for Anthropology and New Parasitism , Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2001.
CODE:RED , Onestar Press, Paris 2003
Tadej Poga_ar, CODE:RED Sector Graz,
Air_port, take OFF 2, Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austria, 2003
Formspecific, Moderna galerija (Museum of Modern Art), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2003. Pp. 124-131.