Mito Gegic

Mito Gegič (1982) is a visual artist whose work examines hunting as a cultural, political, and symbolic framework through which power, control, and human domination over nature and society are articulated.
His paintings explore the hierarchies embedded in hunting traditions, while opening broader reflections on masculinity, surveillance, violence, and the unstable relationship between humans and the natural world.

At the center of Gegič’s practice is a distinctive process involving adhesive masking tape, which he paints, layers, removes, and reconstructs from one canvas to another. Rather than treating hunting as a rural custom or a practice of survival, Gegič approaches it as a visual and ideological structure shaped by exclusion, dominance, and the exercise of authority. Recurring motifs such as elevated hunting stands function as architectural metaphors of surveillance and concealed power, situating his work within a wider reflection on a world in which humans act simultaneously as managers, exploiters, and destroyers of ecosystems.

In recent years, this vocabulary has expanded beyond the relationship between humans, animals, and nature into a broader consideration of systemic and social violence. Motifs such as drones, milit...

Mito Gegič finished studies in painting in 2008 and in 2016 completed a Master's degree in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

SOLO SHOWS

2026 Y Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, "No One Will Know the Violence It Took to Become This Invisible"

2024 Ivan Grohar Gallery, Škofja Loka, Slovenia, ''You Are the Provider. With a Stolen Voice.''

2023 Y Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ''Go Tell the Fathers That We Are Leaving''

2023 Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ''The Fatherland Is a Babbling Prisoner''

2020 Ravne Gallery, Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Ravne na Koroškem, Slovenia, ''We Are Going Elsewhere''

2018–2019 Krško Gallery, Krško, Slovenia, ''There Are Angels on the Hunting Grounds''

2017 Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ''Remember Me As a Part of The Day''.

2016 Nova Gorica City Gallery, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, ''We Know Where You Live!''

2015 Likovni salon Gallery, Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia, ''Waiting and Wanting and Waiting''

2014 Ivan Grohar Gallery, Škofja Loka, Slovenia, ''UN-DO''

2013 Galleria del Narodni Dom, Trieste, Italy, ''Fatherland / Il retaggio dei padri''

2011 Media Nox Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia, ''Online / Offline''

GROUP SHOWS

2025 SHOWING STYRIA 2025, Vienna, Mariazell, Leoben, Austria, ''History Repeating?''

2024–2025 Y Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ''TELL ME Y ''

2024 Cukrarna Gallery, ...