Jakob ironing a suit - Limited Edition 5 of 5 Photograph

Goran Turnšek (1978) was born in Ptuj in former Yugoslavia, now Slovenia. He studied modern dance at Academy of Theater and Dance in Amsterdam and photography at the Fotoacademie Amsterdam. After dancing for Dance company Krisztina de Châtel for many years he developed an interest in the relationship between performance and photography. He created dance choreographies Being Blanka (2009), Water beast (2010) and Chatting with Marcin (2010). In 2015 he graduated with the photo project ‘Jakob’ which was shortlisted by Unseen Dummy Book Award and Selection of Dutch photography. So far he performed at various international dance festivals, and held solo exhibitions in Theater aan het Vrijthof (Maastricht, 2016), Podium Mozaiëk (Amsterdam, 2017) and group exhibitions at WEP (Groningen, 2010), Gallery Walls (Amsterdam, 2008), Art’otel (Amsterdam, 2015), Kadmium (Delft, 2016) and Rotterdam Photo Festival (Rotterdam, 2017). In his work, Goran Turnšek presents daily movements as performance. He uses inspiration from dance, theater and visual art. The relationship between the body and the space in which it is located plays an important role. In his photography he used sequences, diptychs and loose photographs he finds essential to tell his story. He often plays with obscurity and this refers to both the anonymity of the person and the anonymity of the source of the subject.Topics to be found in his work are identity, perservation en impermanence. His photography publications, photo books, videos, expositions and performance are an integral part of his work.