Gregor Pratneker

Gregor Pratneker (1973) started painting in the 1990s. He lives and works in Maribor. In 2006 he graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Education in Maribor with his diploma thesis Painted Cityscapes of Maribor. Between 2007 and 2012 he was a postgraduate student at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, where he also received his Master's degree in 2012 with the thesis Abstraction and deformation of shapes in my painting (dr. Muhovič, Lenardič). In his recent creative period, he has been focusing mainly on landscapes - forests, which can be painted plein air or in the studio. In 2013 he won the first prize of the May Salon awarded by the ZDSLU (Federation of Slovene Artists' Associations), and in 2014 he managed to convince the French jury of the Autumn Salon in Paris with his painting Winter Morning, which had been awarded the first prize by the ZDSLU the year before. Since then, he has exhibited regularly at all three major Parisian salons: Autumn Salon, Salon des Beaux-Arts and Salon des Artistes Françaises. In December 2019 he was awarded the Eugene Boudin award (named after the famous French landscape painter) at the Salon des Beaux-Arts, Louvre, for his painting Spring in the Mountains. In F...

MFA, 2012, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia

AWARDS:
»Mention«, Salon Artistes Francais, Paris, France, 2020.
"Prix Eugène Boudin", Salon des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, 2019.

"Prix d'excellence de peinture abstrate du salon 2018", Salon d'Arts Plastiques, La Rochelle, France, 2018.
"Dlum award", Salon Rotovž, Maribor, Slovenia, 2013.
»May Salon 2013 first price", Gallery Sonnet Hall, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2013.
»Grand prix International Italia«, Salon Specchi, Messina, Italy, 2009.



SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
»Paintings Vedute of Maribor«, Media Nox Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia, 2006.

»Paintings of Churches and the Bible«, Gallery ARS SAKRA, Maribor, Slovenia, 2009.

»Landscapes of Slovenia«, Gallery Ante Trstenjak, Ljutomer, Slovenia, 2009.

"Colours for Africa", Baodo in NIL, Graz, Austria, 2010.

"The Essence of Wood Landscapes", The Mihelič Gallery, Ptuj, Slovenia, 2011.

"Landscapes", Merkur Gallery, Graz, Austria, 2012.

“Landscapes”, Gallery ArtB, Maribor, Slovenia, 2013.

“In the Landscapes of Timelessness”, Gallery Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2013.

"Images", Gallery Insula, Izola, Slovenia, 2014.

"The man in the landscape", Gallery Castle Negova; Negova, Slovenia, 2014.

"Rest by the Lake", Gallery Finzgar, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015.

»The Human in the La...