Mladen Stropnik

The artistic practice of Mladen Stropnik shaped around works on paper and canvas, collages, drawings, and short video loops build up on a specific intervention in the spaces of the everyday, immediate and recognizable, yet wondrous and distorted.

Mladen’s artistic process is shaped around minimalist and conceptualist practices, and his artistic gesture operates through cuts and breaks while the narrative is reduced to a minimum, relying on consistent visual language and a certain economy of representation.

Mladen Stropnik’s drawings or collages are based on minimal gestures intervening in the conceptual and abstract frameworks, as hints and fragments of the visible world, its bare and basic abstract details, often with elements of humor, playfulness, curiosity… the usual and unusual, to expose it, inviting us to look again.

text: Branka Bencic

2004 Master’s degree studies – Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, SLO

2003 MFA Exchange at the Academy of Fine Arts in Muenchen, GER

2001 BA Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, SLO


RESIDENCIES

2009 ISCP – International Studios for Curatorial Program, New York, USA

2002 Not-Oreste Festival, Montescaglioso, ITA

solo exhibitions

2024 Ravnikar, dež v šotoru / rain in a tent, with Maruša Meglič, Tomaž Furlan, SBD, Ljubljana, SLO

2024 City Gallery Ljubljana, adijo pecivo / pastry, with Viktor Bernik, Vadim Fiškin, Alice Könitz, Scott Lawrence, Ljubljana, SLO

2024 Gallery Loža, DUNAJC POMFRIT, with Saša Bezjak, Siniša Labrović and Nataša Skušek, Koper, SLO

2023 Studio UGM, Pristava–Gaberke–Veleje, with Nataša Berk, Bojan Mijatović and Dominik Štibernik, Maribor, SLO

2023 Gallery Ravne, Družmirje, with Jeff Dodson, Ethan Caflisch and The Noodle, curator Jernej Kožar, Ravne na Koroškem, SLO

2020 Gregor Podnar, 13fifteen, with Jen Liu and Marko Tadić, curator Gregor Podnar, Berlin, GER

2018 Project Space DUM, fade in to the night, curator Tevž Logar, Ljubljana, SLO

2015 Gallery Apoteka, under the counter, curator Branka Benčić, Vodnjan, CRO

2014 Gallery ŠKUC, night train (who’s there?), curator Vladimir Vidmar, Ljubljana, SLO

2013 Gregor Podnar, LET GO, curator Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, SLO

2012 International Centre of Graphic Arts, sofa, curator Božidar Zrinski, Ljubljana, SLO

2010 Kapsula, Pri Zlatem stegnu – Triki, curator Maja Škerbot, Ljubljana, SLO

2009 Gregor Podnar, fuckin’ hanging, curator Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, SLO

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