Goran Turnsek

Goran Turnšek (1978, Ptuj) is a Slovenian dancer and photographer who, after a successful career as a contemporary dancer, focused his creative path primarily on photography. He studied at De Theaterschool in Amsterdam, where he graduated in contemporary dance in 2001 with the Phillip Morris Award for the best dancer of all Dutch academies. He has worked with choreographer Krisztina De Chatel for the longest time and has performed in her productions: Fold, Imperium and Tando throughout the Netherlands and abroad. He has also collaborated with artist Marina Ambramovič, who, together with Krisztina De Chatel and the Van Gogh Museum, created the performance Gradual and persistent loss of control, in memory of the Austrian painter Egon Shiele. Turnšek graduated cum laude in 2015 with the photography project Jakob, whose photo book was shortlisted for the Unseen Dummy Award and presented at the Unseen Festival in Amsterdam. His photographic practice explores identity, performance for the camera and collective memory. With projects such as Second Stage, Marija, Lockdown Life and Bau Bau, he has presented himself in solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. His works have been exhibited in galleries in the Netherlands and Slovenia an...

2012-2015
Fotoacademie Amsterdam (cum laude)
2002 -2004
INHOLLAND University, Bachelor of Communication and Design Management, Rotterdam
1998
Cunningham studio, Summer Open Program, New York
1996-2000
Theaterschool Amsterdam, modern dance department

2026 | Transition in Movement / Dancers in New Professions, Galerija Murska Sobota, Slovenia
2025 | You will find my body covered in confetti, group exhibition, GT22, Maribor, Slovenia
2024 | Talumetnost, group exhibition, Galerija Mesta Ptuj, Ptuj, Slovenia
2022 | Repressed memory, solo exhibition, Mihelič gallery, Ptuj, Slovenia
2019 | Iets met ruimte, group exhibition, Kunstlievend Genootschap Pictura, Groningen
2019 | Second stage, solo exhibition, Fotoacademie, Amsterdam 2018 | Iets met ruimte, group exhibition, Kunsthal 45, Den Helder 2018 | Fotoroute, group exhibition, Windkracht 13, Den Helder 2017 | Second stage, solo exhibition, Podium Mozaiëk, Amsterdam 2017 | Dansfoto van het Jaar 2016, Theater Korzo, Den Haag
2016
New Photo 2016, Art'otel Amsterdam
2015
AIM, graduation exhibition, Loods 6, Amsterdam
2012
Habitat, grope exhibition, Fotoacademie Amsterdam
2009
Chatting with Marcin, Maribor
2008
Chatting with Marcin, Kikker theater, Utrecht
Chatting with Marcin, Groningen