Mitja Ficko artist bio – London Paint Club

London Paint Club

Mitja Ficko

b. 1973, Slovenia. Lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Leipzig, Germany

Mitja Ficko has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, mainly in Slovenia and Germany. His paintings intertwine figuration and abstraction. Ficko’s work is a specific combination of the dimensions of layers, time and space.

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

2021  – Peel it gently, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, SI ovenia
2021 – Pausse, Gallery E2RD, Maribor, SI ovenia
2019  – Time Out, Galerija Equrna, Ljubljana, (with Borut Korošec), SI ovenia 
2019 – Die Unfassbarkeit der Dinge, Staetische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen, (with Mandy Kunze) , Germany
2019 – Paper dog, Galerija Srečišče, Ljubljana, SI ovenia
  2017 - Concertino, Miklova hiša, Ribnica, SI ovenia
2017 – Verspätete Rückkeh, Galerie Sechzig, Feldkirch, Austria
2017 – 13te Haltestelle, Kusthalle Ravensburg, Germany
2016  – Never before, never later, Kvartirna hiša, Celje, SI ovenia
2016 –  Stezica ozka kot britev ostra, Galerija Alkatraz, Metelkova Mesto, Ljubljana, SI ovenia

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2020  – Die ich rief,die Geister, werd ich nun nicht los, LIA Autumn Show, Spinnerei, Leipzig 
2020 – The Curious Minds, LIA winter group show, winter Rundgang, Spinnerei, Leipzig
2020 – Apokalipsa 2020, Galerija Equrna, Ljubljana, SI
2019  – Time Without Innocence: Recent Painting in Slovenia, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SI
2019  - The Tremendous World I have Inside my Head (Metamodernism and meta romanticism in Slovenian painting), Galerija Slovenj Gradec, SI 
2019 – FECIT, Galerija Društva likovnih umetnikov Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SI 
2019 – DLUPP 25 let, Galerija ZDSLU, Ljubljana, SI  
2018  - Festival Grda račka: Produkcija želje in užitka, Gallery Račka, Center sodobnih umetnosti Celje, SI
2018  - Prisotnosti, KIBLA Portal, Maribor, SI
2018 – SEDIMENTE, 10 years LIA- Leipzig international art programme, Spinnerei, Leipzig

Awards & Residencies

2020 – LIA programme leipzig, Spinnerei, Germany 
2019 – 2020 LIA Programme Leipzig, Spinnerei, Germany
2017 – LIA programme, Leipzig, Germany 
2015 – Academy of fine arts, Ninnang, China
2015 – LIA programme, Leipzig, Germany
2014 – LIA programme, Leipzig, Germany

Press & Publications

2018 – Images from dreams, Društvo Slovenskih pisateljev, Ivan Cankar
2015 – Humans, Landscape and Space, European Central Bank
2015 – Changing Perspectives: 15 Years of ECB Art Collection

Collections

SØR Rusche Sammlung Oelde, Berlin, Germany
Factor Bank, SIovenia
European Central Bank – ECB Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
 LIA programme Leipzig, Germany
City Municipality of Ljubljana, Slovenia 
MOL Mestna občina Ljubljana, Slovenia 
 A Bank Celje, Slovenia 
UGM Maribor, Slovenia 
 Gallery Miklova hiša Ribnica, Slovenia 
Mestna galerija Nova Gorica, Slovenia 
Gorenje Collection Velenje, Slovenia 
European Committees, Palais Berlaymont, Ministry of culture, Slovenia

Education

2017 – Assistant Professorship, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana
2002 – MA, Academy of Fine Arts Ljubljana 
1994-99 – Academy of Fine Arts Ljubljana