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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.

Mitja Ficko

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


Works by Mitja Ficko

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