has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
Recent Activities of and on Miran Kres
About me
Miran Kres (miran)
Artist Statement
I am not rigid author stuck in my tried and true manner of expression. My interests branched from painting into video and vice versa, because I am exploring the gesture of representation with different “lens.”While I work in a range of painting and video, the common thread connecting them is light. Using video and painting, I abstract light and shadow into sublimation. I am finding the way to modernize and rename the formal cognitions of modernism into completely different constellations of meaning.
My research on perception and the use of light lead to still and moving image spaces where the shades and highlights of colors, blended into each other, create the monochromatic visual effect thus provoking an impression on the observer. Working between those limits and kind of pointing them out is something I enjoy doing because it’s not just the fact that you are bringing the cosmos down into the space where you live, but that your perception helps create that as well
- Biography
Miran Kreš (1973) work comprises series of abstract paintings together with experimental video. Since the origin, he developed his research on psychological and symbolic aspects of abstraction. He studied Educational Fine Art at the University of Ljubljana. In 1998 he graduated from abstract painting.
- Exhibitions
Selected exhibition and projects 2000- 2011:
2000- 10 + 10, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Graz, Austria
2002- Water to Air Project- The Tube.nl Gallery Exhibition, The Tube Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherland
2003- Mr. B, Guerilla Performance Locator, Web art project, London, GB
2003- Images of Desire 3, Artwalk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004- Y-Rebis, Hest 35 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004- The Pink Triangle: GAD, The Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest 2004, Romania
2004- III.Bienale of small format paintings, Ljutomer, Slovenia
2005- Extasis, Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005- Slovenia 2005, Majski Salon, Koper- Izola- Piran, Slovenia
2005- Napalvine 2005, Galerija Hest, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005- Grand Prix des Ambassadeurs, Les Decourtenay Galleries, Châtelet, Belgium
2006- abc Hermeticum, id:doma, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006- 5-th International Exhibition of Miniatures, Vilnius, Lithuania
2006- Junge Slowenische Kunst, Galerie Sikoronja, Rosegg, Austria
2006- Liberté d´Expression exhibition / Barclays Global Headquarters-Candid Arts Trust, London, GB
2006- Let’s Make One Minute, SCCA, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006- Field of vision: Extremes, Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt am Mein, Germany
2006- II. International Printmaking Exhibition, Amire Art Centre, Istambul, Turkey
2007- Pulse, Artyfakt Gallery, Singapur
2007- Bivalni ateljeji Ob Ljubljanici, Galerija Kresija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007- Is Abstract Art dead??, Gallery 435, London, GB
2008- Prototype Archetype, The White Hall, University of Vilnius, Lithuania
2008- Narave 5, Bežigrajska galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008- Transfer, Galerija Krško, Krško, Slovenia
2008- Video Festival Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
2008- The Beat of Global Abstraction I, Californian Institute of Integral Studies Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
2008- For better tomorrow, City Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2009- The Beat of Global Abstraction II, West Chester University Art Galleries, Knauer Gallery, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
2010- Exlibris, Galerija S, Ljubljanski grad, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010- Lumi, Hest Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010- Pintura Fresca: Contemporary Abstract Artist, Galerie Nothburga, Innsbruck, Austria
2011- "10", Edsvik Konsthall, Sollentuna- Stockholm, Sweden
