Uroš Weinberger: Projectories

Uroš Weinberger: Projectories
28 January–26 February 2022
MMC KIBLA / KiBela

We kindly invite you to the opening of Uroš Weinberger’s solo exhibition entitled Projectories, which will take place on Friday, 28 January 2022, at 7 p.m. in KiBela, space for art.

INVITATION (PDF)
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION (PDF)
EXHIBITED ARTWORKS (PDF)

As we have already seen in Weinberger’s previous works, these works are also a direct response to the current social transformations conditioned by economic and political motives, the development of new, even more sophisticated technological tools of surveillance and classification of »bodies«, the environmental crisis, and the global pandemic. The artist's thoughtful framing and composition of scenes inhabited by human and non-human entities, and and relationships emerging between them, are enhanced in all their toxicity by his choice of color palette and canvas size. Weinberger’s paintings thus confront the viewer with the raw state of the world while at the same time affirming the communicative and subversive power of the painting medium. In fact, with his specific artistic language, the artist problematizes the use of high-tech tools for the extraction and exploitation of natural resources, the discipline of »bodies« and movement, the management of population and mass phenomena such as birth rate, morbidity, work capacity, migrations and public safety, as well as the economic and biological segregation of »bodies«.

Uroš Weinberger obtained his undergraduate degree (2003) and Master’s degree (2005) in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In 2001, he received the Prešeren Students Award; in 2018, he was the recipient of the highest artistic recognition for important works of art of the University of Ljubljana. Artistic residencies: National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria (2002); Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia in Berlin, Germany (2009); Schafhof – European Centre for Art, Upper Bavaria, Freising, Germany (2013). He is the author of the following art series: Transsubstantiations; Human Error; Control-Delete; Info vs. Info; Generation Z; Blur Techno; Displaced world, deplasiran svet.; The Final Countdown; Hand, Job, Paper, Work.; Attention, family values!; Seven Sisters; Oase des Wusts; die Drohnen; Projectories. His major presentations include Time without Innocence, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (2019); Anthropocene, Ann Street Gallery, New York, USA (2018); After Hiroshima, The B#S Gallery, Treviso, Italy (2017); NordArt 2016, Büdelsdorf, Germany (2016); MIG 21, KIBLA PORTAL, Maribor (2016); Uroš Weinberger: Projectories, Nova Gorica City Gallery (2021). He lives and works as a freelance visual artist.

http://urosweinberger.com/

Admission is free. You can attend the event in accordance with the RVT protocol and NIPH recommendations.

< Uroš Weinberger, Pyroclast, 2021, oil on canvas, 230 x 160 cm.

MMC KIBLA / KiBela, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, Maribor
Opening hours: Monday–Friday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Saturday: 10 a.m.–2 p.m.