CV


Julij Borštnik studied Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in Ljubljana (3 completed years) and enrolled in the Sculpture course at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2001, where he graduated in 2007. In 2005, he received The ESSL Award for Central and Southeast Europe. In 2006 he received the Prešeren Prize for Students and participated in the U3 Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art. In 2008, he enrolled in a postgraduate course in philosophy, which is run by the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the University of Nova Gorica.

Already during his studies as a sculptor he clearly indicated the connection between his artistic practice and his intensive study of theory: philosophy and economics, economic history, social theory, history of art, and general history and anthropology. His reflective relationship between art and theory has repeatedly manifested itself in auspicious and unprecedented artistic works. In them, he articulates the logic of the prevailing economic processes. And the principles of how change enters into social reality. With the aim of shedding light on the logic and the manoeuvering potential of the tumultuous era in which we find ourselves.
He works through the media of sculpture, sculptural installation in space, 2D and 3D visual conceptual schemes, documentary, video, animation and illustrated performance.

During his studies, he also took a pro-active approach to providing organizational and infrastructural conditions for artistic creation: Between 2003 and 2011 he actively joined the pioneering project of establishing the international residential art center Art Center in Goričko. In 2008 he co-founded, with Nataša Serec, Vita Žgur and Zdravko Pravdič, the Asylum residential studio on Metelkova in Ljubljana, which he co-managed with Nataša Serec until 2019. In 2016, together with sculptors Katja Oblak and Anja Kranjc and in collaboration with the Cultural Center, they founded the Art School in the City Gallery of Nova Gorica.


Main cycles of creation:

  • Basic Bricks of Logic
  • The Future of Work
  • Phase Transitions
  • Nature and me

  • collaborations with Katja Oblak


Teaching:

  • Science through Art, an innovative approach to teaching key science concepts through art, play and hands-on creativity, since 2020.
  • Teaching sculpture, drawing, painting and animation at the School of Fine Arts in the Nova Gorica City Art Gallery, since 2016.
  • Teaching sculpture and art and art history at the Miklova hiša Gallery, the Art Education Centre (LICE) in Ribnica, since 2011.
  • KipiGibi series of art workshops for children in collaboration with Katja Oblak, from 2012 to 2015.
  • Participation in the implementation of multi-day workshops for students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in the framework of the Art Centre Residency, 2008-2011.


Awards:

  • ESSL Award for Central and Southeast Europe 2005
  • Prešeren Prize for Students, 2006

  • Murko Prize of the Slovenian Ethnological Society for the permanent exhibition I, We and Others in Slovenian Ethnographic Museum, part of which are metal sculptural objects designed in collaboration with Katja Oblak, 2010




REFERENCES


From afar, Spatial installation, announcement of Nova Gorica Arts Centre
from up-close Julij Borštnik & Katja Oblak, exhibition tour - announcement of Nova Gorica Arts Centre
Nova Gorica City Gallery, photocollection from the Opening
December 2023 exhibition Catalogue
announcement on MMC RTV Slovenia
announcement
announcement
announcement on FB
exhibition tour - announcement on FB
Phase the Miklova hiša Gallery, contribution in the Culture emission on RTV SLO
Transition (1) solo exhibition https://www.galerija-miklovahisa.si/razstave/julij-borstnik-fazni-prehod-1/
Ribnica Exhibition workshop for elementary school children
April to June 2022 leaflet
exhibition tour
https://www.facebook.com/galerijamiklovahisa/posts/pfbid0MA9VZSVQdctEBnTsS5bZeUBp9JpsQnzAwQ85ZPVrfPhxg1qkWYBFsW3LhSweC8bMl
https://www.dolenjskilist.si/2022/04/19/260222/napovedniki/obvestila/Odprtje_razstave_Julija_Borstnika_Fazni_prehod__1___Galerija_MIklova_hisa/
The Present Information project on Open Worksite radio show
and Future the working conditions The Collection of Knowledge established within the project Present and Future of Work
of Work and the social Stvarnost FB page
March 2022 situation of the workforce. https://radiostudent.si/projekti/sedanjost-in-prihodnost-dela
- Februar 2023 project partners:
(as head of - STVARNOST (lead partner)
Stvarnost - Movement for Decent Work
and co-author) - Workers' Advice Bureau
- RADIO Student
workshops from workshops with primary Clay and Wood, Dragica Čadež
the Science and secondary school students Object from the Space
through Art cycle on the ongoing exhibitions Duality of View, Z. Žido in S. Červek
since May 2022 of the Miklova hiša Gallery Phase Transition (1), Julij Borštnik
Nature & me Srečišče Gallery, solo exhibition https://www.hostelcelica.com/sl/dogodki/narava-in-jaz-vaja-v-obcutljivosti/
in collaboration with Katja Oblak https://mynight.si/events/narava-in-jaz-vaja-v-obcutljivosti/
Hostel Celica, Ljubjana https://www.facebook.com/events/439412946960143/
Dec. 2019, Jan. 2020
The Two Breaks: Gallery Vipavski križ, https://www.facebook.com/events/409378756418068/
Renaissance and Modern solo exhibition
November 2019
Basic Bricks of Logic 1 Alkatraz Gallery, solo exhibition http://galerijalkatraz.org/?p=14553
Metelkova City https://www.facebook.com/events/2087026058219059/
Autonomous Cultural Centre https://www.napovednik.com/dogodek506754_julij_borstnik_osnovni_zidaki_logike_1
January 2019
Before/Re-birth exhibition within the festival photo gallery 1
Bučno 9, Lesno Brdo photo gallery 2
September 2018
Open Studio as part of The 25th Anniversary http://galerijalkatraz.org/?p=14220
of Metelkova City https://www.facebook.com/events/678836389158610/
MC Autonomous Cultural Centre
September 10, 2018
Rebirth Gallery KI Invitation
National Institute of Chemistry photogallery from the opening
Ljubjana, May 2018 KI Annual Report 2018; p. 33
Artists in Celica Srečišče Gallery, group exhibition http://celicamestu.si/post/337648/celicamestu-vabilo-na-odprtje-razstave-umetnikov-v-podporo-da-se-celica-ne-proda
Hostel Celica, Ljubjana https://www.napovednik.com/dogodek467843_umetniki_v_podporo_celici
Dec. 2017, Jan. 2018
Epilogue – Space, mansion Novo Celje Catalogue, "Insight", year XIII, n. 19, p. 222, 230, 239.
Body and a Medium exhibition of 50 Slovene leaflet
in Transition artists, joint work Invitation
with Katja Oblak http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/poletna-scena/174478940
http://www.delo.si/kultura/vizualna-umetnost/velicastni-finale-raznolikih-podob.html
http://www.mladina.si/180103/telo-in-prostor/
https://www.zkst-zalec.si/sl-si/objave/2063/epilog-razstava-v-dvorcu-novo-celje-do-1-10-2017
http://www.o-sta.com/msg.php?id=20090
http://www.vtvstudio.com/v-dvorcu-novo-celje-razstava-epilog/
Pixxelpoint 2016 presentation of Art School Program Pixxelpoint 2016, Dec.9th - pages32,33
in Nova Gorica City Art Gallery, Pixxelpoint 2016 - flyer, Dec.9th
as a part of the international Fotogalery from the presentation.
festival of contemporary art
Art School in cooperatin with Cultural FB page LikovnaSolaMGNG
in Nova Gorica Center Nova Gorica and https://kulturnidom-ng.si/kulturna-vzgoja/likovna-sola-za-mestne-galerije-nova-gorica/
City Art Reality Society. In the annual catalog of the Cultural Center 2016-2017, look at p.32-33
Gallery The school was founded In the annual catalog of the Cultural Center 2022-2023
in 2016 at the initiative teaching adults
of sculptors Katja Oblak, teaching children
Anja Kranjc and Julij Borštnika. https://arhiv2.kulturnidom-ng.si/mestnagalerija/likovna-sola-v-mestni-galeriji-nova-gorica/
Exhibition of the participants of the Art School in the Goriška library of France Bevek, October 2019.
All Flex? Film co-authored
by Abel Heijkamp.
part of Release of the film on April 7th 2016, KSU/Basta, Utrecht, NL.
The Future of Work
PRESS RELEASES: De Correspondent: Review and release of film, 28.7. 2016
De Nederlandse Woonbond, Dutch Tenants' Union, release of film on the website, 13. 7. 2016.
Huurdersbond, Tenants' Union of Belgium, release of film on their website.
Article in Huurdersblaad; newsletter of Huurdersbond, Tenants' Union of Belgium (p. 8 do 11). December 2016.
International Journal of Housing Policy, V16, 2016 - I3: Temporary tenancies in the Netherlands, Carla J. Huisman, reference to the film. July 2016.
PROJECTIONS: Construir TV, Argentinian TV with millions of viewers
multiple projections of ¿Todo Flexible?, April 2019
https://www.construirtv.com/programa/todo-flexible/
Construir TV Facebook post of "¿Todo Flexible?"
¿TODO FLEXIBLE?, Documental completo, Construir TV
SALTO Amsterdam TV, multiple screening, May, June 2018.
Varia: Alles Flex?, Call me Intern, City Dragon, documentary evening in Varia Rotterdam, NL,
Februar 2020
Empowerment Film Festival - De Stad In! Actie!, projection of "Alles Flex?" ("All Flex?"), Amsterdam, Nizozemska,
July 2019
Inspiring Activism "All Flex?", film projetion with debate, Amsterdam, NL,
May 2019
eFFect Festival, den Bosch, NL
June 2018
Rogumentary: "All Flex?", screening and debate, Rog Factory, Ljubljana, SL
April 2018
International Social Housing Festival, Amsterdam, NL
June 2017
screening in het Spuigat, Den Haag, NL
June 2017
screening of "All Flex?" and book presentation in ACU , Utrech, NL
May 2017
screening in Papenhulst, den Bosch, NL
May 2017
DiEM25 Citizens' University: debate on the future of work with "All Flex?" projection, Amsterdam, NL
November 2016
De Omslag: projection of "Alles Flex?" ("All Flex?") with debate, Eindhoven (NL)
August 2016
Summer camp of Movement for Decent Work: projection of "All Flex?" with debate, Stari trg ob Kolpi (SL)
July 2016
Habita colectivo, Lizbona, (PT): projection of "Tudo Flex?" ("All Flex?") with debate
June 2016
Vrijplaats, Leiden (NL): projection of "All Flex?" with debate
June 2016
Theater Muganga, Amsterdam (NL): projection of "All Flex?" with debate,
May 2016
A-Infoshop, Ljubljana: projection of "All Flex?" with debate,
May 2016
Monnetlaan, Utrecht (NL): projection of »Alles flex?« with debate
May 2016
KSU/Basta, Utrecht (NL): projection of »Alles flex?« with debate
April 2016
What kind of use lecture, performans
value does art have? open studio of Katja Oblak Radio Student: Aleš Rojc, Mythological Monday
ACZ Metelkova City, Ljubljana leaflet Sculpture Asylum open studio, Katja Oblak
June 2015 napovednik.si
Tračnica-železnica a part of international Katalog: »Sledi/Spuren«, Schlefmühlgasse 12-14, Obalne galerije Piran
travelling exhibition http://www.primorske.si/Novice/Kultura/Vojna-je,-zal,-se--vseprisotna
SLEDI/SPUREN of 12 artists. MMC RTV: »Prva svetovna vojna kot izhodišče za likovni premislek v današnjem času«, 16.8.2014
Coauthored with Katja Oblak. http://www.zrc-sazu.si/sl/dogodki/potujoca-razstava-sledi-spuren-v-atriju-zrc
Schleifmuhlgasse12-14, Vienna, http://12-14.org/2014-Sledi_Spuren/
Pavelshaus, Potrna, EPEKA, https://esel.at/termin/70276
Maribor, Atrij ZDSLU, Ljubljana,
Loža, Koper, April-December 2014
The Measure of Profit Gallery Schleifmuhlgasse 12-14, tiskovina The Measure of Profit
presentation & exhibition publications on esel.at:
Vienna, Austria, April 2014 http://esel.at/termin/70308
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eselat/sets/72157643327571065/
REALITY group / STVARNOST Simple Truth about Austerity Measures short film, 2012 around 30 000 views
Simple Truth about Austerity Measures - part 2 short film, 2012 around 5 000 views
Uprimo se noveli Zakona o visokem šolstvu short film, 2012 around 7 000 views
Simple Truth about Higher Education - part 1 short film, 2014 around 6 000 views
Simple Truth about Higher Education - part 2 short film, 2015 around 3 000 views
Stvarnost; PRESS RELEASES: Mladina: film release and article Simple Truth about Higher Education - part 2, April 2015
MMC RTV-SLO: Interview and film release, March 2014
Mladina: film release and article Let's Resist the Higher Education Amendment, October 2012
RTV-SLO, Studio City: excerpts from Simple Truth about Austerity Measures 2 (39'00''-40'10''), September 2012
Mladina: film release and article Simple Truth about Austerity Measures 2, September 2012
RTV-SLO, Studio City: excerpt from Simple Truth about Austerity Measures (39'03''-39'50''), 14.5.2012
Precarity the Bologna Way, Radio Student: commentary on the debate in Academic 15
public debate with film http://studentska-iskra.org/?tribe_events=javna-razprava-prekarnost-bo-bolonjsko
screening, Ljubjana, april 2015
Diploma in Hand, student on the street!, https://www.facebook.com/events/1448445435388544/?ref=52&source=1
public debate with film
screening, Ljubljana, march 2014
On the Way Srečišče Gallery leaflet On the Way
The Potential solo exhibition
of Feasible Hostel Celica, Ljubljana
Solutions November 2012
Precise Srečišče Gallery leaflet Precise and Simple Imagination
and Simple exhibition of Julij Borštnik
Imagination with the Tuesday's group
Discovering of the 4th year LICE
Contemporary students from Ribnica
Art Through Hostel Celica, Ljubljana
Practice June 2012
Impulse and New Gallery of the Delavski leaflet Impulse and Possibilities
Possibilities dom Trbovlje (Trbovlje https://r-ahlin.blogspot.com/2011/11/katja-oblak-julij-borstnik-vzgib-in.html
Workers' Home)
exhibition in collaboration
with Katja Oblak
Trbovlje, Slovenia, November 2011
Arrighi's Metelkova City Autonomous
100-year cycles Cultural Centre
of capital lecture
and what do they organised by Andrej Pezelj
tell us about Ljubljana, October 2011
today?
Boring and Studio Asylum
Interesting lecture https://vimeo.com/31993766
Eras part of the lecture series
in Art Material Conditions of Imagination, organised by Nataša Serec and Julij Borštnik
Metelkova City Autonomous Cultural Centre, Ljubljana, September 2011
Personal/ international festival of
/Collective contemporary improvised PROGRAM (for 2011 look bellow)
2011 music soorganization (in Radio Student; Reportage From the Festival, July 8th 2011
the name of Art Center) Radio Student, recension; Personal-Collective / Bitshift!, July 8th 2011
with KUD Mreža and Seijiro Radio Student, recension; Personal-Collective: reflection, July 11th 2011
Murayama and participation https://www.culture.si/en/Depot:Personal%E2%80%93Collective_Festival
with performance On Possibilities (Festival and Its Potential) and with sculptural work Being1
Open Courtyard of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Menza pri koritu, Metelkova City ACC and Kiberpipa
Ljubljana, July 2011
Murko Slovenian Ethnological
Award Society award for the https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/node/34723
permanent exhibition I, We https://www.sed-drustvo.si/promocija/murkove-nagrade
and Others, part of which are sculptural objects made of metal, designed with Katja Oblak
Slovenian Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana, 2010
sculptural objects made of metal for
objects the permanent exhibition https://www.etno-muzej.si/sl/razstave/stalne-razstave
for I, We and Others: Images https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/razstave/i-we-and-others-0
I, We of My World in Slovene https://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/razstave/razstava-kjer-je-v-srediscu-clovek/218300
and Others Ethnographic Museum: Seed https://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-TXMKFW4K/?language=slo
Container, Tunnel, Nest, Doors, Globe, Pendulum, figurines
designed in collaboration with Katja Oblak, Ljubljana, 2009
Studio Asylum Co-organiser of its http://kudmreza.org/studio-asylum/
artist-in-residence artist-in-residence https://www.culture.si/en/Asylum_Studio
program with Nataša https://julijborstnik.eu/sl/z-drugimi/Azil-in-Art-center
Serec. Between it's inception as a residential studio in 2008 and until 2019.
ART CENTER Being part of the core https://www.culture.si/en/Art_Center_Prosenjakovci
institution for team between 2003 and https://julijborstnik.eu/sl/z-drugimi/Azil-in-Art-center
development and art 2011. As the director
Središče, Slovenija of the institution
between 2006 and 2010.
Tea Party for Introduction to the survey https://www.sta.si/1121932/cajanka-o-rezidencnih-art-centrih
Contemporary Art RESIDENTIAL ARTISTIC https://galerijalkatraz.org/?p=1343
- RESIDENTIAL CENTERS by Vita Žgur
ARTISTIC CENTERS , Julij Borštnik and Art Center Središče.
Gallery P74, Ljubljana, January 2007
Story of gallery Stanica_Lab, http://archiv.stanica.sk/en/2007/12/archiv2007/
a Mandarin Žilina-Zariečie, Slovakia https://galerijalkatraz.org/?p=1474
Dec.2007-Jan.2008
Story of sollo exhibition at (https://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/razstave/trije-skupaj-a-hkrati-samostojno/149182)
a Mandarin P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Dnevnik; Trojna predstavitev novih imen, Miha Colner, 2007-02-06
January and February 2007
Publication of Borec 639-643, journal of
the University History, Anthropology
degree thesis and Literature, 2007.
Presentation in Alkatraz Gallery, https://galerijalkatraz.org/?p=998
of the University Ljubljana, April 2007
*Degree thesis
University Degree Academy of Fine Arts and Design,
in Sculpture University of Ljubljana
February 2007
U3 2006 participation with https://www.mg-lj.si/node/675
5th Triennial of the Art Center Središčes' survey https://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/razstave/u3-s-sodobno-slovensko-umetnostjo/148840
Contemporary RESIDENTIAL ARTISTIC CENTERS https://old.delo.si/kultura/u3-za-internacionalizacijo-slovenske-sodobne-umetnosti.html
Art in by Vita Žgur and Julij Borštnik
Slovenia Dec. 2006 to March 2007
ESSL Award 2005 ESSL MUSEUM sammlung-essl
1st PRIZE Klosterneuburg/Vienna, Austria https://kunstaspekte.art/event/essl-award-2005
for Slovenia Nov. 2005 - Jan. 2006
ESSL Award 2005 Modern Gallery Ljubljana, Sl.
exhibition June 2005
of the
nominees

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From afar, from up-close, Julij Borštnik & Katja Oblak, Nova Gorica City Gallery, December 2023 - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery, December 2023 - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery, December 2023 - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue..
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue.
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From afar, from up-close, Nova Gorica City Gallery - Catalogue.

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ESSL Award 2005
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ESSL Award 2005 Jury
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ESSL Jury Statement

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Prešeren Award for Students 2006

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U3 2006 / 5th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia 2006, participation with the Art Center team.
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U3 2006 - participation with the survey RESIDENTIAL ARTISTIC CENTERS by Vita Žgur and Julij Borštnik.
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U3 2006 - Article on RTV Slovenia MMC.

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ART CENTER - Being part of the core team between 2003 and 2011 and the director of Art Center, Institution for Art and Development between 2006 and 2010.
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ART CENTER - projects. (Part of the core team 2003 - 2011 and the director of Art Center, Institution for Art and Development 2006 - 2010.)
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ART CENTER - premises. (Part of the core team 2003 - 2011 and the director of Art Center, Institution for Art and Development 2006 - 2010.)

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ART CENTER: program of 2004 (Being part of Art centers' core team between 2003 and 2011 and the director of Art Center, Institution for Art and Development between 2006 and 2010.)
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ART CENTER: program of 2005
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ART CENTER: program of 2006

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Tea Party for Contemporary Art - RESIDENTIAL ARTISTIC CENTERS, Gallery P74, Ljubljana, January 2007.
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Introduction to the survey conducted by Vita Žgur and Julij Borštnik: RESIDENTIAL ARTISTIC CENTERS.

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Story of a Mandarin at P74 Gallery - article on RTV Slo MMC, January 2007.
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"Three together, but independently" - article on RTV Slo MMC, January 2007.
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Exhibition at P74 Gallery - article on RTV Slo MMC, January 2007.
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Article in the Dnevnik newspaper about the exhibition of the Story of a Mandarin at P74 Gallery, January 2007.

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University Degree in Sculpture, Academy of FIne Arts and Design, UniLj, February 2007.

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Exhibition of The Story of a Mandarin in gallery Stanica_Lab, Žilina-Zariečie, Slovakia, Dec.2007-Jan.2008.
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Exhibition of The Story of a Mandarin in gallery Stanica_Lab, Žilina-Zariečie, Slovakia, Dec.2007-Jan.2008.
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Exhibition of The Story of a Mandarin in gallery Stanica_Lab, Žilina-Zariečie, Slovakia, Dec.2007-Jan.2008.

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Presentation of the University Degree work in Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, April 2007.

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Publication of the diploma thesis in Borec, journal of History, Anthropology and Literature, 2007.
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The diploma thesis in journal Borec - STRUCTURE OF THE TREATISE.
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The diploma thesis in journal Borec 639-643 - APPROACH TO THE TREATISE.
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The diploma thesis in journal Borec - ILUSTRATION.
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The diploma thesis in Borec - ILUSTRATION.
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The diploma thesis in Borec, journal of History, Anthropology and Literature - ILUSTRATION.

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FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF RETURN to Art Center - Invitation to the event, 1st of May 2009.
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"Plenum of self-determined venues"  - presentation print of the network of independent organizations in the field of culture and youth work; cover. October 2006. (Participation as initiator.)
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"Plenum of self-determined venues"  - Network Plenum was initiated in self-defence against the pressures from local and national institutions. In the times of hostile acts of local government against Art Center. October 2006.
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Court Register: Registration of the merger of the Art Center Institution with the Art Središče, October 2008. The union enabled the revival of the art centre.
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Article in the local newspaper Dobro jutro about the revival of the Art Center, November 2008. (Being part of Art centers' core team between 2003 and 2011 and the director of Art Center, Institution for Art and Development between 2006 and 2010.)
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Article in Dobro jutro on the return to the premises (May 2008) and resumption of activities after the interruption due to the illegitimate evacuation of the premises by the municipality in November 2006. Nov. 2008.
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Article in Dobro jutro on the return to the premises (May 2008) and resumption of activities after the interruption due to the illegitimate evacuation of the premises by the municipality in November 2006. Nov. 2008.
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"Chained Creativity"; The Day of Culture card, February 2nd 2009.

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University of Ljubljana, Letter of Support to Art Center, January 2007. (Was part of the team from 2003 to 2011 and Director of Art Center from 2006 to 2010.)
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Letter of intent for cooperation, Academy of Fine Arts and Design Ljubljana, November 2008. (Director of the Art Center Institute for Development and the Art.)
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Letter of intent for cooperation in study activities, Academy of Fine Arts and Design Ljubljana, November 2008.
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One of many letters to government institutions - letter to the Ministry of Culture, October 2008. (Director of the Art Center Institute for Development and the Art.)
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One of many letters - request to the Ministry of Culture for mediation in resolving the debt to the Development Fund, October 2008.
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One of many letters - request to the Prime Minister for mediation in resolving the debt to the Development Fund, June 2009.
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Letter of Support, June 2009.
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Letter of Support, June 2009. (Part of the core team from 2003 to 2011 and director of the Art Center Institute from 2006 to 2010.)
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Government resolution on the settlement of the Art Center's debt to the Development Fund – explanation, July 2009.

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Studio Asylum: article "Metelkova Got its' First Residential Center", Ljubljana, September 2008.
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"Metelkova Got its' First Residential Center"; article about the opening of the Studio Asylum residency, Ljubljana, September 2008. (Co-organized with Nataša Serec and KUD Mreža.)
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Studio Asylum: "Drum, Laptop, Improvisation and Butoh", journal Mladina, August 2009. (Co-organized with Nataša Serec and KUD Mreža.)
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"Drum, Laptop, Improvisation and Butoh", concert review of Seijiro Murayama, a recurrent resident in Studio Asylum, in journal Mladina, August 2009.

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PERSONAL-COLLECTIVE 2011, international festival of contemporary improvised music, July 2011. Co-organized (in the name of Art Center) with KUD Mreža and Seijiro Murayama.
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PROGRAM of the festival of contemporary improvised music PERSONAL-COLLECTIVE 2011; day1, July 2011. - Co-organization and participation with the performance "On Possibilities" and sculpture "Being1".
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PROGRAM of the festival PERSONAL-COLLECTIVE 2011; day2, July 2011. - Co-organization and participation with the performans "On Possibilities" ("Festival and its potential") and sculpture "Being1".
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PROGRAM of the festival Personal-collective 2011; day3, July 2011. - Co-organization with KUD Mreža (Nataša Serec & others) and Seijiro Murayama.
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Radio Student: "Reportage From the festival Personal-collective" -1, July 8th 2011. (Co-organization with KUD Mreža (Nataša Serec & others) and Seijiro Murayama.)
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Radio Student: "Reportage From the festival Personal-collective" -2, July 8th 2011. (Co-organization and participation with the performans "Festival and its potential" and sculpture "Being1".)
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Radio Student, : "Personal-collective / Bitshift!" -1, July 8th 2011.
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Radio študent, review: "Personal-collective: Reflexion!" -1, July 11th 2011.

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Murkos prize of Slovene Ethnological Society for the permanent exhibition I, We and Others in Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Jan. 2010.
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The openning of I, We and Others in Delo, Sept. 12th 2009. Metal sculptural elements were designed by Katja Oblak and Julij Borštnik.
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I, We and Others in SEM. Metal sculptural elements were designed by Julij Borštnik and Katja Oblak.

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Impulse and Possibilities, exhibition with Katja Oblak, DD Trbovlje, Nov. 2011.

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"Precise and Simple Imagination", Srečišče Gallery, Ljubljana, June 2012.
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Excerpt from the short film "Simple Truth about Austerity Measures" in the weekly news programme Studio City on Raditelevision Slovenia, May 2012. Created by group Stvarnost (Reality).
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"Simple Truth about Austerity Measures - part2"; excerpt in Studio City on RTV Slovenia, September 2012. (Participation as an initiator of the group Stvarnost (Reality).)

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"The Truth about Higher Education / Let's Resist the Higher Education Amendment", in Mladina magazine, October 2012. The short film was created by group Stvarnost (Reality).
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"The Truth about Higher Education" in Mladina magazine, October 2012. (Participation as an initiator of the group Stvarnost (Reality).)

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"On the way", ehibition in Srečišče Gallery, Ljubljana, November 2013.
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On the way, Srečišče Gallery.

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"The Measure of Profit", exhibition in Schleifmuehlgasse 12-14 Gallery, Vienna, April 2014.
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"The Measure of Profit" in Schleifmuehlgasse 12-14 Gallery, Vienna.

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SLEDI-SPUREN, traveling exhibition, April to December 2014.
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Galerija Schleifmuhlgasse, Dunaj, Pavelshaus, Potrna, EPEKA, Maribor, Atrij ZDSLU, Ljubljana, Loža, Koper.
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Sodelovanje z delom Tračnica-železnica, v soavtorstvu s Katjo Oblak.
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SLEDI-SPUREN, traveling exhibition.

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Interview and film release of "The Truth about Higher Education - part1" by group Stvarnost (Reality) on MMC RTV Slovenia, March 2014.
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"The Truth about Higher Education - part1" on MMC RTV Slovenia, March 2014. (Participation as an initiator of the group Stvarnost (Reality).)

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Magazine Mladina: film release of "The Truth about Higher Education - part2" by group Stvarnost (Reality), March 2015.
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"The Truth about Higher Education - part2" in magazine Mladina, March 2015. (Participation as an initiator of the group Stvarnost (Reality).)

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Leaflet invitation to enroll in the Art School for the year 2022-2023 - adults.
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Poster of the Art School participants' exhibition, June 2016.
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Exhibition of the participants of the Art School in the Goriška library of France Bevek, October 2018.
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Poster invitation to enroll in the Art School for the year 2018-2019.
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Exhibition of the participants of the Art School in the Goriška library of France Bevek, October 2019.
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Cultural Center Nova Gorica announcement for September 2021; invitation to enroll in the Art School for the year 2021-2022.
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Leaflet invitation to enroll in the Art School for the year 2019-2020 - children.

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De Correspondent: film review and publication, July 2016
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De Correspondent is a Dutch online newspaper with 70 000 subscribers.000 naročniki.
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It was launched in 2013, facilitated by over €1 million in crowd-funding donations.
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World record in journalism up to that time. (For the full text, please see the link in the table on the left.)
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International Journal of Housing Policy, V16, 2016 - I3: citation of the film in the scientific article "Temporary tenancies in the Netherlands" Carle Husiman, julij 2016

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Article in Huurdersblaad, newsletter of the Tenants' Union of Belguim - Huurdersbond, December 2016.
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Huurdersblaad 229, p. 8 to 11, article on "All Flex?", December 2016.
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Newsletter of Huurdersbond - Zveze najemnikov Belgije, 9. stran.
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Article on "All Flex?" in Huurdersblaad, newsletter of the Tenants' Union of Belguim, p. 10.
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Article on "All Flex?" in Huurdersblaad, p. 11.
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Huurdersbond, Tenants' Union of Belgium, release of film on their website, December 2016.
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De Nederlandse Woonbond - Tenants' Union of the Netherlands: publication of »Alles flex?« with commentary, July 2016.
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Tenants' Union of the Netherlands - De Nederlandse Woonbond: publication of the film with commentary, July 2016.

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De Omslag: projection of "Alles Flex?" ("All Flex?") with debate, Eindhoven (NL), August 2016
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KSU/Basta: projection of »Alles flex?« ("All Flex?") with debate, Utrecht (NL), April 2016.
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Fair City: projection of "All Flex?" with debate, Amsterdam (NL), May 2016.
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Vrijplaats: projection of "All Flex?" with debate, Leiden (NL), June 2016.
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Habita colectivo: projection of "Tudo Flex?" ("All Flex?") with debate, Lizbona, (PT), July 2016.
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Movement for Decent Work summer camp: projection with debate, Stari trg ob Kolpi (SL), July 2016.
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het Spuigat; projection of "All Flex?", Den Haag, Nizozemska, June 2017.

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Catalogue of the exhibition EPILOG, Space, Body and Medium in Transition in the magazine Vpogled, Volume XIII, No. 19, cover. May to October 2017.
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EPILOG exhibition catalogue, p. 222, participation with the video Birth, co-authored with Katja Oblak.  May to October 2017 in the Novo Celje manor.
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EPILOG exhibition catalogue, p. 218&219, exhibitions of fifty prominent Slovenian artists in the Novo Celje manor. May to October 2017.
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EPILOG exhibition catalogue, p. 239, participation with the video Birth, co-authored with Katja Oblak.  May to October 2017.
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Catalogue of the exhibition EPILOG, Space, Body and Medium in Transition in the magazine Vpogled, Volume XIII, No. 19, penultimate page, September 2017.

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Magazine Mladina, Parade: ARTISTS TO CELICA, exhibition of artists in support of the Srečišče Gallery, hostel Celica, Ljubljana, Dec. 2017 and Jan. 2018.
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Celica to the city: UMETNIKI CELICI, exhibition of artists in support of the Srečišče Gallery, hostel Celica, Ljubljana, dec. 2017 in jan. 2018.
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Celica mestu: UMETNIKI CELICI, exhibition of artists in the Srečišče Gallery, hostel Celica, Ljubljana, Dec. 2017 and Jan. 2018.

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Leaflet - REBIRTH, solo exhibition at the Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, with sculptor Katja Oblak, cover, May 2018.
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Leaflet - REBIRTH, exhibition at the Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, with sculptor Katja Oblak, May 2018.
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Leaflet - REBIRTH, Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, with sculptor Katja Oblak, May 2018.
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Leaflet - REBIRTH, Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, with sculptor Katja Oblak, May 2018.
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Leaflet - REBIRTH, solo exhibition at the Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, -
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Leaflet - REBIRTH, exhibition at the Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, - "Being 1".
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Leaflet - REBIRTH, exhibition at the Institute of Chemistry, - "Being 1" and "Being 2".
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Leaflet - REBIRTH, Institute of Chemistry, p. 14 and 15, May 2018.
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Leaflet - REBIRTH, Institute of Chemistry, back - "Presence Body - Tree"  video still.
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(BEFORE)BIRTH - exhibition on the "bučno 9" festival, with sculptor Katja Oblak, Lesno Brdo (SL), September 2018. Invitation.

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BASIC BRICKS OF LOGIC 1, solo exhibition at the Alkatraz Gallery, ACC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana, January 2019.
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BASIC BRICKS OF LOGIC 1, the Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, January 2019.

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SALTO: screenings of "Alles Flex?" ("All Flex?") on Amsterdam television, May and June 2018.
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eFFect Festival: Screening of  "All Flex?", den Bosch, Nizozemska, June 2018.
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Empowerment Film Festival - De Stad In! Actie!, screening of  "All Flex?", Amsterdam (NL), July 2019.
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Varia: Alles Flex?, Call me Intern, City Dragon, documentary evening in Varia Rotterdam (NL), February 2020.

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Construir TV: screenings of "¿Todo Flexible?" ("All Flex?") on Argentinian television, April 2019.
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Construir TV has over a million of regular viewers.
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Web release of "¿Todo Flexible?" ("All Flex?") on Construir TV FB site.

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NATURE & ME, solo exhibition in Srečišče Gallery, Hostel Celica, Ljubljana, Dec. 2019 and Jan. 2020, leaflet.
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Leaflet NATURE & ME, solo exhibition, with a sculptural contribution by Katja Oblak, Srečišče Gallery.

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Project Present and Future of Work, March 2022 to February 2023 (participation as co-author and coordinator - STVARNOST).
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Present and Future of Work; project to strengthen support for workers and reduce the information gap on labour and social rights.
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Student-Worker; program Open Worksite on Student Radio.

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Workshops in the Miklova hiša Gallery from the Science through Art cycle with primary and secondary school students, since May 2022. - On the Clay and Wood exhibition (EACH artefact starts in nature), May & June 2023.
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Workshops at the exhibition Object from the Space, March 2023.
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Workshops at the exhibition Duality of View (Abstraction), November 2022.
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Workshops at the exhibition Phase Transition (1) (How to increase efficiency?), May 2022.

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PHASE TRANSITION 1, solo exhibition in Gallery Miklova hiša, Ribnica, April to June 2022.
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Leaflet PHASE TRANSITION 1, Gallery Miklova hiša, solo exhibition.
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Leaflet PHASE TRANSITION 1, Gallery Miklova hiša, solo exhibition.
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Contribution in the Culture emission on RTV SLO.

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Julij Borštnik

email: julijb@protonmail.com

phone: +38651237407