CV & References
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
- Phase Transitions
- The Future of Work
- 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
| Tranformation | group exhibition | https://dluk.si/festivali/festival-2024/ |
| into Basic | 13. International | Catalogue, on p. 38 and 39 is the Tree |
| Bodies | Festival of Fine | brochure |
| (the Tree) | Arts Kranj | photogallery of the exhibition |
| on 13. IFFA | October 3. until | photogallery-p.9; the Tree |
| Kranj 2024 | November 2. 2024 | photogallery-p.10; the Tree |
| Precarity and | solo exhibition | Presentation of the exhibition on the Pešak Night Window Display Gallery page. |
| Self-Protection | in the Pešak Night | Ljubljana Art Weekend - Friday 24th. |
| in Five | Window Display | Presentation of the author on the Pešak Night Window Display Gallery page. |
| Windows | Gallery - part of | https://pesak.org/ |
| the Art Weekend | ||
| Ljubljana, May-July 2024 | ||
| 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 | |
| https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/177555971 | ||
| Out of curiosity: a conversation with Katja and Julij | ||
| 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 - look for part3 | |
| April to June 2022 | leaflet | |
| exhibition tour | ||
| https://www.facebook.com/galerijamiklovahisa/posts/pfbid0MA9VZSVQdctEBnTsS5bZeUBp9JpsQnzAwQ85ZPVrfPhxg1qkWYBFsW3LhSweC8bMl | ||
| 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 |
| of the Miklova hiša Gallery | Phase Transition (1), Julij Borštnik | |
| since May 2022; | ||
| 2023, 2024 | ||
| Nature & me | Srečišče Gallery, solo exhibition | https://www.hostelcelica.com/sl/dogodki/narava-in-jaz-vaja-v-obcutljivosti/ |
| in collaboration with Katja Oblak | ||
| 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 | solo exhibition | |
| and Modern | November 2019 | |
| Basic Bricks | Alkatraz Gallery, solo exhibition | http://galerijalkatraz.org/?p=14553 |
| of Logic 1 | Metelkova City | leaflet p.1 |
| Autonomous Cultural Centre | leaflet p.2 | |
| January 2019 | https://www.facebook.com/events/2087026058219059/ | |
| Before/Re-birth | exhibition with Katja Oblak | photo gallery 1 |
| within the festival | photo gallery 2 | |
| Bučno 9, Lesno Brdo | ||
| 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 | scan from the journal Mladina |
| Hostel Celica, Ljubjana | ||
| Dec. 2017, Jan. 2018 | ||
| Epilogue – Space, | mansion Novo Celje | Catalogue, "Insight", year XIII, n. 19, p. 222, |
| Body and a Medium | exhibition of 50 Slovene | p. 218&2019, |
| in Transition | artists, joint work | p. 239. |
| with Katja Oblak | http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/poletna-scena/174478940 | |
| May to September 2017 | http://www.delo.si/kultura/vizualna-umetnost/velicastni-finale-raznolikih-podob.html | |
| http://www.mladina.si/180103/telo-in-prostor/ | ||
| http://www.vtvstudio.com/v-dvorcu-novo-celje-razstava-epilog/ | ||
| https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/291074304 | ||
| Pixxelpoint 2016 | presentation of Art School | Program Pixxelpoint 2016, pages32,33; Dec.9th |
| at the international | Pixxelpoint 2016 - flyer, Dec.9th | |
| festival of contemporary art | Fotogalery from the presentation. | |
| in Nova Gorica City Art Gallery, | ||
| Art School | The school was founded | https://kulturnidom-ng.si/kulturna-vzgoja/likovna-sola-za-mestne-galerije-nova-gorica/ |
| in Nova Gorica | in 2016 at the initiative | FB page LikovnaSolaMGNG |
| City Art | of sculptors Katja Oblak, | In the annual catalog of the Cultural Center 2016-2017, look at p.32-33 |
| Gallery | Anja Kranjc and Julij Borštnik | In the annual catalog of the Cultural Center 2022-2023 |
| and in cooperatin with | teaching adults | |
| Cultural Center Nova Gorica. | teaching children | |
| It is co-run by Reality Society. | https://arhiv2.kulturnidom-ng.si/mestnagalerija/likovna-sola-v-mestni-galeriji-nova-gorica/ | |
| 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, 27.7. 2016 | |
| International Journal of Housing Policy, V16, 2016 - I3: Temporary tenancies in the Netherlands, Carla J. Huisman, reference to the film. July 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. | ||
| De Nederlandse Woonbond, Dutch Tenants' Union, release of film on the website, 13. 7. 2016. | ||
| PROJECTIONS: | Construir TV, Argentinian TV with millions | |
| of viewers, multiple projections, April 2019 | ||
| https://www.construirtv.com/programa/todo-flexible/ | ||
| Construir TV Facebook post of "¿Todo Flexible?" | ||
| ¿TODO FLEXIBLE?, Documental completo, Construir TV | ||
| SALTO Amsterdam RTV | ||
| multiple screenings, 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](https://www.facebook.com/events/185706511827580/ ) | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/3078254 |
| 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, 2009-2022 | ||
| 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 | https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/239251968 |
| 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, | Research on Certain Practices of Activism in Contemporary Art |
| 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 | https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/2152814 |
| ESSL Award 2005 | Modern Gallery Ljubljana, Sl. | https://razume.mg-lj.si/razstava.php?id=7032005 |
| exhibition | June 2005 | |
| of the | ||
| nominees | ||
| 11th International | Galerija Media Nox | https://razume.mg-lj.si/razstava.php?id=6142005 |
| festival | Maribor, Sl. | |
| računalniških | maj 2005 | |
| umetnosti | ||
| prenos 11. | Klub za medmrežno | https://razume.mg-lj.si/razstava.php?id=6142005 |
| Mednarodnega | kulturo Mama | |
| festivala | Zagreb, Hr. | |
| računalniških | junij 2005 | |
| umetnosti | ||
| Academy | Praetorian Palace | https://razume.mg-lj.si/razstava.php?id=9682004 |
| student | Koper, Slovenia | |
| Exhibition | July 2004 | |
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CV & References
Julij Borštnik
email: julijb@protonmail.com
phone: +38651237407
