Staš Kleindienst
landscape painter, represented by Equrna Gallery.
Glasnik noči (Harbinger of the Night)
giclée print, edition of 50
available @ Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana
Staš Kleindienst (born 1979) finished his BA in painting in 2007 and MA in fine art in 2009 at the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2014 he won the OHO Group Award, the main national visual arts award for young visual artists. In 2019 he received the Highest Artistic Title of the University of Ljubljana. In 2023 he recieved Rihard Jakopič Award, the highest national award for achievements in fine and visual arts in Slovenia.
He lives and works in Vipava, Slovenia.
EDUCATION:
2009 – MA in Fine Art, Academy of Fine Art and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007 – BA in Painting, Academy of Fine Art and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 – Antiarcadia, Josip Račić Gallery - National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2023 – Paintings and Studies, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2023 – Usedline / Sediments, Zlati Ajngel, Varaždin, Croatia
2023 – Insomnia, artKIT, Maribor, Slovenia
2023 – Insomnia, Savinov salon, Žalec, Slovenia
2022 – Antiarcadia, Galerija Božidar Jakac – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia
2021 – Play, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019 – Guardians of the Night, Likovni salon Gallery, Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia
2017 – Everything OK!, Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 – The Lost Space, MMC KIBLA / KiBela, Maribor, Slovenia
2017 – Electric Sky, Atelier Home Gallery, Trieste, Italy
2016 – Unknown / Unrecognized, Idrija Municipal Museum, Idrija, Slovenia
2015 – Unknown / Unrecognized, Center and Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 – The In-betweens, Gallery Alkatraz, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014 – State of Exception, Miklova House, Ribnica, Slovenia
2013 – Other Side of a Painting, Idrija City Library Gallery, Idrija, Slovenia
2012 – Structures of Valorization / Colonization, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
2011 – Band of Outsiders, Hilton New York, The Center for Book Arts, Public Plaza, New York, USA
2010 – Newborn, Kiberpipa, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 – Newborn: Ideologies, Kapsula Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 – Buy Your Own Art Experience, AC Institute, New York, USA
2007 – Buy Your Own Art Experience, APT, Novo mesto, Slovenia
2006 – Mixed Media, Center and Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 – Equrna Gallery Represents Four Generations, Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota, Slovenia
2024 – Against the Stream of Time | 10th Triennial of Contemporary Art – U3, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2023 – Exhibition of the Jakopič Award Winners, Gallery ZDSLU, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2023 – The Figurative - Selected Examples in Slovenian Art, Cukrarna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2022 – 2023 – Meantime - Paintings Only, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2022 – Momental–mente, Vivid Paintings, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2022 – Nature of Art, SULUV, Mali likovni salon, Galerija BEL ART, galerija Akademije umetnosti, Novi Sad, Serbia
2021 – The 20th and 21st Century Art Collection Acquisitions 2011 to 2021, City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2021 – Urban Landscape - Understanding Nature, 10th International Festival of Visual Arts Kranj, Kranj, Slovenia
2021 – The Painting Now!, Gallery Monfort, Portorož, Slovenia
2021 – The Painting Now!, City Gallery Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2020 – Viral Self-Portraits, on-line exhibition, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2020 – Apocalypse 2020, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019 – Low Tones of Earth Song, Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia
2019 – AIR4, Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019 – Selection from the Collections of Moderna galerija | Arteast 2000+ and National Collections, +MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019 – Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 – All Our Secrets, Celje Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia
2018 – Join The Dots / Unire le distanze, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy
2018 – AIR4, Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 – Futurology - What Can Art Tomorrow do for You?, City Gallery Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2017 – GLITCH, Gallery Zelenica, Rog Factory, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 – Selection from the Collections Arteast 2000+ and National Collections, +MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016 – Preseki- Izseki (Riko Art Collection), Miklova hiša, Ribnica, Slovenia
2016 – Kulturnih 6 za boljši svet, City Gallery Slovenj Gradec, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
2016 – Beyond the Globe | 8th Triennial of Contemporary Art – U3, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016 – Low-Budget Utopias, +MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 – Crises and New Beginnings - Art in Slovenia 2005 - 2015, +MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 – Shame on You!, Centre for Contemporary Arts Celje, Celje, Slovenia
2015 – The 10th Annual OHO Group Award “Don’t eat yellow snow!”, Center and Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014 – OHO Award Final Exhibition, Center and Galery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013 – U3, Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art, +MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012 – ID / Identities, Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association and Avantgarde Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 – Not So Distant Memory, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, USA
2011 – Cyberfest, National Center of Contemporary Art Saint-Petersburg branch, Russia
2011 – Pawnshop, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2011 – Spaceship Yugoslavia, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
2011 – Cross Border Experience, ŠKUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011 – Pawnshop ArtBasel, Basel, Switzerland
2009 – The Law of Capital: Histories of Oppression, Mestni muzej, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2009 – Quoting Contemporariness, Universal Cube, Leipzig, Germany
2009 – Artout New York, Bridge Art Fair, New York, USA
2009 – The State of Things, Marino Cettina Gallery, Umag, Croatia
2009 – transmediale 09, DEEP NORTH, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2008 – Politics of Contemporary Art: Workshop, Stacion, Prishtina, Kosovo
2008 – Manifesto d’artista, State of Exception, Trieste, Italy
2008 – Third look, MGLC, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008 – NO! Against Racism, Exploitation, and Colonization!, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Austria
2008 – Thematic Project Series: Skype Meetings - Work to do! Self-organisation in Precarious Working Conditions, part 3, Shedhalle, Zurich, Swiss
2007 – Toposcapes: Interventions into Socio-cultural and Political Spaces, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Austria
2006 – 10th Cairo Biennial, Cairo, Egypt
2006 – Not-quite/Not-right, Histories, Bodies and Concepts in Contemporary Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
COLLECTIONS:
2024 – NLB Art Collection, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2022 – Collection of Galerija Božidar Jakac – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia
2021 – Collection of Idrija Municipal Museum, Idrija, Slovenia
2020 – Collection of the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Slovenia
2020 – New Wave, Collection of the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia
2020 – Collection of The Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML)
2015 – Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy
2015 – Riko Art Collection, Ribnica, Slovenia
2014 – Adriatic Slovenica Collection, Ljubljana, Slovenia
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
2022 – Antiarcadia, Galerija Božidar Jakac – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia
2021 – Degrowth and Progress, eBook publication by L'internationale Online
2018 – Idrijski razgledi LXIII - 1, Idrija, Slovenia
2018 – Artwords 108, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016 – Imago Mundi: Voices of Transition, Contemporary Artists from Slovenia, Antiga Edizioni, Italy
2016 – Beyond the Globe | 8th Triennial of Contemporary Art – U3, Catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 – Reartikulacija no. 10, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2009 – Reartikulacija no. 9, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008 – e-flux no. 1, december, New York, USA
2008 – Zarez no. 223, Zagreb, Croatia
2007 – Borec 639 – 643, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007 – MALMOE no. 38,Vienna, Austria
2007 – Contemporary Art Collection Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia
SELECTED LECTURES, SYMPOSIUM, CONFERENCES:
2016 – Museum of the Moment, artist talk with Asta Vrečko, +MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008 – Politics of Contemporary Art: Workshop, Stacion Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo
2008 – Principles and Methodologies of Auto-education, Tanzquartier, Vienna, Austria
2008 – Reartikulacija, Center of Contemporary Art, Celje, City Gallery Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2007 – Break 2.4 – Life with Art, Infoshop nad Menzo, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007 – Symposium on Art, Ideology and Politics, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
OTHER:
2023 – Rihard Jakopič Award, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019 – Highest Artistic Title of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019 – curator of the exhibition Transform:action at +MSUM and National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 – curator of the exhibition 12 Reasons to Paint at ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016 – OHO Group Award jury member, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 – residency at ISCP, New York, USA
2014 – OHO Group Award winner, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012 – residency at Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
2007 – Student Prešeren Award, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljulbjana, Slovenia
2006 – Student Award, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljulbjana, Slovenia
