Matej Andraz Vogrincic
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Matej Andraz Vogrinčič is a Slovenia
n artist
. He has been creating site-specific work in urban and natural environments since the early 1990s. He has built an international reputation by creating installations specific to local places, traditions, and histories – filling the most ordinary or neglected places with even more ordinary objects. With all his work, Vogrinčič starts with the space but always leaves room to alter and develop the idea in the process. His projects rely on a direct connection with the local community, including clothing and toy car donations.
Vogrinčič first “dressed” a dilapidated house with donated clothing in his hometown and then presented a similar project at the Venice Biennale
in 1999. He created the project “Car Park: Members Only” – a wall installation consisting of 15,000 toy cars placed on a wall of a building in Adelaide
, Australia
in response to the city’s traffic and parking problems and continued to the Australian outback, where he put up a watering can installation, consisting of some 2,000 plaster watering cans arranged over the area of a football field in a region largely devoid of rain. As part of the 2003 Awesome Festival
in Perth, Western Australia
, he filled up an area of 7,000 square meters with 10,000 balloons of red, orange, blue, pink, green and yellow colors. He filled the atrium of the former Melbourne GPO
with 1000 umbrellas in 2005. One of his recent projects include Untitled (56 Boats) commissioned for the 4th Liverpool Biennial in England, an installation of 56 upturned boats placed inside the bombed ruins of the Gothic Era St. Luke’s Church.
Commissioned by the Biennial of Siberia
2007 Untitled (It used to be my playground) Farmington Canal New Haven, CT United States
Commissioned by Site Projects
2006 Untitled (56 Boats) St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial
2005 When on a Winter’s Night a Traveller GPO Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Commissioned by L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival and GPO
2004 Untitled (Enchanted Forest) Ljubljana, Slovenia
Commissioned by Microsoft
2003 Beach Balls Perth, Australia
Commissioned by the Awesome Festival
2002 Moon Plain Coober Pedy, Australia
Commissioned by South Australian Tourism Commission
2002 Port Christchurch, New Zealand
Commissioned by Scape: Arts & Industry Urban Arts Festival
2000 Car Park: Members Only Adelaide, Australia
1999 Casa Vestita (Dressed House) Venice, Italy
1997 Street Wear Ljubljana, Slovenia
1993 Dressed House Ljubljana, Slovenia
2002 Moon Plain, SOFA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
1999 Clothes Sculpture, John Gibson Gallery, New York, USA
1996 Dressing, Anonimus Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1992 Ready Made, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The First Line, 26th Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004 Slovene Art 1985–1995, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2002 Art+Industry Biennial, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tancat per Obres (Artists in Architecture) Collegi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
1997 U3, Triennial of Slovene Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
This Art is Recycled, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1996 Urbanaria, SCCA Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Activities of Le Coco Fruitwear Co. continue with new collections and new shows at:
K4 Club, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kibla
Club, Maribor, Slovenia
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1998 Set designs for Marina Grzinic and Aina Šmid’s video Madame Butterfly Theater, Mladinsko, Ljubljana
1995 Le Coco fruitwear, a manufactory for fruit clothes, Ljubljana Markets, Slovenia
1994 The House, short film with Damjan Kozole, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1994 House Tailor, documentary film with Tibor Ogrizek, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1994 Paints garments and makes fashion accessories for Hej Salvador, a music-fashion performance (directed by Matjaž Pograjc
, produced by Glej theatre), Ljubljana, Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
n artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
. He has been creating site-specific work in urban and natural environments since the early 1990s. He has built an international reputation by creating installations specific to local places, traditions, and histories – filling the most ordinary or neglected places with even more ordinary objects. With all his work, Vogrinčič starts with the space but always leaves room to alter and develop the idea in the process. His projects rely on a direct connection with the local community, including clothing and toy car donations.
Vogrinčič first “dressed” a dilapidated house with donated clothing in his hometown and then presented a similar project at the Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
in 1999. He created the project “Car Park: Members Only” – a wall installation consisting of 15,000 toy cars placed on a wall of a building in Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
in response to the city’s traffic and parking problems and continued to the Australian outback, where he put up a watering can installation, consisting of some 2,000 plaster watering cans arranged over the area of a football field in a region largely devoid of rain. As part of the 2003 Awesome Festival
Awesome Festival
The Awesome Festival is an arts event in Perth, Western Australia held each November since 1995. The participation and interaction of younger visitors is encouraged by street theatre, interactive art, dance workshops, film screenings and musical performances...
in Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, he filled up an area of 7,000 square meters with 10,000 balloons of red, orange, blue, pink, green and yellow colors. He filled the atrium of the former Melbourne GPO
General Post Office, Melbourne
The Melbourne General Post Office , is a former post office in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...
with 1000 umbrellas in 2005. One of his recent projects include Untitled (56 Boats) commissioned for the 4th Liverpool Biennial in England, an installation of 56 upturned boats placed inside the bombed ruins of the Gothic Era St. Luke’s Church.
Projects in Public Spaces
2007 Untitled (Shovels), Krasnoyarsk, RussiaCommissioned by the Biennial of Siberia
2007 Untitled (It used to be my playground) Farmington Canal New Haven, CT United States
Commissioned by Site Projects
2006 Untitled (56 Boats) St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial
2005 When on a Winter’s Night a Traveller GPO Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Commissioned by L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival and GPO
2004 Untitled (Enchanted Forest) Ljubljana, Slovenia
Commissioned by Microsoft
2003 Beach Balls Perth, Australia
Commissioned by the Awesome Festival
2002 Moon Plain Coober Pedy, Australia
Commissioned by South Australian Tourism Commission
2002 Port Christchurch, New Zealand
Commissioned by Scape: Arts & Industry Urban Arts Festival
2000 Car Park: Members Only Adelaide, Australia
1999 Casa Vestita (Dressed House) Venice, Italy
1997 Street Wear Ljubljana, Slovenia
1993 Dressed House Ljubljana, Slovenia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003 Moon Plain, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia2002 Moon Plain, SOFA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
1999 Clothes Sculpture, John Gibson Gallery, New York, USA
1996 Dressing, Anonimus Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1992 Ready Made, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Slovene Art 1995–2005: Territories, Identities, Nets, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, SloveniaThe First Line, 26th Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004 Slovene Art 1985–1995, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2002 Art+Industry Biennial, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tancat per Obres (Artists in Architecture) Collegi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
1997 U3, Triennial of Slovene Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
This Art is Recycled, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1996 Urbanaria, SCCA Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Art interventions, performances, films, theatre design
1998 Le Coco Fruitwear Co, commissioned by Biennale of Young European and Mediterranean Artists, Turin, ItalyActivities of Le Coco Fruitwear Co. continue with new collections and new shows at:
K4 Club, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kibla
Kibla
KIBLA is the first presentation and production institution in Slovenia dealing with multimedia and intermedia art and a yearlong cultural programme. Kibla incorporates pure classical media but in a different context, using various media to support historical continuities in visual arts and a...
Club, Maribor, Slovenia
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1998 Set designs for Marina Grzinic and Aina Šmid’s video Madame Butterfly Theater, Mladinsko, Ljubljana
1995 Le Coco fruitwear, a manufactory for fruit clothes, Ljubljana Markets, Slovenia
1994 The House, short film with Damjan Kozole, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1994 House Tailor, documentary film with Tibor Ogrizek, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1994 Paints garments and makes fashion accessories for Hej Salvador, a music-fashion performance (directed by Matjaž Pograjc
Matjaž Pograjc
Matjaž Pograjc. Born 1967, Ljubljana, is a theatre director and one of Slovenia's most prominent theatre artists.-Life and work:Studies in theatre and radio direction...
, produced by Glej theatre), Ljubljana, Slovenia