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Marko Modic (born 26 August 1958 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian photographer, painter and visual artist from Ljubljana, Slovenia.




Biography


In 1976 he got his first camera Praktica from his father. At the beginning he worked in black and white photographs and later embarked on a more complex photo-montage that he uses also in his work today. Photograph is used occasionally as a basis on which then he draws a picture. In his work are photographs, paintings, books, as well as performances. Modic's enigmatic photographic works show an extreme sensibility towards perception and use of colors. He captures details of everyday objects or places and uncommonly presents them in insolation, neither in a content nor in perspective-evoking ambiguous interpretation and curiosity...
In 1988 Marko Modic won "Zlata ptica" ["Golden Bird"], a Slovenian award for extraordinary achievements in the fields of cultural creation.
Marko Modic has exhibited his photographs widely at home, in Italy, Ecuador, Argentina, UK, Canada... In 2011 he had an exhibition "Written on skin of the Earth" in Tivoli Park in Ljubljana, Slovenia and in Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Canada.
At the end of 70's and in the early 80's he was an active member of Ljubljana Cave Exploration Society (DZRJL), took part in high mountain deep cave exploration, was the editor of the society's journal Glas podzemlja [Voice of the Underground] and contributed to design and contents of other caving publications.
Marko Modic lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2019).




Selection of exhibitions and works






= Solo exhibitions

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1984 Cankarjev dom (Cultural and Congress Center), Ljubljana, Slovenia (performance included)
1987 Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1988 Galerija Dante • Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia
1988 Moderna galerija (Museum of Modern Art), Ljubljana, Slovenia
1990 Centre Culturel et d’information de Yugoslavie, Paris, France
1991 Fundacion Guayasamin, Quito, Ecuador
1991 Espace Franco – Americain, Le Mejan, R.l.P., Arles, France
1992 Folklore Olga Fisch, Quito, Ecuador
1993 Moderna galerija (Museum of Modern Art), Ljubljana, Slovenia
1995 Cankarjev dom (Cultural and Congress Center), Ljubljana, Slovenia
1996 Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1996 Barbican Centre, London, UK
1998 Ikona Photo gallery, Venezia, Italy
1998 Mestna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1999 Mücsarnok, Palace of Art, Budapest, Hungary
1999 Palisady gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
1999 Milano Libri, Milano, Italy
2002 Galerie Perpétuel, Frankfurt, Germany
2004 Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004 Euro Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004 Galleria Regionale d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Spazzapan, Gradisca d'Isonzo, Italy
2005 – 2012 The Venetian, Scorze (VE), Italy
2010 Kosovelov dom, Sezana, Slovenia
2010 Atelje Mikado, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011 Whyte Museum, Banff, Canada
2011 Jakopičev drevored Tivoli, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011 Atelje Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012 Galerija Zala, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012 Slovenian Scientific Institut, Wien, Austria
2014 The Art photo gallery, Trieste, Italy
2015 Galerija Jakopič, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana, Slovenia




= Group exhibitions

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1986 B’Bienale, Rotonda, Thessaloniki, Greece
1988 XV Fotoforumm, Fotografi di Alpe Adria, Auditorium, Spilimbergo, Italy
1998 Galaxia, Casa Veneta, Muggia, Italy
1989 YU Documenta 89, Olympic Center Skenderija, Sarajevo, Bosnia
1989 Alcune espressioni, Villa Simion, Spinea, Italy
1989 Utopies 89, Grand Palais: L’Europe des créateurs, Paris, France
1990 Soirées Est-Ouest, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre G.Pompidou, Paris, France
1990 Ca dèbloque à l’est, Espace photographique Contretype, Bruxelles, Belgium
1990 Soirées Est – Ouest, Galerie Donguy, Paris, France
1991 Identités méditerranéennes, Aix-en-Provence, France
1994 Alteridades, Sala Gòtica de I’IEI, Lérida, Spain
1995 Out post, Venezia, Italy
1999 Dal Dahgerrotipo al Digitale, Galleria Sagittaria, Pordenone, Italy
2003 Jubilaeum, Galerie Perpétuel, Frankfurt, Germany
2009 Drawing in Slovenia, Mestna galerija (Municipal Gallery) Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 Revolutionary Voices, New York Public Library, New York City
2010 Photographs from Marino Cettina Collection, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2010 Drawing in Slovenia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2010 Drawing in Slovenia (1940–2009), Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
2010 Drawing in Slovenia (1940–2009), Mestna galerija (Municipal Gallery) Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011 ZDSLU Group exhibition, Gallery of »Jožef Stefan« Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011 Between Pictorialism and Abstraction, Velenje Gallery, Velenje, Slovenia
2011 Between Pictorialism and Abstraction, Kosova graščina, Jesenice, Slovenia
2012 NSK 1984–1992, Chelsea Space, London, Great Britain
2012 Time for a New State / NSK Folk Art, Tate Modern, London, Great Britain
2012 Selection of photographs from Group Junij Art collection, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012 New photography – reality, Savin Art Salon, Žalec, Slovenia
2013 50 years of Ljubljana City Art Gallery, Mestna galerija (Municipal Gallery) Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013 Photo-Imago 1983–2013, Museo d'Arte Moderno Ugo Cara, Muggia, Italy
2015 NSK from Kapital to Capital, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016 NSK from Kapital to Capital, Van Abbe Museum, Eidhoven, The Netherlands
2016 NSK from Kapital to Capital, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2017 The Eightiews / The Heritage 1989, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 NSK from Kapital to Capital, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain




= Books and catalogs

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1988 Marko Modic: Ekran sanjskih podob (The Screen of Oneiric Images), Moderna galerija (Modern gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia
1990 Marko Modic: Moderna galerija (Modern gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia
1992 Marko Modic: A Fish Book – Galapagos, Villegas Editores, Quito, Ecuador
1992 Marko Modic: Tauromaquia
1993 Marko Modic: Texturon, Moderna galerija (Modern gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia
1994 Marko Modic: Ljubljana – Luč in dan (Ljubljana – Light and day), Colibri, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1995 Marko Modic: Ratio Cut, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1998 Marko Modic: Excentrix, EWO, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1999 Marko Modic: Alluminations, Mestna galerija (Municipal gallery) Ljubljana, Slovenia
2001 Marko Modic: Unseen, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, Germany
2006 Marko Modic: Oyster Doubt, Logos, Modena, Italy
2015 Marko Modic: The fifth element, Gallery Jakopič, Ljubljana, Slovenia




= Performances

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1984: Extreme, Auditorium Zanon, Udine, Italy
1986: Massacrefish I, Künstler Werkstatte, München, Germany
1987: Massacrefish II, Galerija Dante – Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia
1987: Massacrefish III, Craighill Cottage, Blebocraigs, Cupar, Scotland
1988: Eau & Feu, Galerija Dante – Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia
1988: Missa Elementorum, SKC, Beograd, Yugoslavia
1989: Pulsus, Museum of XIV Winter Olympic Games, Sarajevo, Bosnia
1990: Mostromo, Katedrala sv. Vlaha, Dubrovnik, Croatia
1994: Ratio Cut, Ca Nova, Oira di Crevoladossola, Italy




= TV and video

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1985: TV Ljubljana, Miha Vipotnik: Verging on the impossible
1988: TV Ljubljana, Marina Grzinic, Aina Smid: Viziorama – Mašinerija slike
1988: Radovan Cok: Albedo (performance for one camera)
1988: TV Koper, Silvio Odogaso: Marko Modic, L'intelligenza della bellezza
1988: BBC North: Rough Guide, West MCMLXXXVIII
1993: TV Ljubljana, Stane Sumrak, Koketiranje s sivino možganske skorje
1994: AGRFT & Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Gregor Vesel: Texturon




References






External links


Marko Modic
Whyte Museum
Atelje Galerija
Radio Student
Kibla Multimedia, Fotografija skozi medije
Exhibition "Written on the skin of the Earth"

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