Gegič Mito
Mito Gegič - Red Threshold
272 cm x 215 cm
2023
In his paintings, Mito Gegič (1982) uses various adhesive tapes, which he paints, overlayers and reconstructs from one canvas to another. This specific, distinctive and recognisable process of building the image allows for greater tactility, airiness, chimney-like formation and evokes feelings of random fragmentedness. This kind of creative process is extremely long and requires a substantial amount of patience and a fantastic degree of precision. The images he uses in his works are found online or in photographs, then collaged and transferred onto the canvas. The central theme is hunting and a socio-political commentary on human treatment of nature and unbalanced power relations. Gegič’s works question the deeply rooted tradition of hunting in Slovenia and imaginatively combine the concept with current local content and ethical concerns, such as the migrant crisis, toxic masculinity, and the animal industry. This is often reflected in monumental, horrifying and cold images of captured deer and traps. In recent years, the latter have been transformed into slightly more colourful and considerably more ambivalent narratives filled with cynical contrast.
Mito Gegič - Three Headed Canoe
200 cm x 300 cm
2023
Biography
In 2006, Mito Gegič attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb at the Department of New Media as part of the CEEPUS student exchange program. In 2008, he graduated under the mentorship of Herman Gvardjančič, and in 2016 he completed his postgrad in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana under the mentorship of Zmago Lenardič. He exhibited independently at many reference exhibition venues in Slovenia, such as the Kresija Gallery (2023, 2017), Gallery Y (2023), Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec (2020), Krško Gallery (2017), and Nova Gorica City Art Gallery (2016), Center for Contemporary Arts Celje (2015), Gaia Gallery, Istanbul (2015), and Exhibit320 Gallery, New Delhi, India (2015). Group exhibitions include We Want to Be Free as Fathers Were (MGLC, Ljubljana, 2010), WEYA: World Event Young Art (Lakeside Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK, 2012), IEEB 6 (The "Brancovan Palaces" Cultural Center in Mogosoaia, Bucharest, Romania, 2015), Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia (Museum of Modern Art, 2019), Hunting Narratives (UGM Studio / Maribor Art Gallery, 2016), History Repeating? SHOWING STYRIA 2025 (Vienna, Mariazell, Leoben, Austria, 2025), and Glory Hole #AreYouCurious (Gaia Gallery, Istanbul, 2016). He also works with video, installation, and photography, and co-creates the genre podcast O.B.O.D. He lives and works in Škofja Loka.
Mito Gegič - My Father My King II
30 cm x 25 cm
2023
Mito Gegič - Processed by the Boys
35 cm x 25 cm
2023
Exhibitions
Mito Gegič - The Fatherland is a Babbling Prisoner
Galerija Kresija, Ljubljana
2 August — 7 September, 2023
Mito Gegič - Go Tell the Fathers That We Are Leaving
Y Gallery, Ljubljana
31 March — 12 May, 2023
Mito Gegič - We Know Where You Live!
Mestna galerija Nova Gorica
3 June — 24 June, 2016
Mito Gegič - Waiting and Wanting and Waiting
Likovni salon
3 September — 4 October, 2015
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Mito Gegič - Savour Kindness Because Dicks Are Always Possible Later II
149 cm x 125 cm
2023
Mito Gegič - One Day I Will Make Myself Wings
150 cm x 125 cm
2024
Awards & recognitions
2024
Grohar Scholarship
Škofja Loka Artists’ Association and the Municipality of Škofja Loka
Škofja Loka
2016
Jakopičevo priznanje
Jakopičevo priznanje
Ljubljana
2014
Arte Laguna 13.14 - Artist in gallery prize
Arte Laguna 13.14 - Artist in gallery prize
Benetke, Italija
Finalist Premio Combat Prize
Finalist Premio Combat Prize - Livorno, ITA
Livorno, ITA
2013
Velika odkupna nagrada ex-tempore Ptuj
Velika odkupna nagrada ex-tempore Ptuj
Ptuj, SLO
2010
Finalist Nagrade skupine OHO 2010
Finalist Nagrade skupine OHO 2010
P74, Ljubljana
Finalist za Henkel Art Award Slovenija 2010
Finalist za Henkel Art Award Slovenija 2010
Maribor, SLO
2005
Nagrada ALUO za posebne umetniške dosežke
Nagrada ALUO za posebne umetniške dosežke, slikarstvo
ALUO, Ljubljana
