Pregl Arjan
Arjan Pregl - Fountain
150 cm x 120 cm
2023
Arjan Pregl (1973) constantly responds to what is happening in society via his painting practice. Sometimes it seems that his images appear as ironic caricatures or prophetic memes, all-the-while maintaining a complex structure of meanings and painting techniques for deceptive simplicity. His last oil paintings of various formats are distinguished by the precise application of paint around the contours of seemingly simple, unencumbered drawings, first created in one of his sketchbooks. Only a handful of such drawings are upgraded into technically perfect paintings, which are connected by recognisable, yet often intentionally contradictory links to the works of famous masters, different iconography and an understanding of painting tropes. His paintings are colourful, haptic, the figures depicted are stylized, bold, engaging, shameless, occasionally humorous, but also aggressive and directly sexual. The painter upgrades seriously ironic, relaxedly elaborate, ambiguously direct works with a sprinkling of theory and Internet gems. Modernity and burning social contradictions such as protests, erotic scandals, war, various movements, global warming, control, patriotism, nihilism, fascism and death are treated with ambiguity and irony.
Arjan Pregl - The Fall of Icarus
240 cm x 420 cm
2023
Biography
Arjan Pregl graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 1998 under the mentorship of prof. Metka Krašovec and prof. Bojan Gorenec. In 2001, he obtained a master’s degree in painting (prof. Bojan Gorenec) at the same institution, and in 2004, a master’s degree in graphics (prof. Lojze Logar). He completed part of his postgrad studies at IUP Indiana University of Pennsylvania (USA). Pregl’s artistic practices are painting, graphics, illustration, writing and teaching (he lectures at ALUO Ljubljana, PEF Maribor and AU Nova Gorica). His works are compiled in numerous collections, including in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana (MG+MSUM), the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana (MGLC), the Maribor Art Gallery (UGM), the Contemporary Art Collection at the European Parliament in Brussels... He exhibited independently in the P74 Gallery (2001), Nova Gorica City Art Gallery (2002, 2012, 2023), Equrn Gallery (2003, 2006, 2010), MSUM Museum of Contemporary Art (2014), Galerija Gallery (2022). Group exhibitions include Revision. Image 70+90, Ljubljana (P74 Gallery, 2001), Slovene Art 1995–2005: Territories, Identities, Nets (Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, 2005), 27th Biennale of Graphic Arts (MGLC Ljubljana), Drawing in Slovenia II (Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, 2010), CRISES AND NEW BEGINNINGS | Art in Slovenia 2005–2015 (MSUM, 2015), BETTER DOGGY STYLE THAN NO STYLE – Painting after the end of styles (City Gallery Ljubljana, 2016), Time Without Innocence. Recent painting in Slovenia (Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 2019).
Arjan Pregl - Studio
150 cm x 120 cm
2024
Arjan Pregl - Oops
67 cm x 85 cm
2024
Exhibitions
Arjan Pregl - Degenerate Art
Galerija mesta Ptuj
2 February — 14 March, 2021
Arjan Pregl - Childlike Paintings
Kulturni center Tobačna
24 September — 6 November, 2020
Arjan Pregl - A Five-Minute Revolution
Muzej sodobne umetnosti Metelkova
11 November — 4 January, 2014-2015
Arjan Pregl - 299 Hairy Ones and Broad Bean Bob
Umetnostna galerija Maribor
8 July — 7 August, 2010
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Arjan Pregl - The Birth of Painting
140 cm x 110 cm
2022
Arjan Pregl - Dance
150 cm x 120 cm
2024
Awards & recognitions
2022
Nagrada Ivane Kobilca
Ljubljana
2021
Docent za slikarstvo
Drugič izvoljen v naziv docenta za slikarstvo
Ljubljana
2016
Habilitacija za profesuro
Opravljena habilitacija za profesuro, prvič izvoljen v docenta za slikarstvo
Ljubljana
Enomesečna rezidenca v Londonu
Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije
London, UK
2014
Najlepša knjiga poezije
30. Slovenski knjižni sejem
Ljubljana
Priznanje umetniških dosežkov s strani Univerze v Ljubljani
Ljubljana
2009
Slovenski izbor za nagrado Henkel
Ljubljana
Rezidenca v Londonu
Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije.
London, UK
2004
Rezidenca v Berlinu
Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije.
Berlin, Nemčija
Priznanje Hinka Smrekarja
Priznanje na 6. bienalu slovenske ilustracije za Zvezdo s čepico.
Ljubljana
2003
Nagrada "DOBRO DELO"
Sakaide Art Grand Prix
Sakaide, Japonska
