Born in 1973 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Received an MFA in Fine Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The subject matter of Strukelj’s paintings are images, which all belong to a world radically transformed by digital and virtual technologies, to a reality completely permeated by images and simulacra. He depicts scans of human interiors, photographs, images from media, and virtual battlegrounds from computer games. In a sense, all these images exist on the same level; one can, for example, see no difference between an image from a computer game and an image depicting a scene from the Gulf War. Nevertheless, what we see on his paintings is not a world where “nothing is real” and everything are just simulacra; rather, it is an endlessly complex and always changeable network of realities and fiction, of truth and appearance. Strukelj uses the tension between the real and the fictional on his paintings as a tool to disclose these elusive relations. - From a text by Igor Zabel for Vitamin P. New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon.
Miha Strukelj's recent solo exhibitions include in 2013 P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1415 SQUARES APPROXIMATELY; GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY, Auckland, New Zealand, ROUTE TO VERONICA STREET (Wellesley St Window installation); VOLTA NY, New York, USA (together with Babak Golkar); 2012 LMAK PROJECTS, New York, USA, MEMORIES OF A CITY; 2010 HILGER CONTEMPORARY, Wien, Austria (special intervention by Javier Arce), SPACES WE INHABIT; KIBLA GALLERY, Maribor, Slovenia, MARIBOR; 2009 the Slovenian Pavilion, Venice Biennale and an installation at Votla NY, New York and in 2008 GRID STRUCTURES III., Simulaker Gallery, Novo mesto, Slovenia, GRID STRUCTURES II. (Together with Daniel Glaser - Magdalena Kunz) at Gas Art Gallery, Turin, Italy.
Group exhibitions in 2013 HILGER NEXT, Wien, Austria, GRUSSE AUS VENEDIG; CITY ART GALLERY LJUBLJANA, Ljubljana, Slovenia, AMUSE ME – International Group Exhibition; 2012 UGM, Maribor, Slovenia, ALMOST SPRING - 100 YEARS OF SLOVENE ART; MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA, INVISIBLE CITIES; 2011 ECB - European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany, CONTEMPORARY ART FROM SLOVENIA; 2010 4th BEIJING BIENNIAL - NAMOC National Art Museum China, Beijing, China, ENVIRONMENT CONCERN AND HUMAN EXISTENCE; MODERNA GALERIJA / MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Ljubljana, Slovenia, U3 - TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN SLOVENIA; ALRIWAQ GALLERY, Manama, Bahrain, AS THE LAND EXPANDS.
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