4. 3. 2023–4. 3. 2023 Final guided tour of the exhibition Openings

Final guided tour of the exhibition Openings
UGM Studio, Trg Leona Štuklja 2
Saturday, 4 March 2023, 11:00

led by: Jure Kirbiš, curator

You are invited to the final guided tour of the exhibition Openings by Borut Popenko, where you will be led by curator Jure Kirbiš together with the artist.

This time, Borut Popenko enters UGM Studio with a new series of paintings. In searching for the title of the series and the exhibition, the author refers to the atmosphere of the recent period of time, characterised by distance, a state of closure, solitude. With the new series, Popenko opens the door, pushed the windows open, lifts the shutters, invites us to step across the threshold, to let the air in. His paintings are portals declaring: “Out!”

Borut Popenko (b. 1969) works in painting, installations and video. He is an active member of the Mariborian art scene with his work within the autonomous zone Pekarna and other spaces of culture in the city. He studied art education at the Faculty of Education in Maribor (1993) and continued his artistic training abroad at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (1995/97) and at the art academies in Athens (1998/99) and Prague (2001). His recent exhibitions include solo shows Prelomi (2019, artKIT, Maribor) and Prelom (2018, Church of the Holy Spirit, Črnomelj) and his work was part of group exhibitions GustArt (2022, Kulturni center Pekarna, Maribor), Fantasy – Geometry: A Dialogue (2022, Dvorec Novo Celje, Žalec), Made in Maribor II (2022, UGM Studio, Maribor), In the Time of Space (2020, Media Nox Gallery, Maribor), Pop-Upstart (2018, Centre for Creativity, Maribor) and “Auf die Dauer setzt der territoriale Imperativ sich durch“ Zwischen Nationalstaatlichkeit und … (2017, Galerija EPeKA, Maribor). His work is part of private and public collections, including the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery.