Résumé

Tjaša Rener by Vid Brezočnik

 b.1986, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia  

Currently

 

  • A Self-Employed Professional in Culture (Academy-Trained Painter and Illustrator) Ministry of Culture, Slovenia

  • FOUNDER OF OPEN HOUSE STUDIO, ACCRA- collaborative art space in Accra that serves as platform for artist to show their artworks, share ideas, lead workshops and engage with local community and introduce them to contemporary art.

Residing and working between Slovenia And Ghana

Education

2011 – 2012

  • Erasmus Student Exchange Programme, Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia

2007 – 2011

  • Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Graduation Day: May 21, 2013 (Profession/Title: Master of Fine Arts)

2001 – 2005

  • Secondary School for Design, Maribor, Slovenia

         (Profession: Fashion Designer)     

Awards and Distinctions  

2024

  • ART RESIDENCY WITH EUNIC EGYPT, Ard art institue, Cairo

2023

  •   Work scholarship, Ministry of Culture  

2021

  • Work scholarship, Ministry of Culture  

2022

2013

  • A Story from Africa Project – the original work of authorship – launched successfully, i.e. on Kickstarter (the book was self-published in 2014)

2012

  • Academy of Fine Arts and Design Special Achievement Award in the academic year of 2010-2011, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

2010

  • Art residency at Graphic art Sofija, Bogdanci, Macedonia

2008- 2013

  • Recipient of the Zois Scholarship, awarded to gifted and accomplished students by the Ministry of Education

2004

  • First Prize and Special Prize Award for the research assignment entitled Oblačilo, ki lahko postane skulptura [When Clothes Become Sculptures], Institute for Innovation and Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • First Prize for Premikajoča se skulptura [A Kinetic Sculpture] at the INOVA-MLADI Art Biennial, Zagreb, Croatia

  • Second Prize at the Mladi za napredek Maribora [Youth for the Progress of Maribor] Competition, held by the Municipality of Maribor, Slovenia

2003

  • First Prize Mladi za napredek Maribora [Youth for the Progress of Maribor] Municipality of Maribor Competition, the Municipality of Maribor, Slovenia

  • An Outstanding Work of Art Award in the category “Zlati vulkan Fashion Design”, Vulcano Models

2002

  • Young Fashion Designers National Competition – Special Prize Winner; Theme: Zlati vulkan [Golden Volcano], Vulcano Models, Maribor, Slovenia

  • Second Prize at the Poletite z idejo [Fly Your Ideas] Competition, Institute for Innovation and Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Exhibitions

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

  • U3:PROTI TOKU ČASA/AGAINST THE STREAM OF TIME (Tevž Logar), 10. trienale sodobne umetnosti/ 10th Trienniela of Contemporary Art Slovenia, MG+MSUM

  • FINDING A HOME/ISKANJE DOMA (Doroteja Kotnik), Kreativni center Breg

    ART STAYS: 22.Festival Sodobne Umetnosti/ 22nd Festival of Contemporary Art, Ptuj

  • Nekaj, kar ne zbledi čez noč- izbor del iz galerije likovnih umetnosti KGLU, Galerija Velenje

2023

2022

  • NOVE PRIDOBITVE 2020-2022/ NEW AQISITION 2020-2022, Koroska Galerija likovnih umetnosti

2019

2018

2016

2015

2013

2012

2011

  • Selected Works of the Students at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design: 15 years of the Loterija Slovenije Art Gallery, Loterija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Resnične laži slikarstva: slikarstvo nove generacije [True lies of Painting: New Generation Painting] – Selected Works of the ALUO Students, Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Spomin (ali nekaj podobnega) / Memory (or Something Similar), curator Petja Grafenauer, Miklova Hiša Gallery, Ribnica, Slovenia

  • XIIth International Ex-tempore Piran, Monfort, Piran, Slovenia

  • Mali akt [Small Nude] – Selected Works of the ALUO Students, University of Ljubljana, KC Delavski Dom, Zagorje, Slovenia

 

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2023

  • Long-distance friendship, participation at 14th Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, Litva

2021

  •    INVESTEC CAPE TOWN ART FAIR with Christopher Moller Gallery, South Africa

  •   IN DIALOOGUE (African artists and Spaces in the midst of a global pandemic), Kuenyehia Trust for Contemporary Art, an Accra based non-profit, promoting, empowering and rewarding upcoming and mid-career West African artists between 25 and 40 years old, Accra, Ghana

2020

2016

2015

2013

  • Turn the Page, Artists Book Fair, Norwich, Great Britain

  • Book – Art Object 2, National Library of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

 2012

2010

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

2022

  • Življenje/Ljudje/ Risbe , Grošljeva Galerije, Prevalje

2021

2020

  • SOSEŠČINA/ NEIGHBOURHOOD, RAVNIKAR GALLERY SPACE, LJUBLJANA {CANCELED}

2018

2017

  • Tec-no-Logic, gallery at Alliance Francaise of Accra, Accra, Ghana

2013

  • Od nekje do nekod [From a Place to the Place], The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška (KGLU), Ravne na Koroškem, Slovenia

Illustrations

2016

  • Kako je vranček Koki postal čuvaj galerijske zbirke by Katarina Hergold Germ, Book Illustration, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška (KGLU) in association with the Cerdonis Publishing House, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia

2015

  • Zaklad pod hribom by Aljoša Hancman for the Pravljična vas Leše Festival, Book Illustration, Publisher: Mohorjan

2014

2013

  • Tri miške by Amanda Mlakar, Book Illustration, Publisher: Lepa Beseda, 2013

2012

  • Pravljična vas Leše, various authors, Book Illustration, Publisher: Mohorjan, 2012

2010

  • Toni Henderson in klapa iz stolpnice Orsom by David G. Harris (Transl. by Brina Beškovnik), Book Cover Illustration, Publisher: Lepa Beseda, 2010

  • O miški, ki se je želela dotakniti zvezde by Eugene Trivizas (Transl. by Klarisa Jovanovič), Book Illustration, Publisher: Lepa Beseda, 2010