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Events abroad

Past Events

• 26 May 2018

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  16 Jun 2018

  Serbia Pančevo Milorad Bata Mihailović Gallery

  
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  Marko Pogačnik (OHO Group) exhibiting

  at the Art Biennial Pančevo

  
  

  
  

• 13 May 2017

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  26 Nov 2017

  Italy Venice Central Pavillion at Giardini

  
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  Viva Arte Viva, an international exhibition curated by Christine Macel, featuring works by the OHO Group, Marko Pogačnik and Vadim Fiškin

  at the La Biennale di Venezia International Art Exhibition

  
  

  
  

• 10 Apr 2017

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  22 Apr 2017

  Croatia Zagreb French Pavillion

  
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  Slovenian Neo-Avantgarde Film, an exhibition featuring films by the OHO Group

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 7 Mar 2017

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  21 May 2017

  Russia Moscow The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

  
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  Art in Europe 1945-1968, an exhibition featuring works by Matjaž Hanžek and the OHO Group,

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 13 Dec 2016

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  28 Feb 2017

  Italy Venice Galleria A plus A

  
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  The Material Body of Art, a group exhibition featuring works by Irwin, the OHO Group, Matej Stupica and Lenka Đorojević presented by Galleria A plus A,

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 10 Dec 2016

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  17 Dec 2016

  Italy Venice European Cultural Centre Palazzo Mora

  
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  A group exhibition featuring works by Irwin, the OHO Group, Matej Stupica and Lenka Đorojević presented by Galleria A plus A, and a screening of Ron’s Story, produced by the Aksioma Institute and Video Production Kregar Studio (VPK Studio), at the Venice International Art Performance Week

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 10 Nov 2016

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  7 May 2017

  Turkey Istanbul Pera Museum

  
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  Cold Front from the Balkans, an exhibition co-curated by Alenka Gregorič (City Art Gallery Ljubljana) also featuring works by Irwin, Laibach, the OHO Group, Jasmina Cibic, and Mark Požlep,

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 22 Oct 2016

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  29 Jan 2017

  Germany Karlsruhe Zentrum für Kunst und Medien

  
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  Art in Europe 1945-1968, an exhibition featuring works by Matjaž Hanžek and the OHO Group,

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 24 Jun 2016

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  25 Sep 2016

  Belgium Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (BOZAR)

  
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  Art in Europe 1945-1968, an exhibition featuring works by Matjaž Hanžek and the OHO Group,

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 16 Jan 2016

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  4 Mar 2016

  United Kingdom Nottingham Nottingham Contemporary

  
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  Monuments Should Not Be Trusted, an exhibition featuring works by Avgust Černigoj, Lojze Logar, NSK (NSK State), Irwin and OHO (OHO Group Award), curated by Lina Džuverović and supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia London,

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 5 Sep 2015

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  3 Jan 2016

  USA New York MoMA

  
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  Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980, an exhibition also featuring works by the OHO Group (OHO Group Award),

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 4 Oct 2011

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  26 Feb 2012

  Slovakia Bratislava National Gallery

  
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  ironapplause.net, international exhibition of Young Visual Artists Awards network with the participation of Luiza Margan, Miha Presker and Sašo Sedlaček from Slovenia and coorganised P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute that bestows the OHO Group Award,

  
  

  
  

  
  

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The OHO Group Award is given annually to an individual Slovene artists or a group of Slovene artists up to 35 years of age, for works of art in the field of painting, photography, video, new media and performance. The prize was established in 2006 by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute (Ljubljana) in cooperation with the Foundation for a Civil Society (New York). It is based on an open call, followed by the selection of the nominees and then bestowed in a ceremony at the P74 Centre and Gallery.

Nevromat [Neur-O-Matic], Lenka Đorojević & Matej Stupica, produced by Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory and Projekt Atol Institute, 2014. An OHO Group Award winner.

The award and its international context

The aim of the OHO Group Award is to provide support to young artists and facilitate the continuation of their activities by shifting them from the marginal to a central role in the society. The award comprises a 6-week residency in the studio of the ISCP in New York (possibilities for networking and establishing contacts with curators linked up with the host institution); a solo exhibition in the P74 Centre and Gallery and the purchase of the artwork by the investment company KD Group. Other funders include the Trust for Mutual Understanding (New York), the ISCP (New York), the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam), the Municipality of Ljubljana, and the Slovenian Ministry of Culture.

The OHO Group Award has been a part of the Young Visual Artists Awards international residency award programme since 2006. The YVAA was established by The Foundation for a Civil Society (FCS) in 1990 in the Czech Republic and now affiliating ten countries in Central Europe and South East Europe. It plays an important role in shaping the emerging artists' international careers.

Nominees and prize winners

The prize winners of the OHO Group Award have included Sašo Sedlaček for the artwork Žicar/The Beggar Robot (2006) selected from among the nominees Nika Oblak and Primož Novak, Lada Cerar, Aleksandra Vajd; Miha Presker and Luiza Margan (2007) selected from Son:DA, Jaša Mrevlje, Matjaž Wenzel; Mladen Stropnik (2008) selected from Aleksandra Domanović, Sebastjan Leban and Staš Kleindienst, Small but Dangers (Mateja Rojc and Simon Hudolin-Salci); and Ana Čigon (2009) selected from among Vesna Bukovec, Sašo Vrabič, Tanja Vujasinović. In 2010 Maja Hodošček was bestowed, other nominees were Veli Silver, Matija Brumen, and Mito Gegič.

The recent prize winners were Beli Sladoled (2011), Tomaž Furlan (2012), Veli Silver (2013), Staš Kleindienst (2014), Lenka Đorojević and Matej Stupica (2015); and Mark Požlep (2016).

The OHO Group

The award was named by the influential Slovene avant-garde artist Group OHO, active in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s. The members of the group wanted to develop a radically different relationship towards the world: instead of a humanistic position, which implies a world of objects dominated by the subject, they wanted to achieve a world of things, where there would be no hierarchical difference between people and things; the correct relationship towards such a world is not action, but observing. OHO used a number of media (and their in-between forms), drawings, photographs, film, video, music, texts, but also a way of dressing, living and behaving, to redirect the awareness of people into Reistic observing.

Installation view of OHO Group exhibition at the Moderna galerija (MG) in 1994, curated by Igor Zabel.

See also

• P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute
• P74 Centre and Gallery

External links

• OHO Group Award web page
• P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute website
• Foundation for a Civil Society (New York) website
• ISCP (New York) website
• Trust for Mutual Understanding (New York) website
• The OHO Group on Wikipedia (in Slovenian)

Gallery

The Winner's Podium, an installation that won first prize in OHO Group Award competition, by artists Miha Perne and Leon Zuodar, working as Beli sladoled [White ice cream], 2011

Nevromat [Neur-O-Matic], an installation by Lenka Đorojević & Matej Stupica that got the OHO Group Award in 2015

Nevromat [Neur-O-Matic], Lenka Đorojević & Matej Stupica, produced by Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory and Projekt Atol Institute, 2014. An OHO Group Award winner.

Nevromat [Neur-O-Matic] by Lenka Đorojević & Matej Stupica, produced by Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory and Projekt Atol Institute, 2014

Installation view of OHO Group exhibition at the Moderna galerija (MG) in 1994, curated by Igor Zabel.

Neža Knez, OHO Group Award recipient 2018.