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Golo brdo 82, SI-1215 Medvode
Phone386 (0) 1 361 8340
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The internationally acclaimed Irwin group was established in Ljubljana in 1983 by 5 artists: Dušan Mandič, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek and Borut Vogelnik. Along with the Laibach music group, the performance group Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre (which later evolved into Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet) and the design section Novi kolektivizem (NK), the Irwin group is part of the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) movement. In the work of the group two fundamental attitudes may be observed: the first is the emphasis on collective working rather than privileging the individual personality of the artist; and the second is the NSK working procedure, so-called the ‘retro-principle’, whereby works become a collage of quotations and allusions to various sources.


International exhibitions

Irwin has presented its work at about 150 solo exhibitions in Europe, Russia and America, and participated at several international exhibitions, for example, the First Manifesta in Rotterdam in 1996, the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, the 9th Istanbul Biennial in 2005; Eye on Europe at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2006; Das Scharwze Quadrat. Hommage à Malewich at the Hamburg Kunsthalle in 2007).

IRWIN–NSK Passport Office was presented in MoMA Print Studio in New York in 2012 and the Red Districts was on display at Manifesta 09 in Genk.

Recent projects

The Irwin group has expanded its visual projects to the intermedia field, especially in the form of interactive web projects, for example the East Art Map project and the project Like to Like at the Cornerhouse, Manchester.

The East Art Map (EAM) project aims to critically (re)construct the history of contemporary art in Eastern Europe (from 1945 on). The project is based on the idea that the history is not given but has to be constructed and the fact that documentation of contemporary art scene in Eastern Europe has been very poor. East Art Map was initiated by Irwin in 2001 who in collaboration with New Moment invited a group of eminent art critics, curators and artists from the different ex-socialist Central, Eastern and South-Eastern countries to create the basic database which has been upgraded by public proposals. EAM can be find on Internet as a truly participatory project open for contributions.


In November 2007 the Irwin exhibition Monokromi ('Monochromes') was presented at the Gregor Podnar Gallery in Ljubljana.

The Eye of the State, an exhibition curated by Avi Pitchon for the Israeli Center for Digital Art was staged in cooperation with the Public Movement in 2010.

Among Irwin's most recent projects the Time for a New State took place in Moscow in 2011, Leipzig and London in 2012 and Was ist Kunst Hugo Ball (2010) was presented in Gregor Podnar Gallery in Berlin in Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich.

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