OHO Group Award
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26 May 2018
16 Jun 2018
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13 May 2017
26 Nov 2017
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
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10 Apr 2017
22 Apr 2017
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7 Mar 2017
21 May 2017
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13 Dec 2016
28 Feb 2017
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,
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10 Dec 2016
17 Dec 2016
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
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10 Nov 2016
7 May 2017
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,
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22 Oct 2016
29 Jan 2017
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24 Jun 2016
25 Sep 2016
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16 Jan 2016
4 Mar 2016
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,
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5 Sep 2015
3 Jan 2016
Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980, an exhibition also featuring works by the OHO Group (OHO Group Award),
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4 Oct 2011
26 Feb 2012
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,
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 is a part of the Young Visual Artists Awards international residency award programme 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
Recent 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 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.