Artist Name: Dominik Stibernik
Residency Dates: February – March 2025
Born: 1993
Hometown: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Lives & Works: Ljubljana, Slovenia
URL: Instagram @dominik_stibernik
Education: 2019 – BA, conceptualization of space, Academy of Visual Arts, Ljubljana
Bio/Statement:
Dominik Stibernik is the winner of the 2024 OHO Award.
In 2019, Dominik Stibernik graduated from the field of conceptualization of space at the Academy of Visual Arts Ljubljana (AVA). Half a year later, he became an assistant to a member of the IRWIN group – Miran Mohar, namely for the research of materials, production and restoration of his artworks. Miran and Dominik have been working closely together to this day. He also sculpts commissioned props or models for various museum exhibits and film/theater set designs. Dominik Stibernik’s art has been exhibited at several group and solo exhibitions locally and internationally.
Dominik Stibernik’s recent exhibitions include: OHO award nominees exhibition finale – P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2024); Why knot Vienna – group exhibition, Why knot gallery, Vienna, Austria (2023-2024); Pristava – Gaberke – Velenje – Featured at Mladen Stropnik’s solo exhibition (co-produced by Gregor Podnar gallery), UGM Studio, Maribor, Slovenia (2023-2024); Bad impression – solo exhibition, Ljubljana City Hall (Kresija Gallery), Slovenia (2023-2024); Drawing Inland – solo exhibition, Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2023-2024).
“I study exhibition, studio and production spontaneities; the background of artistic practice is elevated into a work of art or a gesture. I precisely reproduce and stage the phenomenon of the everyday, and perform it through the language of exhibiting or artistic protocols.
The gestural, somewhat performative use of materials is in direct dialogue with the content of the artworks. The aforementioned works (regardless of their semantic multifacetedness) are therefore self-referential, namely they question what and/or where is the artwork. Gestures such as staging the (apparent) absence of the exhibition object, discrepancy with its space, or reducing its consistency, in no way deny the very art object itself, but rather consciously refer to it, and nevertheless think anew: they address the viewer in a contradictory way, i.e., through that which evades the gaze.” – Dominik Stibernik
Support: Dominik Stibernik’s residency is made possible with support from The Trust for Mutual Understanding.
