Uroš Weinberger

Air One Ground Zero

2018, oil on canvas, 204 x 272 cm

In his monumental paintings, Uroš Weinberger creates worlds of a dystopian future. He combines digital images from all manner of sources into collages whose details point to our present-day reality, but a reality irradiated with an over-bright light almost to the point of unrecognizability, which makes it somehow more real than reality. Traditionally, in modern ideology, technology is seen as a bearer of progress and of liberation (from manual labor, for example). In Weinberger’s work, it is cast in a darker role, becoming the instrument of surveillance and control, and of infringements and loss of liberty, locking civilization in a vicious circle of self-destruction.

Uroš Weinberger (1975) finished his studies in painting in 2003 and in 2005 completed his Master's of Arts degree in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He received several awards, such as Prešeren Student's Award by University of Ljubljana in 2001 and in 2011 he was the winner of the Biennial Exhibition – A Look at Visual Arts in Slovenia 6: I, Here, Now. In 2012 he was '6th 2012 Showcase Winner' in the painting Category, ArtSlant Awards, USA and in 2017 he was nominated for Bloom Award by Warsteiner, Germany. In 2018 he was a recipient of the highest artistic recognition for important works of art by University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Artist-in-residence program: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia in Berlin, Germany (2009); European House of Art, Upper Bavaria-Schafhof in Freising, Germany (2013). Exhibitions in Austria, BiH, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Slovenia, The South African Republic and USA.