Miha Štrukelj

Shopping District

2016, acrylic, ink, charcoal, pencil, crêpe paper on canvas, 300 x 225 cm

In Miha Štrukelj’s paintings – anonymous and unattractive urban scenes of global metropolises – always already function as media images, as general cities of our collective imagery that juxtaposes equally undefined scenes of deserted little streets of some Asian metropolis, forests of advertising billboards and signs, the chaos of urban traffic and an unrestricted architectural jungle. This is most often the environment in which his recent works manifest, through subtle artistically rendered images, the subject’s alienation and inability to communicate, and the existential isolation of the modern individual. 

Miha Štrukelj was born in 1973. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2001, obtaining the title Master of Fine Arts. He has received several awards, including Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2008/09, the Henkel Drawing Award in 2008 and the Trust for Mutual Understanding Grant in 2014. He has attended several international Artist-in-Residency Programs since 2007. His work has also been included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana as well as other national, international and private collections. He has been selected for main national group exhibitions and various national and international selections. Web: http://www.miha-strukelj.com/