IRWIN artists group founded in 1983 in Ljubliana, Slovenia by:Duran Mandi (born in Ljubljana 1954), Miran Mohar (Novo Mesto 1958), Andrej Savski (Ljubljana 1961), Roman Uranjek (Trbovlje 1961), Borut Vogelnik (Kranj 1959).
Irwin is also a cofounder of NSK in 1984.
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2009 “NSK Passport Holders 2007-2008”, Museum of Modern Art,Ljubljana, Slovenia / “State in Time”, Kunshalle Krems, Krems, Sweden
2008 “State in Time”, Center for Contemporary Art, Aarhus, / “Irwin Monochromes”, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
2007 “History Re-constructed”, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
2006 “Like to Like”, Art Centre Lazareti, Dubrovnik, / “Solo exhibition”, Gallery Akbank sanat, Istanbul, Turkye
2005 “Like to Like”, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004 “Like to Like”, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England / “Retroprincip”, Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Serbia / “Hysteria and its Two Retro Friends”, Galerija KUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia / “Like to Like”, Artspace, Sydney and Experimental ArtFoundation, Adelaide, Australia / “East Art Map”, Project Art Centre, Dublin, Ireland
2003 “Retroprincip”, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Galerie Inge Baecker Koeln, Germany
2002 “Rekapitulacija”, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
2001 “New Works”, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria / “Self-portraits and Projects, Retroavantgarde”, Galeria Bonomo, Bari, Italy / “Retroavantgarde”, Obala Art Centar, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2000 “Irwin Live”, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia / “Retroavantgarde, Interiors of the Planit”, Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, France / “Privatization of Time”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
1998 “Three Projects,” ICA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
1997 “Interior of the Planit”, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 “Utopics, 11e Exposition Suisse de Sculpture”, Biele/Bienne, Switerland / “Modernologies” MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
2008 “Here Is Every. Musem of Modern Art, New York; “Less is less and more is more, that’s all”, CAPC Musee d’art Contemporain, / Bordeaux, France
2008 “Taipei Biennial” , Taipei, Taiwan
2007 “Ikone der Moderne. Das Schwarze Quadrat. Hommage à Malewitsch“, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany / “Grow Your Own”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2006 “How Can It Hurt You If It Looks So Good”, Azad Gallery, Teheran, Iran / “Erste Bank Collection” Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria / “Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 to Now”, Musem of Modern Art, New York, USA
2005 Istanbul, “Istanbul Biennial”, Turkye / Kassel, “Collective Creativity”, Fridricianum, Germany / Sharjah, “7th Sharjah biennial”, EUA / Graz, “Double Checked”, Camera Austria, Austria
2004 “EV+AC, Limerick; Berlin, “The Post-Communist Condition”, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany / “…And Others” Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Art / Kurama Art Gallery, Bishkek / “The Beauty of Failure / The Failure of Beauty”, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain / “Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin”, Historical Museum, Moscow Russia / “Radical Positioning”, Pavel’s House, Laafeld, Austria
2003 “Personal Systems” Venice Biennial, Kyoto Biennial, Kyoto, Japan / “Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin”, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany / Graphic Biennial, Ljubljana, Slovenia / “Blood and Honey”, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria / “In den Schluchten des Balkan”, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2002 “Museutopia”, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Holland / “(Un)Painted”, Essel Museum, Vienna, Austria / “In Search of Balkania”,Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
2001 “Le tribu del’Arte”, Galleria Comunale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma, Italy / “El mundo nuevo”, Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Trevi, Italy / “Artisti Asuonati” Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy / “Jahresgaben” Koelnischer Kunstverein, Koeln, Germany / “Diesseits und Jenseits des Traums”, Sigmund Freud Museum,Vienna, Austria
“The Real, the Desperate, the Absent”, Forum Stadpark, Graz, Asutria / “U3 Vulgata” Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia / “Vulgata”, Traffo, Budapest, Hungary
2000 “Das Fünfte Element/Geld oder Kunst”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany / “L’Autre Moitié de l’Europe”, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France / ”Cooperativ-Kunstdialoge Ost-West“, Stadthaus Ulm, Germany
1999 “After the Wall”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (travelled to Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin) / “Aspects and Positions”, Museum fur Moderner Kunst, Vienna (travelled to Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Fundacio Miro,Barcelona, Spain/ “Persuasion” Lombard Fried Gallery, New York, USA
1997 Istanbul Biennial, Turkey