DAMIJAN KRACINA
Damijan Kracina, 1970, Kobarid, Slovenia.
Study of sculpture and a postgraduate study of video and the new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.
He was the founding member of the Provokart art group, which performed several public art events and projects. He was founder and art director of ARTileria Kluže (1997-2000). He was artist in residency in: Werkstadt Graz, Graz Austria(1998), Studio of Ministry of Culture of RS in New York, USA (2000), Tamarid Institute Albuquerque, New Mexico USA (2002), SFAI Santa Fe, NM, USA (2004). Active memeber of Domestic Research Society.

DAMIJAN KRACINA Rojen 1970 v Kobaridu, Slovenija
1996 je diplomiral na kiparstvu na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Ljubljani kjer je leta 1999 diplomiral na video in kiparski specialki. Bil je član in ustanovitelj skupine Provokart, Bil je ustanovitelj in med 1997 - 2000 umetniški vodja Artilerie Kluže. Leta 2000 je dobil štipendijo Ministrstva za kulturo RS za trimesečno bivanje v ateljeju v New Yorku. Bil je gostojuči umetnik v: Werkstadt Graz, Graz Avstrija (1998), Tamarid Institute Albuquerque, Nova Mehika ZDA (2002), Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, ZDA (2004). V letu 2004 je dobitnik delovne štipendije Ministrstva za kulturo RS. Je ustanovni član Društva za domače raziskave

Contact:
Damijan Kracina
tel **386 (0)41 550 121

WEB SITES:
www.kracina.com
www.proteusfont.org
www.galapagos.si
www.ddr.si

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007
POVEČAVA DAMIJAN KRACINA IN VLADIMIR LEBEN Okrogli stolp Škofjeloškega gradu
GALAPAGOS (Damijan Kracina & Vladimir Leben) Stanica_Lab, Žilina, Slovakia, 8.december -10 january 2008

2006
"Secimen / Primerek" (DOMESTIC RESEARCH SOCIETY) Kabinet DDR, Ljubljana
"KORALNI OTOK", Pedijatrična klinika, Gallery Škuc, Klinični Center Ljubljana,
" GALAPAGOS" (Damijan Kracina & Vladimir Leben)
 - Gallery Loža, Obalene galerije Koper, maj 2006
 - Gallery A+A Benetke, Italija, april 2006
"AnimalTour" (Damijan Kracina & Vladimir Leben)
  - Gallery PM, Zagreb, November 2006
2005
"GALAPAGOS" (Damijan Kracina & Vladimir Leben)
- Peterokotni stolp – Ljubljana Castle, Ljubljana, (6.september 2005)
- Likovni salon, Celje, (Slovenia)
- "MMC KIBLA, Maribor, (Slovenia)
" AnimalTour" (Damijan Kracina & Vladimir Leben)
- Okrogli stolp škofjeloškega gradu. Škofja loka, (Slovenia)
- Galerija GHETTO, Split, Croatia
2004
"GALAPAGOS"(Damijan Kracina & Vladimir Leben), Galerija Alkatraz, Ljubljana, 30. 9-14.10. 2004
2003
"www.protusfont.org"(online project)
2002
"Vrt/Garden" Juraj Klovic Gallery (with Lada Sega), Rijeka (Croatia)
2001
"Personal exhibition as a web site / Osebna razstava, kot spletna stran" Media NOX, Maribor (Slovenia)
1998
"Karantena / Quarantene" Werkstadt Graz, Graz (Austria)
1997
"ZOO" Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, (Slovenia)
Trdnjava Kluže / Kluže Fortress, Bovec , (Slovenia)
"Animalis" Podsreda Castle, (Slovenia)
"Soški biser" (with Katarina Toman), Tolmin, (Slovenia)
1996
"Aquarium", Likovni salon Celje , (Slovenia)
1995
"Kracina TV", Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana , (Slovenia)
1994
Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, (Slovenia)
1995
Gallery KCK, Tolmin, (Slovenia)

Performances:
1999 "Soški Biser" with Katarina K. Toman, Venezia (Italy)
1995 "Voda / Water", park at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana
1995 "Kocka / Cube" Interference, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana
1993 Concert for bass guitar and plaster cube", ALU, Ljubljana

Group Projects: "PROVOKART"
1999 "SOS LINE - tel: 00386 41 840935 - Do you feel like beeing burdened with art / Ali ste obremenjeni z umetnostjo"
1995 "Publication - Art in your home / Časopis - Umetnost v vašem domu", (Slovenia)
1994 "Anusa - družba za vlaganje / Anusa - agency for investigation", (Slovenia)
1992 "Voli me / vote for me - love me ", (Slovenia)

Član / Member
DRUŠTVO ZA DOMAČE RAZISKAVE / DOMESTIC RESEARCH SOCIETY (www.ddr.si)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS:
- Secimen / Primerek, Kabinet DDR (2006)
- Živali 1914-1918, TIC Kobarid (2. 12. 2005)
- Kabinet & La Capilla Atomica, p.p. Gallery Škuc, Ljubljana. (2005)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Participation at International Art Fair VOLTA4, June 2008, Basel - Switzerland. Presented by GALERIJA ALKATRAZ Ljubljana
2007
LAND(E)SCAPE, Kűnstlerhaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Avstria
Move Moment, Embassy of Slovenia in Washington, DC. USA.
2006
THE ONE MINUTES AWARDS 2006 The One Minutes Foundation (TOM) Amsterdam. (Saša Nabergoj, Damijan Kracina: On the Road)
POGLEDI NA DOLINO REKE SOČE - DRUGAČNE PERSPEKTIVE Galerija Rika Debenjaka Kanal ob Soči, (17.11.- 6.12.2006)
"ODBRANA PRIRODE" 12. bijenale, Pančevo, Srbija (GALAPAGOS Damijan Kracina & Vladimir Leben)
"ARHIPELAG", Festival of contemporary art, Nova Gorica - Gorizia, Slovenia - Italy
2005
Festival visages francophones - Visages de la Slevenie, Cahors, France, 27. 9.-2. 10. 2005 info
22nd Kassel Documentary Film Festival, www.filmladen.de/dokfest (*)
"Čisto umazano / Pretty dirty", Svet umetnosti, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana
Kiparske pokrajine / Sculptural Landscapes, Bežigrajska Galerija 2, Ljubljana
Territories, Identities, Nets - Slovene Art 1995-2005, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
Hevreka, Stičišče novih tehnologij in storitev, Gospodarsko razstavišce, Ljubljana (24. -28. 5.) info
"Materika", Nova Gorica - Gorizia, (Junij / June 2005)
EMAF (European Media Art Festival), Osnabruck (23. april 2005) info (*)
2004
"Home Made Marmelade" Priština (15.-19. 12. 2004) info (*)
"Extended Views" Centre Céramique in Maastricht, the Netherlands. (*)
"AVTOKINO BARJE", Ljubljana
"RE-CONNECTIONS" Santa Fe Art Institute, New mexico, USA
"Videospotting" Dotik, Videm / Udine, Italy info
"Ready 2 Change" Gallery P74, Ljubljana
"85'95 - Razširjeni prostori umetnosti / Art in Extended Spaces", Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana
2003
Sight.Seeing, 4. Austrian Triennial on Photography, Graz, (Austria)
"Far away", Eskilstuna konstmuseum, Eskilstuna, (Sweden)
"Replay", Gallery P74, Ljubljana
"Slovenische videokunst 1969-2003", Artspace, Wiena (Austria)
2002
"Solar Circuit" (video screening) Tasmania (Australia)
"ESCAPE FROM ALKATRAZ" WAH Center New York, USA info
"Central" Gallery Gradec Zagreb (Croatia)
"Becomings" City Gallery Ljubljana (Slovenia)
"CONECTIONS, Tamarind Institute residency project, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
"Genius Loci" City gallery Piran, (Slovenia)
"Strawberrys in December" Likovni salon Celje (Slovenia)
"Risba / Drawing" Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti, Slovenj gradec (Slovenia) info
2001
"KunstraumMitteleuropa" Kibla, Maribor
"Factor Bank Collection " Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana
"HICETNUNC" Sala Roma, Pordenone (Italy)
"Extended Transformation - Natura Naturans 5"; City Art Museum Ljubljana, Art Galley of BIH Sarajevo, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.
"Mamljivo / Aluring" MGLC Lubljana
"Vulgata - Kunst aus Slovenia" NBK, Berlin (Germany)
"Becomings" (Tirana, Belgrade, Pristina, Ljubljana, Paris),
"Central" Museum Morsbroich, Köln
"Slovene way" Villa Serena Bologna, dec 2001
"Basket Video" teater Gromki, Metelkova Mesto, Ljubljana, dec 2001
2000
"KunstraumMitteleuropa" Palais Harrah, Wien (Austria)
"Vse razen videza" Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
"artisti.giovani@sloveni" Venezia (Italy)
"SLIKA 2000" Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
"Extended transformations" Trieste (Italy)
"ARGOS Project" Vevey (Swizerland)
"VULGATA" Pavel house,Lafeld, (Avstria),
"U3 - VULGATA" Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana
1999
"Travelling without moving / Potovanje brez premikanja" Gallery KCK, Tolmin
"Snow sculpture event" Quebec (Canada)
"Zimski salon" City Gallery Ljubljana, (Slovenia)
"Art from rucksack / Umetnost iz nahrbtnika" Likovni salon Celje (Slovenia)
"SiQ 1999" WUK Kunsthalle Exsnergasse, Wien (Austria)
" Without the Wall" Ludwig Museum, ST Petersburg, (Russia)
"Postaja Topolo" Topolo, (Italy)
"Art from rucksack 1997-1999" Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (Ireland)
"Homo Sapiens 2000" Kibela, Maribor (Slovenia)
1998
"4th Interernational Festival of Computer Arts" Rotovž Gallery, Maribor
"Day + Night show" Passage Galerie - Kunstlerhaus Wien (Austria)
"Transverzala utrinkov", Znojile, Baška grapa (Slovenia
"Intramuros / Med zidovi" ARTileria Kluže, (Slovenia)
1997
"Media in media" City Gallery Ljubljana, (Slovenia)
"Biennale of the young artist of Europe and the mediterranan", Turin, (Italia)
"Modra roka / Wise Hand" R. Jakopic Gallery, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
"LUR" Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo (Bosnia)
"Real fiction", Area di Ricerca, Trieste (Italy)
"Interstanding - understanding" Rotermanns Salt Storage Atrs Centre Talinn (Estonia)
"Please Touch" Rotovž Gallery, Maribor (Slovenia)
1996
"For Your Eyes Only", Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (Poland)
"Immaginario altro", Sala Franco, Trieste (Italy)
"Telo angela / Ill corpo dell angelo", City Gallery, Piran ,(Slovenia)
"Cyber Café!", Gallery KCK, Tolmin ,(Slovenia)
"Natura naturans", Museo di storia naturale, Trieste, (Italia)
"Immaterial" Moscow Forum of initiatives, Mali manež, Moscow (Russia)
1995
"Biennale of the young mediterranan artist ", Modern Gallery, Rijeka (Croatia)
"Cash'n' Carry", Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana ,(Slovenia)
"Lamparna", Labin, (Croatia)

(*) "MARMALADE", Damijan Kracina & Katarina K. Toman, video DVD, 6 min, 2004

A few words on the artist Damijan Kracina (2002)
We must mention a few exceptional situations, which have changed the artist's view of the world. In 1995 he came across the story of the extinct Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) for the first time, and after a mere two years and great conceptual efforts he brought this animal species back to life and showed it to the public. It is interesting that his work in reviving this extraordinary animal has found emulators in the world of genetics, who are attempting to bring this species back to life through cloning. The artist came into contact with cloning in 1995, when he created a clone of himself. He managed to successfully present this clone of himself at exhibitions and other events (Kracina TV). In 1999, after a series of conceptual approaches, the artist finally managed to interview a trout, with the Latin name Salmo trutta marmoratus. In 2000 the artist re-elaborated the last missing elements of project "Proteus fonts - The first Slovenian autochthonous fonts". The characters with this name consist of delicate and mobile bodies of Proteus anguinus, which the artist found in the dark underground areas of the Slovene Karst. However, it was only three years later that he enabled all global users of the Internet to write down their deepest thoughts with his fonts (www.proteusfont.org).
Among his pioneering efforts is also the transformation of a gallery into a ZOO. During his experimentation with DNA he managed to mix his DNA with that of animals, thus creating his second modified clone called Mr. Spag. His 1998 project is of importance, for he used one of the galleries in the EU to set up a 40-day quarantine for animals originating from non-EU countries (www.glu-sg.si/kracina/kracinaWG.htm).
In 2000 the artist searched for the filthiest and weirdest fast-food restaurant in New York (www.kracina.com/amerika).
In Graz, Austria, he in 2002 invited a stuffed monkey from the natural history museum to participate at a guitar concert. This monkey is now a permanent member of his music band The Frightened Monkeys (Los Monos Asustados). The author is successful also in the field of marketing and financial dealings, for he is the founder and 50% shareowner of the successful company 'Soški biser' with its headquarters in the beautiful national park.
The artist lives and works in the hills surrounding Ljubljana and spends most of his time behind a computer.

DK 2002