Jože Barši, Klara Klausberger, 1997-2023, installation detail
Jože Barši, There are many answers to the question about why to grow vegetables, 1997
20 – 23 March 2025
SPARK Art Fair Vienna 2025
booth F10, Marx Halle, Vienna
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We are pleased to announce our participation at the SPARK Art Fair Vienna 2025. We will be presenting the artworks of internationally established artist Jože Barši, which will be on view at booth F10 at the Marx Halle in Vienna.
Its unique exhibition architecture is inspired by the steel construction of the historic Marx Halle. A democratization model provides all galleries with same-size booths and architectural orientation. P74 Gallery is the only Slovenian gallery that participate at the SPARK Art Fair Vienna 2025.
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Jože Barši (1955) has degrees in architecture and sculpture, but his practice cannot be defined exclusively by either of these fields. In this sense also his meanders in art can be more easily understood: from the deconstruction of the sculptural object in the mid-1990s, to a shift to some sort of architectural explorations of space and their subsequent expansion into installations, the use value of an artwork, and its social and relational value, to more conceptual practices, such as walking, sound, conversations, readings, and registers of knowledge.
Klara Klausberger is the name of the newspaper he published in 1993 at his exhibitions. In a few folded A3 pages, the newspaper covered the topics of sculpture, architecture, and advertising. The front page was dedicated to advertising what he liked at the time (Jean Prouve’s school furniture), the inner pages to texts on sculpture and architecture, while on the back page, he published a photo of his work. The front page of the Zero Issue of the newspaper featured the following statement: “I like newspapers and I don’t know what to do with catalogues”. In a time that doesn’t favour printed editions of newspapers, he highlights the physicality of newspapers that he collects over a long period of time. He is still interested in newsprint as a designed carrier of diversity and contents of newspapers. He transforms space into the interior of a large kiosk.
Jože Barši graduated from the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering (architecture) and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (sculpture), where he also completed his specialization. His work encompasses diverse areas of interest, from site-specific works to radio broadcasting as an exhibition space, public lectures, sound, and conceptual works. Since 1988, he’s been teaching at the sculpture department of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, since 2006 as a full professor. He was a visiting professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA (2001). He represented Slovenia at the Venice Biennale (1997) and participated at the 4th International Istanbul Biennale (1995). He is the recipient of the Golden Bird Award for Visual Arts (2010) and the Jakopic Award (2014). He has participated in numerous international and domestic seminars, conferences, and exhibitions, such as The Present and Presence – Repetition 1 and 2, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana (2012), Grammar of Freedom. Five lessons: Works from the Arteast 2000+ Collection, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2015), 1 : 1, Stopover, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana (2014), Joze Barsi, A Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana (2013), Joze Barsi, Learning and Forgetting, City Gallery Ljubljana (2021), Art at Work, At the Crossroads Between Utopianism and (In)Dependence, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (2022), Picture (a) City, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (2025) and many others. Over the years, Joze Barsi has given several public lectures and participated in several residencies abroad.
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