
Founded in 1983
Dušan Mandič, 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
2012
Irwin - Time for a New State, Stacion Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina
Construction of the Context, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
Irwin - NSK State in Time, LeRete Art projects, Reggio Emilia
Irwin - Time For a New State and NSK Folk Art, Calvert, London
IRWIN–NSK Passport Office, New York and NSK State Citizens Rendezvous MoMA, MoMA Print Studio, NYC
Was ist Kunst Hugo Ball, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium
2011
East Art Map, Gallery of Contemporary Art/ Atelje DADO, Cetinje, Montenegro
NSK Folk Art, SKUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Was ist Kunst Hugo Ball, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010
Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, Switzerland
The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
NSK Passport Holders, Center for contemporary art, Lagos
2009
NSK Passport Holders, Moderna Galerija/T5. Ljubljana, Slovenia
NSK Passport Holders, Tri Postal, Lille, France
Was ist Kunst, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
State in Time, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Paintings and Photographies, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
2008
Monochromes, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
Black Square on the Red Square, The Crouch - Art Basement Project if the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
State in Time, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Aarhus, Denmark
East Art Map, Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine
2007
History Re-constructed, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
East Art Map, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Like to Like, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
Selected Works, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Akank sanat Gallery, Instanbul, Turkey
2005
East Art Map, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
Like to Like, Gheto, Split, Croatia
Neil Rector NSK Collection, (together with NSK) Frye Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Like to Like, Art Centre Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2004
Hysteria and two of her female friends, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana
Like to Like, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Like to Like, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
East Art Map, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Like to Like, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
2003
Retroprincip, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen; Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Serbian
Galerie Inge Baecker,Cologne, Germany
2002
Rekapitulacija, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
Sound Icons, Galeria Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2001
Self-portraits and Projects, Retroavantgarde, Galeria Bonomo, Bari, Italy
2000
Irwin Live, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Privatization of Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Interiors of the Planit, Ursula Noordung, Retroavantgarde, Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, France
1998
Three Projects, ICA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Transnacionala Vienna, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
1997
Interior of the Planit, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
Transnacionala Barcelona, Sala Montcada de la Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
1996
Transnacionala (conceptualized journey from East to the West Coast), project "Conversation at the Castle", Atlanta, USA
Interior of the Planit, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
1995
The Interiors of the Planit, Anonimus Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Project Proposal for the NSK Embassy in Beijing, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria
1994
Project Proposal for the NSK Embassy in Beijing, Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne, Germany
NSK Konzulat Umag, Galerija Dante, Umag, Slovenia
1993
Irwin-NSK Embassy Moscow Interior, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA
Transcentrala, Old Poverplant, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1992
La Geografia del Tempo, Galleria Carini, Florence, Italy
NSK Embassy – Moscow, Apt Art and Ridzina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1991
Kapital, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts - National Gallery, Pittsburgh; New Langton Arts, San Francisco, The Institute for Contemporary Arts, Clocktower Gallery, New York; District of Columbia Arts Centre, Washington D.C.USA
1990
Kapital, Galerija Equrna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012
Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, Asyimetric Europe, Novi Sad
Tate Modern, A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance, London
ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, One Sixth of the Earth. Ecologies of Image, Karlsruhe
Sculpture Quadrennial RIGA 2012, Anatomy of Integration, Riga
Pavelhaus, Fallen imperials / forgoten spaces - reoccupied !, Laafeld
Steirischerherbst, Truth is concrete (marathon camp), Graz
1st Ural Industrial Biennial, Jekaterinburg
Hermannsdorf Schloss, L'Education de Rosette, Hermannsdorf
Manifesta 9, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Red Districts, Genk
VOX, Contemporary Image Centre, Art Histories, Montreal
CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Collaborations & Interventions, Andratx
Chelsea space, Neue Slowenische Kunst 1984 - 1992, London
MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Moving Forward, Counting Backwards, Ciudad de Mexico
Vanabbe Museum, The Spirit of Internationalism, Eindhoven
MUZAK, Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla and Leon, One Sixth of the Earth. Ecologies of the Image, Leon
Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, Scenarios about Europe: Scenario 3, Leipzig
Galerija Severia, Izbor slik iz kolekcije KD Group, Koper
Museum of Modern Art,The Spirit of Internationalism, Antwerp
2011
Zakladi slovenske grafike 1955-2005, MGLC, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Unmistakable Sentences, The Collection Revisited, Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Murska Sobota European Triennial of Small Sculpture, Galerija Murska Sobota, Slovenia
The International, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Love it or Leave it, Gradski Muzej, Subotica, Serbia
Shiryaevo Biennale, Colliding Discourses, Art Center Gallery, Samara, Russia
Museum of Speech, Museum of Display, and A Slowdown at the Museum, Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen, Belgium
Mercosur Biennial, ensayos de geopoetica, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Night of Museums and Galleries, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
The International, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Confidential Communities, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
Moscow Biennial, Dada Moscow (special project of the Moscow Biennial, Russia
The Global Contemporary. The Art Worlds after 1989, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Retrospective Future, VOX, Contemporary Image Centre, Montreal, Canada
Oktober Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
The Collection of the European Investment Bank, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, Greece
Il corpo metafora di un’esperienza. CIAC, Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno, Italy
2010
Things evoke feelings, CSW Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Taipei Biennial 2010, Taiwan
Wealth of Nations, Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom
The Promises of the Past. A discontinuous history of art in Eastern Europe, Pompidou Centre, Paris
Heimtat Donovina, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
Quartet–Four Biennials Reflected in Prints, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana. Curated by René Block, Berlin, Germany
2009
La Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy
3rd Moscow Biennial for Contemporary Art at Red October Chocolate Factory, Moscow, Russia
Modernologies, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain, traveling to Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
A pair of Left Shoes, Bochum Musem, Germay. Travel to: Museum of Contemporary Art of Zagreb, Croatia
Utopics, 11e Exposition Suisse de Sculpture, Biel, Switzerland
RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting MNAC, Bucharest. Travel to:
SKUC gallery, Ljubljana, and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
Europe XXL, Tripostal, Lille, France
2008
1st Brussels Biennial for contemporary art, Brussels, Belgium
Taipei Biennial, The Taipei Art Museum, Taiwan
Medium Religion, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Here is Every, Four Decades of Contemporary Art, MoMA, New York, USA
Signs of Change; Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, Exit Art, New York, USA
The Renaming Machine, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kontakt… Works from the Art Collection of Erste Bank Group, Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaujvaros, Hungary
Genau+Anders – Mathematik in der Kunst von Dürer bis Sol LeWitt, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
Less is less and more is more, that´all, CAPC Musée d´Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
The Art World, Unit 40, London, UK
2007
Erste Bank Collection, MoCAB Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad, Serbian
Not-quite/Not-right, Galerija Herman Pečarič, Piran, Slovenia
Grow Your Own, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Das Schwarze Quadrat. Hommage an Malewitsch, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Not-quite/Not-right, Foto galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Not-quite/Not-right, Pilonova galerija, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
Locally Localized Gravity, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA
One Stop, Tram, Tbilisi, Georgia
2006
Eye on Europe, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.), USA
Kontakt … works from the Collection of Erste Bank Group, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (cat.), Austria
Normalisation, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
The Sun on the Wall, Arsenals, (Trajectory series, LCCA), Riga, Latvia
Essence of Life Art, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Interrupted Histories, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
On Difference 2, Stuttgart Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Political Realities, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
2005
Collective Creativity, Fridricianum, Kassel, Germany
7th Sharjah biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Politike Slikarstva, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004
Berlin – Moscow / Mocsow – Berlin, Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia
Venture, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj, Slovenia
EV+A Biennial, Limerick, Ireland
…and Others, Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Art / Kurama Art Gallery, Bishkek, Kyrgystan
The Post_Communist Condition, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
The beauty of failure / The failure of beauty, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Lodz Biennial, Warshaw, Poland
Il Buon Governo dellArte, Modern and Contemporary Art City Museum, Bergamo, Italy
2003
Individual Systems, Biennial of Venice, Venice, Italy
2002
Museotopia, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
(Un)painted, Essel Museum, Vienna, Austria
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2001
U3, Vulgata, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Slovenia
Artisti Asuonati, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
Europa 2000, Palazzo della triennale, Milano, Italy
Le Tribu delarte, Galeria Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Oko in njegova resnica, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Vulgata, Neuer Berliner Kunsverein, Berlin, Germany
Jahresgaben 2001, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
2000+ Arteast Collection, Kongresscentrum, Innsbruck, Austria
Diesseits und Jenseits des Traums, Sigmund Freud Museum, Wien, Austria
2000
Das Fünfte Element/Geld oder Kunst, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Osmica v horizontali, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Lautre moitie de lEurope, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
1999
After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Stop the Violence, Art Academy in collaboration with MAK, Vienna, Austria
1997
Istanbul Biennial, Instanbul, Turkey
This Art is Recycled, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Alpenblicke, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
U3, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1996
Manifesta, Boyman Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Interpol, Institute for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Farbfabrik, Stockholm, Sweden
Discord: Sabotage of Realities, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
1995
The Collection of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
1993
Padiglione NSK, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Art in the Measure of the World, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
1992
Molteplici Culture, Convento di S.Egidio, Rome, Italy
First Hand Art, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Identität: Differenz, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
1991
Slovenske Atene, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Vanderlieder, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1990
Fra-Yu-Kult,Monastery Široki Brijeg, Lištica; 369 Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Team Spirit, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Ludwig Museum, Aachen
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Albertina, Vienna
Essel Museum, Vienna
Worl Bank Collection, Washington
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
Neil Rector Collection of NSK, Colombos
Schleswig-Holsteinscher Kunstverein, Kiel
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Neue Gallerye, Graz
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
Ars Aevi Collection, Sarajevo
Fra Yu Kult, Franciscan Monastery Museum, Listica
Art Museum, Banja Luka
Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka
Flash Art Museum, Trevi
Regina Gallery Collection, Moscow
Fonds National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
Factor Bank Collection, Ljubljana
Ljubljanska Banka, Ljubljana
EuroCenter, Ljubljana
Obalne Galerije, Koper
Likovna zbirka Riko, Ribinica
Muzej grada Zadra, Zadar
Museum Ost Deutsche Galerie, Regenscburgh
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen
First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago
Erste Bank Collection, Vienna
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven