Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak have been working
as an artist's cooperative since 2003. They studied at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Nika Oblak graduated in painting, in 2002,
and received her M.F.A. in video, in 2005. Primoz Novak graduated in sculpture,
in 2002, and received his M.F.A. in sculpture, in 2006. In 2000 - 2001 they
were guest students in the class of Prof. Katharina Sieverding at the Universitaet
der Kuenste in Berlin.
Solo exhibitions:

2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2005
2004 |
Absolutely Fabulous 5, MC Gallery, New York,
USA
Absolutely Fabulous 4, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
Absolutely Fabulous 3, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Absolutely Fabulous 2, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Absolutely Fabulous, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
Saetchi Collection, Zero Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Saetchi Collection, The Red House, Sofia, Bulgaria
Teamwork 6, 03one Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Saetchi Collection, Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig, Germany
Saetchi Collection, Likovni salon, Celje, Slovenia
Saetchi Collection, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Teamwork 5, Sokolski dom, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Teamwork 4, Gallery 10m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Teamwork 3, Kibela Gallery, MMC Kibla, Maribor, Slovenia
Teamwork 2, Luftmuseum, Amberg, Germany
Teamwork, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Rhythmic, Vocalized, Expiratory and Involuntarily Actions, Likovni
salon, Celje, Slovenia
Rhythmic, Vocalized, Expiratory and Involuntarily Actions, Remont
Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia and Monte Negro
And Now for Something Completely Different, Gallery P74, Ljubljana,
Slovenia
Bank Robbery, Kiberpipa, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Group exhibitions and festivals:

2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
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EMAF - European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck,
Germany
CYNETART 2012, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
Update_4 Biennial ,The New Technological Art Award 2012 - NTAA by
Liedts-Meesen Foundation, Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium
MOVE Forward - New Mexican and European Media Art, Halle, Germany
Vernetzt - Das Zukunftscamp, ZEIT-Stiftung, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
18th International festival of computer arts - IFCA, Maribor, Slovenia
Robot Museum, A plus A, Venice, Italy
It's All Right, Maremetraggio - International Short Film Festival,
Trieste, Italy
Biennale Kvadrilaterale 4, Out of Left Field, Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Future Relevance, Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture
/ Urbanism, B10, Shenzhen, China
Nofound Photofair, Garage Turenne, Paris, France
Sea Art Festival 2011, Busan Biennale Organizing Committee, Songdo
Beach, Busan, South Korea
Preview, Berlin, Germany
Sculpture Today, Contemporary Art Gallery, Celje, Slovenia
DA Fest, National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
Museum of Robots, UGM - Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
Museum of Robots, Razstavni salon Rotovz, Maribor, Slovenia
Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol.3, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos
Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
XXVII. International Festival Sarajevo - Sarajevo Winter, Turkish
Cultural Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Philosophy of Money, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
Biennale Cuvee, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
ISCP Open Studios, ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program,
New York, USA
Video - Salon Ephemere, Nuit Blanche, Point Ephemere, 200 Quai de
Valmy, Paris, France
Preview, Berlin, Germany
Vette, Palazzo Frisacco, Udine, Italia
VIENNAFAIR, Vienna, Austria
Tracs - one youth, L'Assaut De La Menuiserie, Saint Etienne, France
Begegnungen / Srecanja Kranj, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, Austria
Imprint, Venstrebladet's Gamle Trykkerihal, Holbaeck, Denmark
Rondomat, Atelier Rondo, Graz, Austria
25th Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries, Alexandria,
Egypt
MONITORING, 26. Kasseler DokFest, KulturBahnhof, Kassel, Germany
MOVE - New European Media Art, Intecta, Halle, Germany
The Matrix: An Unstable Reality, 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Jakopiceva
galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sharjah Biennial 9, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Video-Salon 4, Curatorial Rebound Project, Duplex / 10m2, Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Supernova, Balkan Video-Box, La Genarale, Paris, France
ART HK 09 - Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong
Ran Huang and Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak, VIVID, Birmingham, UK
VIENNAFAIR, Vienna, Austria
Lille 3000 - Europe XXL, Balkan Video-Box, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille,
France
Nothing but AiR, Vasa Konsthall, Vasa, Finland
Video-Box, Extract 1 / 10m2 Video Collection, haloGaleria, Olsztyn,
Poland
Art Verona, Verona, Italy
The 5th Busan International Video Festival, Space Bandee, Busan, South
Korea
Art in LefkosA, Eaved House, EMAA Association, Lefkosia, Cyprus
Spaport - International Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Building
Tereza, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ssamzie Space 1998 - 2008, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea
Electric Rats Dream Video Dreams, Video festival, Celje, Slovenia
Volta 4, Basel, Switzerland
Vis Vis Vis, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
Parcours West, Video-Box 2, La Genarale, Paris, France
Abrasevic Film Festival, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
XXIV International Sarajevo Winter "Barricades without borders",
Video-Salon 3, 10m2 Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Invisible Miracles, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, Italy
The 4th Busan International Video Festival, Space Bandee, Busan, South
Korea
Nightcomers, 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Visual Dislocation, Museum for Contemporary Art, Banja Luka, Bosnia
and Herzegovina
Every man is a curator / Jeder Mensch ist ein Kurator, Museum of Modern
Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Video-Salon 2, Gallery 10m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina
Transmediale - Festival for Art and Media Culture, Living in a Box,
Zero Gallery, Berlin, Germany
U3 - Triennial of contemporary Slovenian art, Museum of Modern Art,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Device Art, Blasthaus Gallery, San Francisco, USA
VAD - Video and Digital Arts International Festival, Girona, Spain
Device Art, Galzenica Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art,
Peekskill, USA
Open Studio Exhibition, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea
OHO Award Finalists Exhibition, Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Portrait and autoportrait, Fine Arts Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
- 5 min, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
It's Playtime, Contemporary Art Gallery, Celje, Slovenia
Outliners, ArtTransponder e.V. Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
Prospectif Cinema 2004 - 2005, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Stories from the Neighborhood, Rael Artel Gallery, Parnu, Estonia
Stories from the Neighborhood, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
MTV Free Your Mind Arena, Exit Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia and Monte
Negro
The Third International Film and Video Festival, MONA, Detroit, USA
2.m, Miklova Hisa Gallery, Ribnica, Slovenia
La Isle Videos Incrives 04, Teatro Odisseia, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
24 FPS, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2.m, Miklova Hisa Gallery, Ribnica, Slovenia
The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia and Monte Negro
Production, ESC, Graz, Austria
10th International Festival of Computer Arts, Razstavni Salon Rotovz,
Maribor, Slovenia
Idea - non - Realization, National Museum, Kraljevo, Serbia and Monte
Negro
Idea - non - Realization, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia and Monte
Negro
25hrs International Art Show, Barcelona, Spain
Hertzoscopio - Experimental and Transdisciplinary Arts Festival, Lugar
Comum, Barcarena, Portugal
Trampoline, Plattform for New Media Art, Volksbuehne, Berlin, Germany
Media Art Festival Friesland, St. Jacobiparochie, Netherlands
2nd Detroit International Video Festival, MONA Detroit, USA
VAD 2003, Video and Digital Arts International Festival, Girona, Spain
Visura Aperta Momiano 03, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia
Friendly Fire, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Visura Aperta Momiano 03, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Idea - non - Realization, Gradska galerija Pozega, Pozega, Serbia
and Montenegro
FONA, Festival of New Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2nd Kansk International Video Festival, Kansk, Russia
Art Words, Galerie Berliner Kunstprojekt, Berlin, Germany
9th International Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor, Slovenia
Start, Karas Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Interventions 2003, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA |
Grants, awards and residencies:

2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2003
2002
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Nomination CYNETART Award 2012, Festspielhaus
Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
Nomination The New Technological Art Award 2012 - NTAA 2012 by Liedts-Meesen
Foundation, Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium
Gyeonggi Creation Center Residency Studio Program, Gyeonggi Creation
Center, Ansan-si, South Korea (upcoming)
PACT Zollverein - Residency Programme, Essen, Germany
EMARE MEX 2012-2013, Centro Multimedia of Centro Nacional de las Artes,
Mexico City, Mexico
OCAT - Contemporary Art Terminal (He Xiangning Art Museum), artist
in residence, Shenzhen, China
ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
RONDO - artist - studio, Graz, Austria
Jury Recommended Work, Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
SAIR - Solyst Artist in Residence Centre, Jyderup, Denmark
Westwerk, artist in residence, Hamburg, Germany
Artist Grant, Ministry of Culture, Slovenia (Primoz Novak)
EMARE - European Media Art Residency Exchange - VIVID, Birmingham,
UK
Sharjah Biennial 9 Production Grant, United Arab Emirates
Svenska konstskolans Vaenner i Nykarleby, Artist in Residence, Nykarleby,
Finland
Trans_2007-08: residence support program, AIAV - Akiyoshidai International
Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
Quartier21, Artist in Residence, Museums Quartier, Wien, Austria
Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
FlaxArt Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland
OHO Award Finalist, Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ssamzie Space Studio Program, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea
Odprti termin - selection, Likovni salon, Celje, Slovenia
2nd Prize, Idea - non - Realization, Gradska galerija Pozega, Pozega,
Serbia and Monte Negro
Graduate Studies Grant, Ministry of Culture, Slovenia (Primoz Novak,
2003 - 2005)
Graduate Studies Grant, Ministry of Culture, Slovenia (Nika Oblak,
2002 - 2004) |
Lectures:

2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2005
2003 |
Scripps College, Department of Art, Claremont,
California, USA
Move Forward - New Mexican and European Media Art, Halle, Germany
Guangzhou Fine Art Academy, Guangzhou, China
Fine Art Academy of South China, Normal University, Guangzhou, China
OCAT - Contemporary Art Terminal (He Xiangning Art Museum), Shenzhen,
China
Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo Japan
Artist Salon, ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program,
New York, USA
Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Dresden, Germany
The Red House, Sofia, Bulgaria
Tea Party, Cirkulacija 2 - Tovarna Rog, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Platform, Vasa, Finland
Svenska konstskolans Vaenner, Swedish Polythechnic Finland, Nykarleby,
Finland
7. Stock, Dresden, Germany
Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig, Germany
AIAV - Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
FlaxArt Studios, Belfast, Ireland
U3 - Triennial of contemporary Slovenian art, Museum of Modern Art,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Media Focus, Likovni salon, Celje, Slovenia
Visura Aperta, Momjan, Croatia |
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