Tadej Pogačar lives and creates in the anticipatory world of the postmedia functioning of the artist. Everything can become an artistic index or an interventional act in arts, culture and social dispositifs. Everything is located in the field of exchange and transience. The attitude of arts, culture and society is non-transparent, paradoxical and conflictual. The artist is closer to a cultural/social activitist than to a creator of autonomous artworks for himself and according to himself. Examining indeterminacy and transformation within social systems in his art, Pogačar engages in interventionist logic, institutional critique, and critical research on social and political issues as well as participatory and collaborative projects. The “parasitism” of his work is a subtle deconstruction of the horizon of the everyday, and of the ruthless challenges to the systems that are used to establish and maintain the center, domination, and power.

Tadej Pogačar (1960, Ljubljana) is an artist, curator and educator. He studied art history, ethnology, and fine art at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in painting from the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts, where he also completed his postgraduate studies. Soon after graduation, Pogačar turned to an interdisciplinary approach in his work. His projects often begin with a period of intensive artistic research and overlap the fields of ethnology, visual and cultural anthropology, history, multimedia and visual arts, and social engagement. His approach was influenced by Michel Serres’ concept of parasitism, the writings of Paul Veyne on history and patterns of language and Situationist International (SI), among others. Tadej Pogačar has exhibited widely, most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (2015), Moderna galerija Ljubljana (retrospective) (2014), Espaivisor—Visor Gallery in Valencia (2013), the ZKM – Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (2011–12), the Vojvodina Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad (2011), as well as at biennials in São Paulo, Venice, Istanbul, Prague, and Tirana, and at Manifesta 1 in Rotterdam. He has published several artist books: CODE:RED (Onestar Press, Paris, 2004), Twenty Palm Trees of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2009), Twenty-Eight Cakes (2009), P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Public Sculpture (2010),Various (Small) Pieces of Trash (2010), and Tito times Thirty (naked) (2010).

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