Group exhibition, Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse, Toulouse, France

February 2. – May 2017

Movement Nouveau Réalisme began in 1960 when  Pierre Restany wrote the manifesto “Déclaration Constitutive du Nouveau Réalisme” signed by  Arman, César, François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely and Jacques Villeglé, later on joined by Niki de Saint Phalle, Gérard Deschamps, Christo et al.

Manifesto addressed the rise in industrialisation and consumerism in society. Artist draw the materials for their works from the daily life of the early 1960s, Nouveau Realists used everyday objects, adverts, posters, junk, neon lights…  Each artist had their own particular method of creating a poetic recycling of urban, industrial and advertising reality. Their works were however dense and radical, marked by action and movement.

The exhibition will highlight how much the group has influenced public space, and our lives and will show the militant, often comical side to the work.

Tomaz Furlan’s  works  are part of  “A contemporary echo of Nouveau Réalisme”, presenting contemporary artists.

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October 2014

Residency and permanent installation of Wear XVIII in the frame of cultural and multidisciplinary research project reactivating the post-industrial spaces of the Cooperativa dos Operários Pedreiros do Porto (Stone Masons Cooperative) in its Centenary.

Curator: Inês Moreira

International Triennial of Contemporary Art

October 2013–June 2014
Austro-Turk Tobacco Warehouse, Izmir, Turkey

PORTIZMIR3, Triennial for Contemporary Art, aspires to provide a contextual framework for diverse, participative practices by exploring new perspectives on the themes, working methods and processes developed in the realm of contemporary art. Tomaž Furlan’s works are presented in the frame of final group exhibition.

Chief curator: Saša Nabergoj

Solo exhibition,  P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

20 December 2013 – 7 January 2014
The exhibition is the combined result of the artist’s previous investigations and of his several month residency this year in New York.

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7th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia, +MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia

20 June – 29 September 2013

The 7th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia gives prominence to community-oriented, site-specific, participatory, performative, architectural, social, civic and other discursive practices exploring new (or revived) community principles.

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The European Biennial of Contemporary Art

Genk, Limburg, Belgium
June 2 – September 30, 2012

The team of Manifesta 9 was lead by Cuauhtémoc Medina (Mexico), together with associate curators Katerina Gregos (Greece/Belgium) and Dawn Ades (UK).

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The OHO Award was established in 2005 by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute in collaboration with the Foundation for a Civil Society and with the support of the New York based Trust for Mutual Understanding. The aim of the OHO Award is to support young visual artists and to take them from a marginal social position to a more central role in society, with an emphasis on a positive context based on openness and creativity.

The international expert jury,  Katerina Mirović  (curator, Ljublana), Jože Barši (ALUO, Ljubljana), Dalibor Martinis (artist, Zagreb), Miran Mohar (artist, Ljubljana) awarded Tomaž Furlan.

As stated by the jury, Furlan’s works emphasize the entering of social environment into the private space, beside this they reveal and problematize social circumstances in an original way.

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