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Jurij Krpan graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana. Since 1995 he has been developing mission and program direction of Kapelica Gallery, that is characterized by explicitness and politics and devotion to the criteria of contemporary art research which he also encourages and promotes with special events in Slovenia and internationally. As curator and selector he has participated in domestic and international festivals, the biggest international productions to date being the organization and artistic management of the Slovenian pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennial in 2003 and the conceptual gallery Cosinus BRX at the European Commission building in Brussels. In September 2008 he curated the presentation of the Kapelica Gallery in the Featured Art Scene section of Ars Electronica in Linz. As the consultant of the arts department at the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Brussels since 2004, he has been entrusted with raising the artistic level of the event. He has also edited a book, ORIGINAL – 100 important BJCEM artists, on the artistic relevance of the biennial marking the 20th anniversary of the event. In 2006 he was the curator of the 5th Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana and in 2009 the curator of the biggest intermedia exhibition in history of Slovenia ArzenalDepo 2K9 at Viba Film Studios. In 2010 he presided the jury at festival Share Piemonte in Torino, Italy. The same year and in 2013 he took part of the jury for Hybrid Arts for the Ars Electronica Prix (Linz, Austria). He was the curator of the Slovenian pavilion in Arsenale at the Architectural biennial in Venice in 2014. Jurij Krpan lectures about the artistic profile of the Kapelica Gallery in Slovenia as well as abroad. The curatorial focus of Jurij Krpan work is highlighting the production of meaning by works of art and their tactical intervention in contemporary society. From the very start the focus of the Kapelica Gallery has been on artistic production which takes as the subject of its work the sphere of science and technology. Kapelica Gallery has played host to the most important players in the world and has established a trend in the field of Art & Science through art and with works which topicalise human corporeality. Krpan’s theoretical interest is on conceptual, aesthetical and political meaning of life as an object where artists are investigating the influences of biopolitics, its tools to control human society in human-machine cohabitation and possible transgressions of obsolete humanism in human-nonhuman relationships.

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