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son:DA
lugano exhibition installation by sonDA (1)
Street address: Gregorčičeva 56, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Contact: Miha Horvat
Telephone: 386 (0) 31 761914
Contact: Metka Golec
Telephone: 386 (0) 41 684674
Metka Golec studied architecture in Graz and photography and fine arts in Vienna, while Miha Horvat studied anthropology and film in Ljubljana and fine arts and new media in Vienna. They have collaborated as son:DA artistic alliance since 2000, when son:DA was engaged as a founding member of the Klon:Art:Resistance group. son:DA creates in various media computer mouse drawings, space installations and mixed digital/analog installations and systems. Topically they speak (and link) new and old technologies, but in a critical and ironical way.
Since 2000 son:DA have had several solo exhibitions at various venues in Maribor, Ljubljana, Celje, Koper and Ribnica, and have exhibited internationally in Austria (Salzburg, Vienna), the UK (Margate), Italy (Milano), Spain (ARCO, Madrid) and Switzerland (Lugano). Their work has been exhibited at numerous group exhibitions, in Rome, Novi Sad, Ljubljana, Skopje, Belgrade and Graz. They have collaborated frequently with other artists, including Primož Bezjak, Samo Salomon, visual artist Janez Janša and Eric Seymen, and participated in various multimedia, sound, animation, video and experimental film and theatre festivals (Prague, Gorica, Hiroshima, Utrecht, Berlin, Florence, Hull, Zagreb). son:DA regularly engages in curatorial practice: they initiated and ran the 2004-2005 series of art photography exhibitions at Garage for Art Photography (GUF) in Pekarna, Maribor. In 2007 son:DA received the Golden Bird Award and the OHO Award.
 
 
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