TEMPO, TEMPO
BAŽATO GALLERY, LJUBLJANA, SI
FEB - MAR, 2026
The exhibition Tempo, Tempo at the Bažato Gallery in Ljubljana represents an overview of Marko Šajn's works created between 2021 and 2026. A selection of paintings, risograph prints, drawings, and sculptures reveals how his artistic practice gradually developed into a recognizable visual language based on the principles of repetition, the variation of motifs, and consistent reduction of form. The exhibition offers detailed insight into the work of an emerging artist, whose central thematic starting point is interpersonal relationships.
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MARKO ŠAJN
GALERIJA KRKA, NOVO MESTO, SI
September, 2025
Marko Šajn je ustvarjalec, ki pri delu uspešno združuje lastno individualnost, posvečenost kreativnemu delu in privzgojeno vztrajnost. Suvereno se giblje med različnimi mediji od grafičnega ustvarjanja do slikarstva in kiparstva, ki mu služijo kot proces pri raziskovanju meja med prostorom in gledalčevo percepcijo, pri čemer igra pomembno vlogo asociativni element. Njegov opus zaznamujejo čistost formalnega jezika, redukcija, premišljenost in subtilna senzibilnost. V procesu ustvarjanja ga zanima predvsem struktura likovnega jezika: svetloba, razmerje med barvo in slikovno površino, linije ter njihova materialna in prostorska navzočnost (arhitekturna logika), s katero oblikuje svoje postavitve. Njegove prostorske rešitve pogosto učinkujejo kot risbe v prostoru: natančno odmerjene linije in ploskve ustvarjajo ravnovesje med racionalnim načrtom in čustveno odzivnostjo. Monokromno ozadje ni zgolj nevtralno ozadje prostora, temveč aktiven element, ki določa končno podobo dela.
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FREE HUGS
KIBELA GALLERY, MARIBOR, SI
1. March - 6. April 2024
In preparing the exhibition, which combines analog painting and sculpture with contemporary digital interfaces, the artist used the free website for his paintings, which generates images with the help of artificial intelligence. The passwords he entered often contained the words “hug”, “group hug”, “embrace”, etc. Based on this and other online data, he received images according to which he modeled his paintings. However, the machine processing led to various deformations, which he had to rework and edit. His work can therefore be defined as a visualization of communication in a triangle between “machine” and “human” perception of the “conceptual”, which, like interpersonal communication, is never perfect, as it always contains a noise between sender and receiver that depends on various parameters and must be “corrected” again and again.
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MUTUAL COMPROMISE
The International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), LJUBLJANA, SI
MAR - APR, 2023
The exhibition presents the latest series of prints in silkscreen and riso-printing techniques, as well as a metal object as a special feature of the exhibition. Marko Šajn's prints are characterised by a clear concept and perfect execution, as well as a humorous, funny, fast-paced, witty and playful artistic expression with many references to art history, classical painting, popular printmaking, urban culture, graffiti and street art.
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He often depicts human figures in his works, making them easily recogniseable. The figures are extremely stylized, even typified, as they always appear without facial features, having a similar hairstyle and wearing similar clothes. Through them, he is building an undefined space, where the figures take up different positions and allow for different interpretations of emotions and moods, expressed by body posture, gestures and movements. The figures form compositions in which their mutual relations, (common) tendencies and actions are reflected through the visual language of the bodies. In these compositions, the artist keeps the choreography of the movements vague enough to leave the interpretation of the relationships open - namely, it is not always clear whether the figures are friendly or hostile to each other, whether they are playing or fighting, shaking hands or measuring strength, embracing or suffocating... In the face of this ambiguity, it seems that the artist is mainly trying to show the noise in the communication between the depicted figures, as it also often happens in our everyday lives.
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