Tobias Putrih in Aleš Korpič – Three projects

In the studio, we focus on an intersection between materiality and computation and explore how both converge in present-day object making. The idea of “group form,” describing the human-made environment as a mesh of material and informational cascades, not a product of individual control, informs many of the studio’s projects. From digital applications and modular objects to be used or played with, to projection spaces, museum libraries, and auditoriums, they result from collective decision-making chains, guided by material properties, environmental conditions, economic constraints, and algorithmic transformations.

Tobias Putrih was born in 1972 in Kranj, Slovenia. Major presentation of his work include solo shows at Museum Boijmans Van Beunigen, Rotterdam; Fondazione Prada, Milan; MIT List Center, Cambridge and Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich. His larger installations include an exhibition at Espace315 at Centre Pompidou, Paris and at Capella MACBA, Barcelona; and collaborations with filmmaker Runa Islam at Galeria Civica in Modena and Kunsthaus, Zurich. Group exhibitions he has participated in include TRACK, Smak, Ghent; Forms of Resistance, VanAbbe Museum, Eindhoven; Manifesta 4, Frankfurt and 29th Sao Paulo Biennale. In 2007 he represented Slovenia at the Venice Biennale. His work is included among others in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musée d’ Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

Aleš Korpič (1981) studied architecture at the University of Ljubljana and graduated under the supervision of assoc. prof. Anja Planišček. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Tobias Putrih Studio team.