Marko Modic (born 26 August 1958 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian photographer, painter and visual artist from Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Photographic and artistic circles of the world attributed Marko Modic a special place because of his unique and colorful works of art.
In 1976 he got his first camera Praktica from his father. At the beginning he worked in black and white photographs and later embarked on a more complex photo-montage that he uses also in his work today. Photograph is used occasionally as a basis on which then he draws a picture. In his work are photographs, paintings, books, as well as performances. Modic's enigmatic photographic works show an extreme sensibility towards perception and use of colors. He captures details of everyday objects or places and uncommolnly presents them in insolation, neither in a content nor in perspective-evoking ambiguous interpretation and curiosity...
In 1988 Marko Modic won a "Zlata ptica", confession for Slovenian creators and executants for extraordinary achievements on different fields of cultural creation.
Marko Modic has exhibited his photographs widely at home, in Italy, Ecuador , Argentina , UK, Canada... In 2011 he has an exhibition "Written on skin of the Earth" in Tivoli Park in Ljubljana, Slovenia and in Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies , Banff , Canada.
Marko Modic lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2012).
1984 Cankarjev dom (Cultural and Congress Center), Ljubljana, Slovenia (performance included) 1987 Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, UK 1988 Galerija Dante • Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia 1988 Moderna galerija (Museum of Modern Art), Ljubljana, Slovenia 1990 Centre Culturel et d’information de Yugoslavie, Paris, France 1991 Fundacion Guayasamin, Quito, Ecuador 1991 Espace Franco - Americain, Le Mejan, R.l.P., Arles, France 1992 Folklore Olga Fisch, Quito, Ecuador 1993 Moderna galerija (Museum of Modern Art), Ljubljana, Slovenia 1995 Cankarjev dom (Cultural and Congress Center), Ljubljana, Slovenia 1996 Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1996 Barbican Centre, London, UK 1998 Ikona Photo gallery, Venezia, Italy 1998 Mestna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1999 Mücsarnok, Palace of Art, Budapest, Hungary 1999 Palisady gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia 1999 Milano Libri, Milano, Italy 2002 Galerie Perpétuel, Frankfurt, Germany 2004 Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004 Euro Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004 Galleria Regionale d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Spazzapan, Gradisca d'Isonzo, Italy 2005 - 2012 The Venetian, Scorze (VE), Italy 2010 Kosovelov dom, Sezana, Slovenia 2010 Atelje Mikado, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2011 Whyte Museum, Banff, Canada 2011 Jakopičev drevored Tivoli, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2011 Atelje Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2012 Galerija Zala, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2012 Slovenian Scientific Institut, Wien, Austria 2014 The Art photo gallery, Trieste, Italy 2015 Galerija Jakopič, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2015 Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1986 B’Bienale, Rotonda, Thessaloniki, Greece 1988 XV Fotoforumm, Fotografi di Alpe Adria, Auditorium, Spilimbergo, Italy 1998 Galaxia, Casa Veneta, Muggia, Italy 1989 YU Documenta 89, Olympic Center Skenderija, Sarajevo, Bosnia 1989 Alcune espressioni, Villa Simion, Spinea, Italy 1989 Utopies 89, Grand Palais: L’Europe des créateurs, Paris, France 1990 Soirées Est-Ouest, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre G.Pompidou, Paris, France 1990 Ca dèbloque à l’est, Espace photographique Contretype, Bruxelles, Belgium 1990 Soirées Est - Ouest, Galerie Donguy, Paris, France 1991 Identités méditerranéennes, Aix-en-Provence, France 1994 Alteridades, Sala Gòtica de I’IEI, Lérida, Spain 1995 Out post, Venezia, Italy 1999 Dal Dahgerrotipo al Digitale, Galleria Sagittaria, Pordenone, Italy 2003 Jubilaeum, Galerie Perpétuel, Frankfurt, Germany 2009 Drawing in Slovenia, Mestna galerija (Municipal Gallery) Ljubljana, Slovenia 2010 Revolutionary Voices, New York Public Library, New York, USA 2010 Photographs from Marino Cettina Collection, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia 2010 Drawing in Slovenia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia 2010 Drawing in Slovenia (1940–2009), Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia 2010 Drawing in Slovenia (1940–2009), Mestna galerija (Municipal Gallery) Ljubljana, Slovenia 2011 ZDSLU Group exhibition, Gallery of »Jožef Stefan« Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2011 Between Pictorialism and Abstraction, Velenje Gallery, Velenje, Slovenia 2011 Between Pictorialism and Abstraction, Kosova graščina, Jesenice, Slovenia 2012 NSK 1984-1992, Chelsea Space, London, Great Britain 2012 Time for a New State / NSK Folk Art, Tate Modern, London, Great Britain 2012 Selection of photographs from Group Junij Art collection, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2012 New photography - reality, Savin Art Salon, Žalec, Slovenia 2013 50 years of Ljubljana City Art Gallery, Mestna galerija (Municipal Gallery) Ljubljana, Slovenia 2013 Photo-Imago 1983-2013, Museo d'Arte Moderno Ugo Cara, Muggia, Italy 2015 NSK from Kapital to Capital, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2016 NSK from Kapital to Capital, Van Abbe Museum, Eidhoven, The Netherlands 2016 NSK from Kapital to Capital, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia 2017 The Eightiews / The Heritage 1989, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2017 NSK from Kapital to Capital, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Books and catalogs 1988 Marko Modic: Ekran sanjskih podob (The Screen of Oneiric Images), Moderna galerija (Modern gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia 1990 Marko Modic: Moderna galerija (Modern gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia 1992 Marko Modic: A Fish Book – Galapagos, Villegas Editores, Quito, Ecuador 1992 Marko Modic: Tauromaquia 1993 Marko Modic: Texturon, Moderna galerija (Modern gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia 1994 Marko Modic: Ljubljana - Luč in dan (Ljubljana - Light and day), Colibri, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1995 Marko Modic: Ratio Cut, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1998 Marko Modic: Excentrix, EWO, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1999 Marko Modic: Alluminations, Mestna galerija (Municipal gallery) Ljubljana, Slovenia 2001 Marko Modic: Unseen, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, Germany 2006 Marko Modic: Oyster Doubt, Logos, Modena, Italy 2015 Marko Modic: The fifth element, Gallery Jakopič, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1984: Extreme, Auditorium Zanon, Udine, Italy 1986: Massacrefish I, Künstler Werkstatte, München, Germany 1987: Massacrefish II, Galerija Dante - Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia 1987: Massacrefish III, Craighill Cottage, Blebocraigs, Cupar, Scotland 1988: Eau & Feu, Galerija Dante - Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia 1988: Missa Elementorum, SKC, Beograd, Yugoslavia 1989: Pulsus, Museum of XIV Winter Olympic Games, Sarajevo, Bosnia 1990: Mostromo, Katedrala sv. Vlaha, Dubrovnik, Croatia 1994: Ratio Cut, Ca Nova, Oira di Crevoladossola, Italy TV and video 1985: TV Ljubljana, Miha Vipotnik: Verging on the impossible 1988: TV Ljubljana, Marina Grzinic, Aina Smid: Viziorama - Mašinerija slike 1988: Radovan Cok: Albedo (performance for one camera) 1988: TV Koper, Silvio Odogaso: Marko Modic, L'intelligenza della bellezza 1988: BBC North: Rough Guide, West MCMLXXXVIII 1993: TV Ljubljana, Stane Sumrak, Koketiranje s sivino možganske skorje 1994: AGRFT & Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Gregor Vesel: Texturon