Luka Uršič

The Gift of Failure

4. 6.–30. 8. 2026

Grad Tivoli

Failure as a point of departure for potential future success is today a key part of the artistic process. What might elsewhere be understood as an error or anomaly can become an expressive value and a space of freedom in art. With new works produced this year in the MGLC Print Studio, Luka Uršič explores the potential of his artistic practice as a reparative mechanism.

Through screenprinting interventions on the unsuccessful and discarded Polaroid photographs by others, the artist returns to the source of failure and symbolically takes on the blame and responsibility for failed actions. In this way, he confronts his own and others’ unease, while simultaneously attempting to approach the liberating possibility of redemptive correction and improvement.

Curator of the exhibition: Yasmín Martín Vodopivec

Luka Uršič (1982, Maribor) is a visual artist and musician. Following his studies in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, he has continuously developed an artistic practice at the intersection of image and sound. Since 2004, he has presented his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad, and has collaborated with various artists, including Meta Grgurevič, Urša Vidic and Jaša. As a creative assistant, he co-created the project The Lovest with Jaša at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna galerija) in Ljubljana (2010). In 2011, he participated as a composer and performer in the project Gelanterie Mécanique/Fil d’argent by Meta Grgurevič and Urša Vidic at the 30th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Interruption. Since 2011, he has been active in the field of music under the artistic name KALU, releasing the album Get Well Soon in 2018. In 2023, he presented the large-scale solo show I See Lights/Vidim luči at KiBela. Between 2014 and 2019, he worked as a set design painter at the theatre studio of the SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana as well as the Ljubljana City Theatre (Mestno gledališče ljubljansko). Through both his individual artistic practice and his collaborations with other artists, he consistently maintains and develops a distinctive visual language. He lives and works in Ljubljana.