Roman Uranjek

Roman Uranjek was born in 1961 in Trbovlje, and passed away in 2022 in Ljublana, Slovenia.

Uranjek was the founding member of the Slovenian art collective IRWIN and a member of the Neue Slovenische Kunst (NSK). 

Uranjek collects images from different periods of history and presents them as one collage, constructing a narrative based on the avant-garde aesthetics of storytelling. These image-making methods express his relationship with the flood of news nowadays, where the quantity and speed of information overwrites its accuracy and gravitas. 

In 2014, Uranjek started working with Radenko Milak on their joint project called “DATES” in 2014, after realizing that both of them tied their artistic work to the domain of cultural and political activism using artistic means. This way they give new meaning to well-known or abandoned images of the 20th Century history. Their perspectives on political history, society, and art create a common ground for their cooperative work as artists; hence they create a contemporary art puzzle with countless layers of significance for interpretation.