Janez Bogataj

Janez Bogataj was born in 1961. He began creating his recently exhibited series Early Works between 1978 and 1979. In 1979, he started working as a photographer for the Mladina magazine, where he stayed until 1988. In 1981 he was awarded the Golden Bird award for photographic achievements. Throughout his photojournalistic career, he created more artistic, personal works as well, and published them in the photobook Pastorala (2004), together with quotes from classic literature. After 1988, he focused solely on fine art photography as well as studying philosophy and world literature. He spent 1989 in Paris, where 40 of his photographs were included in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale and one was published in the journal Revue de la Bibliothèque Nationale in 1992. He further on published photobooks Sonata for Sun and Fog (2012) and Bagatelles (2019). His works are included in museum and private collections.

Recently, Bogataj exhibited his works at the Museum of Contemporary History at the solo exhibition The Eighties. The Decade of (Cultural) Transition in 2022 and at Cankarjev dom at the group exhibition Slovenian Punk & Photography in 2023, which was in 2024 also exhibited in Pforzheim, Germany, and Novi Sad, Serbia.

Face to Face

Group Exhibition on the Occasion of 20 Years of Galerija Fotografija

20 May - 14 Aug 2024

Face to Face: Group Exhibition at the Occasion of 20 Years of Galerija Fotografija

20th May–14th August 2024

Participating in the exhibition:
UROŠ ABRAM, ROGER BALLEN, JANEZ BOGATAJ, BOJAN BRECELJ, SIMON CHANG, DK, BORIS GABERŠČIK, CIRIL JAZBEC, STOJAN KERBLER, TEREZA KOZINC, MATJAŽ KRIVIC, ANDREJ LAMUT, DIANA LUI, TILYEN MUCIK, NIK ERIK NEUBAUER, BOŠTJAN PUCELJ, JANEZ PUKŠIČ, SARA RMAN, BLAŽ ROJS, LUCIJA ROSC, EURO ROTELLI, KLAVDIJ SLUBAN, METKA VERGNION, ANA ZIBELNIK and JOCO ŽNIDARŠIČ.

Curated by:
BARBARA ČEFERIN, HANA ČEFERIN

Janez Bogataj

Bagatelles

31 Jan - 9 Mar 2024

The search for details is a lengthy process requiring adequate time, silence and tranquillity, all precious rarities of modernity. In the pristine natural world consisting of remnants of the past,...

Janez Bogataj

Early works 1978-79

30 Mar - 14 May 2016

The focus of the exhibition Early works by Janez Bogataj is the search of a young photographer. He, after being thought and inspired by Vlastja Simončič, first slovenian photographic pedagog,...

Delavnica STAROGRAM in KEMOGRAM

September 23, 2021

Vabljeni na delavnico starogram in kemogram, ki jo pripravljamo v okviru 13. festivala BOBRI. Delavnico bo vodil priznani slovenski fotograf Janez Bogataj. starost: 7+ let...

BAGATELLES

PASTORALA I

PASTORALA II

PASTORALA III

PASTORALA IV

SONATA ZA SONCE IN MEGLO I / SONATA FOR SUN AND FOG I

SONATA ZA SONCE IN MEGLO III / SONATA FOR SUN AND FOG III

Face to Face

Janez Bogataj

Janez Bogataj

38. Slovenski knjižni sejem

MIA - Milan Image Art Fair

Delavnica STAROGRAM in KEMOGRAM

Iz oči v oči – Galerija Fotografija ob svoji 20-letnici premišljuje o portretu

Narava, kot jo z vso njeno atmosfero ovekoveči Janez Bogataj

Slovenski punk in fotografija kmalu na ogled

Fotografska sonata Janeza Bogataja

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