My fascination with the Analytical Psychology and Hermetic Philosophy is manifested in most recent paintings and drawings. The concept of my art may be linked, via illogical iconography to existential individual subconscious. Notions of chance and automatism are given full expression in my abstract paintings and automatic gestured drawings, in which line no longer serves to describe shape or enclose form, but exists as an autonomous event, charting the movements of the color (paintings) or pencil (drawings).
My artwork itself has a visual power that is virtually unmatched by any possible description of it. One cannot really hope to understand it, or even visualize it without experiencing it firsthand.

Miran Kres 2005

The life style and work of Miran Kreš (1973) explores themes of the mind, body, and spirit with an emphasis upon postmodernistic cultural identity and existential personal experience. He studied Educational Fine Art at the University of Ljubljana. In 1998 he graduated from abstract painting. He spent the following years in Ljubljana and traveling throughout Europe and North Africa. In year 2000 together with the group of ten Slovenian artist he participate in conceptual art exhibition Das Project Gauguin in Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Graz. Theory of Postmodernistic Simulacrum and analytical psychology influenced the development of his art from 1999 to 2001. He went to New York where he attained the contemporary views and reflections in multimedia art. Miran’s works often focus on the marginal existential social codes and towards the construction of a self within a cultural, historical, and social space. From 2002 to 2003 he lived in Amsterdam where the central, though not exclusive theme of Kres's work has been an exploration of mortality and alchemy, a controversial subject that Kres has updated and extended with wit, verve, originality and force. During his art presentation in Amsterdam he was accounted with Steven Postma. They created conceptual module The Pink Triangle Projects.
Recently, in 2004 and 2005, Kres has exhibited at the Slovenian Galleries in Ljubljana, the Hest 35 Gallery and Kresija Gallery, and internationally in The Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest 2004 in Romania. He was nominated for Henkel CEE Art Award for Modern Drawing 2005.
His paintings are also represented in both corporate and private collections.

1996- Grad Prem, Prem, Slovenia
1997- Prisotnost preteklosti, Superstar, Škofja Loka, Slovenia
1998- One.Eno, Pef Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia*
2000- 10 + 10, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Graz, Austria
2002- Water to Air Project- The Tube.nl Gallery Exhibition, The Tube Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherland
2003- Mr. B, Guerilla Performance Locator, Web art project, London, GB
2003- Images of Desire 3, Artwalk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004- Y-Rebis, Hest 35 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia*
2004- The Pink Triangle: GAD, The Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest 2004, Romania
2004- III.Bienale of small format paintings, Ljutomer, Slovenia
2005- Extasis, Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia*
2005- Slovenia 2005, Majski Salon, Koper- Izola- Piran, Slovenia
2005- Napalvine 2005, Galerija Hest, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005- Grand Prix des Ambassadeurs, Les Decourtenay Galleries, Châtelet, Belgium

2002- Water to Air Project- The Tube.nl Gallery Exhibition, The Tube Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands*
2003- Mr. B, Guerilla Performance Locator, Web art project, London, GB
2003- Images of Desire 3, Artwalk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004- The Pink Triangle: GAD, The Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest, Romania
2005- Grand Prix des Ambassadeurs, Les Decourtenay Galleries, Châtelet, Belgium

* solo exhibitions

2003- Mr. B, Guerilla Performance Locator, Web art project, London, GB
-curators: Leslie Hill & Helen Paris
2003- Images of Desire 3, Artwalk, Amsterdam, Netherland
-curator: Jan van der Ploeg
2004- The Pink Triangle: GAD, The Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest, Romania
-curator committee
2004- III.Bienale of small format paintings, Ljutomer, Slovenia
-jury: dr. Milcek Komelj, Natasa Semolic, Robert Inhof
2005- Henkel CEE Art Award for Modern Drawing 2005, Wiena, Austria
2005- Grand Prix des Ambassadeurs, Les Decourtenay Galleries, Châtelet, Belgium

SOUND ART MUSEUM-RAM Via Conte Verde 15, 00185 Rome, Italia
Miran Kres & dj KZO, The pink triangle, 2003

Miran Kreš, The Quintessence of Painter Images and Mantras, Mentor 1- 2, page 56- 58, 2002
Matjaž Brulc, Miran Kreš: Y- Rebis, Deloskop nu.13, page 58, 2004
Jelka Šutej Adamič: The Hermetic, Delo, page 9, 20. May 2004
Petra Skabarné- Exhibition Catalogue: Miran Kreš: Y- Rebis, Gallery Hest 35, Ljubljana, 2004
Exhibitions- Ljubljana: Miran Kreš: Y- Rebis, Delo, page 12, 20th May 2004
Semira Osmanagić: Analytical Psychology and Alchemy, Nedelo, page 26, 23rd May 2004
RTV Slovenia: The Abstract Exploration of Mysticism, 15:00, 21st June 2004
Visual Codes and Identities- Exhibition Catalogue: The Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest, Romania, October 2004
RTV Slovenija: The Abstract Sun in Kresija, 19:54, 29th March 2005
Jelka Šutej Adamič: The Abstraction Symbolism, Delo, page 10, 25th March 2005
Deloskop danes: Miran Kreš and Barbara Demšar- Extasis, Delo, page 11, 29th March 2005
Adela Vukovič: The Cultural Compass, Finance, 25th May 2005
Petra Skabarné- Exhibition Catalogue: Miran Kreš: Extasis, Galerija Kresija, Ljubljana, 2005
Elvira Miše: With Abstraction to Symbolism, Mag- nu. 14, page 61, 6th April 2005
RTV Slovenija: The finalists for Henkel Art Award, 11:52, 22nd July 2005