Mojca Fo is a surreal artist known for her evocative storytelling art. Passionate about creativity from a young age, she has developed a distinctive style that gently weaves heart-to-heart emotional journeys. Her work explores the delicate space between innocence and time-space archetypes. Mojca's artworks have been exhibited internationally.
ARTSIST STATEMENT
As an artist, I have the chance, privilege and responsibility of sharing my inner world with others.
Every person has unique experiences, unique life and energy - so do I. But there something is happening. I see through leyers, I can express deeper human emotions and subconscious worlds through my paintings. My paintings are mainly surrealistic expressions with deeper and layered stories.
Some paintings are closer to kids with their vibrant colours and simpler stories. Many paintings and almost all on bigger format are layered stories, deeply connected to our hearts and emotions, our history, subconscious.
Works are somehow always a reflection of my inner life, shaped by interactions I encounter on my journey, energy and how I feel in moments when I'm working on separate painting or a whole collection.
I'm completely fascinated by the universe, its origin, and our place within it. I'm fascinated by the fertility of the universe, of the connection between human beings and connection within human beings. I'm fascinated by brains and energy flow, mysteries of subconscious worlds.
I'm connecting science to art, creating works which explores both - themes of science and art and human heart all together. I aim to bring awareness to belief systems and artistic vibe which incorporate both elements in harmony.
I work with acrylics and oils primarily, but many time using mixed techniques. I'm incorporating soil and different media for making my art more deep, layerd as stories behind it and - connected to ground.
My paintings are mainly very detailed, sometimes anyway whole collections are very minimalistic but anyway in it's inner soul detailed, every time deeply exploring. I use repetitions and it takes many hour for finishing a piece of art, sometimes dozens of hours, sometimes months because of all thinking process and collecting stories behind.
CV
As an artist she is often invited on talks and seminars, teaching techniques, telling stories, connecting people's hearts. She was invited many times as painter on different conferences or concerts for making art in front of public during an event.
She is leading Art Courses in her studio.
In april 2019 she was invited as a speaker on 1. Conference about creativity in Slovenia.
She won 1. Big Hotel Prize in Piran, on Extempore 2009 and a first prize on EKO DRAVA Competition in 2020.
Mojca Fo was schooling as an architect but her love for art and storytelling was showing till very young age. At two she sang Ode an die Freude, she was mad about Pippi Longstocking and she adored Dürer, all the time observing old master’s paintings and sculptors. Old soul people said many times. Over the years her focus has shifted from architecture to creating paintings and illustrations. She developed her own style with exceptional feeling for small details and for stories behind every painting, almost every line. She always find a way for unlogic twists which are obviously logic. She plays with stories which moves deeply human emotions and hearts. She like feelings of miracle happen when we meet each other. There’s always kind of miracle and calm energy in her paintings.
NAGRADE IN PRIZNANJA:
2009/ Ex Tempore // Velika odkupna nagrada Hotelov Piran
2018/ Nana Milčinski, Nanine pesmi, Frane Milčinski_Ježek // Zlata hruška
2021/ Mednarodni trienale Bitola // Nagrada
2021/ Likovniki za nagrado Mira
2022/ Ex Tempore EkoDrava / 1. Nagrada EkoDrava
2024/ Ex Tempore EkoDrava / Priznanje EkoDrava
Ekonomska fakulteta monografija
NEKAJ RAZSTAV
2008|Dogodek v Parizu. Botanični vrt / Knjiga The Botanic Book, Folke Tegtthoff, Austria
2009 |ExTempore Piran / Velika hotelska nagrada, Piran
2011| Art Ehon, Dear Japan, Japan
2012| Biennial of Illustration, Ljubljana
2012| Razstava nakita, DONS, Naravoslovni muzej, Ljubljana
2013| ZDSLU, Majski salon
2013| Bienale ilustracije, Bratislava, sept. 2013
2014|ZDSLU, Majski salon, Ljubljana
2014| Bienale ilustracije, Ljubljana
2016| Razstava The legacy of Light, Gloggnitz castle, Austria, July
2016| Razstava Mišek Kralj in 23 zgodb v Galeriji Murska Sobota, november
2017| Galebi letijo, ampak ej, ribe tudi!, Kvartirna hiša, Celje
2017| Konjiček in njegovi sanjski svetovi. Slovenska ambasada, London, november
Horsy and his dreamy Universe, Embassy of Slovenia, London
2018| Allventure projekt. Leyden Gallery, London. Umetniška rezidenca, november
2019| Krka Gallery, Ljubljana, februar
2019| Rdeča pila, moko made cafe, London, maj
2019| Razstava Rdeča pika, Galerija Pogled , Kamnik, oktober
2019| Skupinska razstava, Galerija DLUL, Ljubljana, november
2019| ExTempore Piran, Piran, september
2020| Zgodbe, Koroška knjižnica, Februar
2020| Ex tempore Piran, Skladišče soli Monfort, Portorož / Meduza Piran
2021| Extempore Ptuj
2023| Mednarodni grafični biennale, Bitola
2023| Velika pregledna razstava, Kintsugi, vdih sreče, Kosovelov dom, Sežana
2025| Pregledna razstava, Univerza Sigmunda Freuda, Ljubljana
2025| Galerija Krka, Novo Mesto, marec
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