Matjaž Rušt photographer

Hi, I'm a documentary photographer and I live in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Selected awards  
2018, Tresk#9, Radio Student
2011, Photography of the Year, Slovene Association of Journalists
2011, Best Story Culture and Entertainment, Slovenia Press Photo
2010, Photography of the Year, Slovene Association of Journalists 

Solo exhibitions
2019, The Most Beautiful City in the World, Sputnik, Berlin
2019, The New World, Stolp Photogallery, Maribor
2019, Maribor is the future, Gallery K18, Maribor
2018, Commentary #10, The Most Beautiful City in the World, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
2018, The New World, AQ Gallery, Celje
2017, The New World, Photon - Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana
2016, The Most Beautiful City in the World, Belgrade Photo Month, Belgrade
2015, The Most Beautiful City in the World, AQ Gallery, Celje
2014, Photonic Moments, #ljubljana, Bikofe, Ljubljana
2014, Art Critics Select, selection Sarival Sosic, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana

Selected group exhibitions
2019, Precarious Environments. 17 cases of contemporary photography in Slovenia, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
2018, If Slovenia Were, Rajhenburg Castle, Brestanica
2018, Visa pour l'image, Daily Press, Perpignan
2018, If Slovenia Were, Voies Off Gallery, Arles
2018, Photobook and Photozine, Dobra Vaga, Ljubljana
2018, What They Saw, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana
2017, Fotodokumenti 2017, Collective practices and photography in the region, Gallery Artget, Belgrade
2017, The Most Beautiful Place in the World, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek
2016, The Most Beautiful Place in the World, Klovicevi dvori, Zagreb
2015, Margins: Slovenian Contemporary Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art RS, Banja Luka
2015, Examples of Laughter in Art, Mestna galerija, Ljubljana
2014, Lost&Found, Galerija Hladilnica, Maribor
2014, Instagram Work in Progress, Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana
2013, Art Critics Select, Galerija Velenje
2013, I was in Kosovo, Duplex 100m2, Sarajevo
2012, The World as it is, FDV, Ljubljana
2012, Co-Art Festival, Lijiang
2012, 23, Photonic Moments, Galerija Maribor
2012, Industrial Society in Decay, FDV, Ljubljana
2011, Collectives Encounter - Mapping the Flaneur, Format Festival, Derby

Workshops

2018, Transeurope, Project development, Zagreb
2015, Noor-Nikon Masterclass, with Andrea Bruce, Kadir van Lohuizen and Stanley Greene, Belgrade
2015, Klavdij Sluban Workshop, Ljubljana
2014, Domenico Quaranta, Beyond New Media Art, Ljubljana
2013, DokuPhoto, with Pep Bonet and Andrew Testa, Prizren
2013, Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, with James Whitlow Delano, Paula Bronstein and others, Sarajevo
2009, VII Photo Agency Workshop, with Christopher Morris, Ljubljana Projects The Most Beautiful City in the World (with Robert Marin)