Francisco Tomsich’s essay “Abismo y resplandor” was published in January 2026 by the magazine Lento (La diaria, Montevideo, Uruguay).
The exhibition Reverberations | Echoes (Resonante Space) by The Silent Movies duo (Borut Savski + Francisco Tomsich) will be on display till 13. 12. 2025 at Gong Gallery (Nova Gorica, Slovenia) in the framework of PixxelPoint Festival 2025.
Reverberations | Echoes, the fourth exhibition of The Silent Movies duo (Borut Savski + Francisco Tomsich) will open on 21.11. 2025 at 19:00 in Gong Gallery (Nova Gorica, Slovenia) in the framework of PixxelPoint Festival 2025.
The handbooks for educators A Portrait Is for Not Being Alone and Portret je način, da nisi sam are now online! See: https://franciscotomsich.org/2025/10/19/a-portrait-is-for-not-being-alone-the-handbook/
Francisco Tomsich’s video installation Let’s take a walk, I will tell you a story about those who died, and we can talk about my art was exhibited at Cultural Center Rojc (Pula, Croatia) in the framework of The Blueprint Reimagined: Knowledge Exchange and Advocacy, a two day regional conference which concluded the project Operation Nova: Re-imagining Cultural Spaces in a New European Context.
Between 5th and 8th September 2025, Francisco Tomsich and Henrike von Dewitz will be participating of the 27. edition of IMAF (International Multimedia Arte Festival) in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, showing video works produced in the framework of the project Give My Regards to Those You Connect (aka The “Yugoeslavia” Folder).
A Portrait is for not Being Alone, an exhibition of results from workshops on expanded portrait practices will be on view on Monday 18.8.2025, from 16:00 till 20:30 at the Stara Italijanska šola, Izola, Slovenia.
Check here to watch Blackout, a 2023 videopoem on illness and memory made in the framework of the research project Translacija/Traslación and first shown in the exhibition Rdeče niti: Cirkulacija2.
Tabak: The Square, a contemporary dance piece dealing with habits, the use of public space, friendship and the social roots of intimacy. It is the first public result of a collective creative process about movement and representation, carried out since 2021 by Natalija Gajić, Nina Grmovšek Seljak, Anastasiya Pruyidze, Valentina Tomažinčič and Francisco Tomsich. It will presented to the Slovenian public on 13.12.2023 at 20:00 at the Theatre of the City of Koper.
Ljubezenske pesmi (Poemas de amor), a legendary poetry collection from Uruguayan writer Idea Vilariño, has just been published in a critical bilingual edition by Malinc Publishing House, translated by Barbara Pregelj and Francisco Tomsich.
One photo from the series Visiting the Studio at Night, in process since 2015, was recently selected for publication in a collective book by @dito.publishing
The exhibition from Translacija | Traslación (Tatiana Kocmur and Francisco Tomsich) Rdeče niti #Cirkulacija 2 is on view from 17-24 November at Cirkulacija 2, Podhod Ajdovščina, Ljubljana.
The collective exhibition Skupinski prenosni portret, composed upon a workshop with children made in collaboration between the associations Boja and Društvo prijateljev mladine Izola is on view from 4th til 28th October, 2023 at Sončna dvorana, Izola. An open-to-all-ages workshop on portraiture and community-building will be carried out in this framework on 25.10.2023.
The catalogue of the 60th National Prize for the Visual Arts (Montevideo, Ministry of Education and Culture/Contemporary Art Space (EAC), 2022) is available online. The exhibition featured Francisco Tomsich’s work This is the place.
Encounters under the light, an exhibition produced collectively by the artists Martín Verges (Uruguay), Francisco Tomsich (Uruguay/Slovenia) and Kateryna Burlina (Ukraine/Slovenia) will be inaugurated on 29th June 2023. In the framework of the artist-in-residency programme Algia, developed by the cultural association Boja from Izola. Art Kavarna Odeon, Izola, Slovenia. On view till 30.7.2023.
VIDEO GARDEN 11, Screening and talk. Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 9 pm. Inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana. The opening event of the fourth season of VideoGarden presents new acquisitions in the DIVA Station archive, including Francisco Tomsich’s work The Futures (Elegija version).
Iz(s)olani, a series of exhibitions of Izola-based artists in all the town’s art venues. Saturday 17.6.2023, 19-22. Introducing new works: The Green Cross and Partisan, made in collaboration with Martin Zelenko.
The first edition of Algia, Boja’s artists-in-residency programme will start on 17th of June, hosting the Uruguayan artist Martín Verges. Follow @boja_izola on Instagram for updates about public activities and the final exhibition.
We are working in three new projects in the framework of our association Boja in Izola, Slovenia: an artists-in-residency programme, a series of presentations of the contemporary dance project TABAK, and a new book of South American poetry in translation. We are also collaborating with the publishing house Malinc in the development of the Branislava Susni’s dwellings project. In September, we will host in Medvode, Slovenia, the second researcher-in-residency of the Branislava Susnik Humanities Residency, the Uruguayan filmmaker Agustina De Vera. Follow those and other projects: @boja_izola
Wish You Were Here (Mick), Chapter III, an exhibition on the open space, will be on view from 19.4 till 13.5 at Mala Loža, Koper/Capodistria (Tito Square). Opening on 9.4.2023 at 19:30.
TABAK: The Square. Open rehearsal and party. Sunday 9th of April, 19:00, Arco Iris R, Via di Corticella 104, Bologna. TABAK is a project on expanded choreography developed as a contemporary dance creation process by an ensemble based in Izola-Koper, Slovenia integrated by Anastasiya Pruyidze, Nina Grmovšek Seljak, Natalija Gajić, Valentina Tomažinčič and Francisco Tomsich.
On 5th of April 2023 at 19:00, we will celebrate the closing of the exhibition Summer Songs (Francisco Tomsich – Borut Savski, Cirkulacja2, Ljubljana) with the performance Yugojapanese Stories: A Sound Score for Silent Movies.
Uprooted Visions, the first group exhibition of the In From the Margins project will open to the public on 31.3 at Edinburg Printmakers‘s headquarters. It will be followed by the accompanying symposium Uprooted Visions: How we create, in which Francisco Tomsich will present his project Signs For Those Who Are Far Away.
Summer Songs, the second project from The Silent Movies duo (Francisco Tomsich – Borut Savski) will be inaugurated with a performance on 22.3.2023, 20:00 at Cirkulacija2 (Podhod Ajdovščina, Ljubljana). On view from 22.3 until 6.4.2023.
This is the Place, an experimental film (2022, 43’13’) about Avtonomna Tovarna Rog, is on display at the 60th National Prize for the Visual Arts (Ministry of Culture of Uruguay/Visual Arts Institute), EAC (Contemporary Art Space), Montevideo, Uruguay.
Thursday 24.11. 2022, from 17:00 to 21:00, pop-up solo exhibition in two parts, performance and cooking session Signs For Those Who Are Far Away, at the printing studio of MGLC Ljubljana, Caffe Biennale (MGLC) and Švicarija. In the framework of the artists-in-residency program In From The Margins and Francisco Tomsich’s project Signs For Those Who Are Far Away.
Saturday 19.11, from 10:00 to 13:00, Open Studio Day at MGLC Ljubljana‘s Printing Studio in the framework of the artists-in-residency program In From The Margins and Francisco Tomsich’s project Signs For Those Who Are Far Away.
In November 2022, Francisco Tomsich will be working at the Printing Studio of MGLC Ljubljana on a research on friendship and distance through portraiture strategies and an experimental approach to graphic arts and printing techniques. Check @franciscotomsich on Instagram to follow the project’s diaries.
The exhibition Gaza, a composition of recent works, was inaugurated at Gradska galerija Fonticus Grožnjan/Grisignana on Saturday 22 October 2022. See the press release HERE and a review HERE.
The paper The “Yugoeslavia” Folder, devoted to the Give My Regards To Those You Connect project, was published by Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, Vol. 105 No. 105 (Vilnius, 2022): Give My Regards to Those You Connect! Cultural Interactions Between South America and Eastern Europe.
In 2022, Francisco Tomsich was selected to participate in the European programme of Studios of Sanctuary residencies In from the Margins. Led by Edinburgh Printmakers, the project connects the UK’s first open access print studio with Cork Printmakers, Ireland, AGA LAB, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Funen Printmaking Studio, Odense, Denmark and International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The 2022 painting Local earths is being exhibited at the collective exhibition Na plovbi, at Art Kavarna Odeon, Izola, Slovenia.
The 2022 painting Paula Rego died today is being exhibited at Iz(s)olani 2022, Summer Night of the Museums, Sončna dvorana, Izola, Slovenia, June 2022.
You may want to follow the cultural-artistic association Boja’s Instagram profile to get information and updates about locally-based and aimed cultural actions taken by Boja, an association of cultural workers co-founded by Francisco Tomsich and based in Izola, Slovenia.
Common denominator/Skupni imenovalec, an exhibition produced by Cirkulacija2 and coordinated by Borut Savski, Tatiana Kocmur and Francisco Tomsich, will be on view at Cirkulacija2’s headquarters in Ljubljana, from 19th to 31st of May, 2022. In the framework of Ljubljana Art Weekend. Participating artists are: Cirkulacija 2, Ksenija Čerče, Dejan Knez, Tatiana Kocmur, Tilen Mihelič Kurent, name: & Danilo Milovanović, Alen Ožbolt, Nina Pivk, Urška Savič, Francisco Tomsich, Damián Vega Velasco.
Translacija | Traslación video art piece Rdeče niti: TV Dražba, first exhibited in 2021 in Izola, Slovenia was included and published in the digital video archive DIVA (SCCA Ljubljana). Watch it HERE.
An exhibition of a selection of street portraits made together with Ukrainian artist Kateryna Burlyna in the last two years, is on display at Art Kavarna Odeon, Izola.
In March 2022, the Moradas de Branislava Susnik|Bivališča Branislave Sušnik project was on tour in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, presenting the homonymous book and the film Hiša med vodami/Casa entre aguas (Henrike von Dewitz, 2021) in different institutions and contexts. Documentation available HERE and in the project’s FB and IG profiles.
The reception of Latin American literature in Slovenia in the 1960s and 1970s: towards a comprehensive bibliography, by Barbara Pregelj and Francisco Tomsich was published in Ars & Humanitas, 15, Vol. II, Ljubljana, 2021.
Atelje 11, Francisco Tomsich’s new studio in Izola, Slovenia, was inaugurated on January 2022. Follow @franciscotomsich on Instagram to chech out its development!
The Moradas de Branislava Susnik | Bivališča Branislave Sušnik project has launched the first edition of the Branislava Susnik Residence program for Spanish-speaking women scholars and researchers to develop a site-specific research project in Medvode, Slovenia, Branislava Susnik’s birthplace.
The exhibition Rdeče niti by Translacija | Traslación will be on view from 2.11 to 2.12, 2021 at Salsaverde gallery, Gramscijeva 4, Izola, Slovenia.
Unspoken, a work made in collaboration by Shqipe Mehmeti and Francisco Tomsich is on view at the biennial exhibition of the Galičnik Art Colony. Skopje, National gallery of the Republic of North Macedonia, Mala Stanica.
The project Bivališča Branislave Sušnik/Moradas de Branislava Susnik is being presented by Barbara Pregelj, Francisco Tomsich and Henrike von Dewitz at the Coloquio Internacional de Hispanistas Centroeuropeos (Budapest/Pécs/Szeged, Hungary, 8–13 November 2021).
Read about the Bivališča Branislave Sušnik/Moradas de Branislava Susnik project: “Moradas de Susnik”: tras las huellas de Branislava en Eslovenia”. Asunción, El Nacional, 6.11.2021. Interview with Francisco Tomsich and Barbara Pregelj by Adriana Almada.
The official launching of the book Forma y sonido. Quince años de arte sonoro en el Uruguay (Lukas Kühne and Fabrice Lengronne, eds., UNQ, 2020) which includes Francisco Tomsich’s essay “Una muestra fundacional”, devoted to the seminal exhibition Forma y sonido, made in Montevideo in 2005, will be done on Friday 15.10, 15:00 (Uruguay time) at: https://www.youtube.com/c/eumus
Demonstration I and Demonstration II, two paintings produced in the framework of the artists’symposium of Festival Ljubljana 2021 will be on view until the Summer of 2022 at Viteški dvorani Križank, Ljubljana.
Hypochondria, an exhibition of recent devices, operations and objects. Galerija Insula, Smrekarjeva 20, Izola, Slovenia, 28.5 – 23.6, 2021.
The anthology of Paraguayan short stories for children and young adults translated into Slovene Paragvajske Pravljice features a series of illustrations by Francisco Tomsich. Check out some of them here.
Peter Korchnak’s research project and podcasts’ series Remembering Yugoslavia: Journeys Through the Memory of a Disappeared Country has jus issued a podcast about and around Francisco Tomsich’s project Give my regards to those you connect, also known as The “Yugoeslavia” folder. Listen to The YUruguayan Connection: The Lost World of Yugoslav Mail Art, or read its transcription HERE.
Los sabios hipopótamos [Two wise hippos] by Peter Svetina, illustrated by Francisco Tomsich (Malinc, 2020) is out! Watch the trailer HERE.
The book Bivališča Branislave Sušnik | Moradas de Branislava Susnik, edited by Barbara Pregelj and Francisco Tomsich and published by Malinc is out! Check it out here!
The first issue of the London-based ~lish journal includes three texts from Francisco Tomsich’s Broken English Poems series (2020). ~lish journal 1.1 features texts from Lillian Allen, Boris Buden, Sean Burn, Laura Cemin, Rubèn Fernández, Nicoline van Harskamp, Evelina Hägglund, Pilar Izquierdo, Rosa Johanna, Matej Kavčič, Andrea Knezović, Jakob Niedziela, Adrian Olas, Ida Parise, Stella Cade Rotstein, Francisco Tomsich & Daniella Valz-Gen.
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