Theodor Illek

Theodor Illek (born in 1984, Kranj, Slovenia), is a poet, prose writer, visual artist, and playwright who focuses on the themes of migration, religion, and the issue of connecting art with science. He is a doctor in veterinarian medicine by training. Since 2007, he has been presenting his work both in Slovenia and abroad, namely in Russia, France, Germany, Israel, Austria, the Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, as the author of independent and group experimental projects implemented in the framework of a contemporary art society called Aggressive Theatre. He is also a co-founder of the same society and its president. Illek's poetry is published in the notable Slovenian (Nova revija, Sodobnost, Literatura, Dialogi, Poetikon, Lirikon, Mentor, etc.) and foreign magazines (Le Rouge sang, Rukopisi 32 (Belgrade, Serbia), Van kutije – an anthology of modern poetry (Podgorica; Montenegro), Republika poezije (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Euroorientacije (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), DeZopilant (France)). His first work of poetry, called Sinapse, for which he received a scholarship from a fund for gifted high-school and university students, was published in 2003.

Illek lives and works in Vienna. Education

2011 Veterinary Faculty Ljubljana (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) 2003 Gimnazija Bežigrad, Ljubljana

Solo exhibitions

2011 Where is God?, Galery Tir, Nova Gorica 2010 Moustrap II, IRIU Institut, Ljubljana 2010 Mobile Mosque, Gallery Studio8, Ljubljana 2009 Acute Art, Mala Gallery, Ljubljana 2009 Südbahnhof Poesie, Railway station, Vienna 2008 Desperance, Concentration camp, Goli Otok 2008 For Whom the Phone Rings? International art festival Ana desetnica, Ljubljana 2007 A Poet in Paris, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana 2007 Equivalentis, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana

Group projects

2009 The birth of poetry, European Slam poetry festival, Berlin 2009 Stone on Stone, Concentration camp, Goli Otok 2008 Gen 80 Kolovrat Theatre, Ljubljana 2008 How to destroy a gallery, Son:Da, Maribor 2007 Najin princ, David Luzar's film, Kamnik 2005 Jutro 1, Memorial park, Ljubljana

Theatre

2003 Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!, Teater na robu, Ljubljana, 2004 Premik, Dance Theatre Ljubljana, Ljubljana 2008 Seventeen moments of spring, International art festival Ana desetnica, Ljubljana