LEV AMBROŽ OKORN: Imaginary of Details

Ex-tempore Piran – Young Author Prize 2024 |

29.08.2025–9.11.2025, Herman Pečarič Gallery, Piran –
Opening: Friday, 29. 8. 2025, at: 19.00 |

Curated by: Majda Božeglav Japelj.

One of the awards at the annual international painting competition, Ex-tempore Piran, is for young artists in a form of solo exhibition at the Herman Pečarič Gallery in Piran. The prize is

awarded by the Coastal Galleries Piran. The winners are often young artists at the beginning of their artistic career or students acquiring formal knowledge at one of the national or foreign art academies. Regardless of their status, the award offers a unique opportunity to enter the so-called contemporary art system, which is composed of various actors, each of which plays a specific role, in this case the artist-creator of the artwork, the gallery, and the jury of art critics, acting as mediators between the artists and the public.

Last year's winner of the Youth Award was Lev Ambrož Okorn (Ljubljana, 2003). The student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana sees painting as a means of presenting interesting subjects in a new way, “exploring the hidden sides of everyday life, uncovering the mechanisms and laws of existence, and making them tangible through the artistic process."

The international jury of experts recognized the young artist's freshness in his painting " Full Throttle." In his chosen genre which depicts aspects of everyday life – two boys starting a boat engine – Okorn has convincingly recreated an excerpt from our frenetic daily life, which can also be read as a portrait of the younger generations, engaged in an already ancient activity.

His recent paintings, which will be exhibited at the Herman Pečarič Gallery in Piran, is titled “Imaginary of Details."