Theodor Illek (born in 1984, Kranj, Slovenia), is a poet, prose writer, visual artist, and playwright with a focus on the themes of migration, religion, and the issue of connecting art with science. Illek is a doctor in veterinarian medicine by education. 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. Also, he is a co-founder of the same society and its president. Illek's poetry is published in the most 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
Bibliography
2010 The Poetry of an Experiment, Aggressive Theatre
2003 Sinapse, Poetry collection, Gimnazija bezigrad