Mateja Rojc, Simon Hudolin

Small But Dangers is a collage of three words that describes a collaboration between two people in the field of contemporary art. Small but dangers create a departure from the sacred “banality of everyday life” by placing the possibility of manipulation at the centre of the way we experience reality.

The name is misspelled variation of small but dangerous. The mistake illustrates our maladjusted way of producing art.

We were born in 1977. We work in the tandem since the beginning of our careers in 2004, after graduating from the College for Painting in Ljubljana. Simon Hudolin completed his master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2015. We present our work exclusively as SBD. From 2010 we are represented by Gallery P74.

In 2017, we were the recipients the OHO Group Award. In 2013, SBD and Matija Brumen were awarded the second prize in the Photography of the Year 2013 Competition. SBD has also received the VIG Special Invitation Award as part of the 2015 Essl Art Award CEE and the 2019–2022 Award for the Best Artist Book in Slovenia. We have participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, among others, in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Vienna, Belgrade, Athens, Pivka, Celje, Osijek, Novi Sad, and Ravne na Koroškem.

Our works are placed in collection of House of Culture in Pivka; Riko Art Collection; Museum Macura, Novi Banovci; DIVA Station, digital video archive, SCCA-Ljubljana, Ljubljana; Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana; P74 Gallery, Ljubljana.