Context 007: Tomaž Grom

“Problem is good.”
Tomaž Grom (2017)

“No, I wouldn’t say that today. Maybe I’d say ‘some problems are good’.”
Tomaž Grom (2025)

Tomaž Grom is an artist who resists definition. A researcher, double bassist, improviser, performer, organizer, and provocateur—yet none of these labels fully capture him. His work exists at the intersection of music, performance, theater, contemporary dance, and free improvisation, in spaces where mistakes become virtues, imperfection becomes a method, and creation is a process happening in the present—before the audience and with it.

His body of work is more of a landscape than an archive. It includes concerts, performances, bureaucratic forms, contracts, invoices, noises, silences, toys, humor, inventions, children, films, pranks, farts, and performances—all synthesized into the versatile program of the Sploh Institute, which Grom co-founded.

This exhibition is not a retrospective but an attempt to glimpse into an artistic world and process that constantly evades conclusions and final results. Grom is not just a composer—he often takes the stage himself, using sound, body, and irony to blur the lines between concert and performance. His music is visual, his presence sonic. He collaborates with both renowned artists and complete amateurs, dismantling artistic hierarchies and making space for the unpredictable. Backstage becomes content, failure becomes strategy, humor becomes a weapon—because “problem is good.”

Just as Grom’s work is not about final results but rather an ongoing process, this exhibition has no fixed form, no replicable final product. Instead, it offers a space for improvisation and play, inviting the audience to engage with the materials and artifacts of Grom’s work in their own unique, unrepeatable way. As curators of Context 007, we sought to answer the question: How do you exhibit something ephemeral, processual, and alive?

Thus, this space is meant to serve as a workshop, a playground, a space for improvisation and exploration, where each visitor can find their own definition of Grom’s work and projects. Let every visitor become a co-creator in documenting his artistic universe.

Welcome to Grom’s studio—a warehouse, a playground, a stage.