Klavdij Tutta was born in 1958 in Postojna. After completing primary school, he enrolled in the School of Design in Ljubljana and later continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts under the mentorship of renowned painter and graphic artist Bogdan Borčič (1926-2014), who also supervised Tutta’s master’s thesis in graphics. After finishing the academy, he became part of a generation of artists, mostly painters, who graduated with him. They called themselves Generation ’82 and initially continued the Yugoslav New Image movement, which reached Slovenia at the turn of the 1970s into the 1980s via Italy, through artists from Trieste and the Slovenian Littoral region. Tutta himself came from a Mediterranean environment, having spent his childhood and youth in Nova Gorica and the Goriška Brda region. Though he later settled in Kranj, where he has worked for over 40 years, he frequently returns to his Mediterranean roots in his painting. His artistic development was significantly influenced by study trips abroad, especially a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 1995. He works in painting, printmaking, and object creation, and organizes art workshops in Sinji Vrh. Since 1981, he has been a member of the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies (ZDSLU), and he lives and works in Nova Gorica and Kranj as an independent artist. He has held over 200 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 300 group exhibitions both domestically and internationally, winning over 60 awards. Notable among these are awards from international biennials in Ljubljana, Barcelona, Seoul, Cadaqués, Łódź, and Villach. In 1992, he was elected president of the ZDSLU. In 1993, he founded the art workshop “Slovenia Open to Art,” which has been held in Sinji Vrh for many years. Tutta describes himself as not only an artist but also a “custodian” of art, artworks, and artists, as well as a true patron of the arts.