EDUCATION
2009-2013 - MA Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Performative Arts and Sculpture
2001-2006 - MA Academy of Fine Arts Ljubljana, Painting
AWARDS
2020 - 2026 - Studio Award, Vienna, Austrian Federal Chancellery for Art
2018 - 2019 - Research grant, Ministry of Culture Croatia
2016 - 2017 - Work scholarship, Federal Chancellery for Art and Culture, Austria
2015 - Young Art Award, Hypo Konzernzentrale, St. Polten, Austria
2014 - 2015 - BMWFW, Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy, Austria
2014 - Honorary Prize, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2012 - TH-T & Museum of Contemporary Art Award, Zagreb, Croatia
2010 - shortlisted for Ruf Award, Sofia, BG
2007 - 2008 - OHO Award for best young visual artist, Ljubljana, SI
RESIDENCIES
2021 - SKOPE Berlin, supported by SKOPE (DE) and BKA (AT)
2020 - Research Residency at M4 Gastateliers, organized by Suns and Stars, Amsterdam
2019 -Fellowship Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2018 - Istanbul Residency, supported by Austrian Federal Chancellery for Art
2017 - Following the Traces of Communism in Albania, traveling in Albania
2016-17 - Parterre Art Space, Mexico City
2015/16 - Mexico City Residency, supported by Austrian Federal Chancellery for Art
2013 - On Art, Cities, and Regeneration, Ramdom, Default 13, Lecce, IT
2012 - Changdong National Art Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, S. Korea
2010 - La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres, Paris, France
2008 - Fellowship ISCP- New York, supported by Young Visual Artist Award for Eastern Europe
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014-2020
2020 Beloved Monster, ART Lab Gleis 1, Donumenta, DE
2019 Abstract Muscle, curated section at viennacontemporary art fair by curator Fiona Liewehr, with Structura Gallery, Vienna
2018 Peripheric Muscle, Gallery Ateliers Zitnjak, Zagreb
2018 Visibility Reward, EIKON Schaufenster, Museums Quarteer, Vienna, Austria
2017 Split Dioptre, Parallel Art Fair, Project Statement, Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna, AT
2016 Split Dioptre, School Gallery, Split, Croatia
2016 notwithstanding, Musa, Startgalerie, Vienna, AT
2015 The Golden and the Ghostly, Young Art Award, Hypo Konzernzentrale, St.Polten, AT
2015 In Hand, Pinakoteka, 1040 Vienna, AT
2014 Funny Business, Mali Salon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015-2020
2020
It’s Your Mo(nu)ment, Space for Kids, Kunsthalle Karlsplatz, Vienna
Balast Pallast, curated by Goschka Gawlik, Kunstraum Schattendrof, AT
Borrowed Time, curated by Gülsen Bal and Walter Seidl, Fluc public space, Vienna
Gymnastics, acb Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
in the pause of the gesture there might be an echo, curated by Suns and Stars, Amsterdam
Symbol, curated by solt Petranyi, Austrian Cultural Forum, Budapest, Hungary
2019
Refreshing Memory, curated by Davorka Peric, Gallery Nova, Zagreb
All Natural, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, curated by Christina Penetsdorfer,
presented by Generali Foundation
Big screens shatter easily, Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein, curated by Katharina
Swoboda, supported by Golden Pixel Collective
Engaging With Histories, Project Space Römerstrasse, Stuttgart
Tailored Futures, Technical Museum Nikola Tesla, Zagreb, Croatia
Kalt, Kunstverein Ve.Sch, Vienna
2018
On the Shoulders of Fallen Giants, Industrial Art Biennial, Labin, Pula & Rijeka, Croatia, curated by WHW
Der Wert der Freiheit, 21 Haus Museum Belvedere, curated by Severin Dünser Vienna
2017
Chaux, Gallery Martin Janda, Vienna, AT
Migrations of Fear, Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti, KGLU, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
Spectacular Windows. Reflections on the Self and the Wider World, 21 Haus, Vienna, Austria
Identification as Reapropriation, La Box, Bourges, France
Photo Kinetics. Movement, Body& Light in the Collections, curated by Antonia Lotz at
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
An Ideal City that Complicated the Real One, Espectro Electromagnético, Mexico City
Identification as Reapropriation, acb gallery, cur. by Rona Kopeczky, Budapest, Hungary
The Münschausen Effect, curated by Ksenija Orelj and Anamarija Batista at Gallery 5020,
Salzburg, Austria
2016
Figurations of Solidarity, Movements of the Political in the Minor Cinema, screening at
Jura Sofer Saal, Hofburg, Vienna
Identity, paraflows festival, Kunstforum Vienna, AT
(Re)Thinking Space and Place, Westdeutscher Künstlerbund, Herne, Germany
buen vivir, curated by Harm Lux, at Museum for Contemporary Art, Zagreb and
Cinema Luna in Frauenfeld, Switzerland
The Reality Behind the Fantasy.Masculine Icons, Gallery Michaela Stock, Vienna
Objects of Subjectivity, curated by Boris Konstandinov, LLLLL Gallery, Vienna
2015
Crises and New Beginnings, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, SLO
Shame on You, Contemporary Art Centre, Celje, Slovenia
Mature and Angry, Plovdiv Art Week, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
The City and Me, Cre Art European Exhibition, curated by Lucas Cuturi in Pardubice,
Check Republic, Linz (AT) and Genoa (IT)
Within the Giant’s Belly, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, CRO
The Enigma of the New and the Modern, screening, Mumok Kino, Vienna
Mujeras Alcanzando La Luz, Casa Museo del Banco Nacional, Panama
Don’t eat Yellow Snow, 10th Anniversary of the OHO Award, Gallery P74, Ljubljana
Appropriation, Michaela Stock Gallery, Vienna, AT
Heroes We Love, curated by Simona Vidmar & Miško Šuvaković, Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
PUBLIC TALKS
2018 Wie die Dinge liegen, artist talk with Yu Ji and Luiza Margan @ Schaustelle, Vienna
2015 Public Stories, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, July 2015
2015 Art that Changes the World, symposium in Art Gallery Maribor
2013 Reenactment of the Performance by the Artist Group Tok, Künstlerhaus -
Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz
2012 Feminism in Croatian Art, Changdong National Art Studio, Seoul
2008 Luiza Margan and Miha Presker, Apex Art, New York, USA
ACTIONS, PERFORMANCE, WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACE
2015 Listening, performative sculpture in public space, curated by curatorial team WHW, Zagreb
2014 Eye to Eye with Freedom, production Copula-Spajalica and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2014 Restaging Monument, Studio Golo Brdo, Rovinj, Croatia
2012 Concert for a Sewing Machine and a Tree, production Urban Festival, curated by BLOK, Zagreb, Croatia
ACQUISITIONS / PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Vienna Insurance Group, Vienna, Austria
Generali / Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Arthotek of the city of Vienna, Museum auf Abruf, Austria
Young Art Collection, Hypo Niederösterrech, St. Polten, Austria
Arthotek des österreichischen Bundesministeriums, 21 Haus, Austria
Tobacco Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia
KD Group, art collection Ljubljana, Slovenia
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