JAŠA (Mrevlje-Pollak) was born in Ljubljana in 1978. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and has since been a unique presence in Europe’s artistic landscape.

One of Slovenia’s most prolific and critically recognized contemporary artists, JAŠA is driven by his rhapsodic interpretations of situation, narrative, sculpture and performance. Through his alchemistic connection with material and content, JAŠA transforms spaces into experiences, driving them toward their poetic and aesthetic potentials.

Utter / The Violent Necessity for the Embodied Presence of Hope, his latest and most ambitious project to date, has been selected to represent the Slovenian pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, and will commence May 9th.

Pushing artistic boundaries through uncompromising vision for almost two decades, Jaša has created a rich and remarkable body of work that includes multiple critically acclaimed solo shows and projects in Europe and the US.

In his two active studios in New York and Ljubljana, Slovenia, Jaša has created a unique environment which allows him to cultivate contextual and visual eventuality integral to his work.

Utter / The Violent Necessity for the Embodied Presence of Hope is a conceptual and formal culmination of Jaša’s achievements and determination. This complex and inspired piece marks the next decade of his oeuvre, as he continues to carve out a prominent place in the landscape of contemporary artists. 

MICHELE DRASCEK

META GRGUREVIČ

TINE GRGUREVIČ / BOWRAIN

ETAN NECHIN

SAŠO KALAN

ENKA

MARGHERITA PIROTTO

JANEZ VIDRIH / JUNZI

KUNO MAYR

LISA JOSEPHINE Vereertbrugghen

Simone SETTIMO

Otto Urpelainen

SAMANTHA STELLA

Simona Vidmar, UGM | Maribor Art Gallery

(1971, Maribor, Slovenia)

Gained MA in Art History in Graz, Austria and MA in Arts Management in London, UK.

After curating numerous exhibitions of Slovene and international visual art, she is now head of Department for Contemporary Art at UGM | Maribor Art Gallery in Slovenia. Her interest lies mainly in the field of installation and new media art, design and architecture.

As part of the European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012, where she acted as a Visual Arts Creative Producer, she co-curated some major exhibitions, among others Jan Fabre, Art Kept me Out of Jail presenting his most important preformative projects; Unfinished Modernisations, an overview of Architecture and Urbanism in Former Yugoslavia.

Currently she is leading an international, EU funded project Heroes We Love, dealing with socialist era monumental heritage in Eastern Europe with an aim connecting the past to the future.

Michele Drascek 

(1974, Gorizia, Italy)

is an independent curator and archivist. Graduated in Higher Education and Didactics at the Department of Educational Sciences, University of  Trieste, he holds a MA in Curating at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. 

As freelance curator, he has been working also in curatorial collectives, developing projects for different organizations and working in public institutions. His interest includes also research and classifying archives, nurture/endorse researches in the field of Art History, activating projects such as publishing and collaborations with museums and collections.

Curator of David Gothard Archives Collection (London, Gorizia), fellow researcher of the Anna Mahler Association and Chief Curator of Projects of The Marignoli di Montecorona Foundation (Spoleto, Italy), he is member of IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (Liechtenstein) and of Europeana Network  (Den Haag, Netherlands).

Rosa Lux | WEARE production

(1985, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Finished her studies in Art Context and Moving Image at Central Saint Martins College of Art and University of the Arts London.

She has been a producer and art director on numerous art projects and collaborated on several international projects with emerging and established artists, covering artistic fields including visual arts, performance, photography, film and sound.

In 2013 she and JAŠA co-founded an independent art production company /WEARE production, focusing on the realization, production and contextualization of complex, cross-media art projects, with their studio based in New York.

Most notable recent project production include Stains of time (De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Crystal C (CC Tobačna 001 & Vžigalica Gallery, Ljubljana), Crystal C (Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation, New York), their visual collaboration with Bowrain and series of video based work entitled Sentences (ABSALON, GLARE, CRYSTAL C, COMMA / New York, Ljubljana, Piran, 2013-2015).

UGM | Maribor Art Galler

With its collection of more than 5,000 art works by Slovenian authors from the end of the 19th century up to present, UGM is one of the main museums for modern and contemporary art in Slovenia. Painting, sculpture and prints are joined by photographs, video art, multimedia installations and interactive art projects.

With its collection and programme of 20 special exhibitions a year – ranging from retrospective reviews of works by Slovenian authors to international festivals of contemporary art as well as architecture and design exhibitions – UGM importantly shapes both the art scene in Slovenia and internationally. Well structured education programme joins different generations, ethnic groups and educational institutions.

Jure Kirbiš, UGM | Maribor Art Gallery

(1988, Slovenia)

earned his BA and MA from the University of York. He currently works at UGM | Maribor Art Gallery in Maribor, Slovenia, where he is involved in PR and works on projects.

He had previously been an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice (2012). His interests range from postmodernist architecture, Yugoslavian avant-garde, feminist and queer theory to the role of nationality in contemporary art.