ABOUT | Tanja Lazetic

TANJA LAZETIC works in the fields of photography, video, performance, ceramics and artist’s book. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Moderna galerija, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova and National Museum of Slovenia in Ljubljana, the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, the Museum Brandhorst in Munich, the Gagosian Gallery in Paris, Beverly Hills and New York, and many others. She has received a number of awards: the Bronze Award at the Nanjing International Art Festival in China, the International Ceramics Triennial Unicom of Ljubljana, and the Rihard Jakopic award. In ten years, Tanja Lazetic has published over twenty works. Her photobooks are now part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Tate in London and Bibliothèque Kandinsky in Paris.

Public Collections
Ars Aevi, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina
Artservis’ Collection, Ljubljana
Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Paris
International Center of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
City Gallery Nova Gorica, Slovenia
MOMA Artists’ Books Collection, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
Nanjing International Art Festival Collection, China
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany
Tate Collection of Artists’ Books, London
The Israeli Center for Digital Art/ Mobile Video Archive, Israel

Lazetic_Tanja_Portfolio.pdf

Curriculum vitae
1993 The Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana
RESIDENCE
2024 Residency program at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2023 Residency program of Ministry of Culture of the RS in Vienna
2022 Residency program of the Institut français at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2021 Residency program at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2020 Residency program of the Künstlerhaus Stadttöpferei Neumünster, Germany
2019 Residency program at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2018 Residency program of Ministry of Culture of the RS in New York
2017 Residency program of Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
2015 Residency program of The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai
2014 Residency program of The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2013 Residency program of Ministry of Culture of the RS in London
2005 Residency program of Ministry of Culture of the RS in Berlin
2001 Residency program of the KulturKontakt in Vienna
1999 Residency program of Ministry of Culture of the RS and SCCA-Ljubljana in NY
AWARDS
2017 Rihard Jakopič Recognition, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 Bronze Award at The Second International Nanjing Festival, Nanjing, China
2015 Award Unicum 2015 at III International Ceramic Triennial, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2001 Nominations at the //international media/art award, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
1995 First prize at the International Competition of Design – Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Table for two, National Museum of Slovenia – Metelkova, Ljubljana
2020
Flowers, UGM Studio, Maribor, Slovenia, Curator: Jure Kirbiš
Flowers, Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana
2019
5 Flowers 8 Photographs, Galerija Fotografija Gallery, Ljubljana
2017
The Witch is not at Home, Kiosk, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania, Curator: Skaiste Marčiene
Billion Dinar Girl, Gong Gallery, Solkan, Slovenia, Curator: Nataša Kovšca
2016
If we weren’t here…look, immediately the grass is growing, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Curator: Janka Vukmir
Gasoline Stations, Again, Gallery Spot, Zagreb, Croatia
What’s Art Got to Do with It?, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Vladimir Vidmar
2014
6 Swimming Pools behind Broken Glass, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel, Curator: Ran Kasmy-Ilan
2010
The Migrants, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana
2006
Dialogue in the Kitchen, Volume I, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana
2005
The Rustling of Our Native Forests (with Dejan Habicht), P74 Gallery, Ljubljana
2004
Ljubljana from Road (with Dejan Habicht and Blaz Kriznik), Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
The State of Things (with Nina Mesko), City of Women, Ljubljana
2003
The Big Erotic Calendar (with Dejan Habicht), P74 Gallery, Ljubljana
2002
Patterns (with Dejan Habicht), Cankarjev dom-Small Gallery, Ljubljana
2001
Weather report (with Dejan Habicht), CIX Gallery, Skopje (Macedonia)
Out of the blue (with Dejan Habicht), Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje
Snapshot (with Dejan Habicht) Ivan Grohar Gallery, Skofja Loka
2000
Hansel & Gretel (with Dejan Habicht), Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana
Panoramika (with Dejan Habicht and Mateja Medvedič) P74 Gallery, Ljubljana
1999
Traces (with Dejan Habicht), P74 Gallery, Ljubljana
1994
Three Side Screens, ŠOU Gallery, Ljubljana

Selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
EKO 9 Triennial of Art and Environment: Eyes in the Stone, UGM, Old sanatorium, Maribor, Slovenia, Curator: Jure Kirbiš
For Your Pleasure (Feminist Positions in Visual Art from Slovenia, selection), Piran Coastal Galleries, Piran, Slovenia, Curators: Martina Vovk, Kristjan Sedej
Text as an object, PM gallery, Home of HDU (Meštrović pavilion), Zagreb and DLUL Gallery, Ljubljana, Curators: Nadja Gnamuš, Josip Zanki
2023
For Your Pleasure (Feminist Position in Visual Art in and from Slovenia), Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Curator: Martina Vovk
Indexes: The Virus Somewhere in Europe, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Miško Šuvaković
2022
City of Women, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Iva Kovač
The body as a point of view, Loža Gallery Koper, Curator: Hana Čeferin
Returniung the Gaze, Cukrarana, Ljubljana, Curators: Alenka Gregorič, Mara Anjoli Vujić, Mateja Podlesnik, Alenka Trebušak
Based on True Stories, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia, Curators: Irena Čerčnik, Maja Hodošček
2021
Europa Enterprise, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France, Curators: Danijela Dugandžić & Jelena Petrović
2019
Precarious Environments, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Curator: Ana Mizerit
2018
No Looking Back, Okay?, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Curator: Simona Vidmar, Jure Kirbiš
City of Women, Transfer, Ljubljana, Curators: Lenka Đorojević, Alja Lobnik
Heavenly Beings: Neither Human nor Animal, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Curators: Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur
20 Years of Nova Gorica City Gallery, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
IV. International Ceramic Triennial Unicum, National Museum Slovenia, Ljubljana
Selection from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Curator: Bojana Piškur
2017
Revealed views, Miklova House Gallery, Ribnica, Slovenia, Curator: Polona Lovšin
Utopia / Dystopia: Architecture, City, Territory, The Art City Gallery Ljubljana, Curator: Alenka Trebušak
O Livro Disperso / The book Dispersed, Casa das Artes, Porto, Curator: Unstable Media
The Most Beautiful Place in the World, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia, Curator: Sandra Križić Roban
2016
Pixxelpoint 2016, Kulturni dom Nova Gorica, Slovenia, Curator: Rene Rusjan
I.A.S.A International Artist Space Agency, Dizaldov Gallery, Berlin
The Glass Ceiling, K18 Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia, Curator: Irena Borić
The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival
Parallel Exhibition, China, Curator: Yu Liang
XVIII Fotosrečanje, Kulturni dom Gorizia, Italy
The Most Beautiful Place in the World, Klovičevi Dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, Curator: Sandra Križić Roban
Ed Ruscha: Books & Co., Gagosian Gallery – Beverly Hills, USA, Curator: Bob Monk
On Revolution’s Road, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia, Curator: Marko Jenko
On Revolution’s Road, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Curator: Marko Jenko
U3 8th Triennial of Contemporary Art – Beyond the Globe, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Curator: Boris Groys
Timeless Ophelia, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Curator: Vasja Nagy
2015
Crises and New Beginnings: Art in Slovenia 2005–2015, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Curators: Bojana Piškur, Igor Španjol, Vladimir Vidmar
Pixxelpoint, International Media Art Festival, City Gallery Nova Gorica, Curator: Igor Štromajer
Nika Špan: Was it a car or a cat I saw, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Vladimir Vidmar
Re: Follow-ed (after Hokusai), Cabinet Du Livre D’Artiste, University Rennes, France, Curator: Michalis Pichler, Tom Sowden
The Second Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China
Between Democracies 1989-2014: Commemoration and Memory, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
A Big Mess, Big Space, Shanghai, China
III International Ceramic Triennial UNICUM, National Museum Slovenia, Ljubljana
Ed Ruscha: Books & Co., Gagosian Gallery – Paris, France, Curator: Bob Monk
A Bag of Fibes, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel, Curator: Ran Kasmy-Ilan
2014
Mundus Vadit Retro, Kibla Portal, Maribor, Slovenia, Curators: Aleksandra Kostič, Žiga Dobnikar
Brighton Photo Biennal, Brighton, UK
City Perspectives, Photon Galerie, Vienna, Austria, Curators: Dejan Sluga, Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič
Fluxjob, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, USA , Curators: Jeff Rathermel in Keith Buchholz
2013
+386 Impressions, Calcografía Nacional, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain, Curator: Breda Škrjanec
Festival der Regionen – Digging Up, Eferding, Austria
Ed Ruscha Books & Co., Museum Brandhorst, Munchen, Germany
Directed: The Intersection of Book, Film and Visual Narrative, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, USA, Curator: Jeff Rathermel
Dowry, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, BIH, Curator: Dunja Blažević
Ed Ruscha Books & Co., Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
A Fair, University of Kansas Art + Design Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, Curator: Travis Shaffer
2012
Dowry, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, Curator: Dunja Blažević
The Ed Show, The Digital Art Gallery London South Bank University, London, UK, Curator: ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative
Between the real and reality, Gallery Third Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, Curato: Jelena Veljković
ABCED, Mews Project Space, London, UK, Curator: ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative
Dowry, Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, Serbia, Curato: Dunja Blažević
Hidden Publics, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany, Curators: Andrea Domesle, Walter Seidl
The Artist Book in Slovenia 1966-2010, AKTO 7- Festival for Contemporary Arts, Bitola , Macedonia, Curator: Tadej Pogačar
Video in Progress2 / City Perspectives, Videolake Festival, Tihany, Balaton Lake, Hungary, Curators: Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič
HELP/LESS, Printed Matter, New York, USA, Curator: Chris Habib
Dowry, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy, Curator: Dunja Blažević
It doesn’t always have to be beautiful unless it’s beautiful, Art Gallery of Kosovo, Priština, Curators: Galit Eilat and Charles Esche
Roaming. Copy-Left, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Alessandro Castiglioni
Prints and Impressions, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Curators: Breda Škrjanec, Božidar Zrinski
Dowry, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Curator: Dunja Blažević
Hidden Publics, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, (Czech Republic), Curators: Andrea Domesle, Walter Seidl
20 for 15, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Curator: Tadej Pogačar
2011
The Artist’s Book in Slovenia 1966 – 2010,The Digital Art Gallery London South Bank University, London, UK, Curator: Tadej Pogačar
Photoobjects, Simulaker Gallery, Novo mesto, Slovenia, Curator: Jan Babnik
Follow-ed (after Hokusai), Winchester Gallery, Winchester, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Arnofini Gallery, Bristol, UK, Curators: Michalis Pichler, Tom Sowden
Hidden Publics, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Curators: Andrea Domesle, Walter Seidl
2010
Hidden Publics, <rotor> Graz, Austria, Curators: Andrea Domesle, Walter Seidl
9+9, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Curators: Breda Škrjanec, Božidar Zrinski
The Artist Book in Slovenia 1966–2010, Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Tadej Pogačar
Mladi levi Festival, Bunker, Ljubljana, Slovenia
U3 6th Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Art – An Idea for Living, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Curator: Charles Esche
The Renaming Machine, Open Space, Vienna, Curator: Suzana Milevska
At Home: Architects France and Marta Ivanšek, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Curators: Martina Malešič and Anja Planišček
Sweet Nowhere, The Art City Gallery Ljubljana, Curator: Alenka Gregorič
2009
Video in Progress 2: City Perspectives, Parakino, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland, Curators: Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič
Political practices of (post-) Yugoslav art, Museum of Yugoslav History – Museum 25th of May, Beograd, Serbia, Curator: Jelena Vesić
Around the World of Art in 4.380 days, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Saša Nabergoj
namaTRE.ba 3, Academy of Fine Arts, Trebinje, Bosnia and Hercegovina
28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Curator: Božidar Zrinski
The Renaming Machine, Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb, Curator: Suzana Milevska
Photonic, Luminatic, Photoport Gallery, Bratislava and Kultur Zentrum Korotan, Vienna and Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Curator: Dejan Sluga
Closed for annual leave!, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Alenka Gregorič
2008
(Not) a Photograph, Piran City gallery, Slovenia, Curator: Vasja Nagy
Obviously, it’s not obvious / GIFT, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Lotte Juul Petersen
Video in Progress2 / City Perspectives, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Curators: Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič
Museum in the Street, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Curators: Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur
ArtistBook International – ABI, Center Culturel Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Photonic, Luminatic, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir, Turkey
A Third Look, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Curators: Breda Škrjanec, Božidar Zrinski
Minus five minutes, P74 Gallery Ljubljana, Curator: Polonca Lovsin
The Renaming Machine, Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Suzana Milevska
2007
Political, Velenje Gallery, Velenje, Slovenia, Curator: Maja Škerbot
K2 SUR*VIVER, Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb
Lost Highway Exhibition, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Curator: Alenka Gregorič
Every Man is a Curator / Jeder Mensch ist ein Kurator, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Curator: Zdenka Badovinac
As in Real Life, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Julia Schäfer
2006
Arteast Collection 2000+23, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Curator: Zdenka Badovinac
Normalization, dedicated to Nikola Tesla, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia, Curator: WHW
Intimate (with Dejan Habicht), Piran City Gallery, Slovenia, Curator: Vasja Nagy
Interrupted Histories (with Dejan Habicht), Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Curator: Zdenka Badovinac
2005
2 Live, Koroška Fine Arts Gallery, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia, Curator: Sašo Vrabič
Territories, Identities, Nets (with Dejan Habicht), Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Curator: Igor Zabel, Igor Španjol
obroč/ring, P74 Gallery Ljubljana
2004
To Think the Space, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana and City Gallery Nova Gorica, Slovenia, Curator: Dejan Habicht
The Kitchen (with Dejan Habicht), Koroška Fine Arts Gallery, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia, Curator: Sašo Vrabič
Twinklings (with Dejanom Habichtom), Gallery of Extended Media, Zagreb, Croatia, Curator: Alenka Gregorič
2003
U3 4thTriennia of Contemporary Slovene Art – Here and There (with Dejan Habicht), Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Curator: Christine Van Assche
My Little World (with Dejan Habicht), Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Slovenia, Curator: Nevenka Šivavec
Replay, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Dejan Habicht
Far away (with Dejan Habicht), Art Museum Eskilstuna, Sweden, Curator: Alenka Gregorič
Intermedial, A+A Gallery, Venice, Italy, Curator: Tadej Pogačar
Start, Karas Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, Curator: WHW
2002
Intermedial, Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Slovenia, Curator: Tadej Pogačar
Decay & Readymade (with Dejan Habicht), Feistritz im Rosental (Austria), Jesenice (Slovenia), Cave del Predil (Italy), Curator: Inge Vavra
Start, The Art City Gallery Ljubljana, Slovenia, Curator: WHW
2001
Women’s room/woman’s view, ULUPUH, Zagreb, Croatia, Curator: Marina Grzinić
U3 3rd Triennia of Contemporary Slovene Art – Vulgata (with Dejan Habicht), Gallery Trafó, Budapest, Hungary, Curator: Gregor Podnar
Machen sie mir dieser Land wieder… (with Dejan Habicht), Pavel Haus, Potrna/Laafeld, Austria, Curator: Aleksandra Kostić
//international media/art award 2001, ZKM Karlsruhe
Medi@terra, Athens/Sofia/Belgrade/Maribor/Frankfurt
ARS AEVI, Rendez-vous 3 (with Dejan Habicht), Sarajevo, BIH, Curator: Zdenka Badovinac
Vulgata (with Dejan Habicht), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Gregor Podnar
The Nude in Slovenia(Photography), Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana, Curator: Primož Lampič
2000
U3 – Vulgata (with Dejan Habicht), Museum of Modern Art, Slovenia, Ljubljana, Curator: Gregor Podnar
Argos 2000, Vevey, Switzerland, Curator: Sigismond de Vajay
1999
The Taste of City (with Dejan Habicht), Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Curator: Gregor Podnar, Tadej Pogačar, Igor Zabel
1997
This art is recycled, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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