Born 1979 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom.
Jasmina Cibic works in performance, installation and film, employing
a range of activity, media and theatrical tactics to redefine or
reconsider a specific ideological formation and its framing devices such
as art and architecture. Her work draws a parallel between the
construction of national culture and its use value for political aims,
encouraging the viewer to consider the timelessness of psychological and
soft power mechanisms that authoritarian structures utilise in their
own reinsertion and reinvention. Jasmina represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial with her project For Our Economy and Culture.
EDUCATION
2003–2006 MA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College London
1998–2003 Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Most Favoured Nations, curated by Marijana Schneider, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Charm Offensive, curated by Branka Benčić, Museum of Contemporary Art Rijeka
2021
Stagecraft – Une mise en scène du pouvoir, curated by Matthieu Lelièvre, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
The Palace, curated by Agnieszka Pindera, Museum Sztuki Łodz
2020
The Foundation of Endeavour, curated by Igor Španjol, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
2019
Spielraum, curated by Alenka Gregorič, Tobačna 001, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
An atmosphere of Joyful Contemplation, curated by Ainslie Roddick, CCA Glasgow
The Pleasure of Expense, curated by Sophia Hao, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design - University of Dundee
2018
Everything that You Desire and Nothing that You Fear, curated by Cheryl Sim, DHC/ART Montreal
This Machine Builds Nations, curated by Alessandro Vincentelli, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Newcastle
Everything We Do Today will Look Heroic in the Future, curated by Laura Amann and Jen Kratochvil, The Significant Other, Vienna
2017
NADA, curated Ana Frangovska, Jasna Jakšić and Vesna Meštrić, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje
The Spirit of Our Needs, curated by Katia Baudin, Kunstmuseen Krefeld House Esters
The Nation Loves It, curated by Dawn Williams, Crawfrod Gallery Cork
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Shining City on a Hill, curated by Juliana Engberg, Space O, Aarhus 2017, Aarhus
Theatrum Philsophicum, curated by Ali Akay, Acikekran Gallery, Istanbul
Topical Devices, Northampton Contemporary
Firm Foundations, Gallery Zak Branicka Berlin
2016
Tear Down and Rebuild, Esker Foundation, Calgary
NADA: Act I, curated by Jasna Jakšić, Vjenceslav Richter Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Building Desire, curated by Branka Benčič, Apoteka, Vodnjan
2015
Building Desire, curated by Gordana Nikolić, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina
Tear Down and Rebuild, curated by Una Popović, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
Give Expression to Common Desires, curated by Anna Gritz, MGLC Ljubljana
The Nation Loves It, curated by Rona Kopeczky, Ludwig Museum Budapest
Spielraum, Onomatopee, Eindhoven
2014
Fruits of Our Land, Saw Gallery, Ottawa
Fruits of Our Land, LMAK Projects, New York
2013
For Our Economy and Culture, the Slovenian Pavilion at the 55th International Art
Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2012
Situation Anophthalmus hitleri, Salon 2012, European Capital of Culture, Slovenia
2011
The Object of the Spectacle, Škuc Gallery, curated by Tevž Logar, Ljubljana
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Bigger than Myself: Heroic Voices from ex Yugoslavia, curated by Zdenka Badovinac, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
18th Tallin Print Triennial, curated by Róna Kopeczky
EKO Triennial, curated by Alessandro Vincentelli, Maribor
39th EVA International, curated by Merve Elveren, Limerick
2020
The ABC of Bauhaus, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
Going South, 30th Memorial of Nadežda Petrović, Serbia
37th Dokfest Kassel, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
3rd Industrial Biennial, curated by Branka Benčič, Rijeka
2019
Tear Down, curated by Sonja Jankov, Gallery of Contemporary Art Pančevo
Steirischer Herbst, special artist commission, curated by Ekaterina Degot, Graz
Real Beauty, curated by Oriol Fontdevila, ADN Platform, Barcelona
12th Kaunas Biennial, special artist commission, Vytautas the Great War Museum, Kaunas
54th Zagreb Salon, HDLU Zagreb
2018
No Looking Back, Okay?, curated by Simona Vidmar, UGM Maribor
Toward a Concrete Utopia, organised by Martino Stierli, curated by Vladimir Kulić, MOMA New York
Jarman Award Touring, Whitechapel Gallery, MAC Belfast, Notingham Contemporary, Towner Art Gallery, Spike Island, Glasgow Film Theatre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Turner Contemporary, Exeter Phoenix, FACT Liverpool, Firstsite Colchester, G39 Cardiff, HOME Manchester
Stranger Than Paradise, curated by Tevž Logar and Eva Riebova, Meet Factory, Prague
Vice Versa, curated by Jen Kratochvill and Laura Amann, Prague
Marvellous Cacophony, 57th October Salon, curated by Danielle and Gunar Kvaran, Belgrade
Volatile Dreams, Kunstmuseum Ahlen and Marta Herford
Unsettlement, curated by Charlotte Day, Shelley Mc Spedden and Elise Routledge, MUMA Monash University Museum of Art
2017
Symptoms of Society, curated by Alenka Gregorič, Zhejiang Museum of Art, Hangzhou and Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Open Frame Award, Wiesbaden Museum of Art
Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, Best international artist award, Charlottenborg Fonden, Copenhagen
Nieuw Amsterdams Peil - Where do we go from here?, curated by Alessandro Vincentelli, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam
Aéroports / Villes-Mondes, curated by Franck Bauchard, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
Videonale e.V., Kunstmuseum Bonn
Casebooks, curated by Michael Maziere, Ambika P3, London
2016
Bartok, Ludwig Museum Budapest
Monitoring, 33. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kasseler Kunstverein
MAC International, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast
We are the Centre..., curated by Paul O’Neill, The Hessel Museum of Art and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
Cold Front from the Balkans, curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič, Pera Museum, Istanbul
Cinemaniac: Think Film, curated by Branka Benčić, Pula Film Festival, MMC Luka
Terminal P, curated by Franck Bauchard, La Panacee, Montpellier
Beyond the Globe: 8th Triennial of Contemporary Art – U3, curated by Boris Groys, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana
Low-Budget Utopias, curated by Zdenka Badovinac and Bojana Piškur, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana
Acquisitions 2012–2015, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad
2015
2005–2015 Crisis and New Beginnings, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana
Was It a Car or a Cat I Saw, curated by Vladimir Vidmar, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana
Darker and Darker Grows the Landscape, curated by Benedicte le Pimpec and Isaline Vuille, Le Commun, Geneva
Demented Architecture, curated by Aaron Lister, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Art and Authority, Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka, Bosnia
Heroes We Love, curated by Miško Šuvaković and Simona Vidmar, UGM Maribor
Art and Authority, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade
Black House, curated by Anders Harm, EKKM, Tallinn
Disturbances, International Centre of Graphic Arts Ljubljana
Open Frame, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2013
Disturbances, European Month of Photography, Musée national d’histoire et d’art, Luxembourg
No One Belongs Here More than You, 54th October Salon, Belgrade
Monitoring, Kulturbahnhof Kassel, 30. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kassel
U3 – Triennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Nataša Bachelez-Petrešin, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana
30th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, an invited artist project, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
2012
Almost Springtime, 100 years of Slovene Art, Maribor Art Gallery, Slovenia
Strangers in a Strange Land, LMAK Projects, New York
Borderline, Universalmuseum Joanneum Graz, European City of Culture Maribor 2012
No Experience Necessary, Invited International Artist’s Project for Bus-Tops, a project for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad
Art Lending Library, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2020
Another way of Looking, Bahrain National Museum
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2019
Fruits of Our Land, Mesto Žensk, Kinoteka, Ljubljana
Solo screening: Nada trilogy, Belvedere 21, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
Les Rencontres Internationales, Louvre, Paris
Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2018
Jarman Award touring programme, Whitechapel gallery etc.
SALT, Istanbul
Solo screening: BALTIC Gateshead
Segal Centre Film Festival on Theatre and Performance, New York
2017
Solo screening: Norlandsopera, Umeå
Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Up-Close, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2016
Solo screening: Spielraum, CCA Laznia, Gdansk
Solo screening: Artist Cinema, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Les Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
2015
Solo screening: Igor Zabel Foundation, MSUM+ Ljubljana
Boom Bang, Zagare Capital of Culture, Lithuania
Solo screening: Micropolitics, curated by BLOK, Galerija Nova, Zagreb
2014
O:4W FILM FESTIVAL, Cardiff
Solo screening: 10th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed
Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Art Brussels, Cinema Programme, curated by Katerina Gregos
Solo screening: Capa Contemporary Photography Center, curated by Gabriella Uhl, Budapest
Les Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique/Palais de Tokyo, Paris
14th GOEAST – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden
2013
CPH:DOX* / Copenhagen Int. Documentary Film Festival
Solo screening: KORO Oslo, Norway
2012
For Our Public, curated by Michelle Deignan, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana
SELECTED AWARDS
2021
Shortlisted for Film London Jarman Award
Film London Lodestars Award
2020
B3 Ben Award for Best Immersive and Time Based Art
B3 Biennial of the Moving Image
2018
Shortlisted for Film London Jarman Award
2017
Aesthetica Art Prize Shortlist
2016
MAC International Ulster Bank Award Winner
Best International Artist Award Charlottenborg Fonden Copenhagen
MONOGRAPH PUBLICATIONS
Jasmina Cibic: Airport Projects, 74 pages, English/Slovne; editor: Simona Vidmar; texts: Nataša Petrešin Bachelez, Michelle Deignan, Blaž Križnik; UGM 2009
Jasmina Cibic: For Our Economy and Culture, Pavilion of Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial, 374 pages, softcover, English/ Slovene; editors: Tevž Logar and Vladimir Vidmar; texts: Lina Džuverović, Nika Grabar, Petja Grafenauer Blaž Peršin, Jane Rendell, and Suzana Milevska; MGLM Ljubljana 2013
Jasmina Cibic: Building Desire, 103 pages, softcover, English; editor: Gordana Nikolić; texts: Gordana Nikolić, Jasmina Cibic; Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad 2016
Jasmina Cibic: Spielraum, 352 pages, hardcover, English; editors: Jasmina Cibic and Una Popović; texts: Anna Gritz, Rona Kopeczky, Una Popović, Dubravka Sekulić, Jelena Vesić, Alessandro Vincentelli, WHW; DISTANZ/BALTIC 2018
Jasmina Cibic: NADA, 136 pages, hardcover, English/German; editors: Katia Baudin and Constanze Zawadski; texts: Erika Balsom, Katia Baudin, Vladimir Kulić; Kerber Verlag/Kunstmuseen Krefeld 2018
