Marjetica Potrč (1953, Ljubljana, Slovenia) is an artist and architect internationally known for her interdisciplinary work combining art, architecture and sustainability. Her works address issues such as ecology, urbanism and self-sufficiency, proposing innovative solutions to improve the quality of life in urban and rural communities.
In 2003, Marjetica Potrč participated in the eighth edition of Art to Artmaking a project at Siena who reflected on the dialogue between local tradition and contemporary innovation. His speech highlighted the need for a balance between the preservation of cultural heritage and the challenges of the present.
With a unique approach that combines aesthetics and functionality, Potrč has exhibited his work in prestigious international contexts, including the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the São Paulo Biennale. His works continue to inspire profound reflections on the relationship between man and the environment.
Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana. Her work has been shown in numerous major international exhibitions, including the Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2022), the Venice Biennale (1993, 2003, 2009, 2021), the São Paulo Biennale (1996, 2006) and Skulptur Projekte Münster (1997). Since 2003, he has exhibited regularly at Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin and Stockholm. His most important exhibitions include shows at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2001), at the List Visual Arts Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004), at the De Appel Foundation for Contemporary Art in Amsterdam (2004), at the Gwangju Biennial (2004), at the Portikus Gallery in Frankfurt (2006), at The Curve at the Barbican Art Galleries in London (2007), at the Max Protetch Gallery in New York (2008), at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan (2012), at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2013, 2018), at PAMM Perez Art Museum in Miami (2015), at Kunsthall Trondheim (2017), at FLORA ars+natura in Bogotá (2017), at Yinchuan Biennial, MOCA, China (2018), at VISUAL, Carlow, Ireland (2018), at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art in Singapore (2019), at Künstlerhaus in Vienna (2020), at the DMZ Art & Peace Platform, UniMARU, DMZ, South Korea (2021), at the Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana (2021), at the Civic Gallery, Piran (2022/2023), at the 2nd Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Riyadh (2024) and at Fragmentos Space of Art and Memory, Bogotá (2024).
His numerous on-site projects include Dry Toilet (Caracas, 2003), Power from Nature (Barefoot College, India, and Catherine Ferguson Academy, Detroit, 2005), The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour (Stedelijk goes West, Amsterdam, 2009), Between the Waters: The Emscher Community Garden (Emscherkunst.2010, Essen, 2010), Théâtre Évolutif (Event 2011, Bordeaux, 2011), The Soweto Project (9UB, Soweto, South Africa, 2014), Of Soil and Water: King's Cross Pond Club (Relay Art Program, King's Cross, London, 2015) and Future Island (Albano Campus, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 2023).
From 2011 to 2018, Potrč was a professor of social practice at the University of Fine Arts/HFBK in Hamburg, where she taught Design for the Living World, a course dedicated to participatory practices. She has also been a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005) and the Faculty of Arts and Design of the IUAV in Venice (2008, 2010).
Potrč has received numerous awards, grants, fellowships and residencies, including a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1993, 1999), the Hugo Boss Prize (2000), a fellowship for the Caracas Case Project by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Caracas Urban Think Tank (2002), the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies Fellowship (2004), the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics Fellowship at The New School in New York (2007), the Curry Stone Design Prize (2008), a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2018) and the Medal of Merit of the Republic of Slovenia (2023).