Metka Zupanič graduated in 2002, at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, sculpture department and completed her post-graduate studies from new media art in 2005. She works independently and in the group KOLEKTIVA (with Lada Cerar and Vesna Bukovec).To her understanding, the artistic process is a form of mediation, exchange and collaboration. She works with various media, addressing topics such as documents, body and communication. She strive to bring the public site closer to the people, make it part of their private environment. In last years she participated on many group exhibitions and residencies in Graz, Vienna (Kultur Kontakt), Ljubljana, Slovenj Gradec, Zagreb, Belgrade, Athens… She prepared several solo exhibitions: in the Centre and gallery P74 (2003 and 2005), Gallery Nova in Zagreb and in Likovni Salon in Celje (both in 2004), Gallery Kapelica (2004, 2006 and 2010), Gallery Photon (2005 and 2006). In 2007 she was awarded with stipend from Slovenian Ministry of Culture.
(Photo: Aleš Rosa)
Production: M.Z., 2016
The video shows a pendulum used in hypnosis, whereas a closer look reveals that the pendulum is in fact a cartridge. A low male voice takes the viewer to a state of mind that would enable him to erase all thoughts referring to military and hatred from his...
Production: Kolektiva, 2010
A documentary video of the exhibition in the Program Gallery in Warsaw. The 'Secret Heart' exhibition is a project within the framework of the KOLEKTIVA's platform 'Special Place in the City'. The project takes as its starting poi...
Production: Kolektiva, 2007
The video belongs to a series of projects that have been produced since 2004 in the context of the KOLEKTIVA's psycho-geographical Platform 'Special Place in the City'. The authors recorded the video at their home city Ljubljana. They asked...
Production: Kunsthaus Graz, 2006
The video is part of a project prepared by the authors for the group exhibition "Narratives, -35 / + 65: Two Generations" in Kunsthaus Graz, in 2006. They published an open call for a short story about the artwork prepared by the three authors f...
Production: Kolektiva, 2006
The video belongs to a series of projects that have been produced since 2004 in the context of the KOLEKTIVA's psycho-geographical Platform 'Special Place in the City'. The authors recorded the video at an artistic residence in Graz. Local artists and the...
Production: Kolektiva, 2004
A Slovene question that translates into "To hurry or to be thorough?" is being pronounced by English speaking people of different age. We witness drastically different pronunciations, which remind us about how relative the language is and about its power...
Production: Kolektiva, 2004
Video is a collage of voyeuristic recordings of people in public space in the main square of Ljubljana. Authors make statements about people caught on camera based on their own impressions. Screen is divided into four parts, where we can see the presumpti...