Polonca Lovšin

Diploma in architecture, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana
Diploma in sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana
MFA in sculpture and new media, Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana
Ph.D. of Visual Arts, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Solo Exhibitions:
2011 - Back to the City, Gallery Kibela, Maribor, Slovenia
- Elektrisieredne Traeume /Electrified Dreams, Kunstverein Gera, Germany
2010 - A Day with a Goat, Beyond Construction Site, one day action on the construction site in Ljubljana
- Dynamo Street Lamp, Kraigherjeva Square, Ljubljana
2009 - Dynamo Door Dance, Wysings Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
- Bees, Cows, Lemons and Potato Peelings, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007 – Tales from Inner Space, Gallery Öl-Früh, Hamburg, Germany
- How-To, La Vitrine Gallery, Pekarna Cultural Center, Maribor, Slovenia
2006 – Suddenly, a Change, Fine Arts Salon, Celje, Slovenia
- Multi-Purpose, Gallery A+A, Venice, Italy
Group Exhibitions (Selection):
2012 - Public Speech (upcoming), Koroška Gallery, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
- City Perspectives, Photon Gallery, Tihany, Balaton Lake, Hungary
- Chapter Zero: Atwork, online exhibition, Lettera 27, Italy
- Hands-on Urbanism 1850-2012, Screening Back to the City, Architekturzentrum Wien, Austria
- Hunters and Hunted - Insects in Contemporary Art, Villa Rot, Burgrieden - Rot, Germany
- Tricky Woman, International Animation Filmfestival, Museum Quartir, Vienna, Austria
2011 - Artistic Research, Audiomax, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
- Polonca Lovšin, Back to the City, Brez žebljev in podstavkov, SCCA, Ljubljana
- On a different Soil, Yo-Yo and OKNO, Nová scéna, Prague, (conference and screening)
- Urban Festival, Kino Gri?, Zagreb (presentation, togehter with Urška Jurman)
- Medeni sprehod / Honey walk, Festival Young Lions, Zavod Bunker, Ljubljana (screening)
2010 - European Triennial of Small-scale Sculpture 2010, Split Identities: Objects at the Interstice of Art and Design, Gallery of Murska Sobota, Slovenia
- Diva Station – digital video archive, City Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland
- Sculpture Today, Museum of Modern Art, Celje, Slovenia
- The Artist Book in Slovenia from 1966-2010, Gallery Kresija, Ljubljana
- U3 - 6th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia: An Idea for Living. Realism and Reality in Contemporary Art in Slovenia, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
- Sweet Nowhere, City Gallery of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
Residencies, Fellowships and awards:
Golden Bird award 2010, Liberal Academy, Ljubljana, 2011
Wysing Arts Centre, two month residency, Cambridge, UK 2009
Ministry of Culture of Slovenia, Artist Professional Scholarship, one year grant, 2009
Gastatelier Hamburg, one month residency, Hamburg, Germany, 2007
United Nations Plaza, two weeks residency, Berlin, Germany, 2006
CEC ArtsLink Fellowship, five weeks residency, New York and the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, Calif., USA, 2006
Residency of the Slovene Ministry of Culture, one month, Berlin, Germany, 2006
International Style, 2 weeks residency, Pullman Court, London, UK, 2005