Ksenija Čerče (1969) graduated (1999) and received her master’s degree (2002) in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Prior to that, between 1988 and 1996, she completed her studies at FNT TT Clothing and Textile Design. In 2003, she received the Fulbright Scholarship for advanced study in the United States where she received a master’s degree in video and sound art (from Liz Phillips) at Purchase College State University of New York. She was an active member of Circulation 2 between 2007 and 2011. She creates in painting as well as in sound and video art, where her work focuses on researching elementary topics: the phenomenology of materiality, experiencing the relationship between visual and auditory perception and especially the multifaceted interdependence of the media in which they arise.
She has recently worked as a project leader for the Goethe Institute (2018) and as a visiting researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin (2019). She is employed at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana as an associate professor in the field of painting.
She is the recipient of several awards, including the Rihard Jakopič Award for the exhibition The voice of the image in the Equrna Gallery (2018), the Fulbright Scholarship (2003), the working scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia (2006 and 2002) and the Golden Bird Award with Circulation 2 (2010).
Education
2006 MFA, Purchase College, State University of New York, New York USA
2002 Master of Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana
2000 Diploma – graduate engineer of clothing and textile design, UL FNT TT Design of clothing and textiles
1999 Diploma – Academic Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana
Academic titles
2006 Associate Professor, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University
of Ljubljana
2011 Assistant Professor, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana
Recognition of important works of art, Academy of Fine Arts and
Design, University of Ljubljana
Awards and scholarships (selection)
2019 Visiting researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin
2018 Jakopič Award
Project leader with the Goethe Institute
2010 Golden Bird (with Circulation 2)
2006 Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
2003 Fulbright Scholarship
1999–2002 Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
1997 Award for scenography and costume design, Festival of European Theatre
Academies, Brno
REFERENCES
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2021 Kdo se boji roza barve? (Who is afraid of pink?), UGM studio, Maribor Art Gallery
2019 Vneto (inflammable), Multimedia Centre KIBLA- Kibela, Maribor
2018 Glas slike (The voice of the image), Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana
NE (NO), SCCA Project Room, Ljubljana
2015 Barva prepovedanega (The colour of the forbidden), Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana
2011 Dialog (dialogue) Čerče / Vucetić. rec # 21, sound video ambience, Art Gallery
Maribor, Court Tower, Maribor
2010 EHO (ECHO), 8 channel sound ambience, Maribor Art Gallery, Hladilnica,
Maribor
2009 Ephemera, interactive 16-channel ambient ambience, Kunsthaus Graz –
MKL, Graz
Nič ni slika (Nothing is a picture), Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana
Dialog (Dialogue) Vučetić / Čerče, Liquid, 8 channel audio video ambience, Cultural Centre
Belgrade, Belgrade
Še ni brez naslova (Not without a title yet), City Gallery Nova Gorica
2008 Sonic, audio video ambience, Kibla Multimedia Centre, Maribor Synagogue
2007 Eter (Ether), audio video ambience, Ljubljana Festival, Ljubljana Castle – Kazemate
2006 Slišane slike (Heard Pictures), Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana
Group exhibitions (selection)
2022 Vračenje pogleda (Returning the look), Cukrarna, Ljubljana
2020 Nezaslišan svet, ki ga imam v glavi, Metamodernizem in metaromantika v
slovenskem slikarstvu (The Outrageous World I Have In My Head, Metamodernism And Metaromanticism in Slovenian painting), Monfort, Portorož
2019 Nezaslišan svet, ki ga imam v glavi, Metamodernizem in metaromantika v
slovenskem slikarstvu (The Outrageous World I Have In My Head, Metamodernism And Metaromanticism in Slovenian painting)
Slovenia
Čas brez nedolžnosti (Time without innocence), Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
2017 Arbitrarnost v besedi in v vsakdanu (Arbitrariness in word and in everyday life), Paul’s House, Bad Radkersburg, Austria
MIG 21 migration interdisciplinary movement 21, Museum of Contemporary Art
Vojvodina, Novi Sad
2016 MIG 21 migration interdisciplinary movement 21, Kibla Portal, Maribor
2014 Sodobno slovensko slikarstvo- Prve generacije po letu nič; od Joni Zakonjšek
do Suzane Brborovič (Contemporary Slovenian painting – First generation after the year zero); from Joni Zakonjšek to Suzana Brborovič), Cankarjev dom Gallery, Ljubljana
Sodobno slovensko slikarstvo- Prve generacije po letu nič; od Joni Zakonjšek
do Suzane Brborovič (Contemporary Slovenian painting – First generation after the year zero); from Joni Zakonjšek to Suzana Brborovič), Coastal galleries, Piran
60! Panorama, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor
2013 Gallery Weekend, Iberart Gallery, Berlin
Skoraj pomlad (Almost Spring), Maribor Art Gallery + Slavija N ° 11, Maribor
2011 Preview – The Emerging Art Fair, Tempelhof, Berlin
Sodobna umetnost iz Slovenije (Contemporary art from Slovenia), European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main
2010 Hočemo biti svobodni, kot so bili očetje (We want to be free as were the fathers, MGLC, Ljubljana
Renaissance Nostra, Private View, Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin
2009 Arzenal depo (Arsenal depot) / 2K9. Sodobna raziskovalna umetnost 80 let po Delaku (Contemporary research art 80 years after Delak), Film studio
Viba film, Ljubljana
Prototype 11, Netart Community Convention, Kunsthaus Graz – MKL
28th Graphic Biennial. Matrica: nestabilna realnost (Matrix: unstable reality), Ganes Pratt Gallery, Ljubljana
Licôf – sodobna umetnost na severnem Jadranu (Licôf – contemporary art in the northern Adriatic), Palinsesti 2009, San Vito al
Tagliamento
Poletje, predlogi za stalno zbirko (Summer, proposals for a permanent collection), Maribor Art Gallery
2008 Sodobna slovenska umetnost (Contemporary Slovenian art), works of art from the Faktor banka collection, Museum of Art
Harkov
Poetika (Poetics), Carinthian Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec
2007 LabSUs, City Gallery, Labin
2005 From the Perception Lab: Sound Show, Pelham Art Center, New York
Slovenska umetnost 1995-2005; teritoriji identitete mreže (Slovenian Art 1995–2005; territory, of identity, of network), Modern Gallery,
Ljubljana
Prva linija (First line) – avant-garde and alternative prints in Slovenia from conceptualism to date
accompanying exhibition of the 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, MGLC, Ljubljana
Publications (selection)
Ksenija Čerče, THE ERECTION OF LANGUAGE, About the Voice and the Inflamed Touch, Artwords 002, Winter 2019, pp. 6-12
Ksenija Čerče, EREKCIJA JEZIKA, o glasu in vnetem dotiku (THE ERECTION OF LANGUAGE, About the Voice and the Inflamed Touch, Likovne besede, no. 112 zima 2019, pp. 70-75
Ksenija Čerče: LIKOVNA AFIRMACIJA PROSOJNOSTI, Smernice slikanja v akvarelni obliki (ART AFFIRMATION OF TRANSPARENCY, Guidelines for painting in watercolour technique), University textbook issued by: Research Institute of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, publishing house: Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana 2016, ISBN 978-961-93514-8-2
Ksenija Čerče: Čas v sliki in kodiranje transformacij (Image time and transformation coding), Likovne besede, no. 94 winter 2011, pp. 32-39
Ksenija Čerče, Hortus Conclusus, Likovne besede, no. 61/62 winter 2002, pp. 93-97
Ksenija Čerče, Hortus Conclusus, in: House Chaos, The Woman and the Destroyed Home Discourse Re-Build, 359°- Network for Local and Subaltern Hermeneutics, Skopje, 2003, pp. 96-108
Media releases / archives (selection)
– Amir Muratovich, Zapeljevanje pogleda (Seduction of the view): Gustav Gnamuš/ Ksenija Čerče,
https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/zapeljevanje-pogleda/174590741, RTV SLO, 31 July 2019
– Osmi dan, Ksenija Čerče in Equrna :https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/radio-ga-ga-video/174335921, RTV SLO, 14 May 2015
– Aleksandra Saška Gruden: Naši umetniki pred mikrofonom (Our artists in front of a microphone), https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/nasi-umetniki-pred-mikrofonom/174818045, RTV SLO – ARS , 30 October 2021
– Čas brez nedolžnosti (Time without innocence), conversation with Nika Zupančič), http://mrezni-muzej.mg-lj.si/si/mreznimuzej/3/22/?artworkid=1186 , Modern Gallery, 26 March 2019
– Saša Šavel, Platforma (Platform): Dotik je nevaren (Touch is dangerous): Umetnice nekoč in danes (Artists then and today)
https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/platforma/174672510, RTV SLO; 13 July 2020
– Andreja Kočar: Platforma (Platform): Dialog s sliko- sodobne slovenske slikarke (Dialogue with painting – contemporary Slovenian painters), https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/platforma/174434757, RTV SLO, 31 October 2016
– Aleksandra Saška Gruden: VIEWS AND CONSIDERATIONS: Pomen subkultur v družbi in kulturi (The importance of subcultures in society and culture) https://ars.rtvslo.si/2021/01/razgledi-in-razmisleki-287/, RTV SLO, 4 February 2021
International projects for ALUO (selection)
2019-21 NO PROMISES, Mail Art project with Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (Burg Halle)
2019 CONTREFAIT: PLAYFUL ACCESS TO PORTRAITURE, workshop in collaboration with High school for graphics and book art Leipzig
2018 UNFOLDING MEMORY, art book workshop, partners: Goethe Institute, MGLC International Centre of Graphics Ljubljana, ALUO, NUK – National and University Library
2018 PROFESSORS’ VISIT FROM ALUO TO GERMAN ART EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS WITH GOETHE INSTITUT, (UDK Berlin, HGB Leipzig, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (Burg Halle), KH Berlin Weissensee)
2018 TEXTURE- BETWEEN MIMESIS AND ABSTRACTION, workshop
2017 DAAD PROMOTION, promotion of scholarships for ALUO students and professors
2013 PREVIEW ART FAIR BERLIN, promotion of ALUO students at the Berlin Art Fair
