Ana Kotar Škarjak

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ABOUT

Born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia in 1987

Lives and works in Berlin since 2012

My practice examines how repetition and maintenance function as structuring forces within intimate and social life. Working across installation, performance, textiles, and sound, I explore how care, memory, and discipline are sustained through ordinary gestures that accumulate over time. Rather than framing care as a private emotion, I approach it as social infrastructure- a learned system of behaviors and embodied routines that organizes relationships and distributes responsibility.

Born in former Yugoslavia, I work within a context marked by political rupture and enduring patriarchal formations. I am interested in how large-scale histories sediment within domestic space and the body itself. Repetition operates in my work as both method and analytic device: weaving, counting, looping, and reiteration render visible the durational labor through which identities are formed and maintained.

My installations construct environments that oscillate between intimacy and constraint. Text, textile, and voice function as carriers of lived experience, producing spaces where personal memory intersects with collective structure. By extending everyday actions beyond their immediate function, I expose the often-invisible systems that depend upon endurance, adjustment, and continual self-regulation.

EDUCATION

2008- 2015 Bachelor of Arts, focus on Contemporary Drawing and Art Pedagogy University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

2002- 2007 SŠOF- High School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022 Resumed active artistic practice

2015- 2022 Professional focus outside visual arts (Professional tea taster, Berlin) and maternity leave

HONOURS

2025 LJUBAW Art Grant, Ljubljana Art Weekend, curated by ETC. Magazine

2025 Visual Arts Research Grant, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Berlin, Germany

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

2026 Y Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2026 Galerija Kocka, Novo Mesto, Slovenia

SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO SHOWS

2025 »Who is taking care of the caregiver?«, BUNA Forum for Contemporary Art vol. 3, City Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria (group)

2025 »Who is taking care of the caregiver?«, Performance, Telegraph Gallery (TLG CLUB), Olomuc, Czech Republic (solo)

2025 »6th Triennial of Young Artists«, Galerija sodobne umetnosti, Celje, Slovenia (group)

2025 »Again and Again«, Roam projects, Berlin, Germany (solo)

2025 »Cultural Loops«, SOV Gallery, Berlin, Germany (group)

2025 »Caution M/Other«, Kunstraum m3, Berlin, Germany (solo)

2024 »Wish You Were Here: The Second Best Time Is Now«, A.I.R Gallery, New York, U.S.A. (group)

2024 »Recollections like threads, woven through time«, Co-Making Matters, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany (solo)

2022 »Open studio«, Berlin, Germany (solo)

2014 »Papergirl Linz«, c/o Stadtwerkstatt Linz, Austria (group)

2014 »Memory: International Mail Art Exhibition & Swap«, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada (group)

2014 »Kakšna prisrčna otvoritev«, UAUU Univerzalni Atelje Uličnih Umetnosti, Ljubljana, Slovenia (group)

2013 »Grafika«, Kulturni Center Novo Mesto, Novo Mesto, Slovenia (group)

2011 »3.Rojstni dan Zelenega Zajca- Winnetou- The Untold Love Story«, Pri Zelenem Zajcu, Ljubljana, Slovenia (group)

2011 »Razstava študentov 4.letnika likovne pedagogike,Galerija PeF (group)

2011 »Ana Kotar«, Pri Zelenem Zajcu, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo)

2011 »Sirup«, Tovarna Samorog, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo)

2010 »Print «, Bi Ko Fe, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo)

2010 »Risbe in kipi«, Galerija Srečišče, Ljubljana, Slovenia (group)

2010 »Razstava študentov 3. letnika likovne pedagogike«, Galerija UL Pef, Ljubljana, Slovenia (group)

RESIDENCY

2024 Co-Making Matters, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany

St.-Nr.: 14/550/04380