CONTACT
E- MAIL: contact@anakotarskarjak.com
INSTAGRAM: @ana_kotar_skarjak
ABOUT
Born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia in 1987
Lives and works in Berlin since 2012
I make work about care, the repetitive, largely invisible labor of keeping a home and the people in it going. I make it from inside that labor, as a mother, for whom it has never been an abstraction.
Care is usually treated as a feeling. I treat it as work: work that falls mostly to women, goes unpaid, and is simply expected. Drawing on feminist thinking about domestic and emotional labor, I ask how that arrangement comes to feel normal, how it settles into a house, a body, the ordinary shape of a day.
I work with textiles, household objects, scent, and sound, building installations and performances where things accumulate. Materials are stacked, woven, layered until the accumulation itself becomes the subject, and the viewer is drawn into the overwhelm it produces, overwhelm that isn't incidental but built in. The materials hold, restrain, and outlast. So do the bodies shaped by them.
CV
UPCOMING
2026
- Galerija Kocka, Novo Mesto, Slovenia (solo)
- Y Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2026
- IN FORMATION, R17 Experimental Zone, Berlin, Germany
2025
- Who is Taking Care of the Caregiver?, Telegraph Gallery (TLG Club), Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Again and Again, Roam Projects, Berlin, Germany
- Caution M/Other, Kunstraum m3, Berlin, Germany
2024
- Recollections Like Threads, Woven Through Time, Co-Making Matters, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2025
- Who is Taking Care of the Caregiver?, BUNA Forum for Contemporary Art Vol. 3, Varna, Bulgaria
6th Triennial of Young Artists, Galerija sodobne umetnosti, Celje, Slovenia
- Cultural Loops, SOV Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2024
- Wish You Were Here: The Second Best Time Is Now, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, USA
2014 - 2013
- Papergirl Linz, Stadtwerkstatt, Linz, Austria
- Memory: International Mail Art Exhibition & Swap, Richmond Art Gallery, Canada
- Grafika, Kulturni Center Novo Mesto, Slovenia
AWARDS / GRANTS
2025
- Visual Arts Research Grant, Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Berlin, Germany
- LJUBAW Art Grant, Ljubljana Art Weekend (ETC. Magazine)
RESIDENCIES
2024
- Co-Making Matters, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
2025
- Exhibition catalogue, PREMIERA 2025, Celje, Slovenia
- Interview, Telegraph Gallery Journal
- Interview, Spalt Magazine (print)
EDUCATION
2015
- B.A., Contemporary Drawing and Art Pedagogy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007
- School of Design and Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
- 2022–Resumed artistic practice
- 2015–2022 Tea practice and sensory work, Berlin
St.-Nr.: 14/550/04380