About — Jasmina Cibic

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Jasmina Cibic is an artist and filmmaker whose work examines the relationship between art and culture, patriarchal power and collective imagination through a feminist lens.

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Jasmina Cibic is a Slovenian artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans film, photography, installation, sculpture, and performance. Her work interrogates how culture is mobilised as an instrument of statecraft and soft power, particularly at moments of ideological fracture or political recalibration. Through research-driven projects that weave together archival material, policy language, and allegorical staging, Cibic exposes the entanglements of art, architecture, gender, and national identity.

Operating simultaneously as analyst and storyteller, she constructs seductive visual environments that restage the protocols of cultural diplomacy—revealing how art and culture are routinely positioned as pawns within larger political narratives, instrumentalised to stabilise power, manufacture consensus, or rehearse visions of unity. In her work, cultural diplomacy emerges not as benign exchange, but as a contested arena of image management, narrative control, and geopolitical negotiation.

Cibic represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennale and has presented solo exhibitions at institutions including BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, macLyon, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Museum Sztuki Łódź, CCA Glasgow, the Phi Foundation Montreal, Belvedere 21 Vienna, Kunstmuseum Krefeld, MG+MSUM Ljubljana, and group exhibitions at MOMA New York, MAXXI Rome, IMMA Dublin, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Biennale Jogja, and Sharjah Biennial.

Her films have been screened at The High Line NY, Whitechapel Gallery, MOMA New York, BFI London Film Festival, HKW Berlin, the Louvre, Dokfest Kassel and Copenhagen International Documentary Festival among others.

She is the recipient of the Film London Jarman Award (2021) and her monographs include Stagecraft (macLyon), NADA (KERBER/Kunstmuseen Krefeld), Most Favoured Nation (Hatje Cantz/MdMS), and Spielraum (BALTIC/Distanz).

Education

2003–2006 MA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College London
1998–2003 Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
2022 – trustee BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead
2024 – Biennial Foundation board member

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 The Blackout, OGP Piran (upcoming)
2025 The Arrangement, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava
The Gift Ecology, Void Arts Centre, Derry
2024 Dawn Chorus, Belvedere 21, Vienna
The Gift, Brief Histories, New York
2023 Halls of Power, High Line New York
The Dreams We Call Our Own, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
2022 Charm Offensive, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
In Rhythmic Affinity, curated by Natalija Vujosević, Centre for Contemporary Art of Montenegro
Most Favoured Nations, curated by Marijana Schneider, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Jasmina Cibic, DiT Vienna in collaboration with Editions of Solidarity and Care
2021 Stagecraft – Une mise en scène du pouvoir, curated by Matthieu Lelièvre, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon
The Palace, curated by Agnieszka Pindera, Museum Sztuki Łodz
2020 The Foundation of Endeavour, curated by Igor Španjol, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
2019 Spielraum, curated by Alenka Gregorič, Tobačna 001, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
An atmosphere of Joyful Contemplation, curated by Ainslie Roddick, CCA Glasgow
The Pleasure of Expense, curated by Sophia Hao, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design - University of Dundee
2018 Everything that You Desire and Nothing that You Fear, curated by Cheryl Sim, DHC/ART Montreal
This Machine Builds Nations, curated by Alessandro Vincentelli, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Newcastle
Everything We Do Today will Look Heroic in the Future, curated by Laura Amann and Jen Kratochvil, The Significant Other, Vienna
2017 NADA, curated Ana Frangovska, Jasna Jakšić and Vesna Meštrić, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje
The Spirit of Our Needs, curated by Katia Baudin, Kunstmuseen Krefeld House Esters
The Nation Loves It, curated by Dawn Williams, Crawford Gallery Cork
A Shining City on a Hill, curated by Juliana Engberg, Space O, Aarhus 2017, Aarhus
Theatrum Philsophicum, curated by Ali Akay, Acikekran Gallery, Istanbul
Topical Devices, Northampton Contemporary
Firm Foundations, Gallery Zak Branicka Berlin
2016 Tear Down and Rebuild, Esker Foundation, Calgary
NADA: Act I, curated by Jasna Jakšić, Vjenceslav Richter Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Building Desire, curated by Branka Benčič, Apoteka, Vodnjan
2015 Building Desire, curated by Gordana Nikolić, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina
Tear Down and Rebuild, curated by Una Popović, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
Give Expression to Common Desires, curated by Anna Gritz, MGLC Ljubljana
The Nation Loves It, curated by Rona Kopeczky, Ludwig Museum Budapest
Spielraum, Onomatopee, Eindhoven
2014 Fruits of Our Land, Saw Gallery, Ottawa
Fruits of Our Land, LMAK Projects, New York
2013 For Our Economy and Culture, the Slovenian Pavilion at the 55^th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2012 Situation Anophthalmus hitleri, Salon 2012, European Capital of Culture, Slovenia
2011 The Object of the Spectacle, Škuc Gallery, curated by Tevž Logar, Ljubljana

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2027 Alchimies Photographiques, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon
Sharjah Biennial 17: What remains, sits restive, Sharjah
2026 Rupture, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
In The Right Place, The Art Pavilion Zagreb
Technologies of Peace, IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Hamburg Photography Triennial: Alliance, Infinity, Love – in the Face of the Other, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Stellprobe, Belvedere 21, Vienna
Musees hors Frontières, Frac Grand Large, Hauts-de-France
Personal Stories / Political Realities, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
Fabricated Realities: Graphics at the Edge of Belief, FIG 6, Sofia
Gifts of Friendship, Museum Sztuki in Łódź
Utopia – the Right to Hope, Kunst Sammlungen Chemnitz
Ways of Seeing, a new permanent exhibition of the collection of the Museum Sztuki in Łódź, Ms2, Museum Sztuki, Łódź
2025 4^th Cayman Islands Biennial, The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands
Utopia – the Right to Hope, Kunstmuseum Wolfsberg
Personal Stories / Political Realities, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon
Forms That Fly, Museum of Contempoorary Art Skopje
Provisional Stories, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay
(Re)Writing Memories, Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation, Johannesburg
Videosphere, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina
Partly Furnished, Excellent view, Kunstmuseum Krefeld
Museum yet to Be, Museum of Contemporary Art Montenegro
Echo, Muza Gallery Ljubljana
Who’s Grafting Now?, Topocentrala, Sofia
2024 Her Barbaric Luxury, Trotoar Gallery, Zagreb
Heaven Can Wait, Innsbruck International Biennial
U3 - Triennial of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana
Vlatka Horvat: By Means at Hand, Croatian Pavilion at Venice Biennial
2023 For Your Pleasure, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana
Self Determination: a global perspective, IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Other – Reimagining the Future, Kunsthaus Graz
Biennale Jogja 17, Yogyakarta
This is a Rehearsal, Chicago Architectural Biennial
City – A Place of Identity, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
Exercises in a Collection, curated by Bojana Piškur, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
The South in Us, Centre for Contemporary Art Celje, curated by Iva Kovač
Konstelacije, Apoteka, Vodnjan
2022 The South in Us, City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts, curated by Iva Kovač, Ljubljana
Tallinn Print Triennial: Warm. Checking Temperature in Three Acts, curated by Róna Kopeczky, KAI Art Center, Tallinn
Canakkale Biennale, Turkey
Da - A, Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa, Venezia
Europa Non Cade Dal Ciello, Fondazione Imago Mundi
Contesting Sites of Memory, Fotograf Festival, Viper Gallery, Prague
Nations by Artists, curated by Mikinaak Migwans and Sarah Robayo Sheridan, University of Toronto Art Centre
What A Fabulous Place We Are in, curated by Anna Łazar, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź
Returning the Gaze, Cukrarna, curated by Alenka Gregorič, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
A Scaffold With, Against, curated by Žana Kozimora, University of Toronto Art Centre
2021 Bigger than Myself: Heroic Voices from ex Yugoslavia, curated by Zdenka Badovinac, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
18^th Tallin Print Triennial, curated by Róna Kopeczky
Jarman Award Touring, Whitechapel Gallery, MAC Belfast, Nottingham Contemporary, Towner Eastbourne, Spike Island, LUX Scotland, G39 Cardiff
Intensive Places, Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, curated by Ana Bitkina and Maria Veits
EKO Triennial, curated by Alessandro Vincentelli, Maribor
39^th EVA International, curated by Merve Elveren, Limerick
2020 The ABC of Bauhaus, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
Going South, 30^th Memorial of Nadežda Petrović, Serbia
37^th Dokfest Kassel, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
3^rd Industrial Biennial, curated by Branka Benčič, Rijeka
2019 Tear Down, curated by Sonja Jankov, Gallery of Contemporary Art Pančevo
Steirischer Herbst, special artist commission, curated by Ekaterina Degot, Graz
Real Beauty, curated by Oriol Fontdevila, ADN Platform, Barcelona
12th Kaunas Biennial, special artist commission, Vytautas the Great War Museum, Kaunas
54th Zagreb Salon, HDLU Zagreb
2018 No Looking Back, Okay?, curated by Simona Vidmar, UGM Maribor
Toward a Concrete Utopia, organised by Martino Stierli, curated by Vladimir Kulić, MOMA New York
Jarman Award Touring, Whitechapel Gallery, MAC Belfast, Nottingham Contemporary, Towner Art Gallery, Spike Island, Glasgow Film Theatre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Turner Contemporary, Exeter Phoenix, FACT Liverpool, Firstsite Colchester, G39 Cardiff, HOME Manchester
Stranger Than Paradise, curated by Tevž Logar and Eva Riebova, Meet Factory, Prague
Vice Versa, curated by Jen Kratochvill and Laura Amann, Prague
Marvellous Cacophony, 57th October Salon, curated by Danielle and Gunar Kvaran, Belgrade
Volatile Dreams, Kunstmuseum Ahlen and Marta Herford
Unsettlement, curated by Charlotte Day, Shelley Mc Spedden and Elise Routledge, MUMA Monash University Museum of Art
2017 Symptoms of Society, curated by Alenka Gregorič, Zhejiang Museum of Art, Hangzhou and Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Open Frame Award, Wiesbaden Museum of Art
Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, Best international artist award, Charlottenborg Fonden, Copenhagen
Nieuw Amsterdams Peil - Where do we go from here?, curated by Alessandro Vincentelli, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam
Aéroports /Villes-Mondes, curated by Franck Bauchard, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
Videonale e.V., Kunstmuseum Bonn
Casebooks, curated by Michael Maziere, Ambika P3, London
2016 Bartok, Ludwig Museum Budapest
Monitoring, 33. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kasseler Kunstverein
MAC International, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast
We are the Centre..., curated by Paul O’Neill, The Hessel Museum of Art and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
Cold Front from the Balkans, curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič, Pera Museum, Istanbul
Cinemaniac: Think Film, curated by Branka Benčić, Pula Film Festival, MMC Luka
Terminal P, curated by Franck Bauchard, La Panacee, Montpellier
Beyond the Globe: 8^th Triennial of Contemporary Art – U3, curated by Boris Groys, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana
Low-Budget Utopias, curated by Zdenka Badovinac and Bojana Piškur, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana
Acquisitions 2012–2015, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad
2015 2005–2015 Crisis and New Beginnings, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana
Was It a Car or a Cat I Saw, curated by Vladimir Vidmar, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana
Darker and Darker Grows the Landscape, curated by Benedicte le Pimpec and Isaline Vuille, Le Commun, Geneva
Demented Architecture, curated by Aaron Lister, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Art and Authority, Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka, Bosnia
Heroes We Love, curated by Miško Šuvaković and Simona Vidmar, UGM Maribor
2014 Art and Authority, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade
Black House, curated by Anders Harm, EKKM, Tallinn
Disturbances, International Centre of Graphic Arts Ljubljana
Open Frame, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2013 Disturbances, European Month of Photography, Musée national d’histoire et d’art, Luxembourg
No One Belongs Here More than You, 54^th October Salon, Belgrade
Monitoring, Kulturbahnhof Kassel, 30. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kassel
U3 – Triennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Nataša Bachelez-Petrešin, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana
30^th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, an invited artist project, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
2012 Almost Springtime, 100 years of Slovene Art, Maribor Art Gallery, Slovenia
Borderline, Universalmuseum Joanneum Graz, European City of Culture Maribor 2012
No Experience Necessary, Invited International Artist’s Project for Bus-Tops, a project for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad

SELECTED SCREENINGS

2025 The Barbican, London
2025 Solo exhibition screening: Beacons, Bienalsur, Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation, Johannesburg
2025 Subversive Festival, Zagreb
2024 Solo screening: Beacons, Belvedere 21, Vienna
2024 October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Centre
2024 Solo screening: Beacons, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
2024 Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris
2024 Aesthetica Film Festival
2024 Ji.hlava IDFF Film Festival
2024 Solo exhibition screening: Tear Down and Rebuild, Theater im Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen
2024 Les Rencontres Internationales, HKW Berlin
2023 Solo screening: The Barbican, London
2023 Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris
2022 Aesthetica Film Festival
2022 Bahrain National Museum
2022 Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
2021 London Film Festival, BFI Southbank
2021 Jarman Award touring programme, Whitechapel gallery etc.
2020 Another way of Looking, Bahrain National Museum
2020 Whitechapel Gallery, London
2019 Fruits of Our Land, Mesto Žensk, Kinoteka, Ljubljana
2019 Solo screening: Nada trilogy, Belvedere 21, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
2019 Les Rencontres Internationales, Louvre, Paris & Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2018 Jarman Award touring programme, Whitechapel gallery etc.
2018 SALT, Istanbul
2018 Solo screening: BALTIC Gateshead
2018 Segal Centre Film Festival on Theatre and Performance, New York
2017 Solo screening: Norlandsopera, Umeå
2017 Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2017 Up-Close, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2016 Solo screening: Spielraum, CCA Laznia, Gdansk
2016 Solo screening: Artist Cinema, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
2016 Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin & Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
2015 Solo screening: Igor Zabel Foundation, MSUM+ Ljubljana
2015 Boom Bang, Zagare Capital of Culture, Lithuania
2015 Solo screening: Micropolitics, curated by BLOK, Galerija Nova, Zagreb
2014 Solo screening: 10th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed
2014 Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2014 Art Brussels, Cinema Programme, curated by Katerina Gregos
2014 Solo screening: Capa Contemporary Photography Center, curated by Gabriella Uhl, Budapest
2014 Les Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique/Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2014 14th GOEAST – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden
2013 CPH:DOX* / Copenhagen Int. Documentary Film Festival

MONOGRAPH PUBLICATIONS

Jasmina Cibic: Airport Projects, 74 pages, English/Slovene; editor: Simona Vidmar; texts: Nataša Petrešin Bachelez, Michelle Deignan, Blaž Križnik; UGM 2009
Jasmina Cibic: For Our Economy and Culture, Pavilion of Slovenia at the 55^th Venice Biennial, 374 pages, softcover, English/ Slovene; editors: Tevž Logar and Vladimir Vidmar; texts: Lina Džuverović, Nika Grabar, Petja Grafenauer Blaž Peršin, Jane Rendell, and Suzana Milevska; MGLM Ljubljana 2013
Jasmina Cibic: Building Desire, 103 pages, softcover, English; editor: Gordana Nikolić; texts: Gordana Nikolić, Jasmina Cibic; Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad 2016
Jasmina Cibic: Spielraum, 352 pages, hardcover, English; editors: Jasmina Cibic and Una Popović; texts: Anna Gritz, Rona Kopeczky, Una Popović, Dubravka Sekulić, Jelena Vesić, Alessandro Vincentelli, WHW; DISTANZ/BALTIC 2018
Jasmina Cibic: NADA, 136 pages, hardcover, English/German; editors: Katia Baudin and Constanze Zawadski; texts: Erika Balsom, Katia Baudin, Vladimir Kulić; Kerber Verlag/Kunstmuseen Krefeld 2018
Jasmina Cibic: Most Favourite Nation, 168 pages, hardcover, English/German; editor: Thorsten Sadowsky; texts: Maja & Reuben Fawkes, Thorsten Sadowsky, Marijana Schneider; Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2022
Jasmina Cibic: Stagecraft, French/English; texts: Iliana Fokianaki, Matthieu Lelièvre, Isabelle Bertolotti; macLYON 2022

AWARDS (SELECTION)

Prešen Fund Award Slovenia (2025), Aesthethica Short Film Festival – Best Artist Film Award (2024), Film London Jarman Award (2021); Film London Lodestars Award (2021); B3 Ben Award for Best Immersive and Time Based Art, B3 Biennial of the Moving Image (2020); Shortlisted for Film London Jarman Award (2018); Aesthetica Art Prize Shortlist (2017); MAC International Ulster Bank Award Winner (2016); Best International Artist Award Charlottenborg Fonden Copenhagen (2016);

TEACHING (SELECTION)

Jasmina Cibic gives regular keynotes and talks at public institutions and museums and has been a visiting tutor at following universities: Goldsmiths College, London; London College of Communication; Chelsea College of Art and Design, London; Bard college NY; Banff Centre, Canada; Arts University Bournemouth, Poole, GB; Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag / The Hague, NL; Birkbeck, University of London, GB; University of Waterloo, CA, US; AVA – Academy of Visual Arts, Ljubljana, SI; and others.

2026 MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT, MAXXI Architecture Film Summer School, course leader
2025 MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT, MAXXI Architecture Film Summer School, course leader
2024 Masterclass Aesthtetica Short Film Festival
2024 ‘Statecraft and its Illusionist Machines’, lecture and workshop at Magdalen College, Oxford University
2023 ‘Statecraft and its Illusionist Machines’, workshop at Kunsthaus Graz
2024 MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT, MAXXI Architecture Film Summer School, course leader
2023 MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT, MAXXI Architecture Film Summer School, course leader
2022 MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT, MAXXI Architecture Film Summer School, course leader
2021 MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT, MAXXI Architecture Film Summer School, course leader
2020 IMMA, Dublin, IR, International Summer School, „Statecraft“
2020 BANFF Faculty, Montréal, CA, „Soft Power“
2020 MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT, MAXXI Architecture Film Summer School tutor
2019 Masterclass UGM Gallery