The Gift Ecology
2025
An exploration of the political ecology of gifting, where the extraction and exchange of culture and nature become instruments in the making and unmaking of geopolitical alliances.
ExploreMost Favoured Nation
2022
Drawing on the Most Favoured Nation principle of international trade law, the project examines how artists, institutions, and nations compete for visibility, legitimacy, and influence within contemporary systems of soft power.
ExploreStagecraft – Une mise en scène du pouvoir
2021
Centred on the film The Gift, Stagecraft exposes how culture has been historically enlisted in the service of patriarchal power, with artistic production functioning as a Trojan horse through which political desires and ideological ambitions are advanced.
ExploreThe Palace
2021
Staged as a theatrical environment populated by political gifts and their afterlives, the exhibition explored how culture becomes a performative tool through which political elites define what is representable in the name of the nation and the common good.
ExploreThe Foundation of Endeavour
2020
Tracing the afterlives of political gifts created in the name of transnational unity.
ExploreThe Pleasure of Expense
2020
Developed on the centenary of the League of Nations, The Pleasure of Expense reflected on the fragile legacy of internationalism and the political role culture has played in its aspirations.
ExploreEverything that You Desire and Nothing that You Fear
2018
Through an immersive installation inspired by Expo 67 and Yugoslavia’s final appearance on the world stage, Jasmina Cibic juxtaposes artworks as souvenirs of a failed state with a stage set that reanimates its political imaginaries and possible futures.
ExploreThis Machine Builds Nations
2018
An examination of the cultural machinery of nation-building.
ExploreThe Spirit of Our Needs
2017
Through the work of three celebrated modernist architects, The Spirit of Our Needs explored how architecture was mobilised to perform political aspirations and stage new visions of national identity in the wake of historical conflict.
ExploreSpielraum: an exhibition in three acts
2015
An exploration of art and architecture as the stages upon which political identities are imagined, performed, and ultimately reimagined.
ExploreFor our Economy and Culture
2013
Commissioned for the Slovenian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, For Our Economy and Culture reimagined a national pavilion as a theatrical apparatus of statecraft, examining how nations mobilise cultural symbols to stage authority and construct collective identity.
ExploreNo Experience Necessary
2012
Disguised as a lottery for artistic success, No Experience Necessary examined how critical art is instrumentalised within the economies of urban redevelopment, visibility, and gentrification.
ExploreSituation Anophthalmus hitleri
2012
An immersive investigation into how nations construct themselves.
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