Nežka Zamar is an interdisciplinary artist, who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, obtaining her BA diploma in 2013. She continued her studies in visual arts at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, and later graduated with her MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Her practice focuses on questioning and pushing the limits of identity and individuality of a language, expanding the interspace between materiality and concept. Backed with documentation and academic research, her subjects are represented through different artistic mediums, often conglomerated in spatial installations and site-specific projects. Her works draw from complex relationships between subjects that manifest as the material of her objects and the objects of her work. From 2012 onwards she participated in numerous residencies, art talks, and projects, such as a collaboration with the Albaninan Pavillion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, and a public intervention and book presentation at Mediterranea Young Artists Biennale. Over the years her work has been internationally exhibited in both group and solo shows, including at Tulla Culture Center, Tirana (AL), Monitor Gallery, Rome (IT), Teatrino del Palazzo Grassi, Venice (IT), Museo di Santa Maria della Scala, Siena (IT), Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana (SI), Greenpointgallery, Brooklyn, NYC (USA), East Slovak Gallery, Košice (SK), Bait al-Zaibaq, Ramallah (PS), P74 Gallery, Ljubljana (SI), Kula Cetinjska Gallery, Belgrade (RS), Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana (SI).
An inherent part of my working practice is a hermeneutical approach to Chaos regarding all the elements that constitute it: a precious collection of objets trouvé and their interchangeable relationships. My practice operates within the interspace where the concept can be considered a found object and the found object considered a concept. An integrative approach to artistic languages used for representation is also a part of it; each of them can be considered the subiectum, a focal point of artistic research. I follow this modus operandi throughout the entire working process, starting with observation, documentation, and reinterpretation. This approach is further elaborated by work with different mediums, developing the materiality alongside the concept, applying them to each other accordingly, analysing them and pushing their limits. Considering myself a side-kick of artworks-in-process and a translator of stories surrounding us, I more often than not find myself researching down numerous rabbit holes, not just to understand the particularities of the subject in question, but to draw the lines, and find new connections.
Artist in residence, Reading Public Space, Offcity AiR, Pardubice, CZ, ongoing
CV
EDUCATION
2018
MA of Fine Arts in Visual Arts and Painting at Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2015
Erasmus + Exchange Programme in Visual Arts and Painting at Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar
Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey
2013
BA of Fine Arts in Visual Arts and Painting at Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice, Italy
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Sessions, curated by JAŠA and Mattia Varini, Kuelhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2022
Topografije zvoka, curated by Nina Dragičević, Galerija ŠKUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Identity, the Inner Border, curated by David Kranzelbinder, Pavelhaus, Bad Radkersburg, Austria
Translate, curated by Gianluca Cappellazzo, Spazio 21, Lodi (MI), Italy
Off the Hook; Likely to Happen, curated by Urška Aplinc, Kula Cetinjska Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2021
Wunderbar, Bardadino, Venice, Italy
Vaccanza - The Mountain Tropical Experience, curated by Gianluca D'Incà Levis, Nuovo Spazio di Casso al Vajont, Italy
Hydra Pace Final Presentation, curated by Petra Houskovà and Husam Abusalem, East Slovak Gallery, Košice, Slovakia
Hydra Pace Final Presentation, curated by Petra Houskovà and Husam Abusalem, Bait al-Zaibaq, Ramallah, Palestine
Ona, curated by Vladimir Bačič, DLUSP, Lokarjeva galerija, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
2020
Primordial Finds, curated by Gianluca Cappellazzo, Sharevolution Contemporary Art Gallery, Genova, Italy
Izolacija življenja / Isolation of life, curated by Vladimir Bačič, Lokarjeva galerija, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
Mozaik, curated by Vladimir Bačič, Lokarjeva galerija, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
2019
Fin de Siecle, Provenance of Subject, curated by Zala Orel, Galerija Layerjeve hiše, Kranj, Slovenia
A tutta Malutta, art talk and art walk, Venice, Italy
Salon, curated by Shawn James, Greenpointgallery, Brooklyn, NYC
Spin Off, Simposio di Pittura, Gervasutti Foundation, Venice, Italy
Alfa za bete, curated by Lucija Smodiš, Pekarna magdalenske mreže, Galerija K18, Maribor, Slovenia
AIR4, curated by Piera Ravnikar, Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Antikulturna Antiproslava, curated by Miha Kosovel, Carinarnica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2018
Il Gemello Cattivo, Progetto e mostra di Fondazione Malutta, Museo di Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
La Torre Maluttona e Il Mercato Babelico, curated by Paola Capata, Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy
Opera Prima, curated by Paola Bristol and Riccardo Caldura, in collaboration with Daniele Capra, Giuliana Carbi Jesurun and Trieste Contemporanea, Atrio Monumentale, Trieste, Italy
2017
La costruzione di un errore, curated by Angela Vettese, art talk and exhibition, Teatrino del Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Perpendicular, curated by Fondazione Malutta, Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Trigger Party, Marselleria Milano, Milan, Italy
Transparent travel, in collaboration with The two gullivers, Ca’ Soranzo, Venice, Italy
La Fritata, curated by La poltrona viola Art Studio, Trieste, Italy
Cabinet, One of us, curated by Zoe de Luca, Museo di Livorno, Livorno, Italy
Tutti la chiamano la casa delle ragazze, book presentation and a site specific public art intervention in Tirana, Young Artists Biennale (HOME), Tirana, Albania
Passengers that come and go, curated by Rubin Beqo, Tulla Culture Center, Tirana, Albania
Collezione Malutta and Black market, curated by Paola Capata, Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy
2016
Tutti la chiamano la casa delle ragazze, curated by Carlo Sala, art book publication and presentation, Treviso, Italy
Fondazione Malutta meets the Albanian Pavilion, curated by Simon Battisti, Leah Whitman-Salkin, Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
Fondazione Malutta, curated by Justine Luce, Radoso Darbu Galerija, Riga, Latvia
2015
Rob Pruitt Flea Market, Finding Goran Gogić, curated by Aurora Fonda, A plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy,
2014
Uncharted Festival of Arts, Art kontakt, curated by Andi Tepelena, Porto Palermo, Albania
Mutatosi in una pioggia d’oro: Painting as performace, curated by Andrea Bruciati and White Fish Tank, Marzocca (AN), Italy
Paesaggi e non. Omaggio a Gofredo Parise, Museo del paesaggio, curated by Saverio Simi De Burgis, Torre del Mosto (VE), Italy
Bela manipulacija – White manipulation, curated by Lucija Smodiš & Rezidenca Maistrova, Pekarna magdalenske mreže, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Maschere d’artista, Ca’ Soranzo, Venice, Italy
La Collezione Fondazione Malutta, Ex-ospizio, Fondamenta delle Terese, Venice, Italy
2013
Da Venezia A Porta Venezia, curated by Caroline Corbetta, IL CREPACCIO, Milan, Italy
Art Night, Talento senza uomini, curated by Carlo di Raco, Fine Arts Academy of Venice, Italy
2012
Art Night - Atelier F, curated by Carlo Di Raco, Martino Scavezzon, Miriam Pertegato, Fine Arts Academy of Venice, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Predstavitev knjige / Book Presentation, curated by Urška Kleindienst, Media Nox Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
2022
Zaporedja prostorov / Sequence of Spaces, curated by Nina Skumavc, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016
Personalini, curated by Thomas Braida, Finestra illuminata art studio, Venice, Italy
Pred svojim pragom, bi-personal exhibition with Enej Gala, curated by Petra Paravan, Galerija Rika Debenjaka, Kanal, Slovenia
2015
Potencial jutranje kave, curated by Špela Lutman, Galerija Mostovna, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2012
Nežka Zamar, curated by Jure Poša, ZM Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Nežka Zamar in collaboration with MedeArt, Medea (GO), Italy
WORKSHOPS & RESIDENCIES
2021
Hydra Pace, Platform for Artistic Collaboration and Exchange in collaboration with Dobra Vaga gallery, Kair Košice Artist in Residence, Ramallah Municipality and Anna Lindh Foundation, artist in residency, Slovakia, Slovenia, Palestine
Dolomiti Contemporanee, artist in residency, Nuovo Spazio di Casso - ex Villaggio Eni Borca di Cadore, Italy
2020
Odprti Atelje, artist in residency, Galerija DobraVaga, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019
7. International Summer Campus, residency with scholarship, Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Germany
2019
Simposio di Pittura, workshop and exhibition, Gervasutti Foundation, Venice, Italy
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Atelier F, workshop and exhibition, curated by Carlo Di Raco, Martino Scavezzon and Miriam Pertegato in collaboration with the Academies of Fine Arts from Napoli, Catania, Urbino, Reggio di Calabria and Brera (IT), Venice, Italy
2014
Uncharted Festival of Arts, Art Kontakt, workshop and exhibition, curated by Andi Tepelena, Porto Palermo, Albania
2012
Atelier F, workshop and exhibition, curated by Carlo Di Raco, Martino Scavezzon, Miriam Pertegato Magazzino n°35 , Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy
2011
Atelier F, workshop and exhibition, curated by Carlo Di Raco, Martino Scavezzon, Miriam Pertegato with the participation of Paolo Dolzan, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy
2010
Atelier F, workshop and exhibition, curated by Carlo Di Raco, Miriam Pertegato, JAŠA, Martino Scavezzon, Magazzino n°35 Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy
Cadavre exquis, open laboratory of Drawing and Painting and a collective exhibition curated by Carlo Di Raco, Ivana D’Agostino, Domenico Papa with the participation of JAŠA, Magazino del Sale n°3 Fondamenta degli Incurabili, Venice, Italy
SCHOLARSHIPS
2021
Hydra Pace Platform for Artistic Collaboration and Exchange in collaboration with Dobra Vaga gallery, Kair Košice Artist in Residence, Ramallah Municipality and Anna Lindh Foundation, residency with scholarship, Slovakia, Slovenia, Palestine
2020
Odprti Atelje, residency with scholarship, Galerija DobraVaga, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019
7. International Summer Campus, residency with scholarship, Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Germany
2015
Erasmus + scholarship at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
RTVSLO Kultura, V Škucu se je začel festival Topografije Zvoka, Ljubljana (SI), 2022, video article / culture news section
Nina Dragičević x Galerija Škuc, Topografije Zovka, September 2022, exhibition catalogue
Nina Skumavc, Zvoktekst, Nekateri tokovi Sodobne poezije, Časnik Delo, Ljubljana (SI), 2022, art critique, newspaper article
Radio Študent, Kultura za vse, Vizualno poetični sprehod po galeriji, Ljubljana (SI), 2022, radio interview / culture news section
RTVSLO Kultura, Razstava vizualnih Umetnic Nežke Zamar in Valerije Intihar v Galeriji P74, Ljubljana (SI), 2022, video article / culture news section
Roman Valenta x Kair, Documentary video of the project A Soundwalk, 2021, Košice (SK)
Urška Aplinc, Lene Lekše, Ana Likar, Mia Paller, Matic Pandel, Lea Topolovec, Nežka Zamar, Kino Šiška Center for Urban Culture, Ljubljana, 2022, Likely to Happen, exhibition catalogue
Anja Zver, Rok Avbar, Hydra Pace, Kino Šiška Center for Urban Culture, August 2021, Ljubljana (SI), residency catalogue, final publication
Gianluca Cappellazzo, Sharevolution Contemporary Art, Primordial Finds, edited by Chiara Pinardi, Genova, (IT), exhibition review
Vladimir Bačič, Lokarjeva Galerija, Mozaik 2020, Ajdovščina (SI), exhibition catalogue
Fin-de-siecle, Galerija Layerjeve hiše in stolpa Škrlovec, Kranj (SI), exhibition review
Iza Košir, Mladina, AIR4 (100 artists) (100 artworks), Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana (SI), article
Santa Maria della Scala Museum, Il Gemello cattivo, Siena (IT), article
Justine Luce, Rachele Maistrello, Alice Modenesi, Barbara Prenka, Sulltane Tusha, Nežka Zamar, Tutti la chiamano la casa delle ragazze, produced by Studio Cortellazzo Wiel & Associati, graphic design by Multiplo Studio, 2016, Treviso (IT), book
Cristiana Colli e Pippo Ciorra, Mappe LAB IV edizione, Demanio Marittimo, Mutatosi in una pioggia d'oro, edited by Gagliardini Editore, July 2014, magazine, article
Giorgio Baldo, Stefano Cecchetto, Paesaggi e non. Omaggio a Gofredo Parise, Museo del Paesaggio, June 2014, Torre di Mosto (IT), exhibition catalogue
Petra Paravan, Pred svojim paragom, Galerija Rika Debenjaka, April 2016, Kanal ob Soči (SI), exhibition review
