In 1990, I was born on a border, and this border represents the axis around which revolves an integrative artistic approach that blurs the lines between languages of expression. It cuts through examined subjects in a series of perpetually recurring translations. Disrupted and displaced, it emerges, acquiring new potentials.
In my working process reinterpretation occurs first through the initial act of observing. Observation, coupled with increased consciousness, translates into documentation. (...) I comprehend the subiectum as the focal point of my artistic research, positioned in space between materiality, and concept. It is in this seemingly invisible interspace that I initiate the construction of an artwork, contemplating the composition of the subject. In relation to my working process, I understand the tangible and the immaterial as binary and in constant reciprocal development. It is at this point that I search for answers as to how and why an open-ended artwork should communicate. (…)
This modus operandi is enhanced by a hermeneutical approach to Chaos regarding all the elements that constitute it: a precious collection of
objets trouvé and their interchangeable relationships. It operates within this interspace where a concept can be considered a found object and a found object considered a concept. The integrative approach to artistic languages used for representation is a part of it; each of them can be considered the subiectum, a focal point of artistic research.
Nežka Zamar is an interdisciplinary artist who studied painting 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 with perfect scores at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice under the mentorship of professor Carlo di Raco. She continues to collaborate with Atelier F, the Venetian Academy’s art studio, where she was trained as a painter, and is an active member of the art collective Fondazione Malutta since its foundation. From 2012 onwards, she participated in and co-organized various workshops and solo and group exhibitions around Europe, including two group shows at Monitor Gallery in Rome, a collaboration with the Albaninan Pavillion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, and a participation and book presentation at Mediterranea Young Artists Biennale. Her interdisciplinary artistic practice focuses on observation, documentation, shaping, and development of represented thought.
She lives and works between Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Venice, Italy.
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
2020
Izolacija življenja / Isolation of life, virtual exhibition, Lokarjeva galerija, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
Mozaik, Lokarjeva galerija, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
2019
Provenance of Subject, Galerija Layerjeve hiše, Kranj, Slovenia
A tutta Malutta, art talk and art walk, Venice, Italy
Salon, Greenpointgallery, Brooklyn, NYC
Spin Off, Simposio di Pittura, Final exhibition and opening, Santa Caterina, Venice, Italy
Alfa za bete, curated by Jalovo in collaboration with Lucija Smodiš, Galerija K18, Maribor, Slovenia
AIR4, curated by Piera Ravnikar, Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Antikulturna Antiproslava, performance and exhibition, 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, Fondazione Malutta, 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, Fondazione Malutta, art talk and exhibition, Teatrino del Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Perpendicular, Fondazione Malutta, Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Trigger Party, Fondazione Malutta, Marselleria Milano, Milan, Italy
Transparent travel, art talk and exhibition, Nežka Zamar, Iva Lulashi, Oscar Contreras Rojas, Fondazione Malutta in Collaboration with The two gullivers (Quebec), Ca’ Soranzo, Venice, Italy
La Fritata, Fondazione Malutta, La poltrona viola art studio, Trieste, Italy
Cabinet, One of us, Tutti la chiamano la casa delle ragazze, Rachele Maistrello, 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, Tulla Culture Center, Tirana, Albania
Collezione Malutta and Black market, Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy,
2016
Tutti la chiamano la casa delle ragazze, art book publication and presentation, Treviso, Italy
Fondazione Malutta meets the Albanian Pavilion, Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
Fondazione Malutta at Radoso Darbu Galerija, Riga, Latvia,
2015
Rob Pruitt Flea Market, Fondazione Malutta – Finding Goran Gogić, 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, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Fondazione Malutta Maschere d’artista, Ca’ Soranzo, Venice, Italy
La Collezione Fondazione Malutta, Ex-ospizio, Fondamenta delle Terese, Venice, Italy
2013
Da Venezia A Porta Venezia, Casa delle Ragazze, curated by Caroline Corbetta, IL CREPACCIO, Milan, Italy
Art Night -Atelier F. 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
2016
Nežka Zamar, Personalini, curated by Fondazione Malutta, Finestra illuminata art studio, Venice, Italy
Pred svojim pragom, bi-personal exhibition with Enej Gala, Galerija Rika Debenjaka, Kanal, Slovenia
2015
Potencial jutranje kave, Galerija Mostovna, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2012
Nežka Zamar in collaboration with Jure Poša, ZM Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Nežka Zamar in collaboration with MedeArt, Medea (GO), Italy
WORKSHOPS & RESIDENCIES
Artist in Residence @ DobraVaga, Ljubljana, Slovenia (September, October, November 2020), upcoming
August 2019
7. International Summer Campus, residency with scholarship, Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Germany
July 2019
Simposio di Pittura, workshop and exhibition, Santa Caterina, Venice, Italy
July to September 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Atelier F, 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
2012
Atelier F, curated by Carlo Di Raco, Martino Scavezzon, Miriam Pertegato Magazzino n°35 , Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy
2011
Atelier F, curated by Carlo Di Raco, Martino Scavezzon, Miriam Pertegato with the participation of Paolo Dolzan, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy
2010
Atelier F, 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
2019
7. International Summer Campus, residency with scholarship, Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Germany
2015
Erasmus + scholarship at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey
