Apolonija Šušteršič
Apolonija Šušteršič is an architect and visual artist. Her work is related to a critical analysis of space; usually focused at the processes and relationships between institutions, cultural politics, urban planning and architecture. Her broad – ranging interest starts at phenomenological study of space and continues its investigation into social and political nature of our living environment. She usually makes extensive researches into specific situations found on location, which she uses as a starting point of her project. The result isn’t only presented as analytical criticism but it produces in itself already a suggestion for the future. She pursues new possibilities and makes proposals from a hybrid point of view that ranges beyond art and architecture, making socially committed works naturally taking the form of everyday life activity. Her practice is imbedded within interdisciplinary discourse and usually includes collaborations with other professionals such as architects, urban planners, curators, sociologists, and local population.
Apolonija Šušteršič has a PhD from University of Lund, Malmö Art Academy, Sweden; and runs her own art / architecture studio practice in Lund, Sweden and in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is a professor in visual art at Oslo National Academy for the Arts, a head of a new MFA program Art & Public Space. Together with architect and a professor at KTH (Stockholm), Meike Schalk she formed an operative unit, which occasionally produces research, projects, actions and discussions.
Apolonija Šušteršič participated in a number of internationally published and exhibited projects and exhibitions within and beyond the international contemporary art institutions around the world, like Moderna Museet Stockholm, Berlin Bienale 2, Luxembourg City of Culture, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Marian Goodman, Paris, De Appel, Amsterdam, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Art Museum, University of Memphis, USA, Tirana Biennale 3, Tirana, Muhka, Antwerp, Edinburgh International Festival, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Galerie für Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, 12th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Artes Mundi 5, Cardiff, Gwangju Biennial, NTUCCA Singapore among others.
Her latest publications:
Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968 (MIT Press) by James Voorhies
The Social (Re)Production of Architecture; Politics, Values and Actions in Contemporary Practice by Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal
Architecture in Effect - Rethinking the Social in Architecture, (in process)
Gwangju Biennale 2016: The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), exhibition catalogue
Living as Form, Socially engaged Art from 1991 - 2011 by Nato Thompson
Projects on line:
www.undergrounddiscussionclub.com