Nezka Zamar | Nezka Zamar

Nežka Zamar's research-based practice challenges the limits of identity and individuality of a language, expanding the interspace between materiality and concept. The narratives she constructs in the borderscapes of transdisciplinarity blend literary and visual arts to form spatial installations with performative backgrounds. Her inherently undisciplined, process oriented ouvré juxtaposes itself with the layers of social structure and its mechanisms. Born and raised in a borderland and having lived and worked as a foreign female artist across diverse cultural landscapes, her projects often address the multifaceted question of positionality. Her works draw from complex relationships between subjects that manifest as the material of her objects and the objects of her work. She holds BA and MA degrees in Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, has completed a fully funded semester at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, and two semesters in the field of Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She is one of the founding members of the art collective Fondazione Malutta, and a two time nominee for the OHO Group Award, the central national award for young artists in Slovenia. From 2012 onwards she participated in numerous residencies, art talks, and projects, such as a collaboration with the Albanian Pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, and a public intervention and book presentation at the Mediterranea Young Artists Biennale, Tirana. Over the years her work has been internationally exhibited in both group and solo shows.