Ana Mrovlje, based in Ljubljana, works in the fields of visual and live art. She uses the individual experience as the main medium of her works. Through her art installations and live acts, she draws on ideas and subjects related to the unconscious mind and its encapsulation in the human body. She studied and specialized psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna and has a background in sculpture. In her projects she aims to trigger a seemingly unconnected chain of associations in a person’s interchangeable perception and offer the viewer a distinctive synthesis in the artwork itself. Through her close investigations of the psyche she questions how individual’s sanity is related to the collective insanity. Each of the projects is a transformative encounter, binding the materialized work with the content. Art has the ability to express what language can not. In her works she provokes the lines drawn between the constructed social perspectives and the prevalent standpoints of individuals by reflecting the blind spots of both.
EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES
2017 Installment of Location: Between Present and Future, Our Prime Property
2017 ANECHOIC / BREZ ODMEVA , Ana Mrovlje & Dan Allon, Gallery glass atrium, Town House Ljubljana, Slovenia (upcoming)
2017 B#SIDE WAR Group exhibition, Treviso, Italy (upcoming)
2017 Performing Art 3Days: THE CONSTANT STATE OF EMERGENCY performance, Gallery Fornace Pasquinucci, Florence, Italy
2017 Performing Art 3Days: PLEASE I WANT MORE performance, Gallery Fornace Pasquinucci, Florence, Italy
2017 Opening performance of Anna Halprin (Planetary dance), Viva Arte Viva, Venice Biennale, Giardini, Venice (Italy)
2017 NOWHERE IS NOW HERE Villa Manin, Passariano, Codroipo UD, Italy
2017 EMBODIED MEMORY Villa Manin, Passariano, Codroipo UD, Italy
2017 MEMORY AS A LIVING MATTER / LA MEMORIA DELLA GUERRA ATTRAVERSO LA MATERIA, La Sala Umberto Veruda, Trieste, Italy
2016 SIT DOWN AND DEAL WITH WAR INSIDE OF YOU (interactive installation), Caos Art gallery Venezia, Venice, Italy
2016 DRUGI / ANOTHER Universal Atelier of Street Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo)
2016 MAYDAY Venice International Performance Week, C32 Workshop series with Vest & Page
2016 UNESCO International Art Education Week
2016 YOU ARE A REFUGEE Lose Your Labels Carrozzerie N.o.t. Rome, Italy
2016 TABULA PLENA Lose Your Labels, performance, Carrozzerie N.o.t. Rome, Italy
2015 READ MY LIPS Gallery space Central Station, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo)
2015 PEACESTOOL Sessel Festwoche, Hallein, Austria
2015 INTIMATENESS Gallery ECONTEMPORARY, Trieste, Italy (solo)
2015 WERKSHAU Alte Saline, Salzburg-Hallein, Austria
2015 SCHMIEDE Through the City, performance, Hallein, Austria
2015 PRIMAVERA Gallery of Fine Art Association Maribor, Slovenia
2015 ARTEFATTO_RESET Palazzo Gopchevich, Trieste, Italy
2013 Group exhibition, Pionier Art Center Ljubljana, Slovenia
OTHER:
Teaching: Blue Language Workshop, Florence (IT), 2017
Artist in residency, Contemporary art Museum Villa Manin, Udine, Italy, 2017
Performance art intensive training, Vest and Page (workshop series in collaboration with International Venice performance Artweek), Venice, 2016
Teaching: Blue Language Workshop, Rome (IT), 2016
Selection for Primavera prize, Društvo likovnih umetnikov Maribor, Slovenia, 2015
EDUCATION:
1993-2000 Dance academy Tartini/ ballet
2000-2004 Kazina Dance School /jazz ballet/ show dance
2009-2013 Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Bachelor degree
2012-2016 Specialization in psychoanalysis
2011-2013 Art school Ljubljana, Pionier Art Center school, Sculpture