ROBERTINA ŠEBJANIČ

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Robertina Šebjanič, based in Ljubljana, is an artist/researcher whose practice drifts through the fluid thresholds of hydro-ecology, (geo)politics, and arts, attuned to the rhythms and ruptures of aquatic worlds. Her award- winning works navigate the intertidal zones between species, and bringing to the surface the submerged voices of oceans and rivers.  In her analysis of the Anthropocene and its theoretical framework, the artist uses the terms “aquatocene” and “aquaforming” to refer to the human impact on aquatic environments. 

Her art work Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva generator (artist proof) is since 2019 part of the .NewArt{collection;}_ Electronic Art Collection, Spain. Since 2023, she has been an Associate Professor at the School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica.                                                                              

Her works received awards, honorary mentions and nominations at Prix Ars Electronica, Starts Prize, Falling Walls., Re: humanism.

Robertina Šebjanič’s work explores interspecies communication and ecologies of coexistence, as seen in her series Aurelia 1+Hz. With Aquatocene, she draws attention to underwater noise pollution and its impact on marine life. In collaboration with Gjino Šutić, aqua_forensic investigates pharmaceutical pollution in aquatic environments. Her ongoing series Echoes of the Abyss examines the environmental consequences of sunken (chemical) munitions leaking toxins from the seafloor, an overlooked legacy of warfare dumping.

She had lectures / talked / presented her works at events/venues (selection): Stanford University (Palo Alto), Ocean Space – TBA21 (Venice), UCLA- ArtiSci Center  (Los Angeles), Arte&Ciencia UNAM – The National Autonomous University of Mexico  (Mexico City), ISEA2023 (Paris), Mare Conference (Amsterdam), Kikk Festival (Namur), ITMO University (St. Petersburg), Aalborg University (Aalborg), University of Nova Gorica – School of Arts – (Nova Gorica), Re:publica (Berlin) a.o. 

She exhibited / performed at solo and group exhibitions as well as in galleries and festivals, bienalles, museums around the globe (selection): ZKM (Karlsruhe),  Gallery Cukrarna (Ljubljana), Kunstgewerbemuseum (Berlin), UCLA – EDA (Los Angeles) Ars Electronica (Linz), Tribeca Immersive – Mercer lab (New York), Matadero (Madrid), WRO Bienalle (Wroclaw), ISEA2024 (Brisbane), Biennal Ciutat i Ciència at CCCB (Barcelona), KIKK festival (Namur), The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G), Contemporary Art Museum of Istria (Pula), Sea Art Festival (Busan), Watermans Arts Centre (London), Akbank Sanat (istanbul), ,Art Laboratory (Berlin), Eastern Bloc (Montreal), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Ciudad de Mexico), MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb), MSUB – The Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), MONOM (Berlin), La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris), Le Cube (Paris), +MSUM Museum of Contemporary Art (Ljubljana), Eyebeam (New York), Kikk Festival (Namur), CAAM – Atlantic Center of Modern Art (Grand Canaria) CCD – Centro de Cultura Digital (Ciudad de Mexico) re:publica (Berlin), Mladi Levi (Ljubljana), Piksel (Bergen), OSMO/ZA (Ljubljana), Device art 5.015 at Klovičevi dvori (Zagreb), PORTIZMIR#3 (Izmir),  etc.

Robertina Šebjanič (SI, Ljubljana) je umetnica-raziskovalka, katere praksa se giblje na stičišču umetnosti, ekologije in (geo)politike. Uglašena z ritmi, glasovi in prelomi hidrosfere, drsi skozi tekoče meje (pod)vodnih svetov ter na površje dviga potopljene glasove oceanov in rek.

Njena dela so prejela nagrade, častna priznanja in nominacije pri Prix Ars Electronica, STARTS Prize, Falling Walls in Re:Humanism.

Delo Robertine Šebjanič se giblje na robu zaznavnega, kjer se prepletajo glasovi različnih vrst in vznikajo občutljive ekologije sobivanja. V seriji Aurelia 1+Hz raziskuje možnosti medvrstne komunikacije ter ritme, ki presegajo človeško merilo časa in razumevanja. V projektu Aquatocene usmeri pogled v podvodne zvočne pokrajine, kjer antropogeni šum postane nevidna, a vseprisotna sila, ki preoblikuje življenja morskih organizmov. V sodelovanju z Gjinom Šutićem projekt aqua_forensic razgrinja sledi farmacevtskega onesnaženja, ki se neopazno kopiči v vodnih telesih in prepleta kemične ter biološke tokove. Njena najnovejša serija Odmevi Brezna – Echoes of the Abyss, se spušča v globine potopljenih vojnih ostankov, kjer razpadajoče (kemične) municije počasi izpuščajo toksine v morsko dno. Ta pozabljena dediščina vojaškega odlaganja postane prostor tihe, dolgotrajne preobrazbe — kraj, kjer se zgodovina ne konča, temveč raztaplja v vodi, sedimentu in življenju samem.

Bila je umetnica na rezidencah in prejemnica štipendij pri: TBA21–Ocean Space Archive, UCLA PST ART, EMAP, STARTS4Water, TARA Ocean Foundation, CO-VISION, MADE IN Platform in drugih. Njena dela so vključena v zbirke, kot je New Art Foundation (Reus). Od leta 2023 je izredna profesorica na Akademiji umetnosti Univerze v Novi Gorici.

Predavala je in imela umetniške pogovore na Stanford University (Palo Alto), UCLA Art | Sci Center (Los Angeles), TARA Foundation v okviru TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space (Benetke), UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3, Nica) ter UNAM (Mexico City), med drugim.

Njena dela so bila široko razstavljena v muzejih, bienalih in festivalih, kot so Villa Arson (Nica), Momentum Biennale (Moss), Ars Electronica (Linz), Tribeca Immersive (New York), Kunstgewerbemuseum (Berlin), Cukrarna (Ljubljana), Matadero (Madrid), Sea Art Festival (Busan), Akbank Sanat (Istanbul), MSU Zagreb, MSUB Beograd, MSUM Ljubljana in CCD (Mexico City), med drugim.