Uršula Berlot : biography

Born in Ljubljana, she graduated from the Secondary School of Natural Science and Mathematics. She studied two years of philosophy at the Philosophy Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana before studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2002, she earned a master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and finished her doctoral study in 2010 at the same institution. Currently she is holding the position of an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana.

She works as a visual artist, theorist of art and lecturer, with an interest in the intersections of art and science. Her artistic practice is related to perception and conditions of consciousness, her light and kinetic installations investigate different states and forms of mental, cerebral landscapes.

She was awarded with the acknowledgment for the important attainments in art by the University of Ljubljana (2008); received the Schering Stiftung Fellowship and Artist-in-Residence at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2007); she gained Pollock-Krasner Grant, New York (2005) and Henkel Art Award given by KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna (2004).

Important exhibitions include: 3rd Quadrilateral Biennial 'Media Art - Angles and Intersections', Rijeka (2009), Sci-Art, Gallery Enrico Astuni, Bologna (2009), Glow 08: Forum of Light in Art and Architecture, Eindhoven (2008), Transmediale 08: Conspire, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2008), Art´Fab: l'Art-la Femme-L`Europe, Saint-Tropez (2006); her work was exhibited, among others, at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, BA-CA Kunstforum Tresor in Wien and Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana.

Selected writings include: Mimesis: Infra-thin Dimension of Art and Nature (PhD thesis) 2009; Art between the Natural, Technological and Mental, Art Words, 2009; The Aspects of Light in the Contemporary Visual Art and Architecture, Sodobnost, 2004; Art in the Age of Genetics, Art.si, 2003; Idea of Nature in Contemporary Art, Art Words, 2002; Nature, (MA thesis) 2002.

Rojena 1973 v Ljubljani. Po končani Naravoslovno-matematični srednji šoli je dve leti študirala filozofijo na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani, nato pa slikarstvo na Akademiji za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje, Univerza v Ljubljani in na Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts v Parizu. Magistrirala je leta 2002 in končala doktorski študij leta 2010 na Akademiji za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje, Univerza v Ljubljani, kjer je trenutno zaposlena kot docentka.

Deluje kot vizualna umetnica, umetnostna teoretičarka in predavateljica, posveča se povezovanjem umetnosti in znanosti. Umetniško prakso usmerja v ukvarjanje z zaznavo in zavestjo, v svetlobnih in kinetičnih instalacijah raziskuje različna stanja in oblike mentalnih, cerebralnih pokrajin.

Za svoje umetniško delo je prejela priznanje za pomembne umetniške dosežke Univerze v Ljubljani (2008); štipendijo Schering Stiftung in enoletno rezidenčno bivanje v Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2007); nagrado fundacije Pollock-Krasner, New York (2005); nagrado Henkel Art Award, KulturKontakt Austria, Dunaj (2004).

Izbor pomembnejših razstav: 3rd Quadrilateral Biennial: 'Media Art - Angles and Intersections', Rijeka (2009), Sci-Art, Galerija Enrico Astuni, Bologna (2009), Glow 08: Forum of Light in Art and Architecture, Eindhoven (2008), Transmediale 08: Conspire, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2008), Art´Fab: l'Art-la Femme-L`Europe, Saint-Tropez (2006). Med drugim je razstavljala tudi v Kunstlerhaus Bethanien v Berlinu, BA-CA Kunstforum Tresor na Dunaj in v Moderni galeriji v Ljubljani.

Izbor teoretičnih del: Mimesis: Infra-tanko področje umetnosti in narave (doktorska disertacija) 2009; Umetnost med naravnim, tehnološkim in mentalnim, Likovne besede, 2009; Vidiki svetlobe v sodobni vizualni umetnosti in arhitekturi, Sodobnost, 2004; Umetnost v dobi genetike, Art.si, 2003; Ideja narave v sodobni umetnosti, Likovne besede, 2002; Narava (magistrska naloga), 2002.