Polonca Lovšin is an architect and artist who explores self-organized initiatives and alternative forms of activism in architecture and city planning. Lately, her focus has been on the relation between town and country, particularly on urban farming as a practice that could save the countryside and towns, nature and man. Lovšin’s works range from recycled household objects modified to promote sustainability and ecological awareness, group performances, and interventions in public spaces, to photo-collages, videos, and animations.
Among Polonca Lovšin’s major solo shows are Every Egg Matters at the P74 Center and Gallery in Ljubljana (2013), and Elektrisierende Träume/ Electrified Dreams at the Kunstverein Gera in Germany (2011). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Measures of Saving the World_Part 5 at the Rotor Gallery in Graz (2014), at the 7th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia at the +MSUM (2013), and at the animated film festival Tricky Women in Vienna (2012). She has authored and coauthored numerous publications and received various grants, awards and prizes, and artist residencies, including the Golden Bird Award for Visual and Intermedia Art (2010), artist residency at the Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridge (2009) and the Artslink residency in New York and San Francisco (2006).
