JASMINA GRUDNIK: TEŠ (Solo Exhibition Opening)

Young artist Jasmina Grudnik is using character drawing to explore the view from her former room over the Šoštanj coal-fired power plant, which once represented to her a constant in the childhood routine and a prevision of the world beyond. In her spatial installation of translucent surfaces she presents variations of the power plant industrial landscape scene, heavy puffs of smoke pluming out between the woods and the field. Its (im)materiality thus touches upon memory that is equally intense and elusive.

Jasmina Grudnik (1989) is about to obtain her master’s degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design under the tutelage of Mag Zora Stančič, Assistant Prof, and Mag Žiga Kariž, Associate Prof. In 2013, she was presenting her solo project Brlog (Den) in a joint exhibition with Tinkara Babić and Niko Rupnik in Simulaker Gallery, Novo mesto. In the same year she attended a graphic arts summer school in Bogdanci, Macedonia, and showed the resulting works at the Sofia Print Art Triennial in the Skopje City Art Museum. In 2014, her works were exhibited at the 2^nd International Printmaking Triennial in the Cvijeta Zuzorić Pavilion, Belgrade. Soon afterwards her solo exhibition Jovana was held in Media Nox Gallery, Maribor. In 2015 she participated in the Premiere Triennial of Young Artist in the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Celje, in the Graphic Spring exhibition in Vetrinjski dvor, Maribor, and in ALU Gallery, Sarajevo. She is currently working on exhibitions for the international festival Sarajevo Winter, Sararjevo, and Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana. She continued her studies at FBAUL, Lisbon, DAMU Prague, as well as FF and AGRFT, Ljubljana. She also works as set designer.