Jasmina Cibic (b. Ljubljana 1979) works in film, sculpture, performance and installation to explore ‘soft power’ – how political rhetoric is deployed through art and architecture, particularly examining how cultural production is used by the state to communicate certain principles and aspirations. Through unfolding the complex entanglements of art, gender and state power, the artist encourages viewers to consider the strategies employed in the construction of national culture. Gathering together symbols and iconographies, Cibic’s projects present a synthesis of gesture, stagecraft and re-enactment. Realised in films and installations, her on-going performative practice is an ‘enacted’ exercise in the dissection of statecraft. Her multi-layered approach draws together primary sources and falsified narratives. This wilful overwriting creates shifting meanings and highlights historical uncertainties and untruths, especially in the gendering of the past. Cibic plays a double-game, at once decoding mechanisms of power whilst building her own allegorical structures. Jasmina Cibic represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial with her project “For Our Economy and Culture”. Her recent exhibitions include solo shows at: macLyon, Museum Sztuki Łódź, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, CCA Glasgow, Phi Foundation Montreal, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Aarhus 2017, Esker Foundation Calgary, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, MGLC Ljubljana and Ludwig Museum Budapest along with group exhibitions at MAXXI Rome, Steirischer Herbst ‘19, MOMA NY, MUMA Monash Museum, CCS BARD, Marta Herford and Guangdong Museum of Art China. Cibic’s films have been screened at Whitechapel Gallery, Pula Film Festival, London Film Festival, HKW Berlin, Louvre, Dokfest Kassel and Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. Cibic was the winner of Jarman Award (2021), B3 Biennial of the Moving Image Award (2020) and MAC International Ulster Bank and Charlottenborg Fonden awards (2016). Her latest monograph Spielraum is published by DISTANZ Verlag in partnership with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead and the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade; and NADA by Kunstmuseen Krefeld and Kerber Verlag. SOLO / MAJOR EXHIBITIONS • The Gift Ecology — Void Art Centre, Derry, 2025 • The Arrangement — Gandy Gallery, Prague, 2025 • Charm Offensive — Brief Histories, New York, 2024 • The Dreams We Call Our Own — Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, 2023 • Charm Offensive — Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, 2022–2023 • Stagecraft – Une Mise en Scène du Pouvoir — macLYON, Lyon, 2021–2022 • The Palace — Museum Sztuki, Łódź, 2021 • The Foundation of Endeavour — Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 2020–2021 • The Pleasure of Expense — Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, University of Dundee, Dundee, 2019 • Spielraum — Tobačna 001, Ljubljana, 2019 • This Machine Builds Nations — BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2018 • The Spirit of Our Needs — Museum Haus Esters, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, 2017–2018 • Theatrum Philosophicum — Açıkekran Gallery, Istanbul, 2017 • Topical Devices — NN Contemporary, Northampton, 2017 • Tear Down and Rebuild — Esker Foundation, Calgary, 2016 • NADA Act I — Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, 2016 • Building Desire — Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, 2015 • Spielraum: Give Expression to Common Desires — MGLC, Ljubljana, 2015 • Spielraum: The Nation Loves It — Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2015 • Fruits of Our Land — SAW Gallery, Ottawa, 2014 SELECTED INTERNATIONAL / INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS • Triennial of Photography Hamburg: Alliance, Infinity, Love — Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, 2026 • Utopia – The Right to Hope — Kunst Sammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, 2026 • Personal Stories / Political Realities — Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, 2025 • Partly Furnished, Excellent View — Haus Lange, Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Krefeld, 2025 • Utopia – The Right to Hope — Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, 2025 • Self-Determination: A Global Perspective — Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2023–2024 • This is a Rehearsal — Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, 2023–2024 • Bigger than Myself: Heroic Voices from ex Yugoslavia — MAXXI, Rome, 2021 • 3rd Industrial Biennial — Croatia, 2020 • Steirischer Herbst ’19 — Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz, 2019 • An Atmosphere of Joyful Contemplation — CCA Glasgow, Glasgow, 2019 • 12th Kaunas Biennial — Kaunas, 2019 • Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 — Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018–2019 • Unsettlement — MUMA, Melbourne, 2018 • Belgrade Biennial – Marvellous Cacophony — Belgrade, 2018 • Symptoms of Society — Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2017 • MAC International — MAC Belfast, Belfast, 2016–2017 • Beyond the Globe / 8th Triennial of Contemporary Art – U3 — Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 2016 • Low-Budget Utopias — Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova +MSUM, Ljubljana, 2016 BIENNALES / MAJOR COMMISSIONS & SCREENINGS • 55th Venice Biennale — Slovenian Pavilion, Venice, 2013 • 12th Kaunas Biennial — Changing the Climate, Kaunas, 2019 • Chicago Architecture Biennial — This is a Rehearsal, Chicago, 2023 • Biennale Jogja 17 — Titen: Embodied Knowledge, Shifting Grounds, Yogyakarta, 2023 • Innsbruck Biennial — Heaven Can Wait, Innsbruck, 2024 • U3 Triennial of Contemporary Art — Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 2024 • The Gift — London Film Festival / BFI Southbank, London, 2021 • NADA: Act III — Louvre Auditorium, Paris, 2019 • NADA Trilogy — Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2019 AWARDS / RECOGNITION • Jarman Award — 2021 • B3 Biennial of the Moving Image Award — 2020 • MAC International Ulster Bank Art Prize — 2016 • Charlottenborg Fonden Award — 2016