Kara Marušič: Z vznožja postelje

𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐬̌𝐢𝐜̌: 𝐙 𝐯𝐳𝐧𝐨𝐳̌𝐣𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐣𝐞
4. 2.–1. 3. 2026
Stekleni atrij ljubljanske Mestne hiše

📌𝐎𝐝𝐩𝐫𝐭𝐣𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐯𝐞: 𝐬𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐚, 𝟒. 𝐟𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, 𝐨𝐛 𝟏𝟖. 𝐮𝐫𝐢

📅 Spremljevalni dogodek:
sreda, 25. februar 2026, ob 17. uri: Tudi bralni krožek s Karo Marušič in Lucijo Klauž

Kara Marušič v delu Z vznožja postelje postavi začasno konstrukcijo – kvader iz zaves, prostor, v katerem biva in v katerem se odvija njeno umetniško delovanje, kadar ga opravlja v svojem stanovanju. Vloga zaves je dvojna. Vzpostavljajo krhko razmejitev njene garsonjere tako, da bi v njej umetniško delo lahko bivalo izolirano od njenega življenjskega prostora. Hkrati pa zavese kažejo na nezmožnost izboriti si stalen prostor in čas za umetniško delo. Njeno umetniško delo se pogosto odvija na robu postelje. Postelja se vzpostavi kot kompromis, območje vznožja postelje pa kot najbolj minimalno območje, ki je še lahko namenjeno umetniškemu delovanju. Slednje v prepletu z administrativnim delom prehaja od tesnobnega sanjarjenja k skorajšnjemu počitku in nazaj k odpisovanju na elektronska sporočila in druga opravila, ki so dovolj preprosta, da jih lahko opravlja utrujena. Po koncu razstave ali ko mora prekiniti ateljejsko delo, ker mora obesiti perilo ali se pripraviti na odhod v službo, lahko tanko tkanino zloži in pospravi v predal.
(Lucija Klauž)

𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐬̌𝐢𝐜̌ (1998) je leta 2021 diplomirala iz likovne umetnosti na Academie Minerva v Groningenu na Nizozemskem, trenutno pa zaključuje podiplomski študij na Akademiji za vizualne umetnosti v Ljubljani. Od leta 2018 kot vizualna umetnica deluje tudi pod psevdonimom Bad Artist. Zanimajo jo predvsem simbolni pomeni umetniških prostorov in protokolov, torej kako generirajo in ohranjajo ideološki okvir, znotraj katerega razumemo umetnost. Sodelovala je na več skupinskih razstavah v Sloveniji in na Nizozemskem ter samostojno razstavljala v galeriji DobraVaga.

Foto: Iva Suhadolnik Gregorin
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𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐬̌𝐢𝐜̌: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐝
4. 2.–1. 3. 2026
Glass Atruim, Ljubljana Town Hall

📌𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟒 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, 𝟔 𝐩𝐦

📅 Accompanying event:
Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 5 pm: Also Book Club with Kara Marušič and Lucija Klauž

In her work From the Foot of the Bed, Kara Marušič creates a temporary structure — a cube made of curtains — the space in which she lives and in which her artistic activity takes place when she works in her apartment. The curtains serve a dual purpose. They create a fragile boundary within her studio apartment, allowing her artistic work to exist separately from her living space. At the same time, the curtains point to the impossibility of negotiating a permanent space and time for artistic work. Her artistic work often takes place at the edge of her bed. The bed is established as a compromise, and the area at the foot of the bed as the minimum area that can still be used for artistic activity. The latter, intertwined with administrative tasks, shifts from anxious daydreaming to near rest and back to replying to emails and other tasks that are simple enough for her to perform while tired. Once the exhibition has ended, or whenever she needs to interrupt her studio work to hang out the laundry or get prepared for going to work, she can fold the thin fabric and put it away in a drawer.
(Lucija Klauž)

𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐬̌𝐢𝐜̌ (1998) graduated from the Academie Minerva in Groningen, the Netherlands, with a degree in fine arts in 2021, and is currently completing her postgraduate studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Ljubljana. Since 2018, she has also worked as a visual artist under the pseudonym Bad Artist. She is particularly interested in the symbolic meanings of artistic spaces and protocols, i.e., how they generate and maintain the ideological framework within which we understand art. She has participated in several group exhibitions in Slovenia and the Netherlands and had a solo exhibition at the DobraVaga gallery.

Photo: Iva Suhadolnik Gregorin