CV
Education
Diploma in architecture, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana.
1996
Diploma in sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana.
2001
MFA in sculpture and new media, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana.
2005
Ph.D., Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany.
2015
Solo Exhibitions
Back to the City and Forward to Nature, raum AU in collaboration with Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška(KGLU), Slovenj Gradec. Curator: Jernej Kožar
Viennacontemporary24, Gallery P74 presenting Josef Dabernig, Mina Fina, Polonca Lovšin.
Forest in Women’s Hands and Mushrooms At The End Of The World, Slovenian Forest Institute, Ljubljana. In the frame of international project Forest Encounters.
2024
Europe Day Ulaanbaatar, Delegation of the European Union in Mongolia and the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Beijing, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Be a Bee, Week of Honey, Gallery of Cultural Center Martin Krpan, Pivka.
Pollinators Collective, Institute for Chemistry, Ljubljana.
ARCOmadrid 2023, P74 Gallery, presenting Milena Usenik and Polonca Lovšin, Madrid, Spain.
2023
What Does The Forest Say?, ArtKIT, Maribor.
What's the Plan?, The House of Culture Pivka, Slovenia.
2022
MOVEMENT FOR PUBLIC SPEECH, Cultural center Tobacna 001, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana.
2021
We Can’t See the Forest for the Trees, Studio Smartinska, Ljubljana.
2020
Movement for Public Speech / Where Is This World Turning?, Ambrozev trg pred Cukrarno, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana.
Movement for Public Speech / Everyone's Land, Beyond a Construction Site, Ljubljana.
2019
Pollinators Collective, Gallery Media Nox, Maribor.
Call for New Members: Pollinators Collective, Gallery Prozori, Knjižnica S. S. Kranjcevica, Zagreb, Croatia.
Be a Bee, Gallery Miro Kranjc, Home of arts Srecko Kosovel, Sežana, Slovenia.
2018
Movement for Public Speech / Kočevje-YEAH, group performance in industrial area of Kočevje, in the frame of the project Inverting Battlefields, Xenos Graz,Nayari Castillo and Kud Obrat.
2017
Movement for Public Speech / I Follow Her Without Words, Novi trg, Ljubljana, KUD Obrat and 2016 Ljubljana Pride 16.
The Man is Full, the Goat is Whole, Center and Gallery P74, Ljubljana.
Movement for Public Speech / Freedom, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor, Maribor Art Gallery (UGM).
Chicken or Egg, House of Culture Pivka, Slovenia.
2016
Movement for Public Speech / Freedom, Trg svobode (Square of Liberty), Art Gallery Maribor.
Golden Egg Berlin, Agora Collective, Berlin.
Soil, Water, Garden, Freedom, Draught, a series of solo exhibitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), Ljubljana.
2015
Group Exhibitions
2025
Picture(a)City,(together with KUD Obrat), Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana. Curator: Igor Španjol.
2024
The Smell of Freshly Chopped Wood, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia. Curators: Zdenka Badovinac, Jasna Jakšić, Ana Škegro.
28th Biennial of Industrial Design (BIO28), Double Agent: Do You Speak Flowers, Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana. Curator: Alexandra Midal, assistant curator Emma Phlieger.
Layering, Collage and Assemblage in Contemporary Slovene Art, Gallery CUKRARNA, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Curators: Alenka Trebušak, Mateja Podlesnik.
Gute Eichen am Karst / Dobri dobi na Krasu, Gallery Seno and UNICUM, Sela na Krasu, Slovenia. Curators: Marlene Hausseger, Hannes Zebedin.
10. Triennial of Contemporary Art – U3, Against Flow of Time, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana. Curator: Tevž Logar.
Wild Spots, <rotor> Centre for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria. Curators: Margarethe Makovec, Anton Lederer.
Habitat Graz, Graz Museum, Austria. Curator: Daniela Brasil.
EX-SITU, Artistic Positions on Endangered Biodiversity and the Coexistence of Species, <rotor> Centre for Contemporary Art and National museum of Sarajevo, Bosna and Herzegovina. Curators: Margarethe Makovec, Anton Lederer.
2023
Buzzing Slovenia, Of Bees and People, Museum Europäischer Kulturen (MEK), Berlin, Germany. VideoDvorišče.13, Archive station DIVA, SCCA, Gallery Škuc, Ljubljana.
Our Ships Vol.2, Gallery P74 Vienna, Austria.
HKP 25 / The Best Years, Pivka House of Culture, Pivka.
Back2Back: Teja Miholič – The neighbor's dog cries, what if the neighbor died. Archive station DIVA. Project room SCCA, Ljubljana.
2022
Natural Faith, MGLC Švicarija, Ljubljana.
Sheltered Gardens, Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative (PCAI), J. and A. N. Diomedes Botanic Garden, Athens, Greece.
Our Ships, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana.
Emergency Exit II, Museum for Contemporery Art Metelkova, Ljubljana.
Returning the Gaze, Gallery CUKRARNA, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana.
2021
A Letter To The Future, EKO8 triennial, Art Gallery Maribor, MTT Factory, Melje, Maribor.
When Gesture Becomes Event, City Gallery Ljubljana, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana.
2020
When Gesture Becomes an Event, Kuenstlerhouse Vienna, Austria.
Exhibition Art Colony Mileševa 2019, House of Culture Prijepolje, Republic of Serbia.
Spekula, Translations of visionary or an illusion, Gallery Meduza / Galleries of Piran, Koper.
2019
Živele!, 25th International Festival of Contemporary Arts - City of Women, Kino Dvor, Ljubljana.
Pop-up, Art for Sale, Art Gallery Maribor in collaboration with MAO, Ljubljana.
2018
Nasuti Festival, Nova Cvernovka, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Inverting Battlefields Feldbach, Xenos with Nayari Castillo and Kunst im Oeffentlichem Raum Steirmark, Austria.
Let’s Roll Our Sleeves Up, Likovni Salon Gallery, Celje.
2017
Ecity: Ljubljana, Movement for Public Speech /Freedom, Apollonia, Strasbourgh, France
Leave it in the Ground, Rotor Graz, together with Usti nad Labem Hause of Arts, Czech Republic.
Symbol, Sign and Colour, 6. international festival of visual arts Kranj: ZDSLU Kranj, different venues in Kranj.
Utopia / Distopia: Architecture, city, territorij, together with KUD Obrat, City Gallery Ljubljana.
Economy of Nature, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana.
2016
Stories from the Edge, The Daily Rhythems Collective, Galley Art Dep, Trieste, Italy, Gallery Kortil, Croatia, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria.
2015
Crises and New Beginnings: Art in Slovenia 2005–2015, MSUM (Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova), Ljubljana.
Jože Barši, Polonca Lovšin, Uroš Potocnik, Kapsula, Gallery P74, Ljubljana.
Green Islands 2015, Ubran Hives, aMAZElab, Art, Nature, Landscape, Milano, Italy
Res Publika M, intervention in public space, Kud Obrat, Masarykova Street, Ljubljana.
Residencies, Grants and Awards
Artist in Residence Berlin, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia.
2024
One year grant, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia.
2022
Artists Gathering Mileseva, House of Culture Prijepolje, Republic of Serbia.
2021
Artist in Residence Kunstraum Memphis, Linz, Austria.
2019
Artist in Residence Nova Cvernovka, Bratislava, Slovakia.
One year grant, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia.
Rihard Jakopič Recognition 2018, awarded by Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies and Moderna galerija, Ljubljana.
2018
Artist in Residence London, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia.
2016
Art in Public Space Maribor 2015 (First Prize), Art Gallery Maribor, Maribor.
2015
Golden Bird Award 2010, Liberal Academy, Ljubljana.
2011
Wysing Arts Centre Residency, Bourne, Cambridge, UK.
2009
Residency Gastatelier Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
2008
CEC ArtsLink Fellowship, New York and the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, Calif., USA, Artist in Residence Berlin, Ministry of Culture of Slovenia, Berlin, Germany
2006
Artist in Residence Berlin, Ministry of Culture of Republic Slovenia.
Artist talks, Workshops, Mentorships
2024
Summer School, Our Many Easts (workshop mentor, together with Urška Jurman and Mateja Kurir) Rožnik, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana (30.8.2024).
BIO28 (28th Biennial of Industrial Design) Double Agent (mentor of production platform), Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana (March 2023 - November 2024).
2023
Not only for the good of people, but of the entire planet, (plenary lecture), Linhart Hall, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana (31.3.2023).
2022
Soil, Forests, Common, in the frame of Emergency Exit exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM) (artist talk and round table, 20.5.2022).
2021
Forest (lecture together with Mateja Kurir), House of Culture Pivka (Mašun, 30.6.2021).
2020
Ready to Change, Faculty for Architecture, University of Ljubljana (artist talk, 6.10.2020).
Days of starting EKO8, MTT factory, Art Gallery Maribor, Maribor (lecture and round table, 16.9.2020).
Community oriented spaces, Open stage Metelkova, KUD Obrat & Zavod BUNKER, Ljubljana (round table, 22.8. 2020).
Finding a Language of Hospitality, Risk Change, International Online Conference, Multimedia Center Kibla, Maribor (lecture, 14.8.2020).
2019
Ready to Change / Wearable Tools for a Near Future,(lecture and workshop mentor) Institute for Spatial Design, TU Graz, Austria (25.11. - 29.11.2019).
2018
Self sufficiency, Workshop SAMO, House of Culture Pivka (together with Petra Matijević).
2017
Hands-on Workshop with MA students of Art & Public Space, guest artists at Professor Apolonija Šušteršič, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway (19th to 21st September 2017).
Ready to Change,(habilitation lecture) department of Visual Pedagogy, University of Maribor (11.10.2017).
2016
Hands-on Workshop with MA students of Art & Public Space, guest artist at professor, Apolonija Šušteršič, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway (28th to 30th September 2016).
2015
Critical architecture and urban planning, 24.2.2015, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana (26.9. – 30.9.2015).