Artist Statement:
In my artistic practice, I explore the human experience within urban environments, engaging with themes of intimacy and alienation through sculpture, sculptural installations in public space, and site-specific projects. My work engages with the constructed environment to reflect on how we navigate the shifting boundaries between private and public realms and examines the histories of urban spaces and the socio-political contexts that shape them. Working primarily with metals, construction materials, and found objects, my practice is often marked by a sense of permeability and ephemerality, incorporating both material and temporal traces while questioning hierarchical distinctions between spaces and places.
CV:
Gala Alica (b. 1999, Ljubljana) explores the human experience within urban space through her sculptures and site-specific installations, focusing on how architecture and material environments shape feelings of intimacy, alienation, and belonging. She is completing her magister degree (MAG) in sculpture at die Angewandte, University of Applied Arts Vienna, and holds a bachelor’s degree (BA) from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She has also studied at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria, and Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. Solo exhibitions include The Cabinet (UGM | Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, SLO, 2026), Small Parts, Isolated and Desired (Jochen Hempel Gallery, Leipzig, DE, 2025), Not All That Persists Prevails (MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art, Ljubljana, SLO, 2024), Someone’s Land (Gallery Alkatraz, Ljubljana, SLO, 2022), and Generated Views (Gallery Nova Izložba Pešak, Ljubljana, SLO, 2022). Her works have been exhibited in numerous group shows, including U3—10th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia: Against the Stream of Time (MG+, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, SLO, 2024), where she received the 10th Triennial of Contemporary U3 Art Award for “the relevance of her message and the quality of her work” (jury consisting of Anne Barlow, Bernard Blistène, Luigi Fassi, Christelle Havranek, and Simone Sentall).
Exhibitions:
2024:
U3 - 10th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia Against the Stream of Time, MG+ Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Rally: (duo exhibition), Bistro21 artspace, Leipzig, Germany
5.000.000.000.000 čikov (group exhibition), Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Group exhibition ´Für die Vögel´ at Austrian Sculpture Park, Graz, Austria
Group exhibition ´Exactly as Imagined´ at Brut Nordwest, Vienna, Austria
2023:
Solo exhibition ‘Stuck in Motion’ at Pražirna AB3 as part of the Pražirna AB3 residency, Prague, Czech Republic
Duo exhibition ‘Grit in the Eye, Stone in the Shoe’ at Courtney Jeager Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Group exhibition ‘In the Open’ at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Group exhibition ‘I Never Sleep Because Sleep is the Cousin of Death’ at Bistro21 artspace, Leipzig, Germany
Group exhibition ‘The Stone is The Skin’ at Zink Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Group exhibition ‘5.000.000.000.000 čikov’ at Monfort Maritime Museum, Portorož, Slovenia
2022:
Solo exhibition ‘Someone’s Land’ at the Gallery Alkatraz, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Solo exhibition ‘Generated Views’ at Pešak Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Site-specific installation ‘The Playground’ as part of Angewandte Festival, Vienna, Austria
Group exhibition ‘Extracting a View’ at M100, Odense, Denmark
Group exhibition ‘Anti-Anti-Anti’ in die Angewandte, Vienna, Austria
Group exhibition ‘Playing String Figures’ in Kunstverein Baden, Baden, Austria
2021:
Group exhibition ‘No Loitering Today, the Cataclysm Is Nearby’ at Gallery Alkatraz, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019:
Group Exhibition ‘The Junction’ at the City Hall, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018:
Group exhibition Brstišče, which was part of the project Swisshouse: Community, Art and
Nature at the Swisshouse Creative Centre, MGLC, Ljubljana, Slovenia