Gala Alica
opening Jan 11, 2025
Artist Statement:
In her artistic practice, Gala Alica deals with problematics of urban space and the thin line between private and public space. Gentrification, hostile architecture, privatisation of public spaces, and with it, the question of their inclusiveness/exclusiveness are the starting points of her research for sculptures and site-specific interventions. Through explorations of broader socio-political contexts and usage of elements of our built environment, the artist also investigates characteristics of human relationships, intimacy and alienation.
She is currently studying visual arts at die Angewandte, the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and has a bachelor’s degree in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She also studied at the University of Art and Design in Linz. Solo exhibitions include Stuck in Motion(Pražirna AB3, Prague, CZ, 2023), Someone’s Land (Gallery Alkatraz, Ljubljana, SLO, 2022), and Generated Views (Gallery Nova Izložba Pešak, Ljubljana, SLO, 2022). Her works have been exhibited as part of many group exhibitions, among others also in the last year in Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia Against the Stream of Time (Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, SLO), Rally: (Bistro21 artspace, Leipzig, DE), 5.000.000.000.000 čikov (Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana, SLO), Für die Vögel (Austrian Sculpture Park, Graz, AT), Exactly as Imagined (Brut Nordwest, Vienna, AT).
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