Performance by Nina Stopar

Performance by Nina Stopar
Saturday, 8 February 2025, at 12 a.m.
artKIT

On the occasion of her first solo exhibition in Maribor, Nina Stopar will recite some or most of her poems from her 'artist book' in progress, accompanied by her new shamanic drum, in front of the artKIT exhibition space on Saturday, 8 February 2025 at 12 a.m.

Nina Stopar explores how people and space define us and what we really are; in other words, what is the self other than the space and the people who define it. She is interested in the questions of identity and authenticity and how such definitions and encounters shape the image that those who look with their eyes see, as well as the image of the moment, here and now.

Stopar relates her painting to the legacy of action painting and abstract expressionism. The body intuits this, she says: “I am the brush, I am the color, I am the form, I am the painting. I love to lose myself in the unconscious field of painting and find my true expression.”

Biography

Nina Stopar (1982) is a professor of Slovenian language and philosophy, poet, visual artist and dancer, who graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana in 2007 and completed her MA studies at the same institution in 2016 with the thesis Contemporary Art in Philosophical Reflection under the mentorship of Dr Lev Kreft. After almost ten years of teaching, she switched to the field of visual arts and in 2021 completed her Master’s degree in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana with the thesis Body Painting as a Spiritual Change in the Time of Indeterminacy under the mentorship of Prof. Sergei Kapus and Dr. Lev Kreft. Since then, she has been engaged in a variety of creative practices, from classical painting to body painting and performance, dance and poetry.
Lives and works in Žerjav, Črna na Koroškem, and Ljubljana.

https://www.ninastopar.art/

artKIT, Glavni trg 14, Maribor
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