Iva Suhadolnik Gregorin (born 1997) is a conceptual and visual artist who explores issues of work, gender, identity and power relations through participatory performance, its documentation, and photography. She graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Ljubljana in 2023, and has staged solo exhibitions at Galerija Fotografija in Ljubljana, GT22 in Maribor, Galerija Siva in Zagreb, F-Bunker Gallery in Velenje, DUM project space, and DobraVaga. She has also taken part in numerous joint exhibitions, at venues such as +MSUM, Jakopič Gallery, Monfort Gallery, the Centre for Contemporary Art in Celje, the Layer House, and Hypha Gallery 2. As co-author of three pieces, she took part in The Third Place international festival (2024), held simultaneously at the Cookhouse Gallery at Chelsea College of Arts in London and the AVA Gallery in Ljubljana, and has staged performances in Ljubljana, London, Yerevan and Budapest.
Iva Suhadolnik Gregorin’s practice creates opportunities for the formation of temporary spaces that emerge as invitations to emancipation and/or as catalysts for the deconstruction of work ethics. She intertwines her emotional and personal landscape with the political, where a certain measure of sensitivity and honesty serves as the foundation of her creative process. She places great importance on revealing the internal mechanisms of performance and photography as artistic forms, where collaboration plays a key role. She lives in Ljubljana, and works some of the time in the UK and elsewhere.
Clouds Move When I’m Still unveils the continuation of the artist’s many years of research into attitudes to work (and non-work), and the conditions of creation, which have consistently marked her practice in recent years. The series of black and white photographs in the exhibition were taken by the author during a time that was not filled with any demands or expectations. It thus brings into focus the question of time when nothing is required of the individual: the meaning of time without purpose, the very time when the artistic process can begin.
In its theoretical basis it references discussions by authors such as Duchamp and Malevich, who critiqued the fetishisation of work, and highlighted the importance of rest and freedom without obligations as a space for reflection. In contrast to contemporary capitalist society, which measures the worth of individuals through ceaseless activity and visible output, the artist encourages the creation of time that passes slowly, without a clear objective or measurable effect.
A framed tarot card, The Hanged Man, enters into dialogue with photographs of the sea, sand, trees, wind, and self-portraits, acting as the conceptual anchor of the exhibition. The figure of a man hanging upside down, suspended in time and space, offers an image of voluntary suspension. His serene posture and calm expression show that a state of rest is not imposed, but chosen. The Hanged Man observes the world from an inverted perspective, from a position that symbolises pause, retreat, and space for a different view.
The exhibition rejects the romantic myth of the artist as an entity of suffering, and turns it on its head by affirming pleasure as the main source of artistic creation. Rest, laziness, and moments of apparent inactivity are the foundation of artistic practice, where work can develop, mature, and take shape. Clouds Move When I’m Still also creates a space for slowing down, which allows us to reflect on different rhythms of life and work.
Production: Banka Slovenije
Exhibition also supported by: City of Ljubljana
MGBS curator: Ema Kobal
Co-curator: Tamara Mlakar
Since 2014 the City of Ljubljana’s department of culture has been co-financing projects by artists who are just at the beginning of their artistic journey. The saplings (»Mladike« - first projects) category has been included among the City of Ljubljana’s annual cultural project tenders ever since. Individuals only just beginning to establish themselves are given the opportunity to play an active role in visual arts, music, performing arts and intermedia, and to develop their own creativity. In this way the City of Ljubljana also ensures the development of new aesthetic practices within individual fields of culture.
The visual arts commission has supported 28 first projects by visual artists between 2014 and 2026. Since 2024 the City of Ljubljana has also supported NGO programmes in the area of culture created by young artists aged 35 and under. This allows the NGOs running projects by young artists to enter into a system of stable, multi-year co-financing from the City of Ljubljana budget.
Iva Suhadolnik Gregorin received funding from City of Ljubljana’s department of culture under its saplings (»Mladike« - first projects) category for her Platonic Leap project (2025).
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