Lecture / Uršula Berlot
Uršula Berlot, light and kinetic installations
Slavija No 11, Ulica Vita Kraigherja 3, Maribor
Tuesday, 19 March 2013 at 18:00
lecture by: Uršula Berlot, PhD, artist
Artist Uršula Berlot will present her work before closing of the exhibition Almost Spring / 100 Years of Slovene Art. She works as a visual artist, theorist of art and lecturer, with an interest in the intersections of art and science. Her artistic practice is related to perception and conditions of consciousness, her light and kinetic installations investigate different states and forms of mental, cerebral landscapes. "I make use of different procedures to obtain shapes: either by artificial resin, which drops through nets and is applied in organic forms to Plexiglas, or by bending Plexiglas, projecting light upon or through it and creating immaterial shades, projections and reflections. In this manner I extend the margins of the work of art, which spreads in immaterial elements, and thus create incorporeal and intangible phenomena." (Uršula Berlot)
Uršula Berlot (1973, Ljubljana) studied two years of philosophy at the Philosophy Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana before studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2002, she earned a master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and finished her doctoral study in 2010 at the same institution. Currently she is holding the position of an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. She was awarded with the acknowledgment for the important attainments in art by the University of Ljubljana (2008); received the Schering Stiftung Fellowship and Artist-in-Residence at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2007); she gained Pollock-Krasner Grant, New York (2005) and Henkel Art Award given by KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna (2004).
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