[WELTRAUM VI] Of The Soil And The Water
Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana. Her work focuses on resilient habitat in spaces of across world-wide geography. She has worked in informal cites that arise as a result of the overflowing growth of the great urban centers. In this sense, her work offers a record of projects that aim to give testimony of comunity-based solutions in organization and managment of contemporary city. On thursday’s Weltraum she will discuss water infrastructure in Caracas informal city and in two public art projects in London and near Essen. Kings Cross pond in London is situated at one of the most urbanized spaces in the world, where a hyper production of real estate is running on full speed. How can a pond facilitate resilience in such an environment? “The project reframed what the value of the land in this particular size is not real estate, but it is the value of the soil and the water, two essential and not renewable resources,” says Marjetica.
[WELTRAUM] is an independent radio show curated by Boštjan Bugarič and broadcasted via NORadio
Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana. Her work focuses on resilient habitat in spaces of across world-wide geography. She has worked in informal cites that arise as a result of the overflowing growth of the great urban centers. In this sense, her work offers a record of projects that aim to give testimony of comunity-based solutions in organization and managment of contemporary city. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe, Africa and the Americas, including in such major exhibitions as the Venice Biennial (1993, 2003, 2009), the São Paulo Biennial (1996, 2006, 2020), and Skulptur: Projekte in Münster, Germany (1997). Her work is regularly shown at the Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin and Stockholm since 2003. Among her important exhibitions are shows at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2001), the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004), the De Appel Foundation for Contemporary Art in Amsterdam (2004), the Portikus Gallery in Frankfurt am Main (2006), The Curve at the Barbican Art Galleries in London (2007), the Max Protetch Gallery in New York (2008), the Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art in Basel (2012), the PAMM Perez Art Museum Miami (2015), and the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art Berlin (2013, 2018).