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Marjetica Potrc
is a Ljubljana-based artist and architect. Her work has been
featured in exhibitions throughout Europe and the Americas,
including the Sao Paulo Biennial in Brazil (1996 and 2006);
the Venice Biennial (2003 and 2009); the Van Abbemuseum in
Eindhoven, Netherlands (2008); and the Smart Museum of Art
at The University of Chicago (2009). She has had solo shows
at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2001); the Max
Protetch Gallery in New York (2002, 2005 and 2008); the
Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin and Stockholm (2003, 2007 and
2010); the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge,
Massachusetts (2004); the Portikus in Frankfurt am Main,
Germany (2006); and The Curve at the Barbican Art Galleries
in London (2007). Her many on-site projects include Dry
Toilet (Caracas, 2003), Power from Nature (Barefoot College,
India, and Catherine Ferguson Academy, Detroit, 2005) and
The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour
(Stedelijk goes West, Amsterdam, 2009). In addition, Potrc
has been the recipient of numerous awards, including grants
from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (in 1993 and 1999); the
Hugo Boss Prize 2000, administered by the Guggenheim Museum;
a Caracas Case Project Fellowship from the Federal Cultural
Foundation, Germany, and the Caracas Urban Think Tank,
Venezuela (2002); and the Vera List Center for Arts and
Politics Fellowship at The New School in New York (2007).
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