Andrea Knezović (b. 1990) is a visualvisual artistartist and researcherresearcher whose practice movesmoves betweenbetween artistic inquiry, critical theory, and institutional tactics.
Her work maps the entanglemententanglement of intimate and institutional systems through subversivesubversive gesturesgestures and dialecticaldialectical methodsmethods that explore identity politics, care, and structural power
Andrea’s research is rooted in psycho-cultural politics and explores their institutional implications and mythopoetic dimensions. With an interdisciplinary and conceptual approach, she examines how bodies and subjects navigate liminal spaces—zones shaped by chronopolitics, cognitive capitalism, and socio-political ecologies. Her work often engages speculative infrastructures, game-like rituals, and alternative systems of care that reimagine collective resilience and knowledge production.
Through auto-ethnographic excavations and systemic inquiries, Andrea constructs methods for negotiating tropes of failure, reframing articulations of power, and rethinking how care operates—both structurally and affectively.
Andrea studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Ljubljana (BA) and later earned an MRes in Artistic Research from the University of Amsterdam. In 2023–2024, she was a Research Fellow at BAK – basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. From 2021 to 2024, she served as Chair of the Board of the Salwa Foundation. In 2022, she co-founded MARC Amsterdam, a platform for multilateral approaches to artistic research.
Her texts have appeared in Thresholds Journal (MIT Press), Onomatopee (Eindhoven), Set Margins, Lish Journal (London), Simulacrum – Journal for Art and Culture (University of Amsterdam), and publications of the Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean. In 2025, she published Nocturnalities: Bargaining Beyond Rest, a book on the politics of rest.
Andrea has been invited as a guest lecturer at institutions such as Gerrit Rietveld Academie, HKU Utrecht, AVA Ljubljana, and the University of Brighton.
Exhibitions and presentations of her work include BAK – basis voor actuele kunst (NL), P/////AKT Amsterdam (NL), Nieuw Dakota (NL), Kunstverein Kärnten (AT), Cukrarna Gallery (SI), INDEBT (NL), The Keller Gallery at MIT (US), 12 Star Gallery (UK), Panorama Venice (IT), MARX HALLE – Vienna Contemporary (AT), Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art Ljubljana (SI), Kiribati National Museum and Cultural Centre (KI), National Gallery of Skopje (NMK), GMK (HR), U3 – 10th Triennial of Contemporary Art (SI), and the 60th Venice Biennale, where her project was presented in collaboration with Vlatka Horvat at the Pavilion of Croatia.
Her work is held in public and private collections including the NLB MUZA Art Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, and the SCCA-DIVA Archive. She was nominated for the Essl Art Award in 2013 and 2015.
Andrea lives and works between Amsterdam, Ljubljana, and Zagreb.
Knezovićs' practice is
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