SHORT BIO:
Noemi Veberič Levovnik
Noemi Veberič Levovnik (b. 1985, Slovenia) is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance art, sound, text and moving image. Noemi completed her Master's in contemporary visual art, cinema and new media in Paris and Quimper, France. She is currently based in Berlin.
Noemi Veberič Levovnik was born in 1985 in Yougoslavia, which 6 years later became Slovenia.
During her turbulant childhood she was already very artistically active and this child is still very present in her performances and interactions with the audience. In her wild highschool years she immersed herself in the cinematic culture, started making her own videos, wrote a movie script for a lesbian love story, wrote numerous poems during mathemathics lessons and performed them in the Poetry events she organised in the squats of Metelkova, while also drawing and painting at the visual arts Highschool she attended in Ljubljana. She moved to France at age of 18 to pursue a year of work in the field of theatre as an actress and scenography/costume designer with the group La Strada in Troyes. Later she completed a Bachelor with Major in Film and Minor in Visual Arts at the University Paris 8 (while working a lot with video - here, and drawing - here). She pursued the developpement of her artistic practice into predominantly video art and installation at the Ecole d’Art de Quimper, where she obtained her DNSEP in 2011 - presenting installations and an artist book/diploma Chambres et Hors Chambres. In 2013 she graduated from a Contemporary Art and new Media Masters at the University Paris 8, writing about her creative practice - the creative process, the characters, the narratives and the spaces that appear in her artistic work (you can read or see more of that here).
Since 2013 she has been freelancing as a visual artist and performer and has also had a number of odd jobs on the site (most of which involved teaching or disciplining someone).
Since 2014 she has explored the medium of live art through many solo performances, has directed shows, worked as assistant theatre director and actress.
Her artistic practice continues to be interdisciplinary at its core. It contains drawing, painting, installation, sound and music, photography, performance and video.
Noemi is currently working between Berlin and Slovenia.
CV
EDUCATION
2011 – 2013 Master's degree in Contemporary Art and New Media, University Paris 8, Paris Saint-Denis, France, mention très bien - summa cum laude
2009 – 2011 Master's degree in Contemporary Art Practice, Ecole Supérieure d’Art de Quimper, Quimper, France, magna cum laude
2006 – 2009 Bachelor's degree, Film major and Visual art minor, University Paris 8, Paris Saint-Denis, France
2000 – 2004 Visal Art Highschool in Ljubljana, Slovenia
BACHELOR AND MASTER'S THESIS AND ARTIST BOOK
2013 « ENTRE INTÉRIORITÉ ET EXTÉRIORITÉ : rêve et mémoire, figures de l’ambivalence, formes de la narration, processus créatifs » (Between Interiority and Exteriority: Dream and Memory, Figures of Ambivalence, Forms of Narration, Creative Processus), 2013, Master's Thesis, Université Paris 8, 127 pages
2011 « Chambres et Hors-chambres, les fragments d’un monde » (Chambers and Off-Chambers, Fragments of a World), 2011, artist book and Master's Thesis for DNSEP, École Supérieure d’art de Quimper, 261 pages
2009 « Dad de Stephen Dwoskin ou le miroir intérieur » (Dad of Stephen Dwoskin or the Inner Mirror), 2009, Bachelor's Thesis, Université Paris 8, 40 pages
SOLO SHOWS (VISUAL ART)
2023 Whacky Self and the Clown: artistic multiples of messy people, Galerija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 10/5 - 28/5
2021 Farewell Party for Old Things, installation and retrospective, Galerija Gallery -1, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July
2020 Cold days of the Clown, video and sound work, online exhibition, part of Air Conditions, Galerija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 29/10 - 15/2
2019 Starry Sky, permanent painting and light installation (commissioned by Carlos Pascual), Pocket Theater, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1/9 - ongoing
2018 Corners in the Room, interactive installation for children, Novi Trg, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1/7 - 10/8
2018 Room on the Street, interactive installation for children, Novi Trg, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 30/5 - 30/8
2017 The Box, videos and sound, VASA Front Page Project
2017 Fairy Tale Room, interactive installation for children, Novi Trg, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June - August
2016 Twosomes (show with Arven Šakti Kralj Szomi), Burn old love burn: installation, Gallery DLUL (part of Photonic Moments festival), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 4/4 - 19/6
2016 Noemi Veberic Levovnik: Video retrospective, Gallery Photon, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 11/5
2015 In rooms of memories that were not, multimedia installation, live performances and sound piece, Savin’s Fine Art Salon (part of the Cycle Space, Body and Medium in Transition), Žalec, Slovenia, 17/12 - 16/1
2015 Looking for the nightlife, multimedia spatial installation, Gallery Alkatraz and Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 09/4 - 4/5
2015 Room on the street, interactive installation for children, Novi trg, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June, July, August
2014 My Room, interactive installation for children, Novi trg, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June, 30/5 - 31/8
2013 Etats - States - Stanja, video, Video Wall - Urban Gallery on the street, Ljubljana, 10/11/2013
2011 My Rooms of Timelessness, multimedia installation, Bežigrad Gallery 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 31/8 - 28/9
2010 Possible Stories, multimedia installation, Gallery TukadMunga, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1/10 - 14/10
GROUP SHOWS (VISUAL ART)
2022 Račka Festival: Spaces and Articulations of Sexuality, Based on True Stories, overview exhibition Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Slovenia
2021 Erotic art in Slovenia from 1980s till present, group show, Cold Days of the Clown video, Center of Contemporary Art Celje, Celje, Slovenia
2020 Time (in Between Spaces), with Richard Pollock (part of the series Time, with Signdance collective), online exhibition and in: The Lockdown Festival, High Wecombe, UK; London Typawb Art Center, London, UK; Wrexham North Wales, UK
2020 Dreamworld: The Oracle, installation as part of the Dreamworld immersive theatrical experience, Johnny Knüpel, Berlin, Germany
2018 The Recording of Reality - the Subjectification of the Objective, a curated selection of videos from Slovene Archive of Video Art, Sunday (2009) video projection, Slovene National Cinematheque, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 Production of desire and pleasure, The Duckling Festival 2018, festival and group show, Your body is the image of my desire series of drawings and Fontana performance, Gallery Račka, Celje, Slovenia
2018 Pornceptual, group show at Magazine annual launch, number 3: Guerilla, Fontana photo series (in collaboration with Jo Pollux), Humboldt Box and Soho House, Berlin, Germany
2017 Epilog, group show with a book publication, In rooms of memories that never were video installation, Dvorec Novo Celje, Žalec, Slovenia
2016 House on the Hill, group show, Disparition video, Saint Marjeta Hill, Žlebe, Slovenia
2016 Fresh View, a curated selection of videos from Slovene Archive of Video Art, The Yellow Turn (2010) video, Slovene National Cinematheque, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 27/10
2016 Mondes Paralleles (Parallel Worlds), group show, Masks at a contemporary art exhibition video, France, 20/5 - 29/5
2014 Flatmates, collaborative performance and art installation, Gallery A+A, Venice, Italy, 20/3 - 10/5
2013 Triennale U3, The Party multimedia installation and a series of interactive live performances, MSUM Museum of Contemporary Art and Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, 20/7 - 29/9
2013 Vendredi des vidéastes : histoires racontées, The boy is mine video, Galerie de l’Angle, Paris, France, 24/5
2012 The Art of Dreaming (Working Title), Alice’s Landscape n. 1 installation with sound and sound piece, Miklova house, Ribnica, Slovenia, 12/7 - 12/8
2012 Human Emotion Project, Festival Bataclan international, Kiss, the loop of Narcisse video, Mexico city, Mexico, 28/4
2011 Oodaaq, festival, Music Box video, Rennes, France, 5/5 - 14/5
2011 Natures 8, festival, Late at night video, Bežigrad Gallery 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011 Vidéothèque evening at École nationale supérieure des beaux arts de Paris, Disparition video, Paris, France
2011 Miscellaneous, Music Box video, l’Ecole supérieure d’art de Quimper, Quimper, France
2011 Nucleus, Music Box video, The Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland
2010 Une autre situation, l’Ecole supérieure d’art de Quimper, Quimper, France
2010 Natures 7, festival, Disparition projection of video, Bežigrad Gallery 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 Show of participants of Academic fine art residence of Mladinski dom Brežice, Antoine and me painting, Brežice, Slovenia
2010 Show of participants of Academic fine art residence of Mladinski dom Brežice, Antoine and me painting, Galerija Grad Mokrice, Mokrice, Slovenia
2009 Par ici par l’art, festival, Ma chambre (My Room) installation, Dordogne, France
2002 Red Dawns Festival, drawings, paintings and performative poetry evening, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
MY WORKS AS PART OF COLLECTIONS/ ARCHIVES
Archive of Slovene Video Art DIVA, SCCA-Ljubljana, Slovenia: Work featured in curated national and international screenings, including Slovenia’s National Cinematheque
Production notes, Mubi: Garage, Internet archive of video and film artists
The Laboratory, an online database of experimental films and videos, an international selection of 192 authors
Documentary and cinéma vérité, an online database of documentaries and cinéma vérité videos and films, an international selection of 99 authors
Screening Room, an international selection of 319 contemporary short film authors
PERFORMANCE AND THEATRe
2023 Cabaret in love, new edition, Theater Acud, Berlin, Germany, 8/2
2023 Expeditions, About: Blank, Iona performance, Berlin, Germany, 20/1
2022 Garden Performances, Cat performance, Klub zur Wilde Renate, Berlin, Germany, 21/05
2022 The Monuments: Third Chapter: For All Tomorrows’ Songs, new original performance with characters of the Slightly Strange Theatre, inside the installation project created by Jasha, Kuhlhaus, Berlin, Germany, 18/02
2022 The Monuments: Second Chapter: The Last Dolphin, solo performance in collaboration with Jasha within his installation project, Kuhlhaus, Berlin, Germany, 21/01
2022 Cabaret in Love, full-length solo cabaret, produced by the Embassy of Slovenia in Berlin, Theater Acud, Berlin, Germany, 04/04
2021 The Monuments, performance in collaboration with Jasha, Kuhlhaus Berlin, Germany, 10/12
2021 Garden Performances, Fontana performance, Klub zur Wilde Renate, Berlin, Germany, 18/6, 19/6, 29/7
2021 Peep Show, Clown performance, Wilde Renate Berlin, Germany, 30/7
2020 Overmorrow, performances in interactive installations, 3-5 performances / week (The Slightly Strange Theatre), Klub zur Wilde Renate, Berlin, 14/7 - 30/10
2020 The Biennale of Performance, Collaborative and Participatory Arts (curated by Ayshia Taskin), retrospective of previous performance work and live stream of Let my Pussy Speak, The Wall Space Gallery, Scotland, UK, 11/7
2020 Holy Cvnt Collective: Spring Awakening, live-stream performance of Let My Pussy Speak, Retramp Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 29/5
2020 The Return of the Dampf: online performances, Let my Pussy Speak video performance, 27/5
2020 Dick P Van Johnson Live Show, Lulu Lapin and The Bad Bad Bunny live stream performances, 28/4
2019 Clownslam, Falling in love again performance, 8 min, UfaFabrik, Berlin, Germany, 8/11
2019 Bande à Part - Tanzbare Veranstaltung für Außenseiter, Falling in love again performance, 60 min, Eschschloraque Rümschrümp, Berlin, Germany, 3/12
2019 L/O/V/E Love of Various Environments, Falling in love again performance, 30 min, Cross Attic, Prague, Czech Republic, 6/11
2019 Performing Arts Festival Berlin, excerpt of the performance Shades of blood presented at live showings at Diagonale Showcamp, Berlin, Germany 31/5
2019 Get Even (curated by Olympia Bukkakis), Cat performance, 12 min, Kake, Berlin, Germany, 23/5
2019 Affect and Gender between Academia, Arts and Activism, From Cat with Love performance / lecture, 70 min, Acquarium Südblock, Berlin, Germany, 9/5
2019 Femme Deamonium, Falling in love again performance, 60 min, King's Head, London, UK, 1/3
2018 Fancy, Cat performance, 15 min, Ludwig, Berlin, Germany, 2/11
2018 Altes <3 Pornfilmfestival 4-ever // Lounge (PFF2018), No merci for Fruit performance, approx. duration 20 min, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany, 27/10
2018 Stand up Tragedy Berlin, Lulu Lapin: Bad bad bunny with a Fever and Diva: Bang Bang cabaret / performances, 6 min and 3 min, Lovelite, Berlin, Germany, 22/10
2018 Production of desire and pleasure, The Duckling Festival 2018, Fontana performance, 8 min, Račka Gallery, Celje, Slovenia, 22/9
2018 Your own Diva, solo show, 180 min, Barbiche, Berlin, Germany, 9/9
2018 The Poetry Brothel - Bacchanal edition, No merci for Fruit performance, 20 min, Tango Loft, Berlin, Germany, 30/8
2018 Songs and performance numbers (Lonesome soldier, etc), solo show, 30 min, Katz and Bach Gallery, Berlin, Germany, May
2018 Cabaret in Love, trial run, 60 min, Barbiche, Berlin, Germany, May
2018 Shows a la Carte, solo show, 240 min (a series of 12 performances), Barbiche, Berlin, Germany, 24/3
2018 Antiplayboy the Fest Vol.1, Pregnant Cat-Rabbit and Icecream (the Oslo suite) visual and musical performance, Cafe Haerverk, Oslo, Norway, 18/3
2018 Stand up Tragedy, Lonesome soldier and Baby Lyn Blanche: the Dance of Pills performances, Lovelite, Berlin, Germany, 9/4
2018 Faetish: Cupid's Kinly Carneval, The Golden Goddess performance, Insomnia Club, Berlin, Germany, 16/2
2018 Pornceptual magazine launch #3, Fontana performance, Humboldt Box, Berlin, Germany, 27/1
2017 PAVA - Performance and Visual artists Club Festival, Fontana performance, Alte Munze, Berlin, Germany, 16/12
2017 Pornaltes Wet and Hot Winter Edition, Fontana performance, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany, 2/12
2017 Stories on stage: Queer feminist poetry and more, Release me not, Inside live music and written word performance, B-lage, Berlin, Germany, 27/11
2017 Faetish Nymph-o, The Balloon Venus durational installation-performance, Insomnia club, Berlin, Germany, 25/11
2017 Berlin Porn Film festival, Rapparabbit performance, Porn'Altes Lounge, Berlin, Germany, 27/10
2017 Poetry Brothel Berlin - The Lynchian Edition, Candice Jones durational performance, Insomnia club, Berlin, Germany, September
2017 appearing in the documentary film Red with my show Shades of Blood, as one of the main protagonists
2017 Slovenija gori! (direction: Sebastjan Horvat; production of Anton Podbevšek Teater), one of 5 performers and co-author of text, 120 min, 21/4 (opening night), 24/4 and 30/4, Borštnikovo srečanje, Kranj, Slovenia, 27/10
2017 Festival Soundacts, Cat solo performance, 15 min, Athens, Greece, 28/5
2017 In rooms of memories that were not, performance in the installation
2016 VIII. contemporary dance national review, Fontana performance, 8 min, Španski borci, 9/10
2016 Pascual's evening of Virtual Tijuana, a kind of cabaret (performer and co-creator, as part of the Trabuko collective with Carlos Pascual and Maurico Valdès San Emetario), 50 min, Vodnikova domačija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 20/10
2016 Shades of blood, performance-show (produced in collaboration with Pocket teater studio), 70 min, Tovarna Rog and Pocket teater studio, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 17/9, 29/11 and 30/11
2016 Ne-srečna noč, cabaret (as part of the Trabuko collective), 50 min, Vodnikova domačija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 20/12
2016 Shades of blood, open rehearsal and first public presentation, Rog, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 17/9
2016 Festival of experimental circus: Cirkusarna NaokROG, Lonesome town, Baby Lyn Blanche and Long winding road performances, Rog, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2/9
2016 Rumena noč - Yellow Night (Hlavatyev park / Boho chic), Rapparabbit performance, 8 min, Koper, Slovenia, 29/7 and 30/7
2016 The Turtle Trials (with Signdance collective), Graz, Austria, June
2016 Us, the European dead (directed by Sebastjan Horvat), assistant of direction and of scenography, Mladinsko gledališče, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 4/6 (opening night)
2016 An evening of performances, retrospective show combining performances of 2015 - 2016, Rog, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 25/6
2016 Festival Spider, host of festival, Baby Lyn Blanche and Rapparabbit performances, Španski borci, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2/6 and 3/6
2015 Searching for the nightlife, edition Cirkusarna NaokROG, single time live show (concept, direction and main performer), Cirkusarna NaokROG, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19/12
2015 Lonesome town, performance (part of the festival City of Women presentation of workshop with Moira Funicane), klub Gromka, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 15/10
2015 created several performances and characters, sporadically performing in alternative space in Cirkusarna NaokROG in Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 Festival Mlade Rime (Young Rhymes), Alica Double and Velvet do-gooders concert of my original music, klub Gromka, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 24/6
2015 Alone within the crowd, street theater event with Ana Monro street theatre group (performer and co-creator), shows in: Ljubljana, Maribor, Nova Gorica, Izola; Slovenia
2015 Looking for the nightlife, three live events (Springbreak night, galerija Alkatraz, 9/4; Sketches for Voguing, Modern Gallery Ljubljana, 15/4; Skrivnost, ki jo vsem povem, Gallery Alkatraz, 5/4), Gallery Alkatraz and Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014 Curious Circus Collective: Tüwieté, Lulu Lapin: Bad bad bunny performance, Tüwi, Vienna, Austria, 13/12 and 14/12
2014 Bunny with a fever, performance, Ursula Martinez: Beyond Burlesque public presentation as part of the festival City of Women, Emanat, klub Gromka, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 11/10
2014 Alone within the crowd, street theater event with Ana Monro street theatre group (performer and co-creator), in front of Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 18/9 (opening show)
2005 - 2006 Molière’s The Misanthrope, a French-language professional production with La Strada Cie, Troyes, France (actress)
WORKSHOPS RELATED TO PERFORMANCE ART AND THEATRe
2016 Moira Finucane: Workshop of queer burlesque, 5 day intensive of queer burlesque and cabaret with a live performance as a part of the Festival City of Women, Zavod Emanat, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 Beyond burlesque with Ursula Martinez, 5 day intensive of queer burlesque and cabaret, Zavod Emanat, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014 The international street theatre training, ŠUGLA, a 14-day intensive hands-on training, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012 Tiny Buttons with Antonia Baehr & Keren Ida Nathan, 5 day intensive of queer burlesque and cabaret, Zavod Emanat, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010-2011 Langages: experimental platform for interdisciplinary projects, weekly meetings, guest lectures and workshops (for example: Sound, Body, Language with Nathalie Tallec (5 day workshop of writing, conceptualisation, movement); Dance, Body, Language with Fanny Lechaillé (contemporary dance and movement)), l’Ecole supérieure d’art de Quimper, Quimper, France
2009 Art et Environement - Residency and Workshop, 8 days workshop led by the artistic duo Art Orienté Objet, collaboration with local artists, created a video of a live performance in the rainforest, Douala, Cameroon
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Worship: The Gospel of Pussy and In Liquid, poems, ANMLY, May
2025 It Would Be Me If I Didn’t Change, poetry chapbook, Slovenian, upcoming at Črna Skrinjica
2025 The New Anthology of Slovenian Poetry, several poems, upcoming at Črna Skrinjica
2022 Nothing Personal?! Essays on Affect, Gender and Queerness, edited by Omar Kasmani, JC Lanca, Sophie Nikoleit, et al., b_books, Berlin, English: Co-authored poetry exploring feminist and queer narratives.
2013 Between Interiority and Exteriority: Dream and Memory, Figures of Ambivalence, Forms of Narration, Creative Processus, Master’s Thesis, Université Paris 8, 127 pages
2011 Chambers and Off-Chambers, Fragments of a World, artist book and Master’s thesis, French, DNSEP, École Supérieure d’art de Quimper, 261 pages, French
2011 My Rooms of Timelessness: Drawings, Paintings, Photographs, and Video, co-authored multimedia publication, Slovenian and English
2009 Dad of Stephen Dwoskin or the Inner Mirror, Bachelor’s Thesis, Université Paris 8, 40 pages
WRITING COURSES and WORKSHOPS
2024 Fiction/Novel Workshop, with Jane Flett, The Reader Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2024 Advanced Poetry, with Donna Sinclair, The Reader Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2024 Crafting Memoir, Autobiography, and Autofiction, with Ambika Thompson, The Reader Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2012 - 2014 Contemporary cabaret and performance workshops with the festival City of Women in Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011 One Sings the Other Doesn’t, with Nathalie Talec, École Supérieure d’Art de Quimper, France: explored songwriting and language
2011 Writing & Choreography Workshop, with Fanny Lechaye, École Supérieure d’Art de Quimper, France: explored interconnections of writing and contemporary dance