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 at University Paris 8, Paris Saint-Denis, France (mention très bien - summa cum laude)
2009 – 2011 Master's degree in contemporary art practice at Ecole Supérieure d’Art de Quimper, Quimper, France, magna cum laude
2006 – 2009 Bachelor's degree: major Film and minor Visual art at 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, 10th - 28th of May
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, Galerija Gallery
2018 Room on the Street (Kotičkanje v Sobi na ulici), interactive installation for children, Novi Trg, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 5 times June - August
2017 Fairy Tale Room, interactive installation for children, Novi Trg, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 5 times June - August
2016 Twosomes, show with Arven Šakti Kralj Szomi, installation Burn old love burn, Gallery DLUL, part of Photonic Moments festival 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016 Video evening, retrospective overview of my video work, Gallery Photon, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 In rooms of memories that were not, multimedia installation, live performances and sound piece, Savin's Fine Art Salon, Žalec, Slovenia
2015 Looking for the nightlife, multimedia spatial installation, Gallery Alkatraz and Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 Room on the street, interactive installation for kids, Ljubljana, Novi trg (June, July, August) at Kolodvorska ulica (22th of September), Slovenia
2014 My Room, interactive installation for kids, Novi trg, Ljubljana (June, July, August), Slovenia
2013 Etats - States - Stanja, video, Video Wall - Urban Gallery on the street (10th of November), Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011 My Rooms of Timelessness, multimedia installation, Bežigrad Gallery 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 Possible Stories, multimedia installation, Gallery TukadMunga, Ljubljana, Slovenia
GROUP SHOWS (VISUAL ART)
2021 Erotic art in Slovenia from 1980s till present, group show, video Cold Days of the Clown, Center of Contemporary Art Celje, Celje Slovenia
2020 Dreamworld: The Oracle, installation / scenography for the Dreamworld Show, Johnny Knuppel, Berlin, 22th of June - 1st of September
2018 The Recording of Reality - the Subjectification of the Objective, a curated selection of videos from Slovene Archive of Video Art, projection of video Sunday (2009), Slovene National Cinemateque, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 21th of December
2018 The Duckling Festival 2018, Production of desire and pleasure, festival and group show, series of drawings Your body is the image of my desire and performance Fontana
2018 Pornceptual, group show at the launch of magazine issue number 3: Guerilla, with series Fontana (in collaboration with Jo Pollux), Humboldt Box and Soho House, Berlin, Germany
2017 Epilog, group show, video installation In rooms of memories that never where, Dvorec Novo Celje, Žalec, Slovenia
2016 House on the Hill, group show, video Disparition, Saint Marjeta Hill, Žlebe, Slovenia
2016 Mondes Parallelles (Parallel Worlds), group show, video Masks at a contemporary art exhibition, France
2014 Flatmates, multimedia installations (photos, drawings, images, objects, video, sound, spatial installations), Gallery A+A, Venice, Italy, 20th of March - 10th of May
2013 Trienale U3, video Zabava (The Party), installation and performances, Modern Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Art MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 20th June – 29th of September
2013 Vendredi des vidéastes : histoires racontées, projection of The boy is mine video, Galerie de l’Angle, Paris, France
2013 Figures de déplacement, group show, series Maske (drawings, paintings, photos - wall installation), Gallery 6 B, Saint-Denis, France
2012 The Art of Dreaming (working title), installation with sound Alice's Landscape n. 1 and sound piece, Miklova house, Ribnica, Slovenia
2012 Festival Bataclan international, Human Emotion Project, projection of video Kiss, the loop of Narcisse, Mexico city, Mexico
2011 Festival Oodaaq, projection of video Music Box, Rennes, France
2011 Festival Natures 8, projection of video Late at night, Bežigrad Gallery 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011 Vidéothèque evening, projection of video Disparition, École nationale supérieure des beaux arts de Paris, Paris, France
2011 Miscellaneous, group show of graduating students, video Music Box, L’Ecole supérieure d’art de Quimper, Quimper, France
2011 Nucleus, group show of graduating students, video Music Box, The Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland
2010 Une autre situation, fifth year student show, l’Ecole supérieure d’art de Quimper, Quimper, France
2010 Festival Natures 8, projection of video Disparition, Bežigrad Gallery 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 Show of participants of Academic fine art residence of Mladinski dom Brežice, painting Antoine and me, Brežice, Slovenia
2010 Show of participants of Academic fine art residence of Mladinski dom Brežice, painting Antoine and me, Galerija Grad Mokrice, Mokrice, Slovenia
2009 Festival Par ici par l’art, installation Ma chambre (My Room), Dordogne, France
2002 Red Dawns Festival of Feminist Art, 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
Internet archive of video and film artists: Mubi Garage
PERFORMANCE AND THEATRe
2022 The Monuments: Second Chapter: The Last Daulphin, solo performance in collaboration with Jasha within his installation project, 21st of January
2021 The Monuments: First Chapter: Silent Whispers of Thunder, performance in collaboration with Jasha within his installation project, 10th of December
2021 Peep Show, performance Clown, Wilde Renate Berlin, Germany, 30th of July
2021 Garden Performances, performance Fontana, Wilde Renate Berlin, Germany, 18th of June, 19th of July, 29th of July
2020 The Biennale of Performance, Collaborative and Participatory Arts, curated by Ayshia Taskin at The Wall Space Gallery, Scotland, UK (live performance)
2020 Overmorrow, several interactive performances (Cat, Lulu Lapin, the Diva, the Oracle, Let my Pussy Speak,...), Wilde Renate Berlin, Germany, 4-5 times per week, 16th of July - 31st of October
2019 Bande à Part, performance Falling in Love Again, curated by Caroline Gerbeckx, Eschloraque Rumschlumpf, Berlin, Germany, 3rd of December
2019 L/O/V/E Love of Various Environements, performance Falling in Love Again, Cross Attic, Prague, Czech Republic, 4th of November
2019 Berlin Performing Arts Festival - Diagonale Show Camp: Open Studios, performance Cat, Berlin, Germany, 31st of May
2020 Holy Cvnt Collective: Spring Awakening, live streaming of performances, performance Let My Pussy Speak, Retramp Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 29th of May
2019 Falling in Love again, Eschloraque, Berlin and Femme Daemonium, London, Prague
2019 Get Even, performance Cat, curated by Olympia Bukkakis, Kake, Berlin, Germany, 24th of May
2019 Affect and Gender between Acadenia, Arts and Activism, lecture performance From Cat with Love, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 9th of May
2018 Production of desire and pleasure, The Duckling Festival 2018, performance Fontana, approx. 8 min, Račka Gallery, Celje, Slovenia, 22nd of September
2018 Your own Diva, solo show, 180min, Barbiche, Berlin, Germany, 9th of September
2018 the Poetry Brothel - Bacchanal edition, performance No merci for Fruit, approx. duration 20min, Tango Loft, Berlin, Germany, 30th of August
2018 Songs and performance numbers (Lonesome soldier, etc), solo show, approx. 30min, Katz and Bach Gallery, Berlin, Germany, May
2018 Cabaret in Love, trial run, 60min, Barbiche, Berlin, Germany, May
2018 Shows a la Carte, solo show, 240min (a series of 12 performances), Barbiche, Berlin, Germany, 24th of March
2018 Antiplayboy the Fest Vol.1, Festival, visual and musical performance Pragnant Cat-Rabbit and Icecream (the Oslo suite), Cafe Haerverk, Oslo, Norway, 18th of March
2018 Stand up Tragedy, Lonesome soldier and Baby Lyn Blanche: the Dance of Pills, Lovelite, Berlin, Germany, 9th of April
2018 Faetish: Cupid's Kinly Carneval, The Golden Goddess, Insomnia Club, Berlin, Germany, 16th of February
2018 Pornceptual magazine launch #3, performance Fontana, Humboldt Box, Berlin, Germany, 27th of January
2017 PAVA - Performance and Visual artists Club Festival, performance Fontana, Alte Munze, Berlin, Germany, 16th of December
2017 Pornaltes Wet and Hot Winter Edition, performance Fontana, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany, 2nd of December
2017 Stories on stage - Queer feminist poetry and more, live music and written word performance Release me not, Inside, B-lage, Berlin, Germany, 27th of November
2017 Faetish Nymph-o, durational installation-performance The Balloon Venus, Insomnia club, Berlin, Germany, 25th of November
2017 Berlin Porn Film festival: Porn'Altes Lounge, performance Rapparabbit, 27th of October
2017 Poetry Brothel Berlin - The Lynchian Edition, durational performance Candice Jones, 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 the 5 performers and co-author of text), duration: 120 min, opening night 21st of April, 24th in 30th of April, 27th of October (Borštnikovo srečanje, Kranj, Slovenia)
2017 Festival Soundacts, solo performance Cat, approx. 9min, Athens, Greece, 28th of May
2017 In rooms of memories that were not, performance in the installation (video of the dance on my website)
2016 VIII. contemporary dance national review, performance Fontana, approx. duration: 8min, Španski borci, 9th of October
2016 Pascual's evening of Virtual Tijuana, a kind of cabaret (performer and co-creator, as part of the Trabuko collective that I compose with Carlos Pascual and Maurico Valdès San Emetario), approx. duration 50min, Vodnikova domačija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 20th of October
2016 Shades of blood (author, performer, director, stage design and lights), performance-show, produced by Noemi Veberič Levovnik and Pocket teater studio, Ljubljana, approx. duration 70min; 17th of September, 29th and 30th of November, Tovarna Rog in Pocket teater studio, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016 Ne-srečna noč, cabaret (performer and co-creator, as part of the Trabuko collective), approx. duration 50min, Vodnikova domačija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 20th of December
2016 Shades of blood, open rehersal and first public representation, Rog, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 17th of September
2016 Cirkusarna NaokROG, festival of experimental circus Fall, performances / numbers Lonesome town, Baby Lyn Blanche and Long winding road, Rog, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2nd of September
2016 Rumena noč (Hlavatyev park/Boho chic), performance Rapparabbit, Koper, Slovenia, 29th and 30th of July
2016 The Turtle Trials, rehersal, research and first open rehersal for the show, Signdance collective, Graz, Austria, June
2016 Us, the European dead (directed by Sebastjan Horvat), assistant of direction and of scenography, Mladinsko gledališče, Ljubljana, Slovenia, opening night 4th of June
2016 An evening of performances, retrospective show combining performances of 2015-2016, Rog, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 25th of June
2016 Festival Spider, host and performance Baby Lyn Blanche and Rapparabbit, Španski borci, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2nd - 3rd of June
2015 Searching for the nightlife, edition Cirkusarna, single time live event show (concept, direction, main performer), Cirkusarna NaokROG, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19th of December
2015 Emanat: Moira Finucane, public presentation as part of the Festival City of Women and performance Lonesome town, klub Gromka, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 15th of October
2015 created several performances and characters, from time to time performing in alternative space in Cirkusarna NaoKrog in Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 Alica Double and Velvet do-gooders, concert of my original music, part of Festival Mlade Rime (Young Rhymes), Klub Gromka, Ljubljana, 24th of June
2015 Ana Monro : Alone within the crowd 2, street theater event (performer and co-creator), Ljubljana, Maribor, Nova Gorica, Izola, Slovenia
2015 Looking for the nightlife, three live events (Skrivnost, ki jo vsem povem, Gallery Alkatraz, 5th of April; Springbreak night, Gallery Alkatraz, 9th of April, Sketches for Voguing, Modern Gallery Ljubljana; 15th of April), Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014 Curious Circus Collective: Tüwieté, performance Lulu Lapin: Bad bad bunny, Tüwi, Vienna, Austria, 13th and 14th of December
2014 Emanat: Ursula Martinez: Beyond Burlesque, public presentation Bunny with a fever as part of the Festival City of Women, klub Gromka, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 11th of October
2014 Ana Monro : Alone within the crowd, street theater event (performer and co-creator), opening 18th of September, in front of Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
WORKSHOPS RELATED TO PERFORMANCE ART AND THEATRe
2015 Ljubljana, Emanat: Moira Finucane: Workshop of burlesque, Slovenia
2014 Ljubljana, Emanat: Workshop with Ursula Martinez: Beyond burlesque, Slovenia
2014 Ljubljana, ŠUGLA, the international street theater workshop, Slovenia
2012 Ljubljana, Emanat : Antonia Baehr & Keren Ida Nathan (Berlin):Wworkshop of new queer burlesque Tiny Buttons
2009 Cameroon, residency + workshop »Art et Environnement« with Art Orienté objet and african artists, in Douala
2011 l’Ecole supérieure d’art de Quimper, Quimper, France, workshop with Fanny Lechaillé
2011 l’Ecole supérieure d’art de Quimper, Quimper, France, workshop with Nathalie Tallec
2010 - 2011 Langages/Languages - experimental platform for interdisciplinary projects at the Art School in Quimper
2010 London, 2 months living and working with the experimental director and artist Stephen Dwoskin