Maruša Šuštar: "As an artist, I choose elevated perspectives that are least present in the everyday frontal view of the world."
Exhibitions (excerpt)
Solo exhibitions:
2023 Anja Jerčič Jakob and Maruša Šuštar, Maribor Art Walk, Walks through spaces of contemporary art, Galerie Hest, Maribor, Slovenia
2022 Man, where are you? Galerie Generali, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2022 Maruša Šuštar, Galerie Krka, Novo mesto, Slovenia
2020 Maruša Šuštar, Supervision, Galerie Hest, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 Britta Keber – Cristina Fiorenza – Maruša Šuštar, Künstlerhaus Celovec, Austria
Group exhibitions:
2025 Ash Wednesday of Art, Galerie II & Dom St. Andrae, Austria
2024 Lucija Stramec, Maruša Šuštar, Karin Rupacher, Galerie II. St. Andrä, Austria
2023 Nenanslovljeno/untitled 1, small formats, Galerie II., St. Andrae, Austria,
2022 MOMENTAL-MENTE: Žive slike, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
2015 The Magic of Art, Künstlerhaus Wienna, Austria
2014 The Magic of Art, Villa Manin, Passariano-Codroipo, Italy
2009 ESSL-Preis CEE 2009 Winner, Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Austria
Statement
The choice of the target frame has something to do with distance, because it creates a distanced view of the perspective from which the world appears like an anthill and the figures like spots within the cinematographic expanse. It is a view that encompasses the many perspectives of the bodies present and a vantage point with an overview of the crowd. Such a perspective seems to stand above people, but is dehumanized and desubjectified, the invisible standpoint of a generalized overpowering force.
Education
2006 Graduated in painting with Professor Zmago Jeraj at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana
Subsequently, postgraduate studies in painting with Professor Gustav Gnamuš, which she successfully completed 2016 with a master’s degree under Professor Marjan Gumilar
The distance lies in the all-visibility, which is foreign and unnatural by excluding all the coverings that connect the everyday experience of watching.
Maruša Šuštar
