Neža Knez (b. Slovenia, 1990; lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Zagreb, Croatia)
Correspondences (2025)

In an age marked by digital dematerialization, Neža Knez reasserts the film object as a site of material and temporal resistance. Working with sixteen-millimetre loops, analogue printing, and hand-developed film stills, she creates environments in which image and sound oscillate between presence and disappearance. Her methods of re-using, re-processing, and layering foreground the fragility of analogue media, while allowing incidental traces of lived reality to surface. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s notion of mimetic perception, Knez unsettles the logic of representation, privileging the sensorial force of the signifier. The result is a rhythm of fleeting correspondences that situates the viewer within a shared, physical, and historically contingent present. (Ivana Mestrov)

Neža Knez’s practice moves across moving image, sound, language, and expanded installation, engaging with the porous boundaries between poetic and discursive registers and attending to fragile, often invisible processes within materials and media. Knez works extensively on experimental film productions, pedagogical projects, and research-based practices that foreground the tactile and durational qualities of analogue media.

Selected solo exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), Ljubljana (2023); City Gallery Ljubljana (2021); SCCA, Center for contemporary art, Ljubljana (2019). Select group exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana (2022); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (2020); Kunsthalle Graz, Graz, Austria (2018). She graduated with the highest distinction from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana and is a recipient of the OHO Group Award in 2018.

RAVNIKAR is a Ljubljana-based non-profit platform dedicated to advancing critical and experimental practices in contemporary art. Through Ravnikar Gallery and R Space, it fosters cross-disciplinary exchange via exhibitions, residencies, publishing, mentorship, and international collaborations. Initiatives such as Ljubljana Art Weekend, the co-founding of ETC. magazine, and participation in major art fairs position it as a vital connector between local practices and global discourse. As a member of the New Art Dealers Alliance and the Gallery Climate Coalition, and with the support of the Municipality of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture, RAVNIKAR champions bold, inclusive, and forward-looking artistic engagement.