Marjetica Potrč

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Marjetica Potrč ( born 1953) is a Ljubljana-based artist and architect. Her work has been featured in exhibitions throughout Europe and the Americas, including the Sao Paulo Biennial in Brazil (1996, 2006); Skulptur. Projekte in Muenster, Germany (1997); Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2000); and The Structure of Survival at the Venice Biennial (2003); as well as in solo shows at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2001); Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2001); the Max Protetch Gallery, New York (2002 & 2005); the Nordenhake Gallery in Berlin (2003); the PBICA in Lake Worth, Florida (2003); and the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2004). Her many on-site installations include Balcony with Wind Turbine (the Liverpool Biennial, 2004) and Genesis (2005), which is on permanent display at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. She has also published a number of essays on contemporary urban architecture. In 2005, she was a visiting professor at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, Potrc has been the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1993 and 1999), a Philip Morris Kunstfoerderung Grant to participate in the International Studio Program of Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2000), the Guggenheim Museum's Hugo Boss Prize (Sponsored by Hugo Boss) 2000, and a Caracas Case Project Fellowship from the Federal Cultural Foundation, Germany, and the Caracas Urban Think Tank, Venezuela (2002).

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Hybrid House: Caracas, West Bank, West Palm Beach

Building materials, energy and communication infrastructure, 2003 - 2004

'Urgent Architecture', PBICA, Lake Worth, FL, 2003

'Urgent Architecture', MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 2004

Hybrid House juxtaposes structures from the temporary architecture of Caracas, the West Bank, and West Palm Beach, Florida, and shows how they negotiate space among themselves. Each of the community-based structures formulates its own language, which, in all three cases, has much in common with archetypal (and not modernist) architecture. Emphasis is placed on private space, security, and energy and communication infrastructures.