Katarina Jazbec

audiovisual - documentary - film - photography - collaboration

Katarina Jazbec is a visual artist working in film and photography. She was born in 1991, Slovenia, and has been living in Rotterdam since 2015. She received her BA from the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana and her MA in Photography from the AKV | St. Joost art academy in Breda (NL). In her work, which is based on long-standing participatory research, she builds heterotopias and looks for new forms of storytelling while exploring the current questions of ethics, identity, freedom, justice, and economic inequality. She is a current grantee of the Mondriaan stipend for emerging artists in the Netherlands. For her film Permeating Hearts, which is about reading with prisoners in Belgium, she was given a Tënk Award at FIDÉ Paris 2019. She is the first recipient of the RTM Pitch Award by the International Film Festival Rotterdam.


You Can’t Automate Me - film still, work-in-progress, 2020-2021
You Can’t Automate Me - film still, work-in-progress, 2020-2021
You Can’t Automate Me - series of photographs, 2020
Our Bearings
Permeating Hearts