Katarina Jazbec is a visual artist working in film and photography, using interdisciplinary and collaborative artistic strategies. She was born in 1991, in 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 exploring the current questions of ethics, agency, and vulnerability of human and non-human critters in the current economic system. Responding to our complex times she searches for new forms of storytelling that can carry a plurality of perspectives and worlds yet still feel accessible to different audiences. Such ‘bridging’ is carved in the DNA of her making process. Living in the Netherlands, an extreme nature-controlling environment, while growing up surrounded by wilder nature, is friction that comes with pain yet gives her strength to contribute to more constructive future narratives.
Her films have been shown at numerous festivals all around the world and at various exhibition spaces such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, TENT Rotterdam and Eye Film Museum. For her film Permeating Hearts, she was given a Tënk Award at FIDÉ Paris 2019. For her film You Can’t Automate Me she received several awards and nominations including getting longlisted for Oscars Academy award.
She is the first recipient of the RTM Pitch Award by the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Katarina is a fresh alumna of a two-year international residency programme at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
