Biography

U P C O M I N G/ C U R R E N T

2025, Witte Rook, Breda, NL

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Urša Prek (1993, Slovenia) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Her work, ranging from visual to sound installations, explores the territories of memory and history. She is driven by a personal curiosity about what makes us who we are, especially in terms of relative experience: inherited histories, trivial memories, and their connection to space. From audio, video and sculpture, her work falls some place in between.

“There are obviously many reasons for people to ‘keep time’, as there are for Urša. Some are rooted in personal experiences that shake the fundamentals of life and the sense of ‘home’, others are based on a curiosity that is more reflective in nature. The need for time-keeping in Urša’s work can easily be mistaken for nostalgia. But where a nostalgic person looks back at the past with warm feelings or with a tinge of sadness for days gone by, Urša is trying to understand this nostalgia, to question it at the root, and even to test it against the here and now. This approach might be called ironic, because it could undermine the very idea of nostalgia, but that is never the goal in itself. Time, memory and the creation of one’s identity from these highly suggestive and ambiguous bits of history that we find in photo albums, video footage and other ‘documentation’ of our past-selves can hardly be called ‘factual’, so a bit of irony is not out of place here.”

(Excerpt from the introduction text by Paul Segers; Timekeepers publication, 2025)

P U B L I C A T I O N S

2025, Timekeepers publication (Introducing series by UDC – Publishing) > GET YOUR COPY, email: ursa.prek@gmail.com

S O L O

2024, Timekeepers, Hedendaags Kunstkabinet, Den Bosch, NL
2023, …and the rest is history, Albert van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, NL
2022, Event Horizon, Witte Rook, Zaartpark, Breda, NL
2020/21, Trekking Guide, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, NL (residency)
2019, Noesis, TAC, Eindhoven, Netherlands (residency)
2018, Dis / order (Pre / lom), DLUL Gallery, Ljubljana, SLO

G R O U P

2025, TweeTakt Festival, Utrecht, NL
2025, Prospects, Art Rotterdam, NL
2024, Big Art, Amsterdam, NL
2024, Limburg Biennale, Marres, Maastricht, NL
2024, Zine Murf Murw, Tilburg, NL [contribution to Zine with text and
photography];
2023, Constructions of the Null, MoTA LAB (Museum of Transitory Art), Ljubljana, SLO
2023, Construct Deconstruct, OYFO Kunstpodium Techniekmuseum, Hengelo, NL
2023, Onder één Dak, De StadsGalerij, Breda, NL
2023, Salon des Refusés, IDFX, Breda, NL
2022, Fun and Games, This Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
2022, Inversie group show, Kruisruimte, Eindhoven, NL
2022, There and Now What, TAC|united|Unlimited Dream Company (Paul Segers), United Cowboys, Eindhoven, NL
2021, I can only whistle in A6, TAC Was Here festival, TAC, Eindhoven, NL
2021, Distance, Lacuna festival, online
2019, Inter-course, TAC, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2018, “Abstraction is at the end of your comfort zone“(Abstrakcija je na koncu tvoje cone udobja), Equrna gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2018, “Cooperation” (So-delo-vanje) Alkatraz gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2018, S01e01, Gallery 7:069, Stara pekarna, Velenje, Slovenia

2018, Students exhibition, “A3: night of the academy” (A3: Noč akademij), Center of Slavic Culture France Prešeren, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2018, “ALUO Students exhibition“(Razstava študentov ALUO), modri kot – Rog factory, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2017, “ALUO students exhibition in Faculty of social sciences” (Razstava študentov ALUO na Fakulteti za družbene vede), Fakulteta za družbene vede, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2015, “Conglomerate” (Konglomerat), Erbergovi paviljoni, Dol pri Ljubljani, Slovenia

R E S I D E N C Y

2025, Dog Years project (Ana Lekše collaboration); Cirklabo, Leuven, BE
2022, Event Horizon, Witte Rook, Zaartpark, Breda, NL
2020/21, Trekking Guide, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, NL

C O L L A B O R A T I O N & P A R T I C I P A T I O N

TAC|united|Unlimited Dream Company (weekend event, 2022)
TrACes (2021 – ongoing)
How toGether (2021)

C O L L E C T I O N S

Arte/Facts collection (MoTA) – work: CHAMPION: Participation Award (2023)

S U P P O R T E D B Y

2024, North Brabant Culture fonds, (Timekeepers publication)
2024, Cultuur Eindhoven (Timekeepers publication)
2024, Mondriaan Fonds (Timekeepers publication)
2023/24 Mondriaan Fonds: Kunstenaar start subsidy;
2021/22, Inversie TalentHub, NL (10-month development programme for professional artists);
2022, Gemeente Breda, project Event Horizon;
2022, Cultuur Eindhoven, project There and Now What;

M E D I A

2023, Article: A MONUMENT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS by Ruth de Vos, Witte Rook [about the Event Horizon project]

2023, Podcast Talent Hub Brabant [A conversation with Juliana Erazo];

2023, Jengens and Tevens: Construct Deconstruct (Remco Dikken);

2021/22, Talent hub Inversie

2021/22, Kunstloc Brabant – Inversie

2021, TAC – TrACes

2018, RTV Slovenia: Dis / order exhibition (at 12:50)

2018, ARS Radio: Dis / order (at 4.36)

Urša Prek (1993, Ljubljana, Slovenia | based in Eindhoven, NL )

P O S I T I O N S

2019 — Present: Freelance – Temporary Art Centre
- Creative Producer || Exhibition Programme/Curation

2023–2024: Freelance – KONT collective (core team)

E D U C A T I O N

2016-2019: Master’s: Fine arts – Painting – Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018/2019: Minor : Arts & Interaction – Faculty of fine arts and design St. Joost, Breda, Netherlands
2014/2015: FBAUP (Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto)Porto, Portugal (Erasmus+)
2012-2016: Bachelor’s: Fine arts – Painting – Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008-2012: High school for art, design and photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia