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I am a visual artist and photographer based in The Hague, Netherlands. I hold an MA in Film and Photographic Studies from Leiden University, as well as a BA in Visual Communication Design from the University of Ljubljana. Between 2019 and 2023, I worked for the Dutch cultural producer Paradox. Currently, I am part of an artist duo with Jakob Ganslmeier (see below).
Since 2020, I've been part of an artist duo with Jakob Ganslmeier, working on photography and video projects focusing particularly on youth identity formation. Our works, including Fault Line (2023, ongoing), Bereitschaft (2024), and Redpilled (2023), delve into pressing societal issues such as climate anxiety, online trends, and the influence of extreme ideologies on young people. Through sharing our work and visual research, as well as conducting workshops on visual literacy, our goal is to amplify the discourse of young adults—often dismissed as unserious—and ultimately contribute to reducing societal polarization.
Collaboration
Jakob Ganslmeier
Websites
Personal photography website / portfolio
www.anazibelnik.com/Social media
Member of Artists’ Initiative/Collective/Incubator
Part of See Lab Den Haag, Futures Photography, PARALLEL - European Photo Based Platform, Haute Photographie Talents, GUP New talents, British Journal of Photography Ones to Watch 2020
Platform
Paradox
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2020 - 2021Money Workshop - funding Applications writing course Work Show Grow
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2020 - 2021Futures Photography Futures
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2019 - 2020Haute Photographie Talents Programme Kahman Gallery
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2019 - 2020GUP New Talents Gup Magazine
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2018 - 2020Film and Photographic Studies Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands diploma
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2018 - 2019PARALLEL Photo Based Platform PARALLEL
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2016 - 2018Klavdij Sluban Masterclass Klavdij Sluban
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2014 - 2018Visual Communication Academy of Fine Arts and Design Ljubljana diploma
exhibitions
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2024Prospects 2024 Art Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands Group
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2024GIGA Foam Amsterdam, Netherlands Solo
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2024ECO EXPO MACA Amsterdam, Netherlands Sprouts Film Festival Group
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2024Fair Photo Basel Basel, Switzerland Group
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2024Fault Line Kranj Foto Festival Kranj, Netherlands winners of the open call Solo
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2023Ab Bild NADAN Berlin, Germany Group
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2023Youth Verzasca Foto Festival Verzasca, Switzerland Group
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2023If a Tree Fell in a Forest Bergen-Belsen Memorial Duo
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2023Kreismuseum Wewelsburg Wewelsburg, Germany Duo
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2023Director's Cut Procur.arte Lisbon, Portugal Group
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2023Fault Line Fotomuseum Den Haag Den Haag, Netherlands Duo
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2022art fair Art Salon Zurich Zurich, Switzerland Group
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2022Poetry is Out of Place Falstad Centre Falstad, Norway Group
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2022Athens Photo Festival Benaki Museum Athens, Greece Group
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2022The World is Ending Again UGM Maribor Art Gallery Maribor, Slovenia Solo
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2021We are the ones turning de Kromhouthal Amsterdam, Netherlands Winner of GUP New Dutch Talent of the Year award exhibition (postponed to 2021 due to Covid) thisartfair.com/this-art/artist-listing/ Solo
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2021Immortality is Commonplace MAD Arts Florida Miami, United States As part of MAD Arts' recent expansion (new building) I was given two large exhibition spaces to present my work Immortality is Commonplace. Opening September 25. www.yeswearemad.com/ Solo
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2021TBA Westwerk Hamburg, Germany Duo with artist Simone Kessler. Opening September 6. www.westwerk.org/ Duo
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2021Open Doors Gallery London (online), United Kingdom Selected finalists of the Open Doors Gallery Prize were included in an online exhibition. A physical event was held in London between December 2-7, 2021. opendoors.gallery/artists/odphotoprize2021 Group
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2020Liebe, Hass und Einsamkeit. Emotionen in der Kunst BLMK - Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst Cottbus, Germany www.artisnext.net/kalender/detail.xhtml;jsessionid=0BF1659729DEF707A280BBA43D0AA414?id=41168 Group
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2020RESET 2020, October, Futures Online Festival: RESET Online, Netherlands Group
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2020We are the ones turning Kolga Tbilisi Photo online Tbilisi / online, Georgia Group
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2020"6 Talents" Kahman. Gallery online / Kahman gallery, Netherlands
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2019We are the ones turning (winner solo show) Verzasca Foto Festival Sonogno Switzerland Solo
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2019"Zeitgeist" Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre Budapest, Hungary Group
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2019Valley of the Strange ISSP Gallery Riga, Latvia Group
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2019Urgent Arts of Living Kaunas Photography Gallery Kaunas, Lithuania Group
Projects
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2024
Bereitschaft Netherlands www.anazibelnik.com/readiness "Bereitschaft serves to illustrate how the pursuit of a fitness ideal can inadvertently perpetuate misogynistic narratives and imagery associated with 'Aryan' ideologies. While much of the presented material may not initially appear to align with far-right ideology, Ganslmeier and Zibelnik adeptly delineate a pattern illustrating how mainstream visual language is co-opted by extremist factions to amplify their influence."
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2023
Redpilled Netherlands www.anazibelnik.com/redpilled Redpilled delves into the propagation of alt-right ideology alongside the global surge of memes. Ganslmeier and Zibelnik ingeniously repurpose the ubiquitous meme character Wojak (Polishfor 'soldier') as an avatar, giving voice to the dangerous humour and fascination with violence perpetuated by memes. Initially conceived as a relatable figure ('I know that feel, bro'), Wojak has metamorphosed into various generational archetypes like doomer, zoomer, and boomer. Despite spoofing different age groups, Wojak increasingly embodies the perspective of doomers, individuals who perceive themselves as victims of pressing global issues like climate change and overpopulation. The doomer typically feigns superiority over 'normies' after being ' enlightened' or redpilled. Originally denoting a quest for truth, the term 'redpilled', borrowed from the movie The Matrix (1999), has been co-opted by far-right factions to signal disillusionment with reality, often fostering radical ideologies. The video work is interspersed with cryptic slogans and numerical codes found online by the artist duo, the meanings of which are revealed in the explanatory glossary elsewhere in this exhibition. Redpilled illustrates how seemingly innocuous memes, with mildly racist, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic jokes, can serve as conduits for extremist notions, potentially precipitating real-world violence.
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2023
Fault Line Netherlands www.anazibelnik.com/12789487-fault-line Fault Line portrays the impact of the climate crisis in Europe by examining the myriad responses within society. From migration driven by environmental factors, eco-anxiety, and activism on the one hand to the troubling surge of populist rhetoric on the other, it questions how the accelerating rhythm of disasters leads to a deepening of polarization and erodes our collective resilience. Our primary motivation is to present a society-focused visual representation of the climate crisis. Images have an emotional impact and can prompt us to form opinions and take action. Images of environmental devastation, in particular, are often captured from a distance — by drones or are focused on the overall scope of natural and infrastructural damage. What interests us is a closer examination of such situations — how do extreme climate events impact individuals? How does the fear arising from such conditions contribute to the emergence of hateful ideologies?
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2021
Immortality is Commonplace /, Netherlands What does it mean to live in the end times? What if we – as human citizens of the planet Earth – are still unable to face the reality that we’re only one among the many species inhabiting the world? What if, ultimately, the world has already ended, yet we’re still unable to grasp it – at least consciously – because of the incommensurable crevice dividing human and planetary time? By initiating the meeting of the natural and the human, Zibelnik refuses to provide any ready-made answers to the ecological dilemma. Instead, she invites the reader to ponder on what makes us human in the face of rapid climate change.
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2019
We are the ones turning /, Netherlands www.anazibelnik.com/ Mortals are those who experience death as death. In this sense, human beings are identified by an awareness of the fact that they are running out of time; an awareness which is reinforced and revisited simply by living. We are the ones turning explores how we grapple with the “possibility of impossibility” in everyday life – a topic that extends far beyond the fear of death and can deeply affect our perception of time. Zibelnik combines the prosaic with the uncanny, the sentimental with the insensible, thus contrasting the mechanical flow of time, symbolised by the clock, with our experience of it. The gesture of the turning hands, which sets the rhythm of the series as its Leitmotif, is derived from American Sign Language, where it indicates the notion of death.
Commissions
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2023If a Tree Fell in a Forest Germany A multi screen exhibition installation at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial, produced by Paradox and part of the Creative Europe project Houses of Darkness. If a tree fell in a forest and nobody was around to hear it, did it actually make a sound? Following this philosophical thought experiment, the multi-screen video installation If a Tree Fell in a Forest provokes the question of whether perpetratorship we are not aware of matters. In a time of growing right-wing extremism, A Mirrored Image, Redpilled and 77 Circles deal with ignorance, the accessibility of perpetrator narratives, as well as generational and cultural gaps. ifatreefellinaforest.housesofdarkness.eu/
Sales/Works in collections
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2021Normec Group Art Collection Normec Group Antwerp, België A collection of four large scale prints from the Immortality is Commonplace series were acquired by the company's branch in Antwerp.
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2020We are the ones turning Thomas Florestan Geneva, Zwitserland Private collection
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2020We are the ones turning Gilles Brianti Berlin, Duitsland Private collection
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2020We are the ones turning Gregor Vos Amsterdam, Nederland Private collection
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2020We are the ones turning Bies Vermeulen Amsterdam, Nederland Private collection
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2020We are the ones turning Eric Poot Nederland Private collection
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2020We are the ones turning MoCP Museum of Contemporary Photography - Columbia College Chicago Chicago, Verenigde Staten The museum acquired 5 works from the series We are the ones turning (2019) in summer 2020, and one work from the series Immortality is Commonplace (2020-) in 2021.
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2020We are the ones turning Alex Tavakkoli Amsterdam, Nederland Private collection
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2018White Devil Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. med. Alexander P. F. Ehlers Munich, Duitsland Private collection
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--Fault Line Lissa Roberts Amsterdam, Nederland Private collection
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--Fault Line Brandenburg Museum of Modern Art Cottbus, Duitsland Museum Collection
Publications
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2021I Saw The Pines Grow Book Papertigers Books Ana Zibelnik & Jaka Gercar Berlin, Germany wp1119024.server-he.de/
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2021Humans; Photographs that make you think Book Abrams Henry Carroll Los Angeles, United States www.abramsbooks.com/product/humans_9781419751455/
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2021Changing times: Art facing a world Book `The Eyes Publishing Ana Zibelnik and others France
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2021RESET Book Futures Photography Ana Zibelnik and others Amsterdam, Netherlands www.futures-photography.com/events/launch-of-reset-questioning-the-image-the-market-and-the-role-of-representation
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2020RUNNING FALLING FLYING FLOATING CRAWLING Book Saint Lucy Books Ana Zibelnik (group publication) /, United States saint-lucy.com/ Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling is a loose compendium of photographs and texts that picture, examine, explore, and / or suggest the human body in states of abandon, helplessness, terror, subjugation, serenity, and transcendence.
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2020GUP New 2020 Book Gup Magazine Ana Zibelnik (group) Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2019Urgent Arts of Living Catalog Kaunas Photography Gallery & PARALLEL Platform Ana Zibelnik (group) /, Netherlands urgentartsofliving.parallelplatform.org/ Published within the Parallel Platform
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2019Valley of the Strange Catalog ISSP Gallery & PARALLEL Platform Ana Zibelnik (group) Riga, Latvia
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2018If Slovenia Were Book Krsko Cultural Centre Ana Zibelnik Krsko, Slovenia www.bjp-online.com/2018/11/if-slovenia-were/
reviews
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2020Beautiful dissonance in Ana Zibelnik’s images Magazine Joe Lloyd / British Journal of Photography London, United Kingdom www.bjp-online.com/2020/09/beautiful-dissonance-in-ana-zibelniks-images/ Online & Print
Awards and grants
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2024Winner Kranj, Slovenia First prize 2024 open call
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2024Nominee FOAM Paul Huf Award (NL) Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2023Artist Project 2023 Mondriaan Fonds Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands Fault Line
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2022Artist Start Mondriaan Fonds Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2021Finalist Open Doors Gallery London, United Kingdom Open Doors Photo Prize
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2021nominee C/O Berlin Berlin, Germany past nominee
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2021nominee Leica International Leica Oscar Barnack Newcomer Award (current nominee)
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2021nominee Prix Pictet Prix Pictet prize (current nominee)
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2020finalist Burn Magazine Emerging Photographer Fund
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2020Ad Futura Public Scholarship, Development, Disability and Maintenance Fund of the Republic of Slovenia Ljubljana, Slovenia Study scholarship for talented students - expired September 2020
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20201st prize conceptual category Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Florida, United States
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2020GUP New Talent of the Year Gup Magazine Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2019finalist Lucie United Kingdom Lucie Photo Made Scholarship
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2019Winner Verzasca Foto Festival Sonogno, Switzerland
Representation
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Secondary art-related activities
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2022 - 2022Mentor -- University of Ljubljana Photography Departmenr On-going
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2020 - 2021Curator and Project Manager at Paradox.nl On-going