Portrait by Marlene Hausenegger, NYC 2022
Luiza Margan works across sculpture, installation, performance and spatial interventions, exploring how material and visual presentations of power shape our surroundings, our understanding of history, democracy, and the possible futures. Her projects examine the disparity between dominant and suppressed historical narratives, as manifested in public spaces, nature, architecture, and cultural institutions.
Her artistic process is grounded in fieldwork, archive research, and site-specific exploration. Through collecting and transforming of found materials, she creates objects and interventions that question established narratives and shift perspectives. Combining artistic research, perfomative gestures and social design, Margan develops works that speak to both individual experience and broader social context.
She has exhibited at numerous international institutions and has staged acclaimed interventions in public space. Her work is included in both public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, the Museum of Contemporary Art Belvedere 21 Haus in Vienna, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, MMSU Ljubljana, the Tobacco Museum in Ljubljana, among others.
Among her many recognitions, she was awarded the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) Fellowship in New York (2008/09), and the Fellowship for Visual Artists at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany in 2019.
Margan was born in Rijeka, Croatia where she obtained a degree in Stage Design, later pursuing studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana as well as Performative Art and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.