Marko Peljhan selected as Slovenia's representative for 2019 Venice Biennale

Slovenia's national pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale will feature Marko Peljhan, an artist, theatre director, and educator. The Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana made the announcement. Peljhan's practice merges art with scientific inquiry. He founded the arts and technology organization Projekt Atol in 1992, a nonprofit dedicated to scientific research and collaboration. His decade-long Makrolab project, a mobile research station for artists and scientists studying Antarctic climate change, earned him the UNESCO Digital Media Prize in 2004. That project was previously presented at Documenta 10 in Kassel during 1997. Peljhan has an extensive history of participation in major international exhibitions. His work has been shown at the Montreal Biennial in 2014, the Istanbul Biennial in 2009, and the Brussels Biennial in 2008. He also participated in the Venice Biennale in 2003, the Gwangju Biennale in 2002, and Manifesta 2 in 1998.