Jasmina Cibic: Hope as a Muscle

Jasmina Cibic’s work examines how art and culture operate as instruments of soft power and ideological construction, particularly in moments of political rupture. In this talk, she will present a series of recent photographic and film projects developed in close dialogue with human rights advocates and with archives and sites of national and transnational power.

Central to her practice is performativity as a methodological tool: Cibic uses staging, re-enactment, and collaboration to expose how cultural narratives are produced, negotiated, and instrumentalised. In the context of a renewed global crisis, Cibic reflects on the role of the artist not only as a witness, but as an active agent navigating infrastructures of visibility, withdrawal, and control – testing how cultural production might resist, rehearse, or reimagine political futures.

Jasmina Cibic is a Slovenian artist working across film, installation, photography, and sculpture. She represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennale and has presented solo exhibitions at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, macLyon, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, CCA Glasgow, and Kunstmuseum Krefeld. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at venues such as MoMA New York, MAXXI Rome, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Ticket information: Admission to this event is free of charge.