Tisa Neža Herlec selected as a new Young Artist-in-Residence at MGLC Švicarija
The International Centre of Graphic Arts issued a public call for Young Artists Residency proposals at MGLC Švicarija, offering a two-year studio rental (2025–2027) to a young artist up to 35 years of age.
The call for applications closed on 31 January 2025. Twelve submissions were reviewed and evaluated by an expert jury consisting of Alenka Gregorič, Artistic Director of Cukrarna and Tobačna Gallery, Maja Hodošček, artist and curator at the Centre of Contemporary Arts Celje, and Jure Kirbiš, curator at the UGM – Maribor Art Gallery.
In line with the call for proposals, the jury evaluated: the applicant's references in the period 2022–2024 (solo exhibitions or comprehensive solo projects; participation in group exhibitions at referential contemporary art venues; other activities; prizes, awards, special mentions and purchased works), media and professional responses to the applicant's work to date, and the presentation of the applicant's work programme for the duration of the residency. Among the applications received, visual artist Tisa Neža Herlec was awarded the highest score from the jury and has been selected as the new Young Artist-in-Residence at MGLC Švicarija for the 2025–2027 term.
Statement by the Expert Jury
The jury unanimously selected the experimental project Choral Assembly by artist Tisa Neža Herlec, which involves the local community in its performative stance, but also has an international focus in its presentation. The project considers the human voice as a means of expression that is inherent and common to all people, and the artist relies heavily on its use as a means of unification and broader integration. We believe that this kind of ambitious yet ephemeral art practice, based on process, community-building and live action, contributes significantly to the quality of the MGLC Švicarija programme.
Biography
Tisa Neža Herlec (1996, Ljubljana), also known as Tisa World, is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice interweaves voice, language, printmaking, performance, composition and collective processes. She loves to share her creative methods to empower collective artmaking and publishing, often within the context of the performative arts. She enhances her performances with the use of printed matter and visual elements such as graphic prints.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana and completed a Master’s in Experimental Publishing at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, supported by a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. From 2019 to 2025, she lived in the Netherlands, where she published, exhibited and performed internationally.
She is a member of several collectives: Singing Club Rotterdam, an anti-choir for all voices (since 2019); De Boog, a shared studio for the graphic arts and risography in Rotterdam (since 2020); RE#sister Rotterdam, a fem collective for experimental sound art (since 2019); Modri Kot, an experimental venue for politics and performative arts at the Autonomous Rog Factory in Ljubljana (2015–2019).
Her sound and music projects include: Triangulation, Tisa&Mojca, Stepmother, Warping, Relative Silence at Dawn, Shall we?, Voronoi Collective, Interlocutor and the composition fem trio TiSiTi. She was a host of the interview show The Side Entrance on Radio Worm in Rotterdam (2019–2024) and a radio moderator on Radio Študent in Ljubljana (2015–2018). In the UBIK theatre in Rotterdam, she conducted a series of participatory Mystery Sessions – workshops for interdisciplinary improvisation and performance (2021–2025).
She was a resident at: Sonoscopia in Porto (2025); Hamburger Community at Roodkapje Rotterdam & Divo Institute in Beja, Portugal (2024); CreativePowerGarage101 in Japan & Petersburg Art Space in Berlin & Paviljoen aan het Water in Rotterdam (2023); Destination Unknown in Venlo, NL & ATM festival in Seoul, South Korea (2022); transborders festival, Pavlova hiša, on the Slovenian Austrian border (2020).
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