Maruša Sagadin first completed a degree in architecture at the Graz University of Technology. She then studied Performative Arts and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. From 2012 to 2017 she worked as a university assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and in 2023 and 2024 she held a guest professorship in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

As in Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism, where identities and conventions are renegotiated, Maruša Sagadin invites us to question familiar perspectives on everyday materials and urban structures. Her works communicate this above all through ambiguity: in their material appearance, in the use of language, in their colors. Using bodily forms such as noses and eyes, the artist conceals the screws and seams necessary for structural stability, while at the same time highlighting these utilitarian points with postmodern fascination by revealing them through building elements she refers to as “props.” Humor and exaggeration are essential stylistic elements in her installations. She turns the large into the small and the small into the large, and with her material experiments she scratches at the boundaries of vulnerability and disgust.

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Maruša Sagadin