ARCO Madrid 2026
RAVNIKAR | 9OP09
Maja Babič Košir
Born in 1978, Ljubljana, SI
Lives and works between Ljubljana, Sl, and Porto, PT
Born in 1978, Ljubljana, SI
Lives and works between Ljubljana, Sl, and Porto, PT
Maja Babič Košir holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana and pursued advanced studies at EINA University School of Design and Art in Barcelona.
At the heart of her practice is the family archive, which she engages not to preserve, but to transform. Sketches, prototypes, and fragments of letters and notes are reinterpreted as sculptural gestures, tracing presence without sentimentality. In works such as the Love Letters series (2018–), found and familial materials are reshaped to explore memory, absence, and the lingering weight of loss, with the archive acting as a quiet partner in reflection. Through these interventions, inherited objects resonate beyond their origins, articulating traces of life, intention, and affect.
Maja’s process balances intuition with formal rigour. Through layering, assemblage, and spatial interventions, she constructs multidimensional installations that emphasise the tactile, sensory, and ephemeral qualities of her materials, challenging conventional notions of decorativeness.
She exhibits widely at leading international contemporary art fairs and venues, including the MG+MSUM Ljubljana, UGM Maribor, Cukrarna, ARCO Madrid, Art Brussels, SPARK, Artissima, viennacontemporary, NADA Villa Warsaw, and Berlin & Zürich Art Weekend. Her works are held in prominent private and public collections and have been recognised with multiple awards.
Represented by the gallery, Maja Babič Košir continues to probe the intersections of material, memory, and narrative, creating sculptural and spatial interventions that resonate with both intimate and universal histories.
Nevena Aleksovski
Born in 1984, Bor, RS
Lives and works in Ljubljana, SI
Nevena Aleksovski earned her degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Novi Sad (RS) in 2008, and furthered her academic journey with a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Ljubljana (SI) in 2014. She has showcased her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions, among others at ŠKUC (SI), RAVNIKAR (SI), Britta Rettberg (DE), MGLC (SI), Cukrarna (SI), PrivatePrint (MK), NADA Villa Warsaw (PL), ECHORAUM (AT) as well as at various international art fairs including viennacontemporary, Artissima, ARCOmadrid, Zurich Art Weekend, Berlin Art Week and others. In 2022 she published the book Melancholy of the Abandoned Lands, in collaboration with PrivatePrint Publishing, that tells the migration history of her family during Yugoslavia and after its dissolution.
Her work investigates how subjectivity is shaped by land, displacement and historical transformation, situating individual experience within broader political and social contexts. Working from a feminist perspective, she addresses transgenerational memory, absence and erasure, foregrounding the often invisible structures and forms of labour embedded in familial and cultural narratives. Her practice reflects on the relationship between the intimate and the political, the private and the public, as well as on systems of dominance and subordination. Through painting, drawing, installation and the use of found objects, she develops a minimalist and fragmented visual language that emphasizes reduction, subtlety and conceptual clarity.
Pedro Maia
Born in 1962, Porto, PT
Lives and works in Porto, PT
Pedro Maia is a Portuguese distinguished visual artist, researcher, and Full Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. He earned his B.A. in Fine Arts – Painting from the Porto School of Fine Arts (1988), received an MFA in Fine Arts as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Massachusetts, USA (1990), and completed a PhD in Drawing Machines at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (2010).
His recent work explores themes of personal, urban and natural landscapes, as well as various thematic projects that consistently integrate photography, video, soundscape, drawing, architecture, and installation. His artworks are represented in both public and private collections internationally.
Since 1988, he has exhibited extensively in galleries and art fairs across Portugal (EXPO 98, Porto, Lisbon, Braga, Guimarães, Madeira, Azores, etc.), Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Granada, Mallorca), the UK (Bristol), Switzerland (Basel International Art Fair), the USA (ART L.A., Los Angeles, New York, Amherst, Greenfield), Morocco (Casablanca, Rabat), Mexico (Guanajuato, Guadalajara, Leon, Morelia) and India (Panjim-Goa).
In addition to his practice as an artist and educator, he has actively published essays and articles since 2005 on painting, drawing, photography, architecture, landscape, art & technology, continually interconnecting these disciplines with a particular focus on utopian and architecture and sustainable art.
On an academic level, since 2017, his research has been engaged with international projects in Spain, Mexico and Portugal approaching the idea of urban landscape, architecture and art, dating from the 16th century until today. As an art curator, private or academically speaking, he has promoted from 2000 onwards, innumerable exhibitions and projects in and outside Portugal.
Contact
Piera Ravnikar
Founder & Director
+ 386 40 846 069
piera@ravnikar.org
At the heart of her practice is the family archive, which she engages not to preserve, but to transform. Sketches, prototypes, and fragments of letters and notes are reinterpreted as sculptural gestures, tracing presence without sentimentality. In works such as the Love Letters series (2018–), found and familial materials are reshaped to explore memory, absence, and the lingering weight of loss, with the archive acting as a quiet partner in reflection. Through these interventions, inherited objects resonate beyond their origins, articulating traces of life, intention, and affect.
Maja’s process balances intuition with formal rigour. Through layering, assemblage, and spatial interventions, she constructs multidimensional installations that emphasise the tactile, sensory, and ephemeral qualities of her materials, challenging conventional notions of decorativeness.
She exhibits widely at leading international contemporary art fairs and venues, including the MG+MSUM Ljubljana, UGM Maribor, Cukrarna, ARCO Madrid, Art Brussels, SPARK, Artissima, viennacontemporary, NADA Villa Warsaw, and Berlin & Zürich Art Weekend. Her works are held in prominent private and public collections and have been recognised with multiple awards.
Represented by the gallery, Maja Babič Košir continues to probe the intersections of material, memory, and narrative, creating sculptural and spatial interventions that resonate with both intimate and universal histories.
Nevena Aleksovski
Born in 1984, Bor, RS
Lives and works in Ljubljana, SI
Nevena Aleksovski earned her degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Novi Sad (RS) in 2008, and furthered her academic journey with a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Ljubljana (SI) in 2014. She has showcased her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions, among others at ŠKUC (SI), RAVNIKAR (SI), Britta Rettberg (DE), MGLC (SI), Cukrarna (SI), PrivatePrint (MK), NADA Villa Warsaw (PL), ECHORAUM (AT) as well as at various international art fairs including viennacontemporary, Artissima, ARCOmadrid, Zurich Art Weekend, Berlin Art Week and others. In 2022 she published the book Melancholy of the Abandoned Lands, in collaboration with PrivatePrint Publishing, that tells the migration history of her family during Yugoslavia and after its dissolution.
Her work investigates how subjectivity is shaped by land, displacement and historical transformation, situating individual experience within broader political and social contexts. Working from a feminist perspective, she addresses transgenerational memory, absence and erasure, foregrounding the often invisible structures and forms of labour embedded in familial and cultural narratives. Her practice reflects on the relationship between the intimate and the political, the private and the public, as well as on systems of dominance and subordination. Through painting, drawing, installation and the use of found objects, she develops a minimalist and fragmented visual language that emphasizes reduction, subtlety and conceptual clarity.
Pedro Maia
Born in 1962, Porto, PT
Lives and works in Porto, PT
Pedro Maia is a Portuguese distinguished visual artist, researcher, and Full Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. He earned his B.A. in Fine Arts – Painting from the Porto School of Fine Arts (1988), received an MFA in Fine Arts as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Massachusetts, USA (1990), and completed a PhD in Drawing Machines at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (2010).
His recent work explores themes of personal, urban and natural landscapes, as well as various thematic projects that consistently integrate photography, video, soundscape, drawing, architecture, and installation. His artworks are represented in both public and private collections internationally.
Since 1988, he has exhibited extensively in galleries and art fairs across Portugal (EXPO 98, Porto, Lisbon, Braga, Guimarães, Madeira, Azores, etc.), Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Granada, Mallorca), the UK (Bristol), Switzerland (Basel International Art Fair), the USA (ART L.A., Los Angeles, New York, Amherst, Greenfield), Morocco (Casablanca, Rabat), Mexico (Guanajuato, Guadalajara, Leon, Morelia) and India (Panjim-Goa).
In addition to his practice as an artist and educator, he has actively published essays and articles since 2005 on painting, drawing, photography, architecture, landscape, art & technology, continually interconnecting these disciplines with a particular focus on utopian and architecture and sustainable art.
On an academic level, since 2017, his research has been engaged with international projects in Spain, Mexico and Portugal approaching the idea of urban landscape, architecture and art, dating from the 16th century until today. As an art curator, private or academically speaking, he has promoted from 2000 onwards, innumerable exhibitions and projects in and outside Portugal.
Contact
Piera Ravnikar
Founder & Director
+ 386 40 846 069
piera@ravnikar.org
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