BIO
Maruša Mazej, born in 1995, finished her MA studies in ceramics at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2021 (cum laude). She received an ALUO award for an upstanding work. From 2019 to 2020 she studied at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava through an Erasmus+ exchange program. She obtained her BA in ceramics in 2018 at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, focusing her work on a research of glazes in ceramics. For her BA thesis she received an ALUO Recognition award. In 2018 she spent two months as an Erasmus+ intern in EA ceramics studio.
2023
Intersections
Kresija Gallery
Ljubljana, Slovenia
16th International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics of Aveiro
Aveiro Museum
Aveiro, Portugal
Triennial of Handicrafts and Crafts
The Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts
Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
Young Talents, Berlin Design Week
Museum of Decorative Arts
Berlin, Germany
2022
Calculation is a game (solo exhibition)
Layer’s House
Kranj, Slovenia
Ceramics in Slovenia 2005 – 2022
The Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts
Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
BIO27 Super Vernaculars - Design for a Regenerative Future
MAO
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Created in Slovenia
Cukrarna Palace
Ljubljana, Slovenia
New Times (Made in Slovenia)
Milano Design Week
Milan, Italy
Majski salon
Kibla portal Gallery
Maribor, Slovenia
Ceramics in Slovenia 2005 – 2022
The Gorenjska Museum
Kranj, Slovenia
2021
Majski salon
ZDSLU Gallery
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Welcome Young Artists
ZDSLU Gallery
Ljubljana, Slovenia
2020
Paths / selected student works
Right Atrium of the City Hall
Ljubljana, Slovenia
S03E02 / Pop-up Gallery 7:069
Layer’s House
Kranj, Slovenia
2019
Ex terra Krško 2019 – Impulse
Mencinger’s house
Krško, Slovenija
Movements / selected student works
Meduza Gallery
Piran, Slovenia
Πr square, Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics
Layer’s House
Kranj, Slovenia
Behind Uncovered Windows / Lighting Guerrila Festival – Borders
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marx After Marx: Kunst-Marx
Goethe-Institut, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2074: Utopias of Industrial Design and Applied Arts Students of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana
Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018
Impressions / selected student works
Faculty of Social Sciences
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Premiere 2018 – 4th Triennal of Young Artists: Cultural Body, Space, Placements
Gallery of Contemporary Art
Celje, Slovenia
2017
Worlds (solo exhibition)
Layer’s House
Kranj, Slovenia
Stories / selected student works
Media Nox gallery
Maribor, Slovenia
Back to the future K67 / Lighting Guerrila Festival – Memories
Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016
Glass and Ceramics / selected student works
Balcony Hall at University of Ljubljana Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015
Dimensions / selected student works
Gallery KULT3000
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Exhibitions
Made in Slovenia mark of excellence 2023
Made in Slovenia mark of excellence 2021
Academy of Fine Arts and Design Award 2021
Awarded Future Lights in Ceramics 2020
Academy of Fine Arts and Design Recognition award 2018