Eva Petrič: Global Multidimensional Artist from Slovenia
Eva Petrič is a Slovenian visual artist, photographer, writer, and poet, born in 1983. Her creative work spans a wide range of artistic media, including photography, video, performance, installations, and textile art. She is an internationally recognized artist working both in Slovenia and abroad, particularly in New York, Vienna, and Ljubljana.
Her art often explores themes of identity, connection, the human body, and social structures. A significant aspect of her work includes lace installations, which create a bridge between the traditional and the contemporary. She leaves a special mark by intertwining personal and collective experiences in her artistic expressions.
Eva Petrič earned her degree in visual arts and psychology at Webster University in Vienna and the USA. She later completed a master's degree in new media at the Transart Institute in Berlin, in cooperation with Danube University Krems in Austria. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, including the USA, Europe, and Asia.
In addition to visual art, Eva Petrič is also the author of several literary works, including poetry collections and novels. Her writings often focus on themes of loneliness, connection, love, and inner experiences.
Her work frequently transcends the boundaries between art genres, positioning her among contemporary interdisciplinary creators whose work addresses both artistic and social dimensions.
In the Slovenian language community at the OLS platform, we have chosen Eva Petrič as Artist of the Month because her works are currently on display both in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and in Vienna, Austria.
The Secret Garden@Recycled Stories has been blooming since the first day of spring (March 21) at the Vič Shopping Center in Ljubljana and is awaiting more stories to unite into one – the exhibition runs until April 20, 2025. This is also a chance for you to participate in her work, as you can donate your lace during the exhibition.
The Secret Garden@Recycled Stories is a garden of emotions that grows and blossoms with human connections through space and time, weaving together happiness, sadness, gratitude, and vulnerability. It is a garden of the past, present, and future; recycled voices, wishes, and traditions, but also a garden of emotions and feelings that are increasingly threatened in the era of information technology. Could this be a garden of once-flourishing emotions now fading into oblivion?
It consists of hundreds of handmade lace doilies from around the world – some found at flea markets, others inherited, many by unknown creators – yet each one carries an intention, a feeling, a story that connects us all into a multi-layered web of humanity. Let this garden connect us with our ancestors, root us in the present, and inspire the preservation of traditions in the garden of the future.
The Secret Garden@Recycled Stories is a constantly growing garden that accepts doilies of all sizes, colors, and shapes and helps build and preserve the collective story of human emotions. If you have any lace doily you can part with, you are invited to bring it during the exhibition. In the new installation, it will be given new life and contribute to recycling and connecting our shared stories.
In the coming days in Vienna, as part of the 25th OSCE Conference on Commitment Against Human Trafficking, during the segment “Victims’ Voices through Art”, following the panel discussion on Innovative Tools in Combating Child Trafficking, Eva Petrič’s video installation SURRaGATE Landscapes, created in February 2025, will be presented.
This powerful visual narrative explores the psychological trauma of a displaced individual and illustrates how the experience of forced separation, human trafficking, and exploitation leaves a person in surrogate landscapes, separated from their past and struggling to reclaim their identity in a substitute life. The video contributes to the broader discussion on child trafficking, emphasizing the profound emotional and psychological impact on victims. It serves as a reminder of the urgent need for survivor-centered approaches and highlights the importance of corporate responsibility, law enforcement cooperation, and ethical business practices in fighting human trafficking.
By integrating artistic expression into the discourse on human trafficking, SURRaGATE LANDSCAPES brings a perspective that complements the goals of the conference – raising awareness and encouraging joint solutions to protect vulnerable individuals, especially minors. The conference emphasizes the human cost of human trafficking and calls on stakeholders to go beyond political discussions and recognize the deep scars trafficking leaves on survivors, while exploring ways to eliminate these issues.
On April 3, 2025, her “art to wear” jewelry series Compass will be launched at the V und V Gallery in Vienna. This series is an extension of her artistic project Gr@y Matter – Language of Shadows, in which she explores the communicative power of shadows. The Compass jewelry collection embodies the transformation of photography into lace – specifically, the artist’s shadow image Earthling from her periodic system of shadowed emotions, hand-engraved onto crystal pieces found at flea markets around the world. Like a compass marked by the imprints and scratches of the past, they are reactivated by the present, seamlessly connecting heritage with contemporary meaning. The Compass series was a finalist for the Austria Eligius Schmuckpreis award in 2016.
How do you like the artworks of Slovenian artist Eva Petrič, and will you visit any of her exhibitions in Ljubljana or Vienna?
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Alenka, Community Manager – Slovenian
Eva Petrič is a Slovenian visual artist, photographer, writer, and poet, born in 1983. Her creative work spans a wide range of artistic media, including photography, video, performance, installations, and textile art. She is an internationally recognized artist working both in Slovenia and abroad, particularly in New York, Vienna, and Ljubljana.
Her art often explores themes of identity, connection, the human body, and social structures. A significant aspect of her work includes lace installations, which create a bridge between the traditional and the contemporary. She leaves a special mark by intertwining personal and collective experiences in her artistic expressions.
Eva Petrič earned her degree in visual arts and psychology at Webster University in Vienna and the USA. She later completed a master's degree in new media at the Transart Institute in Berlin, in cooperation with Danube University Krems in Austria. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, including the USA, Europe, and Asia.
In addition to visual art, Eva Petrič is also the author of several literary works, including poetry collections and novels. Her writings often focus on themes of loneliness, connection, love, and inner experiences.
Her work frequently transcends the boundaries between art genres, positioning her among contemporary interdisciplinary creators whose work addresses both artistic and social dimensions.
In the Slovenian language community at the OLS platform, we have chosen Eva Petrič as Artist of the Month because her works are currently on display both in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and in Vienna, Austria.
The Secret Garden@Recycled Stories has been blooming since the first day of spring (March 21) at the Vič Shopping Center in Ljubljana and is awaiting more stories to unite into one – the exhibition runs until April 20, 2025. This is also a chance for you to participate in her work, as you can donate your lace during the exhibition.
The Secret Garden@Recycled Stories is a garden of emotions that grows and blossoms with human connections through space and time, weaving together happiness, sadness, gratitude, and vulnerability. It is a garden of the past, present, and future; recycled voices, wishes, and traditions, but also a garden of emotions and feelings that are increasingly threatened in the era of information technology. Could this be a garden of once-flourishing emotions now fading into oblivion?
It consists of hundreds of handmade lace doilies from around the world – some found at flea markets, others inherited, many by unknown creators – yet each one carries an intention, a feeling, a story that connects us all into a multi-layered web of humanity. Let this garden connect us with our ancestors, root us in the present, and inspire the preservation of traditions in the garden of the future.
The Secret Garden@Recycled Stories is a constantly growing garden that accepts doilies of all sizes, colors, and shapes and helps build and preserve the collective story of human emotions. If you have any lace doily you can part with, you are invited to bring it during the exhibition. In the new installation, it will be given new life and contribute to recycling and connecting our shared stories.
In the coming days in Vienna, as part of the 25th OSCE Conference on Commitment Against Human Trafficking, during the segment “Victims’ Voices through Art”, following the panel discussion on Innovative Tools in Combating Child Trafficking, Eva Petrič’s video installation SURRaGATE Landscapes, created in February 2025, will be presented.
This powerful visual narrative explores the psychological trauma of a displaced individual and illustrates how the experience of forced separation, human trafficking, and exploitation leaves a person in surrogate landscapes, separated from their past and struggling to reclaim their identity in a substitute life. The video contributes to the broader discussion on child trafficking, emphasizing the profound emotional and psychological impact on victims. It serves as a reminder of the urgent need for survivor-centered approaches and highlights the importance of corporate responsibility, law enforcement cooperation, and ethical business practices in fighting human trafficking.
By integrating artistic expression into the discourse on human trafficking, SURRaGATE LANDSCAPES brings a perspective that complements the goals of the conference – raising awareness and encouraging joint solutions to protect vulnerable individuals, especially minors. The conference emphasizes the human cost of human trafficking and calls on stakeholders to go beyond political discussions and recognize the deep scars trafficking leaves on survivors, while exploring ways to eliminate these issues.
On April 3, 2025, her “art to wear” jewelry series Compass will be launched at the V und V Gallery in Vienna. This series is an extension of her artistic project Gr@y Matter – Language of Shadows, in which she explores the communicative power of shadows. The Compass jewelry collection embodies the transformation of photography into lace – specifically, the artist’s shadow image Earthling from her periodic system of shadowed emotions, hand-engraved onto crystal pieces found at flea markets around the world. Like a compass marked by the imprints and scratches of the past, they are reactivated by the present, seamlessly connecting heritage with contemporary meaning. The Compass series was a finalist for the Austria Eligius Schmuckpreis award in 2016.
How do you like the artworks of Slovenian artist Eva Petrič, and will you visit any of her exhibitions in Ljubljana or Vienna?
#Share with us in the comments!
Alenka, Community Manager – Slovenian