You are warmly invited to a guided tour of the exhibition RE-SISTER with artist Ana Kotar Škarjak on Wednesday, 29 July 2026, at 6:00 PM.

The artist occupies the gallery space in its entirety, wrapping it in red and filling it with phrases she herself has encountered, phrases that serve to programme women for life within a patriarchal society. The space represents internalised thoughts and behavioural patterns imposed upon women by society. It embodies situated knowledge that, through symbolic annihilation, remains beyond the reach of common understanding. The seemingly empty space is an artwork not intended for straightforward reading; rather, it reflects a society that systematically obscures its own structures through intergenerationally learned patterns and traditional values, presenting itself as precariously balanced.

Kotar Škarjak informs her artistic practice through her own experience as both a woman and an immigrant in Berlin, a position that places her within a framework of dual systemic oppression. Like the mother in Outsider, she encounters systematic sexism, and the preparation of beef soup results in a sense of alienation in her foster country. She remains trapped within a space that demands compliance both with the traditionalism of a foreign environment and with patriarchal social structures. She finds herself within a matrix of domination that only intensifies her experience as a woman. The exhibition therefore asks: What happens when a woman speaks out? Does the system begin to fracture once we recognise it? How is a woman meant to live in a world where there is no room for the fullness of her being? — Jernej Čuček Gerbec, exhibition text

“Resist, dear sister! The alternative is to die, having been a very good girl.”

Ana Kotar Škarjak, performance, exhibition opening, 9 July 2026
Artist: Ana Kotar Škarjak
Curator: Jernej Čuček Gerbec
Photo: Katarina Kolenc