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Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the world, including in such major exhibitions as the Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2022), the Venice Biennale (1993, 2003, 2009, and 2021), the São Paulo Biennial (1996, 2006), and Skulptur Projekte Münster (1997). She has exhibited regularly at Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin and Stockholm since 2003. Among her important exhibitions are shows at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2001); the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004); the De Appel Foundation for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam (2004); Gwangjou Biennale (2004); Portikus Gallery, Frankfurt (2006); The Curve at the Barbican Art Galleries, London (2007); the Max Protetch Gallery, New York (2008); Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan (2012); the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2013, 2018); the PAMM Perez Art Museum, Miami (2015); Kunsthall Trondheim (2017); FLORA ars+natura, Bogotà (2017); the Yinchuan Biennial, MOCA, Yinchuan, China (2018); VISUAL, Carlow, Ireland (2018); the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore (2019); Künstlerhaus Vienna (2020); DMZ Art & Peace Platform, UniMARU, DMZ, South Korea (2021); Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana (2021); the Civic Gallery Piran (2022/2023); 2^nd Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Riyadh (2024); and the Fragmentos Space of Art and Memory, Bogotá (2024). Her many on-site projects include Dry Toilet (Caracas, 2003), Power from Nature (Barefoot College, India, and Catherine Ferguson Academy, Detroit, 2005), The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour (Stedelijk goes West, Amsterdam, 2009), Between the Waters: The Emscher Community Garden (Emscherkunst.2010, Essen, 2010), Théâtre Évolutif (Evento 2011, Bordeaux, 2011), The Soweto Project (9UB, Soweto, SA, 2014), Of Soil and Water: King's Cross Pond Club (Relay Art Program, King's Cross, London, 2015), and Future Island (Albano Campus, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 2023).

From 2011 to 2018, she was a professor of social practice at the University of Fine Arts/HFBK in Hamburg, where she taught Design for the Living World, a class on participatory practices. She has also been a visiting professor at a number of other institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005) and the IUAV Faculty of Arts and Design in Venice (2008, 2010).

Potrč has received numerous awards, grants, fellowships, and residencies, including a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1993, 1999); the Hugo Boss Prize (2000); a Caracas Case Project fellowship from the Federal Cultural Foundation, Germany, and the Caracas Urban Think Tank, Venezuela (2002); the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies Fellowship (2004); the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics Fellowship at The New School in New York (2007); the Curry Stone Design Prize (2008); a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2018); and the Medal for Merit of the Republic of Slovenia (2023).