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Featuring RU artist-in-residence Nika Erjavec in the RU voices interview series 🎤
Nika Erjavec is the winner of the 2025 OHO Award.
Nika Erjavec is an interdisciplinary artist focused on the ways sensory languages and systems shape and challenge modes of sensing. Grounded in research and hands-on experimentation, she is currently exploring urban wilderness and working with the physicality of vibration and light, creating interactive installations that probe perception and our idea of reality. Her most recent solo exhibition (un)objectivity (2024) was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana. Nika Erjavec has two permanent installations: the interactive light ambient Cellular Landscapes (2024) in front of the University Medical Centre Ljubljana and the interactive sound installation with Doroteja Erhatič V/Posluh (2022) at the Slovenian Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana. During her master’s studies, she received the highest award of the Academy for her series of installations and hybrid artistic research (2019). Nika Erjavec is a member of the teaching staff at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana in the Video, Animation and New Media department. Since 2014, she has been actively exhibiting in the local and international context.
Nika was part of the exhibition Something’s Glitching in the House curated by Data Chigholashvili, Curator of Residency Unlimited, at RU House on Governors Island.
Exploring abandoned spaces, urban wilderness and posthumanist landscapes, Nika Erjavec’s sculptural installations test our perception through the senses. The artist brings together plants and found objects, and creates subtle yet accelerated motions between marginal points. In doing so, what we expect to see in her kinetic-audio sculptures becomes purposefully hard to perceive as stable images.
Nika Erjavec’s residency is made possible with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
