Tanja Lažetić graduated in Architecture from the University of Ljubljana. Her fields of interest include photography, video, ceramic art, performance art, and artists’ books. For her work, Lažetić has received a number of awards, including the first prize at the Trieste Contemporanea international design competition (1995), a nomination for the International Media Art Award by ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (2001), the bronze prize at Nanjing Festival, China, the third prize at the International Ceramics Triennial UNICUM (both 2015), and the Rihard Jakopič Recognition (2017). Published by the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, her book ‘Whore’ has been featured in Phaidon's ‘The Photobook: A History, Volume III'. Lažetić has participated in artist residencies in New York, Berlin, London, Israel, Lithuania, Shanghai, and Vienna, among others.

Lažetić has exhibited her work in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (participating four times in the Triennial of Contemporary Art U3), the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, the International Centre of Graphic Arts (including once in the Biennial of Graphic Arts), the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom, the P74 Gallery, and the Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; the Art Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina; the PM Gallery and Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, Zagreb; the 25th of May Museum, Belgrade; Brighton Photo Biennial, UK; the Festival of Regions, Austria; and Gagoian Galleries in Paris, Beverly Hills, and NY.

Photo: Dejan Habicht