Born on 9th March 1955 in Celje. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana. Her field of interest covers different media: performance, installation, video nad theatre costume design. She works as a frelance artist. "With her work the artist proves that gesamtkunstwerk is the ultimate artistic expression. In her work a tension between life and death is staged to nearly tangible presence. We experience her work sensually on the performances in vast industrial halls, factories, stone-pits or on projections in full darkness, filled with sound or/and images that avoid any typological definitions. Experiencing her events leave deep sensual imprints on us. The images would appear to us in the true senses of this word. They appear to us as phantoms much later, after we are hardly able to remember the time and place where they inhabited us – in the sleeping dreams or the dreaming with eyes wide opened. Ema Kugler is a master of phantoms." (Jurij Krpan, Explenation of Prešeren Fund Award, 2008). Ema Kugler is recepient of Prešeren Award 2023.
www.ema-kugler.si
Not Yet Written Stories. Women Artists’ Archives Online (2019–2022)
Production: V.S. Video, Forum Ljubljana, VPK, 1993
Mythology in the video works by Ema Kugler is inscribed in rituals of everyday life; this time it is the theme of Hydra with many facets. The theme is represented by the separate scenes featuring human figures in leather costumes (created by the artist he...
Production: Marijan Osole - Max, CD, 1985
A collage of fashion creations from a fashion show set in Cankarjev dom starts off as if browsing through a trendy Fashion magazine. Models wearing leather clothes are accompanied by Italian, Yugoslav and American pop music from the 60'. We can also...