Eva Garibaldi (b. Ljubljana, 1996) is a Slovenian multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in the Netherlands. Her practice explores wet ecologies where binary understandings dissolve, and more-than-human relations come into focus. Working through fieldwork, listening, and material experimentation, she investigates how environmental processes are sensed and mediated across bodily, geological, and planetary scales. Drawing from feminist and queer ecologies, she uses murkiness, porosity, and speculative storytelling to question dominant narratives of landscape to imagine alternative planetary imaginaries.
She holds an MA in Interior Architecture: Research + Design from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (Cum Laude, 2021). Her work has been featured in publications and exhibitions including BIO27 in Milan, Berlin, and Dutch Design Week, as well as Soapbox Journal, Art Rotterdam, Garage Rotterdam, and Extrapool among others. Together with Ana Laura Richter, she co-founded Swamp_Matter. Their projects have been supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL and shown at Aksioma Ljubljana, Mediterranea 2025, and presented at SCI_ART 2025 (Ottawa, Kelowna, Montréal) and the Taboo–Transgression–Transcendence Conference with recognition as finalists for the S+T+ARTS Aqua Motion Residency.
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education
2019 – 2021 MA Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design (Cum Laude), Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (NL)
2014 – 2018 BA Industrial design, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana (SI)
awards & recognitions2025 Shortlist S+T+ARTS Aqua Motion Artist Residency 2025
2025 Winner Call for New Media Arts 2025, P74 Gallery, Institute P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.
2024 Winner Cultural Euro 2024 #intermedia, Kino Šiska Centre for Urban Culture
2023 Winner Aksioma U30+ 2024, Ljubljana
2021 Finalist WdKA Master Research Award 2021
2021 Cum Laude, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy
2018 University of Ljubljana Award for Special Achievements and Active Participation in Extracurricular Activities
selected group exhibitions
2026 BIO29: Soft Fields, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana (SI)
2026 Delay, Festival IZIS, Libertas Stičišče Kultur, Koper (SI)
2026 Onland, Extrapol, Nijmegen (NL)
2025 Keep off the Grass (A Gathering for Returning), Osmo/za, Ljubljana (SI)
2025 Limbo, de Proef, Re-Peat Earth, Drenthe (NL)
2025 Spatial Odysseys: Mutual Bloom, Club RAUM, Amsterdam Dance Event (NL)
2025 Ljubljana Short Film Festival FEKK 2025, Ljubljana (SI)
2025 BORDERLESS, Mediterranea 20 Young Artist Biennale, Nova Gorica/Gorizia (IT/SI)
2025 9th Anniversary of Dobra Vaga: It’s Going to Rain, Ljubljana (SI)
2023 Garage Cafe #2.3, Rotterdam (NL)
2023 Curating Change, Design Campus: School of Phyto-centered Design, Kunstgewerbenmuseum, Dresden (DE)
selected solo exhibitions
2025 Fantastic Glitch Swamp, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana (SI)
2025 Salinarum, P74 Gallery, Institute P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., Ljubljana (SI)
2025 Girlhood Is a Spectrum, Zine Vitrine, Dobra Vaga, Ljubljana (SI)
2024 The Stones Appear To Be Non-Living, Aksioma U30+, Ljubljana (SI)
selected publications
2026 (upcoming) Exploring Ecological Thresholds Through Art, Science, and Speculative Narratives (Eva Garibaldi and Ana Laura Richter), TTT2025 eBook of Proceedings, Ionian University (GR). Forthcoming publication with ISBN. https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/2025/en/proceedings/
2026 (upcoming) The Unstable Ground, Kajet Journal, Bucharest (RO)
2026 (upcoming) The Club is Swamp, FIBER Festival 2026, Amsterdam (NL)
2024 Vračanja (with Eva Bevec, Gaja Pegan-Nahtigal, Ana Laura Richter, Lea Topolovec) in Robida 10: Correspondences / Korespondence / Correspondenze, Topolove (SI)
2024 The Unstable Ground in Soapbox 5.0: SWAMPED! Overwhelming Affects and Environments of Decay, Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam (NL)
2023 The Unstable Ground in Abbasi, G., Dittel, K. (ed.) in Extraction - A trans-scalar inquiry, Rotterdam (NL)
lectures
2027 (upcoming) Glitching the Waterscape: Artistic Research and Speculative Storytelling as Methods for Reimagining Wetland Futures, Art for Transformative Change, Reimagining Wetlands: Advancing Water Security and Sustainability through the Arts, Kolkata (IN)
2026 Desiring the Wetland, artist-research presentation and conversation with Jeanna Kolesova, Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck (AT)
2025 Exploring Ecological Thresholds Through Art, Science, and Speculative Narratives, Bodies and Biologies: DNA, Agency and Environmentalism, University of British Columbia, SCI_ART 2025: Kelowna (CA)
2025 Exploring Ecological Thresholds Through Art, Science, and Speculative Narratives, Bridging the Divide: Humans, Animals and Nature, SCI_ART 2025: Ottawa (CA)
2025 Convergences in Art, Science, and Technology: Round table discussion, SCI_ART 2025: Montreal (CA)
2025 Exploring Ecological Thresholds Through Art, Science, and Speculative Narratives, Karst, Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science, Ljubljana (SI)
2025 Designing at the Threshold of Science, Story, and Speculation, Closing Conference, MADE IN Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design, Ljubljana (SI)
2024 Visualizing the Unseen: The Role of Art in Communicating Climate Change, International Conference on Communicating the Climate Crisis and Extreme Weather Events, University of Ljubljana (SI)
2022 Supervernacular movement: New Generation of Designers - Issues of Local Communities and the Environment, BIO27: Current Vernaculars, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana (SI)
residencies & workshops
2026 Residency of the Ministry of Culture RS, SKICA Berlin (DE)
2024 Critical Times. Part II: Ecologies of Relation workshop, Matters of Activity, Rotterdam (NL)
2023 Curating Change by studio d-o-t-s, Design Campus: School of Phyto-centered Design, Design Campus: Kunstgewerbenmuseum, Dresden (DE)
grants
2026 Culture Moves Europe, Creative Europe / European Commission
2025 Vouchers International, Creative Industries Fund NL
2025 Funding for New Media Arts, Municipality of Ljubljana
2025 Young Artist Funding for New Media Arts, Ministry of Culture RS
2023 Internationalization of the Design Sector Grant, Creative Industries Fund NL
2019 Scholarship for Specialized Professions in Culture for Postgraduate Studies Recipient, Ministry of Culture RS
selected press
2025 BIO 29: Soft Field—contributors and collaborations, e/flux
2025 SCI_ART Symposium Sparks Global Collaboration, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus 2025 Keep the Dream Burning: Report on Ljubljana Short Film Festival, Radio Student
2025 SWAMP_MATTER: KAMNI SO LE NA VIDEZ NEŽIVI / THE STONES ONLY APPEAR TO BE NON-LIVING, Sodobna umetnost / Contemporary Art
2024 Swamp_Matter: Eva Garibaldi & Ana Laura Richter The Stones Only Appear to be Non-living, Tique Art: publication on contemporary art
radio
2025 - ongoing Muddy Signals, Radio Worm, Rotterdam (NL)
2026 Castle’s Sound Soup Series #31 Swamp Stew w/ Eva Garibaldi, Echobox Radio, Amsterdam (NL)
2025 XLR radio project, Radio Worm, Rotterdam (NL)
professional experience
2025 - 2026 PR Assistant, KAAN Architecten, Rotterdam (NL)
2026 Grant Writing Advisory, Aline Papenheim, den Haag (NL)
2026 Graphic Design, Moerassig, Extrapol, Nijmegen (NL)
2025 Artist Workshop: Hydro-Imaginaries: a speculative eco-fiction, SCI_ART 2025, University of British Columbia & Artengine, Canada (CA)
2024 Graphic Design, Garage Cafe #2.4, Garage Rotterdam (NL)
2024 Exhibition Production & Project Manager, Peeping Spaces, Arcam Architecture Centre Amsterdam, BRUT166 and Gavin O’Leary, Amsterdam (NL)
2024 Production Assistant, Spider Festival 2024, Ljubljana (SI)
2023 External Assistant Academy Garden - the garden as a work of art, workshop with Andre Dekker (OBSERVATORIUM ROTTERDAM) at Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana (SI)
2022 - 2024 Willem de Kooning: Interim Course Coordinator (MIARD) Piet Zwart Institute (2022), Project Manager & Event Producer MIARD Graduation Show (2022, 2023), IMR OC Board Secretary (2022-2024), OC Board Secretary (2023), Rotterdam (NL)
2022 Installation Production Assistant, Odd Matter, freelance, Rotterdam (NL)
2019 Artist Workshop: Paper + Bioplastic, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana (SI)
2017 - 2019 Junior Production Designer and Project Manager, Studio 507, Ljubljana (SI)