Maja Smrekar lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2005 she graduated at the Sculpture Department of Fine Art Academy in Ljubljana. She has been collaborating with Kapelica Gallery and with Aksioma Institute in Ljubljana. During the last few years, she developed projects within the field of bioart with focus on living organisms. In 2010 she organised the International Festival HAIP10/New Nature at the Multimedia Centre Cyberpipe in Ljubljana, where she was the artistic director for two years. She has been awarded at the Cynetart festival 2012 by the European Centre for Arts Hellerau (Dresden/Germany) with the 1st prize, at the Ars Electronica festival 2013 (Linz/Austria) with a Honorary mention. In 2013, she won the Golden Bird Award, the national award for special achievements in the field of visual art by the Liberal Academy, Association for Political Democracy and Liberalism Research in Ljubljana for her project Hu.M.C.C.

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