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Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the world, including in such major exhibitions as the Biennale of Sydney, Australia (), the Venice Biennale (, , , and ), the São Paulo Biennial (, ), and Skulptur Projekte Münster ().

She has exhibited regularly at Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin and Stockholm since ^nd Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Riyadh (); and the Fragmentos Space of Art and Memory, Bogotá ().

Marjetica potrc biography sampler Her work documents and interprets contemporary architectural practices in particular, with regard to energy infrastructure and water use and the ways people live together. She is especially interested in social architecture and how communities and governments can work together to make stronger, more resilient cities. In later projects, she has also focused on the relationship between human society and nature, and advocated for the rights of nature. Her work almost always involves collaborations, both with other artists, architects, and specialists from various disciplines as well as with local communities. She describes such collaborative work as a "partnership in knowledge exchange" and stresses the importance of developing new alliances, such as between environmentalists and Indigenous peoples, to create a new "hybrid" knowledge that goes beyond the standardized, objective knowledge of the modernist discourse.

Her many on-site projects include Dry Toilet (Caracas, ), Power from Nature (Barefoot College, India, and Catherine Ferguson Academy, Detroit, ), The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour (Stedelijk goes West, Amsterdam, ), Between the Waters: The Emscher Community Garden (Emscherkunst, Essen, ), Théâtre Évolutif (Evento , Bordeaux, ), The Soweto Project (9UB, Soweto, SA, ), Of Soil and Water: King's Cross Pond Club (Relay Art Program, King's Cross, London, ), and Future Island (Albano Campus, Stockholm University, Stockholm, ).

From to , she was a professor of social practice at the University of Fine Arts/HFBK in Hamburg, where she taught Design for the Living World, a class on participatory practices. She has also been a visiting professor at a number of other institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology () and the IUAV Faculty of Arts and Design in Venice (, ).

Potrč has received numerous awards, grants, fellowships, and residencies, including a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (, ); the Hugo Boss Prize (); a Caracas Case Project fellowship from the Federal Cultural Foundation, Germany, and the Caracas Urban Think Tank, Venezuela (); the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies Fellowship (); the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics Fellowship at The New School in New York (); the Curry Stone Design Prize (); a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco (); and the Medal for Merit of the Republic of Slovenia ().