born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, living in Amsterdam and Ljubljana. After studying architecture in Ljubljana, she moved to Amsterdam in search of wider horizons, where she began to exploit the critical possibilities of art. Her practice (for this is foremost how her work should be seen: as a praxis) garners procedures from both fields as well as applied design and other social sciences.
Collaborations between artists and architects (and critics and curators) often produce situations of rupture and negotiation. One of the key terms here is “investigation”.
Šušteršič maintains that art should engage more with other professions and then it would perhaps reveal itself as a more quotidian activity. A “transdisciplinary” approach such as this is absolutely indispensable when attempting to analyse contexts as variegated as the urban fabric. Šušteršič’s artistic research combines practice and theory to pursue a method of reflection in which the provocation of crisis leads to a scenario of alternatives and spaces for hope.
( Peio Aguirre: Apolonija Šušteršič’s Artistic Research, text for catalogue, Santiago de Compostela, 2006)

1992 graduated in Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Ljubljana
1994 - 1996 postgraduate study, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2003 - 2008 professor at the Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm
2008 - 2012 Phd researcher at the University of Lund, Malmö Art Academy, Sweden