Saba Skaberne

I'm interested in many things and I'm on the constant search of new ways to share my thoughts in the visual language, but also stories, universal human issues, issues concerning women and many more…. Therefore I'm also changing materials and forms in order to express this things!
I think I don't have a particular style, because everything is subordinated. to the subject I'm interested in. I tend to shell the majority of »feeling« from the material itself. I use a huge range of materials:from classic sculpting materials (predominately clay, stone, glass bronze) to more contemporary ones, like plastic, fibre, felt, found objects, liquid….. to non-material mediums ( video., sound or animation).
If I feel vulnerable I might choose felt to work with ( for "protection"), next time,if I feel like »falling to pieces«, I might decide to make sculptures made of multiple pieces that need to be assembled, or when I'm happy and content, I choose clay or metal, to show how strong I'm feeling…. So, there's clearly lndirect physical evidence of my mood/state on material itself!!

I'd divide my work on two main complexes: The intimate (smallish) one and the public / large one. In the past I was interested in figure but also the fragments o...

Saba Skaberne was born in 1962 in Ljubljana, Slovenia in an artistic family- her mother Sonja Tavcar- Skaberne is also a sculptor.Between 1981 and 1986 she studied sculpture at Ljubljana Art Academy where she graduated in 1987in professor Slavko Tihec's class.In the same year she went on an individual, five-month study travel to West Africa.From 1994 – 2001 she was a member of informal group of Slovenian sculptors called Water & Sculptures. From early nineties she worked on site-specific projects at home and abroad but in all this time she never stopped making sculptures in terracotta as her favourite material .She specialised in miniatures in terracotta but also portraiture. As a freelance artist she also works in different artistic areas(printing, stop-motion animation, video, painting, drawing). Since 2007 she introduced handmade felted sculptures (»soft sculpture«) in her art practice and tries to promote felt as an equal sculpting material as all the other materials.It is typical for Saba that she works in many different materials, depending on feeling , »story« or properties/history of materials themselves…
In the early days she was very influenced by African art, but later also by »new« British sculptors like : R. Deacon...

Selected solo exhibitions since 1996-2021:
2021-FLUID /INFINITY, felt objects, INSULA gallery, IZOLA,SLO
2017 - INTERMEDIATE TIME, felt works 2010-2014, House of Culture, Pivka, SLO
2016 - ZBIRADEJNICA 2016 /IDEACOLLECTOR 2016,( ongoing project) Breg Gallery, Ljubljana, SLO
2015 - SCULPTURAL COCKTAIL, Breg gallery, Ljubljana, SLO
2015. - 2 VIEWS, Ivan Cankar House of Culture and town Library, Vrhnika, SLO
2015 - THE LANGUAGE OF HANDS, Logatec library, Logatec, SLO
2012 - ZIDNICE( the wall-like structure), site-specific, long-term installation, Tscheligi medieval tower, Maribor European Capitol of Culture 2012, SLO
2012 - IDEACOLLECTOR FOR MARIBOR, mailbox- site- specific installation in inner court of 33 Gregorčičeva street, Maribor, for the Maribor European Capitol of Culture 2012, SLO
2011 - CONVERSATION WITH THE ANCESTORS, multimedial project, Simulaker Gallery, Novo Mesto, SLO
2010 -11 - EXPLORING OF TIME, auido-video-spatial installation, Municipal Gallery, Kranj( wih A.s.G.)
2010 - EXPLORING OF TIME , spatial-audio-video installation, Pentagonal tower at Ljubljana Castle, SLO (with A.S. Gruden)
2009 - TWO WAY, installation, ZDSLU garden, Ljubljana (with A.S. Gruden)
2009 - BELINA ŽALOSTI – THE WHITE O...