Biography
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez is an independent curator, living and working in Paris. She graduated in Comparative Literature and History of Art at the University of Ljubljana, and obtained her master’s degree in Theory of Art at the EHESS in Paris. As a curator, Petrešin-Bachelez worked in Paris at the Centre Pompidou, Jeu de Paume, Le Plateau/FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris Photo, and, between 2010 and 2012, was Codirector of Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. In 2006, she co-founded the seminar “Something You Should Know” at the EHESS in Paris, with Patricia Falguières, Élisabeth Lebovici, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Among other projects, she collaborated as a curator with the Lyon Biennial (2007) and curated exhibitions for Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana (2004), Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (2006), De Appel, Amsterdam (2007), Transmediale, Berlin (2008), Mala galerija, Ljubljana (2010), ICI, New York (2012), U3 – the 7th triennial of contemporary art in Slovenia at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana (2013), and Jeu de Paume, Paris (2014). Since 2011, she has been appointed as the Chief Editor of Manifesta Journal.
