Residency of Prof. Grega Košak

The Academy of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Ljubljana (UL ALUO) is inviting artists, designers, restorers, theorists, and researchers from around the world to spend four and a half months living in an apartment in the heart of Ljubljana. The residency provides accommodation in Ljubljana to support research, and artistic and design practice. We welcome applications from individuals with ambitious projects that explore the relationships between spatial, social, and environmental contexts.

This call is aimed at creators and researchers, including PhD students, early-career researchers, and postdoctoral researchers, who work in or are connected to the fields covered by the UL ALUO. Applicants may be individuals or groups of up to four people. Engagement with the UL ALUO teaching programme both before and after the residency is desirable. We welcome applications from all over the world, except Slovenia.

Architect Grega Košak (1932–2023) was involved in various fields, from graphic design, exhibition design, architecture, to urban planning. He was the author of corporate identities for Adria Airways, Ljubljana Airport, Mercator, Zmaj, Emono, Formo Vivo, the Technical Museum of Slovenia, and Genex, as well as buildings such as Motel Grosuplje, Ilirija, and the Ljubljana Printing House, and the Mercator complex. As a public intellectual, he was active professionally and socially, serving as president of DOS and DAL, and as a representative of international associations ICOGRADA, UIA, and ICSID. In his teaching career, he lectured as an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture from the »B Direction« onward, as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design. For his professional work, he received numerous awards at architectural competitions, the Prešeren Fund Award, BIO awards, and two »Borba« awards.