Neža Knez (1990) is an intermedia artist based between Ljubljana and Zagreb. Her work explores hybrid formats that integrate discursive and poetic principles of artistic practice, viewing them as inseparable from daily life. She focuses on minor, invisible, fragile, and delicate processes within and through media and material. She is interested in the relationships and diffractions that occur in the structuring of forms, whether they be moving images, sound, language, or mixed media installations.

She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, where she received the Prešeren Award (2015) and graduated with the highest distinction, Summa Cum Laude, for her master’s degree (2017). In 2018, she was awarded the OHO Group Award for young artists in Slovenia. That same year, she undertook a two-year residency at the Creative Centre Swiss House (International Centre of Graphic Art) in Ljubljana. Along with three other artists, she received the European Mobile Award I- Portunus (2019). In 2020, she partially relocated to Zagreb. Between 2022 and 2024, she completed informal education at Restart (Documentary Film School - 2021) and Baltic Analog Film School (Experimental Analog Film - 2024).

Neža actively collaborates with artists from Slovenia and abroad in artistic research, exhibitions, and film productions. She conducts workshops and regularly works with the collective Studio Pangolin and Klub Vizija. Currently, she is assisting on the film “Vremenoplovke” by Nicole Hewitt and is one of the mentors for the GRRRL Power film workshops led by artist and director Vida Guzmić. Knez also leads analog film workshops as part of the V-F-X Festival Ljubljana (International Festival of Experimental Audiovisual Practices), and New media department (Academy in Zagreb. Curentlly she collaborate and work for her own projects with Jasen Mullhausen, Vida Guzmić, Tin Dožić, Tatiana Kocmur, and others. She is currently finalizing her experimental film The Same Sweat Still Flows through the Same Pores, produced by Studio Pangolin and supported by Havc (Croatian Audiovisual Centre).

Her work has been presented locally and internationally, including at galleries such as Tobačna 001, Škuc, P74, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, City Gallery Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts Celje, International Centre of Graphic Art Ljubljana, Kibla Maribor, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art Rijeka, Art Quarter Budapest, Gallery Mohsen Tehran, Gallery Nova Zagreb, Gallery GMK Zagreb, MLZ Art Dep Trieste, and Gallery Kunsthalle Graz. Her video works are also included in the DIVA Station archive (SCCA-Ljubljana).