Barbara Kukovec
Director & Founder
Actress, performer and co-founder of Zavod Rizoma
Recent Work
As Author / Devisor
- Pissed (2026) — with Minca Lorenci, Društvo Moment
- Umetnost življenja: Umor na podeželju (2025) — with Katarina Stegnar and Urška Brodar, co-produced by Mladinsko Theatre, Zavod Rizoma and City of Women
- Sladke skrbi (2023) — Mladinsko Theatre
- Dš, dš, dš deževnik (2023) — Nagib, Maribor
- Potential States (2020) — with Eva Nina Lampič and Beliban zu Stolberg
- Mi Ne Gremo Nikamor / We are here to stay (2019) — with Društvo Moment, Maribor
As Actor
- Zvezdica Zaspanka (2024) — Lutkovno gledališče Maribor
Via Negativa (2002–2012)
- Izhodiščna točka: jeza
- Še
- Bi ne bi
- Štiri smrti
- Reflektor name
- Prvi zakon B. K.
Rizoma
In 2020 she co-founded Zavod Rizoma with Rob Canning, where they explore placing contemporary artistic practice in the context of the countryside — developing a rural centre for arts, technology and permaculture in the hills of Haloze, Slovenia.
Awards & Residencies
- Sever Student Award
- Golden Bird (2003)
- Residency in New York (2008)
- Residency in Sheffield (2009)
- Residency in Birmingham (2011)