Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec (b. 1972) lives and works in Amsterdam.
Tuning In – The Neighborhood (Prizren Edition) (2025)

An accompanying public program, centered on notions of place and collective experience, runs throughout the biennale. Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec’s work punctuates the program with Tuning In – The Neighborhood, a sound event that invites residents of Marin Barleti Street, musicians from the Lorenc Antoni Music School, and the wider Prizren community to attune to the single note “A”—and to one another. This shared ritual of listening, synchronization, and collective performance challenges conventional ideas of public space and activates the city alongside the exhibition works. Through selected live activations such as Sambolec’s, both local residents and visitors are invited to engage with artistic inquiries and creative processes in real time, rather than through mediated documentation. This speaks directly to the biennale’s commitment to presence—the impulse to document often stems from the fear of absence.
Sambolec is an artist and researcher with a particular focus on sound, new media, listening, movement, and questions of contemporary mediation in relation to the sense of (bodily) presence. His work consists of spatial and sound installations, events and interventions, where (un)mediated sonic events act as central elements that affectively evoke human bodily presence, while sometimes signalling its physical absence.

Recent solo exhibitions include:
Reading Reading, Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana – Slovenia (2023);
0.004 Hz, Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana – Slovenia (2020);
Reading Reading, Errant Sound Project Space, Berlin – Germany (2020).

Recent group exhibitions include:
Freeing the Voices, Kunsthaus Graz – Austria, (2025)
10th Triennial of Contemporary Art, U3 – Against the Stream of Time, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana – Slovenia (2024)
Audiosphere – Sound Experimentation 1980-2020, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid – Spain (2020)

Supported by: Mondriaan Fund