In her artistic practice, Gala Alica explores the human experience within urban environments, engaging with themes of intimacy and alienation through sculpture, sculptural installations in public space, and site-specific projects. Her work engages with the constructed environment to reflect on how we navigate the shifting boundaries between private and public realms and examines the histories of urban spaces and the socio-political contexts that shape them. Working primarily with metals, construction materials, and found objects, her practice is often marked by a sense of permeability and ephemerality, incorporating both material and temporal traces while questioning hierarchical distinctions between spaces and places.

Gala Alica studies sculpture at Die Angewandte, the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and has a bachelor's degree in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She also studied at the University of Art and Design in Linz. Solo exhibitions include Not all that persists prevails (Museum of Transitory Art, Ljubljana, SLO), 2024, Stuck in Motion (Pražirna AB3, Prague, CZ, 2023), Someone’s Land (Gallery Alkatraz, Ljubljana, SLO, 2022), and Generated Views (Gallery Nova Izložba Pešak, Ljubljana, SLO, 2022). Her works have been exhibited as part of many group exhibitions, among others also in U3 – 10th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia: Against the Stream of Time (MG+ Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, SLO, 2024), In the Open (Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, AT, 2023), Grit in the Eye, Stone in the Shoe (Gallery Courtney Jeager, Basel, CH, 2023) and Rally: (Bistro21, Leipzig, DE, 2022). For “the relevance of her message and the quality of her work” she was awarded the 10th Triennial of Contemporary U3 Art Award, with international jury consisting of Anne Barlow, Bernard Blistène, Luigi Fassi, Christelle Havranek, and Simone Sentall.