Jerneja Rebernak

Biography

Jerneja Rebernak joined UAL in 2015, coordinating EU-funded research and innovation grants and projects across the arts, cultural heritage, design futures literacy, fashion-technology and business innovation.

As Project & Partnerships Manager at the Decolonising Arts Institute, she led the operational delivery of the £3M AHRC-funded Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage project (2022-2024), a groundbreaking collaboration between UAL, Tate, and 15 partner institutions across the UK. She managed complex management operations across university teams and delivered a major public engagement programme Museum x Machines x Me featuring a week-long programme across Tate Modern and Tate Britain, including an international conference, practice research residencies displays, and machine learning workshops. In 2025, she contributed to the Institute's international reach by supporting the delivery of the AHRC India-UK Research into Cultural Heritage and Creative Industries programme workshop in Mumbai and has coordinated the final publication for the 20/20 Futures programme.

Previously, she coordinated 200+ international events as part of the European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012, managing partnerships with 25 embassies, EUNIC cluster representatives (British Council, Goethe Institute, Institut Français), and multiple European Capitals of Culture.

At the Asia-Europe Foundation in Singapore, she developed cultural exchange programmes across Asia and Europe, delivering projects in Singapore, India, Malaysia, China, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, fostering dialogue between artists, policymakers, and cultural organisations.

With over fifteen years of experience across arts, culture, and higher education Jerneja is adept at moving between strategic organisational planning and critical, systems-based thinking to support innovative, ethically grounded research, cultural programmes and knowledge exchange activities.

Jerneja maintains an independent photography and writing practice. She trains in Japanese Jiu-Jitsu and somatic movement that ground her approach to institutional transformation in embodied, situated ways of knowing. Her published work examines how collective practices can reshape institutional knowledge production beyond Western centric epistemologies.