Artist Residency
in Šumiac
Oscar de Carmen is an artist whose practice explores social structures, collective agency, and the politics of everyday life. Working across installation, performance, and socially engaged projects, he often investigates forms of coexistence and alternative economies. Since 2005, he has collaborated with Martinka Bobrikova, developing long-term projects that unfold through shared experiences and public participation.
María Alejandra Gatti is an interdisciplinary practitioner, curator, writer and editor. She co-directs metaninfas, a critical curatorial and editing platform. Her current work investigates collective processes and practices that focus on open, displaced and constantly moving dynamics. She uses editorial work as a tool for action to circulate artistic projects and practices. https://mariaalejandragatti.com/
Zuzana Novotová Godálová holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art from Sheffield Hallam University, England. Having worked abroad for many years in the UK, France, and the US, her practice focuses on conceptual installations and interactive objects inspired by everyday situations and items.She is the founder and chairwoman of the civic association Nástupište 1-12 in
Daniela Krajčová (born 1983) is a visual artist who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in 2008 with a degree in Intermedia. She also completed a Master’s degree in Animation at the Academy of Performing Arts in 2010. In recent years, she has explored themes of motherhood and the role of women
Lýdia Pribišová has been the editor-in-chief of Flash Art magazine since 2015. She is the curator of the Slovak Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale with the project Floating Arboretum by Oto Hudec and works as a curator at the Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava. Between 2020 and 2024, she was a curator at Kunsthalle
Martin Toldy is an artist, performer, researcher, and organizer working in the context of Slovak art since 2013. Combining intermedia project or installations with live performance he focuses on how we confront ourselves with play, chance, experimentation, and collaboration. In this way he inquires into current cultures of care, economies of intimacy, politics of sharing;
Magdaléna Žiaková works as a dramaturge at Ludus Theater, where she primarily prepares production materials and lecturer introductions. Her most recent work was the premiere of a piece about Juan de la Cruz in March 2024, exploring medieval holiness transcending family ties. In August 2022, she completed her doctoral studies at the Academy of Performing
She worked as a graphic designer for ten years. She is the founder of the Fest Anča International Animation Festival, which she led for eight years, as well as the FOAJÉ cultural space in Bratislava. She currently serves as the director of the Old Town Library, where she aims to foster innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Peter graduated department of Production FAMU in Prague. He works as a producer in the company BFILM based in Bratislava and Prague. He has produced several shorts (PANDAS won the award at Cinefondation 2013 in Cannes, THE KITE was released at Berlinale in 2020, SH_T HAPPENS at IFF Venice and Sundance in 2020, ONCE THERE
Andrea Kalinová graduated from the Department of Photography and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava with her graduation film The Secret of the Swimming Pool, which explored and mystified the never-finished swimming pool above the Bratislava tram tunnel in the form of a mockumentary. In 2014, she completed her PhD studies