Artist Residency
in Šumiac
Alexandra Srnková (b. 1993) is a Slovak designer and ceramic artist from Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. She studied Marketing in Nitra and at the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland. For seven years, she worked as a graphic designer at one of Slovakia’s leading advertising agencies. She currently works as a senior graphic designer in the…
Magdalena Kotkowska (b. 1984) is a Polish-born, Oslo-based artist. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Wrocław and a BA and MFA in Medium and Material Based Art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Working with sculpture and installation, her practice explores transformation, temporality, and the mutable nature of…
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…
Eva Šipöczová is an ethnologist who spent ten years conducting academic research on humor, collective memory, and online folklore. She currently works at the Research Institute of Child Psychology and Pathopsychology on a project that maps the mental health of children and young people in Slovakia.
Zuzana Jakalová is a curator who has worked at Prague’s MeetFactory and Display Gallery. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology. Alongside her academic work, she continues her curatorial practice, focusing on themes of health, the body, and care in contemporary art.
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;…