Artist Residency
in Šumiac
Marie Hladíková is a visual artist based in Prague. She graduated from the Sculpture Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM). Her practice focuses on sculptural objects and site-specific installations created from sustainable and recycled materials.In recent years, her work has explored the theme of aesthetic diversity and the socially…
Hi, I’m Tereza. You might know me on Instagram as @terezagodd. I’m 24 years old and I study Social Work at Comenius University in Bratislava. I’ve had a beautiful start to the summer. I’m still carrying with me everything I experienced at Fest Anča, Pohoda, and especially Kiosk, which is one of my favourite festivals.…
Viliam Slaminka (1985) is a visual artist who studied Painting and Other Media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. Alongside his artistic practice, he works as an illustrator, comic artist, and educator. His work humorously reflects on social and gender stereotypes. He approaches serious subjects with a sense of childlike playfulness,…
Dana Tomečková Dana Tomečková is a visual artist working across sculpture, installation, and jewellery. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and also studied at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo. Her practice explores ways of fostering a more sustainable and attentive relationship with both the environment and…
Eja Devečková is a visual artist and educator based in Prague. In her current artistic practice, she works with drawing, paper collage, performance, and participatory and collaborative formats. Her projects explore themes of embodiment and beauty, the forms and limits of emotionality, parenthood, and care. She also focuses on gender stereotypes, modes of interpersonal communication,…
Jarmila Mitríková is a visual artist based in Košice, Slovakia. Throughout her long-standing artistic practice, she has explored collective memory, history, folk spirituality, and religiosity as ways of understanding the present. Today, her work is rooted in personal experience. She approaches artistic creation as a ritual and a transformative process, in which personal experience becomes…
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…
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…