Residents
2026
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Viliam Slaminka
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,…
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Dana Tomečková
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…
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Eja Devečková
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,…
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Jarmila Mitríková
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…
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Alexandra Srnková
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…
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Magdalena Kotkowska
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…
2025
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Oscar de carmen
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.…
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Maria Alejandra Gatti
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/
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Zuzana Novotová Godálová
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…
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Daniela Krajčová
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…
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Eva Šipöczová
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.
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Zuzana Jakalová
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.
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Jana Slezáková
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.…
2024
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Lýdia Pribišová
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…
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Martin Toldy
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;…
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Magdaléna Žiaková, Juraj Mydla
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…
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Peter Badač
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…
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Andrea Kalinová
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…
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Monika H. Kováčová
Monika H. Kováčová, born in Bratislava, pursued photography and new media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. Notable works include the “Killart – Vražedné umenie” series and the documentary “Secrets of Love.” She co-founded the art group “KONTRA” and studied abroad through the Erasmus program. Her master’s study, under Ilona Németh,…