MAG D A -

by Igor Machata

by Igor Machata

by Igor Machata

by Igor Machata

by Igor Machata

Speed Date / KRISTÍNA TOMANOVÁ, architect

by Igor Machata

Speed Date / KUKLICA – SMEREK, architects

by Igor Machata

by Igor Machata

Brief Encounter 2.0 / CHUS MARTÍNEZ

Where will we live tomorrow?

by Gabriela Smetanová

by Katarína Poliačiková

New Work / ONDREJ JÓB, Edelhof

by Ľubica Hustá

parížske rezy

by Dana Tomečková

Speed Date / NIKOLA ČEMANOVÁ, visual artist

parížske rezy

by Dana Tomečková

Speed Date / DAMIÁN CEHLÁRIK, designer

parížske rezy

by Dana Tomečková

Speed Date / MIROSLAV PAZDERA, architect

parížske rezy

by Dana Tomečková

Speed Date / PETRA RYBÁNSKA, textile and product designer

(Slovenčina) parížske rezy

by Dana Tomečková

Speed Date / MAGDA SCHERY, graphic designer

parížske rezy

by Dana Tomečková

parížske rezy

by Dana Tomečková

Speed Date / VIKTOR TABIŠ, designer

Speed Date / IVAN GALDÍK, graphic designer

by Martin Želiar

Speed Date / PETR BABÁK, graphic designer, typographer, educator

Crematorium, 1976 – 1982, Košice

by Iniciatíva za modernú architektúru

Speed Date / MATÚŠ HNÁT, graphic designer

Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice

by Iniciatíva za modernú architektúru

Speed Date / MICHAL TORNYAI, graphic designer, type designer and educator

Municipality of Košice, 1979 – 1984

by Iniciatíva za modernú architektúru

Speed Date / ONDREJ JÓB, type designer

Regional Court, 1977 – 1983, Košice

by Iniciatíva za modernú architektúru

Faculty of aeronautics, Technical university of Košice

by Iniciatíva za modernú architektúru

Exhibition / ZAŽI ZIČI

Zaži Ziči, Old Town Centre of Culture and Education, Zichy Palace, Ventúrska 9

by Ľubica Hustá

Speed Date / SPOLKA

Prosecutor's office, 1967 – 1968, Košice

by Iniciatíva za modernú architektúru

Speed Date / KRISTÝNA ŠPANIHELOVÁ, jewellery designer

Dargov department store, 1983 – 1987, Košice

by Iniciatíva za modernú architektúru

Summer swimming pool Mšeno, Art deko, 1932

by Ľubica Hustá

by Martin Želiar

Speed Date / RÓBERT BAKYTA, architect

by Martin Želiar

by Martin Želiar

by Martin Želiar

by Martin Želiar

Speed Date / MATÚŠ BURANOVSKÝ, graphic designer

by Martin Želiar

by Martin Želiar

Speed Date / JIŘÍ KŘEJČIŘÍK, designer

by Martin Želiar

by Martin Želiar

by Katarína Poliačiková

Speed Date / BARBORA ŠPIČÁKOVÁ, art historian, Gallery VI PER

Speed Date / Ô, architects

FAMILIAR PATTERNS, 2020-

by Gabi Mészáros

Speed Date / GRAU, architects

Brief Encounter 2.0 / LUKE JONES

responding to "Where will we live tomorrow?"

by Gabriela Smetanová

(Slovenčina) FAMILIAR PATTERNS, 2020-

by Gabi Mészáros

Exhibition Registrace Stana Filka, Fait Gallery Brno, curator: Boris Ondreička, exhibition architecture: studený architekti

by Ľubica Hustá

by Katarína Poliačiková

Speed Date / KATARÍNA RAŠKOVIČOVÁ, ceramicist

by Gabriela Smetanová

Speed Date / DOXA, architects

Speed Date / JAN HORA (ORA), architect

48°08'42.5_N 17°06'46.6_E

by Lucia Gašparovičová

64°08'36.8_N 21°57'24.4_W

by Lucia Gašparovičová

48°04'21.5_N 17°08'29.9_E

by Lucia Gašparovičová

Speed Date / JÁN GAŠPAROVIČ, artist

64°07'58.2_N 21°54'40.3_W

by Lucia Gašparovičová

Speed Date / MIA ČOPÍKOVÁ, jewellery designer

48° 3′ 39″ N, 17° 9′ 47″ E

by Lucia Gašparovičová

65° 15′ 47″ N, 14° 0′ 32″ W

by Lucia Gašparovičová

48° 4' 21.1887764 N 17° 8' 49.513788 E

by Lucia Gašparovičová

Speed Date / ZHENI, ceramicist

48°04'08.7_N 17°08'35.9_E

by Lucia Gašparovičová

Speed Date / MARTINA HUDEČKOVÁ, ceramicist

Speed Date / DOMINIKA PETRTÝLOVÁ, glass artist, designer

Speed Date / KICKIE CHUDIKOVA, designer

Speed Date / SIMONA JANIŠOVÁ, ceramicist

Instant / GLIMPSES OF OSTMUNDANISM

Slavutych (UA) 04/May/2018

by Jürgen Rendl

Speed Date / JAN ŽALSKÝ, architect

Instant / GLIMPSES OF OSTMUNDANISM

Slavutych (UA) 23/Apr/2018

by Jürgen Rendl

Instant / GLIMPSES OF OSTMUNDANISM

Slavutych (UA) 27/Apr/2018

by Jürgen Rendl

Instant / GLIMPSES OF OSTMUNDANISM

Slavutych (UA) 26/Apr/2018

by Jürgen Rendl

Instant / GLIMPSES OF OSTMUNDANISM

Slavutych (UA) 23/Apr/2018

by Jürgen Rendl

Speed Date / SVOBODOVÁ BLAHA, architects

Instant / GLIMPSES OF OSTMUNDANISM

Slavutych (UA) 04/May/2018

by Jürgen Rendl

Speed Date / MICHAL KUZEMENSKÝ, architect and teacher

Speed Date / JAN ŠÉPKA, architect and teacher

Brief Encounter / DANIEL TUDOR MUNTEANU

responding to Gabriela

by Gabriela Smetanová

Speed Date / LINDA VIKOVÁ, ceramicist

Speed Date / ONDŘEJ VICENA, artist, eyewear designer

New Work / PETER LIŠKA

Seating for the screening as part of the exhibition of the finalists of the Oskar Čepan Prize 2020 in the New Synagogue in Žilina

by Jaroslav Kyša

Speed Date / MARTIN ZAIČEK, architect, member of the group Abandoned (Re)Creation

by Jaroslav Kyša

The Little Carpathians (center of the world)

by Jaroslav Kyša

Speed Date / JANA MORAVCOVÁ, architect

Zázrivá (partisan and nest)

by Jaroslav Kyša

Speed Date / LUCIA GAMANOVÁ, jewellery designer

Speed Date / AURÉLIA GAROVÁ, graphic designer

Speed Date / TOMÁŠ TOKARČÍK, architect

Brief Encounter / TRAUMNOVELLE

responding to Parasite 2.0

by Gabriela Smetanová

Speed Date / ĽUBOŠ KOTLÁR, photographer, artist, curator

New house, village Olejníkov, district Sabinov, Slovakia, 2020

by Fedor Blaščák

Transparent shelter

by Matej Gavula

Slovak Academy of Sciences complex, Bratislava

by Matej Gavula

3.3.2020, Bratislava

by Matej Gavula

Brief Encounter / TAMAR SHAFRIR

responding to Jack Self + Nicholas Korody

by Gabriela Smetanová

Under the Lafranconi Bridge, Bratislava, 2018.

by Matej Gavula

Speed Date / MICHAL MARCINOV, landscape architect

Children's playground, Aalborg, Denmark.

by Matej Gavula

Film Studios Koliba, Bratislava. Film Spirit, utilitarian Architecture.

by Matej Gavula

Inserted room, Kremnické Bane

by Ľubica Hustá

Brief Encounter / PARASITE 2.0

responding to Gabriela

by Gabriela Smetanová

Antivilla, Bratislava

by Maroš Greš

Speed Date / CALEDONIA CURRY a.k.a. SWOON, artist

Brief Encounter / NICHOLAS KORODY

responding to Jack Self

by Gabriela Smetanová

by Martin Želiar

New Work / INSIDEOUT SINGULARITY, SIMONA JANIŠOVÁ

by Ľubica Hustá

Brief Encounter / JESPER HENRIKKSON

responding to Jack Self

by Gabriela Smetanová

Speed Date / PAVLÍNA MORHÁČOVÁ, graphic designer

Speed Date / PETER HAJDIN, graphic designer

Speed Date / TERÉZIA FEŇOVČÍKOVÁ, fashion designer

Instant / CURIOSITY #7

48.141805, 17.107315

by Igor Machata

Brief Encounter / JACK SELF

responding to Gabriela

by Gabriela Smetanová

Instant / CURIOSITY #6

48.185408, 17.139143

by Igor Machata

Brief Encounter / ATELIER FANELSA

responding to Gabriela

by Gabriela Smetanová

New Work / LUCIE KOLDOVÁ, VRTIŠKA A ŽÁK FOR JAVORINA

by Ľubica Hustá

Instant / CURIOSITY #5

48.185348, 17.139215

by Igor Machata

Instant / CURIOSITY #4

Jan Palach Square 80, Prague, 50.088579, 14.415274.

by Igor Machata

Speed Date / OLEKSANDRA BAKUSHINA, designer

Instant / CURIOSITY #3

Piešťany, Slovakia, 48.592387, 17.839708

by Igor Machata

Speed Date / KRISTÍNA ŠIPULOVÁ, textile designer

Instant / CURIOSITY #2

Tiergarten, Berlin, 52.501108, 13.367699

by Igor Machata

Speed Date / MICHAL KRIŠTOF, architect

Instant / CURIOSITY #1

HUMANA SecondHand, Behmstraße 3-7, 13357 Berlin, 52.550240, 13.387513

by Igor Machata

Speed Date / MARTIN JANČOK, architect

by Maroš Greš

Speed Date / MAJA BOŽOVIC, textile designer

Speed Date / JAKUB KOPEC, architect

Exhibition / IS CORAL A COLOUR?

Accompanying exhibition within BADW 2019, Zoya Gallery

by Ľubica Hustá

Chiesa di San Gregorio al Celio, Rome

by Gabriela Smetanová

Square Staircase, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1630 ca., Palazzo Barberini, Rome

by Gabriela Smetanová

Speed Date / MARTIN SKOČEK, architect

Speed Date / ŠTEFAN SEKÁČ, designer, ceramicist

by Gabriela Smetanová

Speed Date / MICHAELA BEDNÁROVÁ, textile designer, puojd

by Gabriela Smetanová

Speed Date / WOVEN, architects

Speed Date / MARCEL BENČÍK, graphic designer

Speed Date / TEREZA MACO, graphic designer

Plaster detail, Pentagon, Bratislava

by Ľubica Hustá

Speed Date / ZUZANA SVATIK, designer, ceramicist

Speed Date / PALO BÁLIK, graphic designer

by Martin Želiar

Speed Date / PETER JURKOVIČ, architect

by Martin Želiar

Speed Date / EVA KAŠÁKOVÁ, graphic designer

by Martin Želiar

Speed Date / PETER LÉNYI, architect

Speed Date / ĽUBICA SEGEČOVÁ, graphic designer

Speed Date / SAMUEL ČARNOKY, graphic designer

by Ľubica Segečová

Parroquia Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso, Madrid

by Gabriela Smetanová

Speed date / ANDREA ĎURIANOVÁ, designer

Parroquia Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso, Madrid

by Gabriela Smetanová

Speed Date / IRAKLI ERISTAVI, architect, zerozero

New Work / OLEXANDRA BAKUSHINA: KON RAO

by Ľubica Hustá

Parroquia Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso, Madrid

by Gabriela Smetanová

New Work / COMMON THINGS BY SILVA LOVASOVA

Designer Silvia Lovasová presented her collection Ordinary Things. But they are not that ordinary.

by Ľubica Hustá

by Martin Želiar

ČSAD, Juraj Meliš, 1982

New Work / SAMY RIO, DOTA LAMP

by Ľubica Hustá

Karol Pichler for MAG D A.

by Karol Pichler

by Martin Želiar

by Karol Pichler

by Gabriela Smetanová

by Ľubica Hustá

UFO (Vrakuňa), sculptor Juraj Hovorka, 1970s

by Ľubica Hustá

Speed Date / JÁN STUDENÝ, architect, ksa_studeny

Pentagon (Vrakuňa), Štefan Svetko, Štefan Ďurkovič, 1970 – 1972

by Ľubica Hustá

by Ivana Čobejová

Karol Pichler for MAG D A.

by Karol Pichler

Villa Bílek, GHMP

by Gabriela Smetanová

Speed Date / PETER LIŠKA, graphic designer

New work / CRÉEME LIKES A MODERATION

by Ľubica Hustá

Regular instant from Karol Pichler.

Karol Pichler for MAG D A.

by Karol Pichler

Speed Date / JAKUB POLLÁG, designer, deForm

Speed Date / PALO ČEJKA, a graphic artist and designer, a punk, an occasional slam-poetry artist, a garden lover, a musician and Bratislava’s self-made product.

Speed Date/ BRAŇO MATIS, graphic designer

Karol Pichler for MAG D A.

by Karol Pichler

Karol Pichler for MAG D A.

by Karol Pichler

New Work / DEBATA, Andrea Ďurianová

by Ľubica Hustá

Karol Pichler for MAG D A.

by Karol Pichler

Speed Date / ŠTEFAN NOSKO, KATARÍNA BELIČKOVÁ, designers, Mejd

Karol Pichler for MAG D A.

by Karol Pichler

Speed Date / IMRICH VAŠKO, architect, educator at UMPRUM

Speed Date / BRAŇO LAHO, designer

New Work / BUFFET CLOTHING AW2017

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work/ SUBSTITUTION TREATMENT, KLEMENS SCHILLINGER

by Ľubica Hustá

FIRST OF ALL THE VASES, ILLOLA, PATRIK ILLO

by Ľubica Hustá

by Andrea Ďurianová

Lúčetône of Latex

by Ľubica Hustá

Speed Date / ALEŠ ŠEDIVEC, architect, totalstudio

(Slovenčina) New Work / STREDNÁ TRIEDA: Svetlo sauny

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work / TOMÁŠ KRÁĽ: Beak

by Ľubica Hustá

Speed Date / MICHAL JANÁK, architect, PLURAL

by Ľubica Segečová

(Slovenčina) New Work / KOLEKCIA ORBIT, štúdio MEJD

by Ľubica Hustá

by Tadeáš Podracký

New Work / MARIÁN LAŠŠÁK: Diary of Dailiness 2 collection

by Ľubica Hustá

by Ľubica Hustá

(Slovenčina) Extern / KLOBÁSY Z BUDÚCNOSTI. Nové chute Carolien Niebling

by Ľubica Hustá

(Slovenčina) New Work / MIA ČOPÍKOVÁ OCENENÁ

by Ľubica Hustá

Speed Date / VLASTA KUBUŠOVÁ, Crafting Plastics!

by Ľubica Hustá

Andrea Ďurianová, mirrored version from DEBATE collection

by Ľubica Hustá

by Tadeáš Podracký

by Ľubica Segečová

(Slovenčina) Art / JAROSLAV KYŠA A JURAJ RATAJ V KLARISKÁCH

LIMIT BY ADAMA ŠTECHA

(Slovenčina) New Work / ŠTÚDIO ALLT

by Ľubica Hustá

(Slovenčina) Víťazi BADW awards

A little intimate space right on your hand. Sylvia Jokelová, One's Own Room ring collection.

by Ľubica Hustá

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work / JÁN ŠICKO FOR HRAVO

by Ľubica Hustá

by Ľubica Hustá

Print limited edition MAG D A 2016, topic CESTA / PATH, editor Fedor Blaščák, layout: Ľubica Segečová.

by Ľubica Hustá

by Boris Ondreička

INTERVIEW WITH JOS BOYS

“There is no universal design, you can't build something that works for everybody.”

Interview / CATASTROPHE COLOURS

About colours with Pierre Jorge Gonzalez from the Berlin based studio GONZALEZ HAASE AAS.

by Gabriela Smetanová

Podcast / MLUVÍCÍ OBJEKTY

A podcast miniseries on architecture, focusing in six episodes on Prague buildings associated with the 1990s

by Monika Bočková

Through the City / A SPACE FOR LONELINESS

They were my alibi from the gaze of others

Close Things / JANA BODNÁROVÁ

Closeness woven long ago

by Katarína Poliačiková

Review / NÁMESTIE SLOBODY

I once read somewhere that it doesn't matter how much money you make, you will always find the happiest people at the swimming pool anyway.

by Martin Zaiček

Hidden Cities / GALETO OR THE LAST SECRETS OF LISBON

by Katarína Poliačiková

Interview / BOKER TOV בוקר טוב [GOOD MORNING]

Lucia Židek Gamanová talks about her doctoral stay at Schenkar College in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Dana Tomečková listens.

by Dana Tomečková

Close Things / BARBARA ZAVARSKÁ

(Slovenčina) Prstom pevne na ženskej línii

by Katarína Poliačiková

Through the City / SENSITIVE EDUCATION IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING

Through the City / TREES ON THE CITY PLANS

Review / UNCLEAR IMAGES OF CRISIS IN THE RECORDS OF REALITY

Ján Skaličan: Eyewitness, 1–29 March 2023, tranzit.sk, curated by Judit Angel

by Viktória Pardovičová

Masters of Slovak Design / RONA, Lednické Rovne

130 Times Fragility

by Viera Kleinová

Review / MISSION OSLO

This year the 8th edition of Oslo Architecture Triennale took place in Norway. With the theme "Mission Neighborhood", this show highlighted the relationship of architecture to the everyday, the living space nearby.

Exhibition / FRAGILITY IN THE EVERYDAY

by Ľubica Hustá

Review / THROW AWAY “IKEA MODERNISM”, HERE COMES “MILITANT MODERNISM”

Owen Hatherley: Militantní modernismus. Prague: UMPRUM, 2021

by Monika Kicová

Interview / ŠIMON GALANSKÝ

(Slovenčina) Rozhovor s minuloročným víťazom BADW Awards Šimonom Galanským, ktorého autorskú kolekciu nábytku DENNODENNE tento rok nájdete aj v kurátorskom výbere festivalu BADW v decembro v Galérii mesta Bratislavy.

by Bea Macková

Hidden Cities / UNDER THE CITY’S SKIN

by Katarína Poliačiková

Exhibition / BIATEC

(Slovenčina) BIATEC. Keltská mincovňa, Galéria Mesta Bratislavy, Pálffyho palác, Panská 19

Review / BRATISLAVA MODERN FOUNTAINS

Martin Zaiček, Andrea Kalinová, Petra Hlaváčková (eds.): Bratislavské moderné fontány, Archimera, 2021

by Ľubica Hustá

Close Things / DANA TOMEČKOVÁ, In Time to Disappear and Grow

On the memory of close things, reincarnations of jewels and the mysterious life of matter with Dana Tomečková

by Katarína Poliačiková

Exhibition / ERNA MONUMENTÁLNA

Erna Masarovičová and her sculptural work, Mirbach Palace - City Gallery of Bratislava, 30 June 2022 - 30 October 2022, curated by Ľuba Belohradská, Ľubica Hustá, Katarína Kissoczy

by Ľubica Hustá

Close Things / KVET NGUYEN

About a postcard whose edges we will never see beyond.

by Katarína Poliačiková

Review / THE DIFFERENT VIEW OF JEWELLERY, OR THE SOCIAL VALUE OF A PERSONAL OBJECT

by Katarína D. F. Siposová

Exhibition / SI.LI – CELEBRATION

10 years anniversary of si.li

by Ľubica Hustá

Close Things / TOMÁŠ JANYPKA

Dylan's Sorrow and Nina Simone's Bubblegum

by Katarína Poliačiková

Skopje, Total Plan

Close Things / MARTIN JENČA

A pen is like being at home

by Katarína Poliačiková

Masters od Slovak Design / JÚLIA KUNOVSKÁ

In the Mirror of Days

by Ľubica Hustá

Close Things / ĽUBA BELOHRADSKÁ

Two stories in one cup

by Katarína Poliačiková

Close Things / RICHARD GLASNER

by Katarína Poliačiková

(Slovenčina) Recenzia / BENÁTSKE BIENÁLE ARCHITEKTÚRY 2021

This year's exceptional and postponed from last year Venice Architecture Biennale is a very good Biennale!

Close Things / GABRIELA KISOVÁ

In one piece of wire

by Katarína Poliačiková

Interview / OLIVER KLIMPEL, ĽUBICA SEGEČOVÁ

Ľubica Segečová began her conversation with Oliver Klimpel in February 2018. In the meantime, they also met in person, in Berlin in the summer of 2019. If the interview had not been published now, it would have continued.

Close Things / SVÄTOPLUK MIKYTA

Autobiography in a jam

by Katarína Poliačiková

Close Things / SAŠA GABRIŽOVÁ

by Katarína Poliačiková

Close Things / DENISA LEHOCKÁ

This is how it was meant to be

by Katarína Poliačiková

Interview / VLADIMÍR DEDEČEK

The more work you do, the more criticism you take

by Peter Szalay

Close Things / MATEJ GAVULA

The first object in the new series Close Things comes from far away - Matej Gavula brought it all the way from India, and it continues to fascinate him even after many years.

by Katarína Poliačiková

Review / IT WASN’T THEM, IT WAS THOSE BEFORE THEM

A surprising story of unintended continuity in Bratislava's planning. Henrieta Moravčíková and collective: BRATISLAVA (UN)PLANNED CITY, Slovart, 2020

by Lívia Gažová

Close Things / LIVES OF TABERY LAMP

by Katarína Poliačiková

Reader / 2020, EXTRAVILÁN

New Work / CRITICAL DAILY

(Slovenčina) Nomináciu na ocenenie Národnej ceny za komunikačný dizajn 2020 v kategórii Nové horizonty získala aj participatívna platforma Critical Daily. Je open-source archívom, ktorý slúži na pridávanie, vyhľadávanie a komentovanie projektov venujúcich sa kritickej praxi.

by Gabika Rusková

Interview / taliaYstudio

Body, play, technology

by Alexandra Tamásová

Interview / KANAVA

Kanava is a newly created project that brings the stories of contemporary artisans in Slovakia. Kanava is a platform for people who have decided to invest their time in reviving traditional crafts and creating timeless objects that can serve future generations. Katarína Poliačiková spoke with its founders, Paula Blahová and Kristína Šipulová.

by Katarína Poliačiková

Review / INFORMAL MO(NU)MENTS

There is still too little thoughtful work with smaller forms of architecture in public space in Slovakia. High-quality site-specific installations are rather an exceptional coincidence. That's why at MAG D A at the end of the summer we were attracted by the project of the AFAD, which was generously set in terms of production and brought such works.

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / CURRO CLARET

Design which gives hope

by Alexandra Tamásová

Interview / deFORM

Open to challenge

by Alexandra Tamásová

Exhibition / OTIS LAUBERT

Drafter, collage artist, hunter and recycler, occasional poet, pseudo-screenwriter and, as the current exhibition at NOVA Gallery shows, sometimes a “glass artist”.

by Naďa Kančevová

Interview / JAKUB KOPEC

“The Only Thing I Find Interesting in Architecture Is Diversity.”

by Gabriela Smetanová

Interview / COX & GRUSENMEYER

Simplicity spiced up with grotesque

by Alexandra Tamásová

Interview / DANIELA AND LINDA DOSTÁLKOVÁ

(Slovenčina) Rozhovor s Danielou a Lindou Dostálkovou nielen o výstave CLAWS NOT MADE TO SHAKE HANDS WITH, ktorá sa nedávno uskutočnila v Novej synagóge v Žiline.

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / Exhibition WALDEN, castle Hollenegg (AT)

Interview with Alice Stori Liechtenstein about Walden and with Crafting Plastics! Studio which takes a part in it this year.

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / BJØRN JØRUND BLIKSTAD

"Despite all" designer

by Alexandra Tamásová

Workshop / WE ALL EXIST IN THE IN-BETWEEN SPACE

De/posium is a newly opened international platform focusing on the exchange of knowledge of the current state of art and design with the emphasis on material, processes, sustainability, social context and new economic models.

by Dana Tomečková

Hidden cities / THIS INFINITE SUNDAY

by Katarína Poliačiková

Exhibition / LINDA VIKOVÁ, FROM DUSK TO DAWN

After six years, Linda Viková presents her current work in a solo exhibition, again at the Nova Gallery

by Simona Janišová

Essay / THE COOL THING

by Katarína Poliačiková

JEWELLERY AS SOMETHING / Lucia Gamanová

by Naďa Kančevová

Interview / FLORIAN HAUSWIRTH

Industrial, as well as craft

by Alexandra Tamásová

Interview / BENJAMIN HUBERT

Work is all around

by Alexandra Tamásová

Essay / AT THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE DESERT

Settlements, totem and tribes

by Parasite 2.0 , Photography by Giaime Meloni

Video / ĽUBICA BELOHRADSKÁ: ABOUT JEWELLERY NOT ONLY IN HER COLLECTION

In an interview with Juraj Johanides

Interview / LLOT LLOV

by Alexandra Tamásová

Essay / AN EMPTY BEAN CAN

on home in temporary places

by Katarína Poliačiková

Essay / EVERYONE LIKES A GOOD STORY

Filipe Magalhães telling a story of the collective rebirth of architecture

by Filipe Magalhães

New Work / CE ZA AR PAVILIONS

by Ľubica Hustá

Review / 4 x REVOLUTION

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / STUDIO ZAVEN (IT)

Studio Zaven was founded in 2006 by designers Enrica Cavarzan and Marco Zavagno. Their programme is multidisciplinary. They focus on researching the interactions between communication, design and art.

by Ľubica Hustá

Exhibition / I WAS KEEPING IT ALL SAFE FOR YOU

Report from the exhibition of Jaro Kyša and his guest Radovan Čerevka in ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Bratislava

New Work / MARCEL HOLUBEC, SUVERÉN

The 2019 National Design Award for Product Design was awarded to Marcel Holubec and his Suverén collection.

by Ľubica Hustá

Review / MONUMENTAL IS BACK

A new monumental realization by Braňo Laho aka Emil Taschka was created in Košice.

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / CAMPO

by Gabriela Smetanová

Notes on Andrea Ďurianová's exhibition "Skladom", Čin Čin Gallery, 4th september - 27th september 2019

by Dana Tomečková

Review / RUN AGAINST THE FLOW

Daniel Grúň about the exhibition of Matej Gavula: Abrasive Society for tranzit.sk

by Daniel Grúň

Hidden cities / WHEN BEAUTY MEETS TRAUMA : 9/11 or one day in the life of the City

by Katarína Poliačiková

Hidden Cities / LEARNING A CITY

How do we learn cities? What is not written anywhere. Not new routes or secret clubs, but the city and our bodies in it. Its rhythm, its movements, gestures, subtle rules.

by Katarína Poliačiková

Trip / KORTRIJK (BE)

Mini travelogue of Kortrijk, Belgium. Non-architectural, non-photographic, non-theoretical, subjective.

by Maroš Greš

Exhibition / PAVEL MAŇKA, LOST AND FOUND

by Naďa Kančevová

Quarantine Book / B IS FOR BAUHAUS

Deyan Sudjic: B is for Bauhaus. London: Penguin Books, 2014

Confrontations / CITY_MYTH

The individual texts of the series consist of a juxtaposition of words - City, Myth, Modernity, Pool. The mutual confrontation of pairs of words is not about confirming unambiguous relations, a harmonious whole, but about searching for possible disagreements. The confrontation narrows the wide range of their individual meanings.

by Gabriela Smetanová

Confrontations / POOL_MYTH

The individual texts of the series consist of a juxtaposition of words - City, Myth, Modernity, Pool. The mutual confrontation of pairs of words is not about confirming unambiguous relations, a harmonious whole, but about searching for possible disagreements. The confrontation narrows the wide range of their individual meanings.

by Gabriela Smetanová

(UN)SUSTAINABILITY AS TREND AND NECESSARY CONDITION FOR DESIGN

Contribution of Klára Peloušková (CZ), reflecting on the design profession in the context of the climate crisis, was a part of the block of lectures organized by initiative "Nestrácajme čas" within the Bratislava Design Week 2019.

by Klára Peloušková

Interview / KAROL PICHLER

by Ľubica Hustá

Confrontations / POOL_CITY

The individual texts of the series consist of a juxtaposition of words - City, Myth, Modernity, Pool. The mutual confrontation of pairs of words is not about confirming unambiguous relations, a harmonious whole, but about searching for possible disagreements. The confrontation narrows the wide range of their individual meanings.

by Gabriela Smetanová

Confrontations / CITY_MODERNITY

The individual texts of the series consist of a juxtaposition of words - City, Myth, Modernity, Pool. The mutual confrontation of pairs of words is not about confirming unambiguous relations, a harmonious whole, but about searching for possible disagreements. The confrontation narrows the wide range of their individual meanings.

by Gabriela Smetanová

Confrontations / POOL_MODERNITY

The individual texts of the series consist of a juxtaposition of words - City, Myth, Modernity, Pool. The mutual confrontation of pairs of words is not about confirming unambiguous relations, a harmonious whole, but about searching for possible disagreements. The confrontation narrows the wide range of their individual meanings.

by Gabriela Smetanová

Hidden Cities / LONELINESS IS A HIDDEN CITY

by Katarína Poliačiková

Confrontations / MYTH_MODERNITY

The individual texts of the series consist of a juxtaposition of words - City, Myth, Modernity, Pool. The mutual confrontation of pairs of words is not about confirming unambiguous relations, a harmonious whole, but about searching for possible disagreements. The confrontation narrows the wide range of their individual meanings.

by Gabriela Smetanová

Review / UNNOTICED BRATISLAVA RING

Peter Szalay about the exhibition Project Bratislava vol. 2.: Parallel Petržalka in Photoport Gallery

by Peter Szalay

Hidden Cities / LIVING WITH PICASSO

On the wall of one apartment in Koło neighbourhood in Warsaw, there’s a drawing made by Picasso. However, in the last 70 years it was forgotten, which one is it.

by Katarína Poliačiková

Interview / GUGLIELMO POLETTI (IT) / Consistency and integrity are essential

by Ľubica Hustá

Review / DESIGN AWARDS ALSO NEED REDESIGN

National Design Award – Communication Design 2018

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / ÉRIC JOURDAN (FR), designer

by Martin Franzen

Interview / MISCHER TRAXLER STUDIO (AT) / We are looking for a three dimensional answer to questions

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work / MARTIN HRČA, KRISTÝNA ŠPANIHELOVÁ, ETHER

ÉTER collection by Martin Hrča in collaboration with Kristýna Španihelová.

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / NASTASSIA ALEINIKAVA / It is vital to understand each other

(Slovenčina) Rozhovor s dizajnérkou šperkov a okuliarov Nastassiou Aleinkava. O živote v Prahe, o stratenej identite v Bielorusku, či o spolupráci s IOKO.

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / TOTALITY IN PARTS. New Peter Biľak’s stage design.

by Ľubica Hustá

Essay / MANHATTANHENGE

"Sometime in early July, the sun reaches a certain position so that its rays align with the parallel streets that crisscross the island from east to west."

by Katarína Poliačiková

Interview / ZDENĚK ENT / Increasing Density Is the Fate of a City

Interview of Fedor Blaščák with architect Zdeněk Ent from the Prague’s Institute of Planning and Development

by Fedor Blaščák

Exhibition / ATTIC + + IVA DURKÁČOVÁ + ĽUBOŠ KOTLÁR + MIRA KUBÁŇOVÁ + MARTINA MÄSIAROVÁ + JÁN SKALIČAN

The Mirbach Palace of the Bratislava City Gallery is hosting the exhibition ATTIC during the summer (10 July - 30 September 2018). The exhibition takes place within the framework of the annual Radislav Matuštík Scholarship. The scholarship is intended for emerging curators. Its current recipient and exhibition curator, architect Gabriela Smetanová, writes about her chained, participatory concept.

by Gabriela Smetanová

New Work / SIMONA JANIŠOVÁ, INSIDEOUT

After the successful Anachronik collection comes Simona Janišová with the Insideout collection. The title suggests personal introspection and tests the notions of box and container.

by Ľubica Hustá

Chair of the 20th century

New Work / TRIVJEDNOM, THE PLAIN

Performative design in triple-unit, or an experiment with the plane.

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work / MIKSMITTE, COUNTDOWN

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work / ATTILA WEEKEND HOME BY JRKVC

A small scale encourages the Slovak architecture. Well, it mostly encourages the ability to keep the project consistent from the idea to its final implementation. Such is the construction of the Attila weekend home in Vojka nad Dunajom by the architectural studio JRKVC. It has 47 square metres.

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work / EMIL TASCHKA, FRAME DNA

Multi-purpose trade fair facility in Petržalka - Incheba by Vladimír Dedeček

Textile curtains by Katarína Šujanová, 1969, Cyprián Majerník Gallery

Exhibition / EMIL TASCHKA / OFF YOU GO OLD MAN

The Bratislava’s new venue studio Bless on Medená Street 16 currently hosts an exhibition of (not just) designer Braňo Laho who works under the penname Emil Taschka. Its title refers to a, mildly said, non-correct Slovak weather lore „It’s March, off you go, old man!“ And not only because of its opening on 1st March.

by Ľubica Hustá

Proposal of skyscrapers for the New City of Prague, Josef Havlíček, 1943-1945

by Michal Janák

Interview / Lev Rubinstein: RUSSIA IS BOTH HORRIBLE AND BEAUTIFUL, AS ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN

by Fedor Blaščák

Exhibition / CATCHING WHITE

Jewellery artist Dana Tomečková on the exhibition of Katarína Šipošová in the ČIN ČIN gallery and on intuitive alchemy

by Dana Tomečková

Katarína Poliačiková about Roman Ondák, about time, about Niecéphor Niépceau, about the attention and about project Measuring the Universe.

by Katarína Poliačiková

THE PEDESTRIAN’S VENICE

Peter Michalík about project THE PEDESTRIAN'S VENICE, 2017 by Roberto Casati, Magda Stanová, and Stéphanie Roisin.

by Peter Michalík

Offer study for 4800 apartments by S. Talaš, P. Janča and P. Mrázek, 1984

by Michal Janák

Interview / I DON’T WANT TO FILL THE SPACE WITH MATTER, BECAUSE IT ALREADY IS MATTER

by Ľubica Hustá

PERMANENT RECREATION

by Martin Zaiček

Second Wind in Javorina

Javorina belongs in Slovakia among a few producer who have not resign on craft and design.

by Ľubica Hustá

(Slovenčina) Výstava / KINDER, KÜCHE, KIRCHE V BUNKRI

by Martina Vyskupová

(Slovenčina) Názor / NÁRODNÁ CENA ZA DIZAJN je už konečne menej národná a viac za dizajn

by Ľubica Hustá

Exhibition / KAROL WEISSLECHNERS (MICRO)COZMOS

by Naďa Kančevová

Column / AGAINST THE AESTHETIC OF LOBOTOMY

by Michal Janák

New Work / MONUMENTAL – ANETTA MONA CHISA A LUCIA TKÁČOVÁ

by Ľubica Hustá

Foto story / Fashion Situation

(Slovenčina) Fashion Situácia na BADW 2017. Kateřina Plamintzerová, Markéta Kratochvílová (CZ) a Drevená Helena (SK)

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work / NEW EXPOSITION THE TURIEC´S NATURE IN MUSEUM OF ANDREJ KMEŤ / MARTIN

by Ľubica Hustá

Photo story / ROAD TRIP TO SANTIAGO

The road where there destination (Santiago de Compostela) isnt important, but the road as it is and time. Photograph of Vlasta Kubušová's designer about her travels after the Spanish country.

by Vlasta Kubušová

New Work / DŽADOŇ’S VILLA IN BRNO

by Ľubica Hustá

Need to Push the Borders Further

Interview with Silvia Lovasova

by Ľubica Hustá

Interwiev / DREVENÁ HELENA

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / JERSZY SEYMOUR: What kind of revolution do we need?

by Fedor Blaščák

Essay / LEVELS OF FREEDOM

old-new uncertainties – overcrowding and living side by side – urban attractiveness and its flip side – why to develop urban diversity – the disappearing heterogeneity of the city – deviations, escapes and heterotopias – the adaptability of the maladjusted – parallel histories and the need to democratize the design and planning process – complexity and the big effect of small changes – dynamic rootedness and the possibilities of transgression

Conversation / DEAR ANNA, DEAR DANICA

Anna Cséfalvay and Danica Pišteková, two members of the architectural studio WOVEN, have a continuous (e-mail) dialogue about things between themselves and architecture that are timely for them. The first part is about producing and questioning.

by Anna Cséfalvay, Danica Pišteková

Essay / ON THE ILLUSIONS OF PERMANENCE

A walk to Dana Tomečková's thinking

Essay / ABOUT WORDS THAT START WITH E

Aesthetics, aestheticization, ethics, ecology, environment – these words appear in my notebook in many places recently. I also meet them more and more frequently in the discourse on contemporary art, but often in very special relationships and connections. Therefore, I decided to look for a link between them and connect them so that the initial letter is not their only connection.

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE LOVELIEST TRICK OF THE DEVIL

For his closing column on Spike, Dean Kissick wonders if the last six years have indeed been spiraling downward – and what’s to come next. Balenciaga rejects outrage, Kanye is a Nazi, everyone is a satanist, the color of the year is primordial invocation of joy, Donald Trump and Alex Jones are voices of reason. It’s either the end of doom, or a whole new era of worse-still derangement.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: NEW YORK’S 2022 FALL SHOWS

In this month’s installment of “The Downward Spiral,” Dean Kissick writes a roundup of New York’s fall exhibitions. They are many, so many, and pleasant, so pleasant, as palliatives for a doomed dying world.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE REHEARSAL

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: TEXT-TO-IMAGE

In this month’s installment of “The Downward Spiral,” Dean Kissick reflects on the literary nature of AI-generated images.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE MAN FROM DETVA AND BRNO

(Slovenčina) Nábytok a interiéry Dušana Jurkoviča

by Viera Kleinová

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: TASTE, FIGURES, IMAGES

Some years ago, I went out with some friends to Trisha’s, a basement bar in Soho in London, and after a few drinks a stylist, quite austere, softly spoken, leant over to me and asked quietly, “Do all the bad designers, know that they’re bad?” That’s a question I’ve often wondered myself. And today it’s so hard to tell the difference, and the boundaries between good and bad have disappeared.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / Miloš Laky (1948 – 1975)

A biographical sketch and contribution to the social history of the Slovak neo-avant-garde in the early 1970s.

by Fedor Blaščák

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: 59TH VENICE BIENNALE

Is the 59th Venice Biennale the final chapter of an exhausted story? In his May column, Dean Kissick ponders how identity became the biggest elephant in the rooms of mega exhibitions, and how to abandon our screens for the real world and the real world for dreams.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / PROJECT OF RECOGNITION

by Gabriela Smetanová

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: EUROPE

Dean Kissick corresponds with two young arts workers from Ukraine – Kateryna Tykhonenko and Valeria Schiller – who share firsthand accounts of the war that is currently unfolding.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: NEW EARTH 3

(Slovenčina) Dead Kissick tentoraz prináša podobenstvo alebo proroctvo.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / ON NATURE AND OUR PLACE IN IT

Essay / COMMON SPACE

On public space and critical art

by Gabriela Smetanová

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: FIVE YEARS

With nostalgia taking hold at The New Museum Triennial and MoMA PS1’s survey of Greater New York, Dean Kissick wonders: what’s so great about it? When art gets sucked back into tradition, where is the future to be found?

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: PERSONA (PART I)

Are we human, or are we content? Dean Kissick ponders Demna Gvasalia, Donda, the cult of celebrity, and the actual occult in this month’s Downward Spiral.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: LEAVE SOCIETY

Dean Kissick returns from his summer hiatus (ascetic, solitary research, perhaps?), restored and brimming with renewed hope. Eat vegetables, get Tao Lin-pilled, and revel in the beauty of the universe: the modern-day equivalent of "turn on, tune in, drop out"?

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE ART PARTY CAROUSEL

This May, Dean goes to Frieze, rolls his eyes at the Turner Prize shortlist, and sees New York opening up again.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: RETURN TO TRADITION

Dean Kissick goes to the Frick Madison on a beautiful spring day.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: POPULAR THINGS

You can run but you can’t hide. Dean Kissick on NFTs and the pervasiveness of mundane art.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / A FLAW IN THE SYSTEM OF THE IDEAL CITY

by Katarína Janíčková , Danica Pišteková

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: ANIMALS

For his first column of the new year, Dean Kissick finds solace and good omens in ornithology. The future looks not altogether unpromising.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: 2020

DEAN KISSICK reviews a long year.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: CENTRIST DAD OUROBOROS

A lot’s changed in New York since we last heard from Dean in October. A president was elected and fresh plywood added to store façades, quickly blanketed in new graffiti hearts. Hope and the 5G conspiracy are pretty tricky things.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: ZOMBIE FIGURATION AND THE DEATH RITUAL

It’s fall so Dean goes on a gallery tour of Manhattan.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: FALL

DEAN’s latest column is an ode to the coming fall, where New York is struggles to bring normalcy back into play. But when was New York ever normal?

by Dean Kissick

Essay / CATASTROPHE

by Fedor Blaščák

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: AS I READ THE DECADE BRAIN

Dean takes us through the troubled beginnings of the 2020s, charting his own history in New York, and the timeline of events of the previous decade that brought us here. Writing is the best cure for amnesia.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: MAY DAYS

DEAN KISSICK was in New York when America rose up, and managed to both document and celebrate the protests that followed in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by the police.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: LITTLE PATCH OF YELLOW WALL

DEAN KISSICK is in search of lost rays of the sun, in paintings. There is a certain kind of light, and it still seems to show on Proust, Vermeer, and kitties?

by Dean Kissick

House / HLAVNÁ 25, BRATISLAVA

We talked about the house of Olga and Imrich Vanek with Svätopluk Mikyta (SM) and Zuzana Bodnárová (ZB) from Banská Stanica. The house was photographed in November 2015 by Hynek Alt. The interview was conducted by Ľubica Hustá.

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE COUNTRYSIDE

The countryside is synonymous with the desires for escape, health, self-sustainability, and many other things that might well describe the current mood under the threat of corona. DEAN KISSICK weighs in on one exhibition that presents the nether reaches as just that: somewhere far away.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: MANHATTAN

DEAN KISSICK writes from New York and the heart of the global pandemic. Nothing Dean or any of his friends say is medical advice.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / TRANSAPRENCY

(Slovenčina) Strnulý pohľad spoza záclony

by Fedor Blaščák

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: TWENTIES JOY

With the dawn of a new decade comes the possibility that all could start over, be good again. Why not? Dean Kissick takes us on a journey in search of exhiliration in art, theatre, and elsewhere. Follow his trek from Mexico to New York, out of the glum and into glam and glee.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / PUBLIC SPACE

What is the nature of a public space? Is it something bestowed objectively, or is it created subjectively? Is it an existing city space created by streets, squares, parks and public buildings; or is it a space for the constantly updated proceedings of free individuals? Does public space exist for us directly and unproblematically, given that the streets, squares, etc., are already there, or is it something that we bring about by our coordinated activities, by the expending of effort on the foundation of shared interests?

by Fedor Blaščák

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE DOWNWARD BANANA

by Dean Kissick

House / GORAZDOVA STREET 31

We have discussed the house of sculptor Erna Masarovičová and Štefan Kissoczy on Gorazdova Street 31 in Bratislava with its owner and current dweller Katarína Kissoczy. Photos taken by Ján Kekeli.

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE REAL WORLD

Dean reads Natasha Stagg’s new essay collection Sleeveless and Fiona Duncan’s debut novel Exquisite Mariposa and begins to understand the 2010s.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE TALENTED MR. GUWOP

Gucci’s new Cruise campaign, directed by Harmony Korine and Alessandro Michele, stars rapper Gucci Mane. Gucci Mane’s new album cover, shot by Harmony Korine and Alessandro Michele, stars Gucci. Pop continues to eat itself. Nothing means anything here, in the twilight of the 2010s.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL

Dean swims in the magic river. There’s a death on the island. And a visitor sails into the harbour.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL

(Slovenčina) Dean Kissick sa venuje embryonickým ľudoopím chiméram, ktoré stvorili genetici v Kalifornii. Je na čase sa znovu zamyslieť nad tým, čím by sme ešte mohli byť.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: A PHILOSOPHER’S BOAT IN SKJOLDEN

This month Dean Kissick goes to the Norwegian countryside, contemplates Ludwig Wittgenstein’s retreat from society and sees art’s return to its pagan origins in artist Marianne Heske’s latest project.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: PARADISE BY DIMES SQUARE

A love letter to Montez Press Radio from Dean Kissick.

by Dean Kissick

Interview / ARISTIDE ANTONAS

by Gabriela Smetanová

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE EUPHORIC CONSPIRACY

We’re all writing stories together now. Dean Kissick swims through the conspiracy theories surrounding Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: SHARJAH

This month, Dean Kissick went to the United Arab Emirates to visit Sharjah Biennial 14.

by Dean Kissick

by Fedor Blaščák

THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: NOT SO MUCH HORNY AS FULL OF DESPAIR

This month, Dean Kissick investigates what’s going on in Goshen, New York.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE PALACE AND POOL

by Gabriela Smetanová

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: PEARL RIVER DIARY

Dean visits the sixth Guangzhou Triennial, “As We May Think: Feedforward”, curated by Angelique Spaninks, Zhang Ga and Philipp Ziegler.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / PERMANENT RECREATION

" What seemed to be a short political crisis in 1992-1993 occurred to become an already 25 year lasting frozen conflict. Due to this conflict, in a short period of time, the original buildings, developed during the Soviet era for institutionalized collective spa recreation was by random, DIY participation process re-designed into the new permanent collective housing."

by Martin Zaiček

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE WORLD’S A STAGE

What has Dean learnt from the greatest city in the world?

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL

by Dean Kissick

On the utopian concept in architecture

by Gabriela Smetanová

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: PORTLAND

Dean Kissick visits Portland, Oregon for the Utopian Visions Art Fair

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: MY STRUGGLE

Dean Kissick reads Karl Ove Knausgård’s 1,153-page literary suicide note The End: My Struggle Book 6

by Dean Kissick

Essay / PALLADIO OF THE SUBURBS

by Daniel Tudor Munteanu and Davide Tommaso Ferrando

Interview / DESIGNER PETER LEHOCKÝ

by Boris Ondreička

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE CHINA CHALET GROUP

In this month's column Dean Kissick goes to a three-quarter-scale replica of an art bar in a gallery.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / NOWLESSNESS, Dyke

Essay deals with phenomenons of identity, relationships, normalising powers, temporality, queerness, queer art, the Anthropocene, the climate change, the apocalypse etc...The whole essay consists of four chapters which are published separately as a four-part serie.

by Ľuboš Kotlár

Essay / NOWLESSNESS, Lovers

Essay deals with phenomenons of identity, relationships, normalising powers, temporality, queerness, queer art, the Anthropocene, the climate change, the apocalypse etc...The whole essay consists of four chapters which are published separately as a four-part serie.

by Ľuboš Kotlár

Essay / NOWLESSNESS, Gaia

Essay deals with phenomenons of identity, relationships, normalising powers, temporality, queerness, queer art, the Anthropocene, the climate change, the apocalypse etc...The whole essay consists of four chapters which are published separately as a four-part serie.

by Ľuboš Kotlár

Essay / NOWLESSNESS, Temporality

Essay deals with phenomenons of identity, relationships, normalising powers, temporality, queerness, queer art, the Anthropocene, the climate change, the apocalypse etc...The whole essay consists of four chapters which are published separately as a four-part serie.

by Ľuboš Kotlár

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: FRIEZE DIARY

For Frieze New York Spike columnist Dean Kissick didn't look at any art. Instead he drank with strangers to gauge the mood of the city.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE MELDING OF FASHION AND POLITICS

In his column Dean Kissick writes about fashion predicting the future and why today's political technologists are much like Parisian designers.

by Dean Kissick

Interview / Pier Paolo Tamburelli: A BUILDING IS A BUILDING

by Ivana Čobejová

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THE MIRROR IN THE PALACE

In his column Dean Kissick writes about Neïl Beloufa's controversial show "L'Ennemi de mon ennemi" at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. What does it tell us about protest in our "byzantine circulatory system of images"?

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: CRYPTOCURRENCY AND MADNESS

In his first column of 2018 Dean Kissick writes about going crazy for crypto. How did the blockchain's promise of immutable truth turn into an opaque cultural spectacle?

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL #11

In his column Dean Kissick writes about the second season of the BBC's Blue Planet and finds a swansong for a disappearing natural world full of bizarre beauty. As it retreats into the past and becomes material for historians, science and technology may furnish us with an imaginary and perhaps still stranger world.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL #10

We are on the edge of the abyss, but nobody seems to really care. In his latest column Dean Kissick writes about how the present threat of a nuclear war gets lost in the memeification of reality and politics.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL #9

Will Ivanka Trump Save Us from Hell? Dean Kissick examines the culture of a collapsing society.

by Dean Kissick

Video / VLADIMÍR DEDEČEK: WORK

Documentary movie – video–interview with slovak architect Vladimír Dedeček.

THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL #8

This has been a year of disappearing statues, but what will become of all the defaced idols and broken images? Dean Kissick writes about why iconoclasm is back and what we can do about its aftermath.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL #7

Dean Kissick writes about what happens when subcultures emerge from the underbelly of the internet, Angela Nagle’s Kill All Normies, and how the culture wars of the 90s have come back to haunt us.

by Dean Kissick

Czechoslovakia at EXPO 67 in Montreal

Vladimíra Büngerová about Slovak participation in the Czechoslovak presentation at the 1967 Expo in Montreal

by Vladimíra Büngerová

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL #6

In his column Dean Kissick writes about Sophia, the first robot to be granted citizenship by a country. But as a female humanoid robot, she says more about humans' lack of imagination than the new forms and relationships that lie ahead of us.

by Dean Kissick

Esej / AKÁ BOLA ARCHITEKTONICKÁ SÚŤAŽ LUNÍK IX

by Peter Lényi

Esej / DAYDREAM

(Slovenčina) Architektonická skupina VAL – Voies et Aspectes du Lendemain (Cesty a aspekty zajtrajška)

by Peter Szalay

Essay / BEYOND THE FORMAL IN JEWELRY

Author jewelry seems to be changing its appearance.

by Katarína Šipošová

(Slovenčina) Esej / LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, MARTIN HEIDEGGER A ICH DOMY

by Fedor Blaščák

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL #5

In this month's column, Dean Kissick joins the dots between a runaway dog and shy peacocks in his diary of the preview days of documenta 14 in Kassel and Skulptur Projekte Münster.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL #4

The Summer of Love turns 50 this year, and we are still feeling its effects: In his latest column, Dean Kissick explains how a society more atomised than ever grew out of the ruins of the Bay Area counterculture.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: DOCUMENTA 14

In this month’s column, Dean Kissick shares his diary of four days in Athens during the preview days of documenta 14.

by Dean Kissick

To be continued

Essay about contemporary slovak design.

by Ľubica Hustá

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL #2

In this month’s column, Dean Kissick looks at Superflat America, the rise of hikikomori and their connections to alt-right meme culture.

by Dean Kissick

Essay / THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL #1

In this month’s column, Dean Kissick considers Richard Prince's disavowal of his artwork and the destabilisation of reality.

by Dean Kissick

Interview / Milota Havránková and Igor Marko: HOW TO MOVE THINGS FORWARD IN SUBTLETIES

by Ľubica Hustá, Fedor Blaščák

Essay / RADICAL CELEBRITY

by Dean Kissick