Where are you from?
Bratislava, Petržalka.

Where did you study?
Visual Communication at AFAD, Bratislava and one semester in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Who was your best teacher?
Ruben Abels in the Netherlands. One day a week he fried us from morning till evening in different tasks and mutual discussions. At times it was quite painful, but in the final it was great. A bit of a Fortress Boyard. Tough guy, but fair.

Who were/ are your parents?
My mother is a teacher of commodity management and knows about textiles and so on, my father has tried more, from managing a vacuum cleaner company to gardening, he currently works in a construction company.

What don’t you enjoy in design?
Impracticality and pretence of coolness.

And on the contrary, what do you?
Practicality, generosity, elegance of solutions, atmosphere.

What do you listen to?
Spotify, which mixes according to a playlist where I have Nordic, or at least melancholic, songwriters, Colombian hits, disco, Iceland, weird hip-hop and baroque.

Your favourite film, cartoon, series?
Over the past year, I’ve been focusing on lighter genres. Silicon Valley, Gösta, Fleabag, Girls.

Who do you respect as an authority in and out of your field?
Adéla Svobodová, and the Swiss studio Bonbon for their very sensitive balancing on the edge of trend and timelessness, while these things are not cold, but you can feel from them a lively interest in the topic. Braňa Matisa for his ethereal ability to touch the universe in his work.

What thing did you last buy?
A waterproof jacket in an English hunting store.

Do you buy professional literature? What was the latest book?
Not really. More like books on history and totalitarianism and reportages.

Do you vote?
Principally yes.

Who throws the best parties?
I don’t know, I’m not good at this anymore.

Your favourite dome?
The Pantheon. It’s super old and has a hole in it.

Party dress. Made by…?
Pretty much what I wear during the day, just with lipstick.

Your hero from the past?
Two Annas. Anne of Green Gables and Anna Ballerina.

Best/nicest house?
Emotionally – my grandparents’ house in Prievoz with doves and peonies in the garden and my grandmother’s pink parlour. Already sadly in a state of disrepair.
From the picture – “The Cottage” and its completion by Pavel Paňák in Čachtice.

Do you have any stereotypes when you work? How do they show?
Waiting for a miracle. I wait and I don’t rush it. Sometimes I don’t wait.

What’s on your desktop?
A photo of the carousels by the forest in the Dunajská lužná.

Best exhibition, work of art?
The exhibition of Wolfgang Tillmans at Tate Modern. And the work… I would never have said this from the reproduction, but Guernica at the Reina Sofia in Madrid. Live, it absolutely blew me away. And also the installation by Janette Cardiff – The Forty Part Motet at MoMA PS1.

What do you respect both from the local and foreign design scene? And why?
People who are not enclosed in their discipline and are interested in things outside of art, design and architecture and are open to people who have no idea about those things.

Ethics or money?
Ethics, but it doesn’t have to be all free all the time.

Extraordinary book?
Oksana Zabuzhko – The Museum of Abandoned Secrets.

Optimist, pessimist, nihilist?
Melancholic optimist.

Do you have any hobby?
Pilates, baking and trips to tucked away places.

Solo or in a collective?
Individually, but surrounded by a collective.

Slovakia as the Promised Land?
For me, definitely.