Where are you from?
Šaľa.

Where did you study?
Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava/ Department of Photography and New Media, a semester at Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture/ Visual Culture and Contemporary Art in Helsinki and a semester at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design/ Photography in Jerusalem.

Who was your best teacher?
Jana Hojstričová, Max Ryynänen and Nicola Trezzi.

Who were/ are your parents?
An over-motivated handyman and gardener.

What don’t you enjoy in design?
Purposelessness.

And on the contrary, what do you?
I like authenticity and author’s statement.

What do you listen to?
Sad girls. FKA Twigs, Lana del Rey, Björk, Anohni and stuff.

Your favourite film or cartoon?
Sci-fi and fantasy classics, a plethora of cartoons and stand-up series. Alien, Hercules, Stranger things.

Who do you respect as an authority in and out of your field?
Peter Susan Šagát aka PXS. I feel he is always one step ahead.

What thing did you last buy?
Yeast.

Do you buy professional literature? What was the latest book?
Yeah. The last one was probably Hans-Ulrich Obrist – Ways of Curating.

Do you vote?
I do.

Who throws the best parties?
My friends.

Your favourite dome?
Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Party dress. Made by…?
Margiela with Hanečka with Yamamoto with Feňovčíková.

Your hero from the past?
My grandmother.

Best/nicest house?
The house on the Greek island of Serifos that I have spent a vacation at in 2018. You can find it on airbnb as Serifos Traditional House 1.

Do you have any stereotypes when you work? How do they show?
Improvisation – need to have fun.

What’s on your desktop?
Wolfgang Tillmans, The State We’re In, A, 2015.

Best exhibition, work of art?
I like the work of (mostly) British sculptor Roger Hiorns. I saw his solo show at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague in 2015, where he was also part of the group show A COOL BREEZE in 2018. I am also always happy when I come across monochrome paintings by Yves Klein somewhere, I already have a collection of selfies with them.

What do you respect both from the local and foreign design scene? And why?
Hardworking people who follow their beliefs despite difficult conditions. Because they didn’t choose the easier path.

Ethics or money?
Ideally, both.

Extraordinary book?
Virginia Woolf – Orlando.

Optimist, pessimist, nihilist?
Nihilist.

Do you have any hobby?
I guess so.

Solo or in a collective?
Both are liberating and binding at the same time, just in different ways.

Slovakia as the Promised Land?
Habitable.