Speed Date / KATARÍNA RAŠKOVIČOVÁ, ceramicist
Photo: Mária Raškovičová.
Where are you from?
From Banská Bystrica.
Where did you study?
AFAD Bratislava – ceramics, ŠUV Kremnica – metal engraving and plastic engraving.
Who was your best teacher?
All my knowledge and skills acquired from people make sense together. I don’t have a distinctive personality of a teacher in my life.
Who were/ are your parents?
A builder and a builder – an engineer and an engineer.
What don’t you enjoy in design?
When it doesn’t work, doesn’t communicate, doesn’t help.
And on the contrary, what do you?
When it’s simple and sophisticated at the same time.
What do you listen to?
Podcasts.
Your favourite film, cartoon, series?
Knights of Justice, Disenchantment, The Kominsky Method.
Who do you respect as an authority in and out of your field?
In ceramics, I respect people who know how to respect the properties of the material.
In art in general, I recognize people who can capture realistic life.
What thing did you last buy?
A dishwasher.
Do you buy professional literature? What was the latest book?
Mostly magazines. Designum.
Do you vote?
I do.
Who throws the best parties?
Karol Rédli.
Your favourite dome?
The Truman Show.
Party dress. Made by…?
The ones I feel comfortable in, they’re different every time.
Your hero from the past?
Feminists.
Best/nicest house?
Our family cottage.
Do you have any stereotypes when you work? How do they show?
More than my stereotypes in my work, I enjoy seeing stereotypes in everyday life. What people do, what people say, how they dress, what they use. That’s what inspires me the most.
What’s on your desktop?
The color yellow and order.
Best exhibition, work of art?
Design week Eindhoven – endless design.
What do you respect both from the local and foreign design scene? And why?
From the local scene, I respect Simona Janišová, who has insight. She is not only a ceramics artist (independently, also in collaboration with Linda Viková), but also the author of many interesting texts.
From the foreign scene, I love the work of M A N I F E S T O (Katie Rose Johnston), who is good to look at and always surprises.
Ethics or money?
I’ve never had a shortage of money, so it’s easy for me to choose ethics.
Extraordinary book?
Jan Markoš – “Medzi dobrom a zlom” [Between Good and Evil].
Optimist, pessimist, nihilist?
Nihilist.
Do you have any hobby?
Montessori.
Solo or in a collective?
Work individually, live collectively.
Slovakia as the Promised Land?
I like and I don’t like at the same time that it is a small country. It’s possible to embrace what’s happening here, but eventually things start to repeat themselves and the same things come back (for example, artworks in exhibitions).