@Glorija Lizde
"I am a multidisciplinary artist and cultural producer working with installation, object, and performance. My practice moves between artistic production and collaborative cultural contexts, exploring how inner experiences take shape through space, memory, and embodied perception."
My practice unfolds as a form of personal storytelling. I create environments in which inner experiences are translated into physical form, allowing the viewer to encounter themselves within constructed spatial situations. Through this process, I explore the relationship between the individual and their surroundings, reflecting broader social and cultural conditions, particularly those shaped by post-communist contexts.
I am interested in the fragile and often ambiguous boundary between public and private space, and how this tension continues to influence identity, collective memory, and social behaviour.
A central concept in my work is “mental space”, internal landscapes that are usually experienced privately but rarely externalised. I aim to materialise these invisible territories, transforming subjective states into spatial experiences that invite reflection, presence, and shared perception.
I often work with site-specific and multisensory installations that respond to their context. Each work develops through a dialogue with its environment, allowing space itself to become an active participant in the work.
Alongside my artistic practice, I work within cultural production contexts, supporting exhibitions, events, residencies, and collaborative programmes across Europe. This experience informs my understanding of how artistic projects are developed, supported, and situated within broader cultural infrastructures.
By dissolving the separation between artwork and viewer, I aim to create situations of direct, embodied experience, where meaning emerges through presence rather than observation.
barbaragocnikova@gmail.com
instagrameducation
Master studies | Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava | Studio of Printmakingand Other media | 2019 - 2021
Tokyo University of Arts | Japan |
Studio of Printmaking | 2019/2020
Bachelor studies | Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava | Studio of Printmaking and Other media | 2015 - 2019
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk | Poland | Department of Printmaking | 2018
exhibitions
Solo exhibition | "Built on a Landslide" |
Grand Palais | Bern | Switzerland | 2024/03-04
Special selection by Erőss István |
Graphic Triennale | Miskolc | Hungary | 2023/09-11
Collaborative performance project | “silver lining” |
crazinisT artisT studiO | Kumasi, Ghana | 2023/04
Solo exhibition | “overthink” |
Kaleidoszkóp Ház | Esztergom, Hungary | 2022/10
Solo exhibition | ”cafuné- you” |
Prisma.lx | Lisbon, Portugal | 2022/08
Site- specific installation | “sent but never received” |
Lisbon, Portugal | 2022/07
Solo exhibition | ”Visit without invitation” |
Bridgeguard house | Štúrovo, Slovakia | 2021/08-12
Collective exhibition project |
“Please wait the meeting host will let you in soon” |
Kalab Centre | Bratislava, Slovakia | 2021/10
Solo exhibition | Alapok/Základy |
Aquaphone | Štúrovo, Slovakia | 2021/10
Collective virtual exhibition | SPLEEN |
Bratislava, Slovakia | 2021/01-03
Collective exhibition | Audi Headquarter
| Ingolstadt | Germany | 2019/06-08
grants and awards
Mobility grant | Slovak Arts Council | 2023
Exhibition production grant | Slovak Arts Council | 2021
residencies
Culture Hub Croatia |
PROSTOR | Split | Croatia | 2025
Summer Residency | Künstlerhaus Dortmund | Germany | 2025
Schafhof -European Art Forum Upper Bavaria | Freising | Germany | 2025
perfocraZe International Artist Residency | Kumasi | Ghana | 2023
Bridgeguard - Art and Science Residency | Štúrovo | Slovakia | 2021
project activity
Workshop | "The Language of Taste" (experimental) | community-based research workshop | PROSTOR | Split | Croatia | 2025
Workshop | "Safe Space" (model building) | Schafhof - European Art Forum Upper Bavaria | Freising | Germany | 2025
Exhibition design assistance | Greenhouse - Portugal Pavilion at 60th International Art Exhibition -
La Biennale di Venezia 2024 | Venice, Italy | 2023-2024
Programme coordinator | Arquiteturas Film Festival | Porto, Portugal | 2024
Production assistant | INSTITUTO and paulo moreira architectures | Porto, Portugal | 2023-2024
Selection committee member | “Cecinema Film Festival" | Cecina, Italy | 2023/01-06
Selection committee member | “Arqiteturas Film Festival" 10th edition | Porto, Portugal | 2023/01-06
Exhibition curator | “m3 admixture” by Lucia Žitnayová | Station Gallery | Bratislava, Slovakia | 2023/01
Exhibition curator | „Bouncy Castle“ by János Vámos |Tata, Hungary | 2022/09
Production assistant | Studio Mónica de Miranda and Hangar - art research center | Lisbon, Portugal | 2022/02-08
Collaboration with performative artist and writer Mickey Bourne (AU) and open talk
held by cultural researcher Anca Usurelu (RO) |
Prisma.lx | Lisbon, Portugal | 2022/08
Workshop organiser | “alternative printmaking” Prisma.lx | Lisbon, Portugal |2022/08
Production assitant | Breakfast over the bridge | documentary by Mattia Mura (IT) | 2020-2021
Author of the project and dramaturgy | Collective exhibition SPLEEN | Bratislava,
Slovakia | 2021/05-06