@Glorija Lizde
I am a multidisciplinary artist from the Slovak-Hungarian border, working with expanded forms of installation, object, and performance.
My practice unfolds as a form of personal storytelling. I create environments in which inner experiences are translated into physical form, allowing the individual to encounter themselves within a constructed space. Through this process, I explore the relationship between the individual and their surroundings, reflecting broader sociological realities-particularly those shaped by post-communist contexts. I am especially interested in the fragile and often ambiguous borderline between public and private space, and how this tension continues to shape personal identity, collective memory, and social behavior.
A central concept in my work is “mental space”: the internal landscapes we inhabit yet rarely externalize. I seek to materialize these invisible territories, transforming subjective states into tangible environments that invite shared introspection. By giving form to what is often unspoken or unseen, I open a space for recognition, reflection, and collective insight.
I primarily create site-specific, multisensory installations that respond to and transform their locations. I am deeply interested in the power of spatial atmosphere within its local context. Each work emerges through a dialogue with its environment, allowing the space itself to become an active participant. In this way, the site amplifies the emotional and experiential resonance of the piece.
By dismantling traditional boundaries between artwork and audience, I encourage direct, embodied engagement. My aim is to build a sensitive bridge of communication where viewer and work meet not as separate entities, but within a dynamic, living experience.
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