Zuzana Šebeková

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Online presentation:

Zuzana Šebeková @ SCD

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Subjects:

• Laboratory of Textile in Industry - BA and MA level.
• Experimental techniques I., II.  - BA and MA level.
• Design Methods

 

 

 

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Higher education 

2010 – 2015 

• Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD) Bratislava, doctoral study, title: artis doctor, ArtD. 
  Theme: LIFESTYLE - trends in contemporary design: design of natural fibre reinforced composites   

2007 – 2008 

• Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Design HKD, Halle / Saale, Germany, postgraduate study. 
  Theme: Research into the possibilities of direct and transfer inkjet printing technology of wool and woolblend fabrics and their application in industrial production 

2001 – 2007 

• Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Design (HKD), Halle / Saale, Germany (Faculty of Design, Department of Textile Design - Prof. Wieland Poser). Diploma study, title: Diploma Designer, Dipl.Des. 
  Thesis topic: Im Gehen / OnGoing - collection of woven unisex wool fabrics, in cooperation with Merina a.s. Trenčín 

Study and research internships 

2014 – 2015

• Smart Textiles Design Lab (STDL), Swedish School of Textiles, Borås, Sweden. Doctoral internship - 9 months

2013

• Fraunhofer Institute for Material Mechanics Halle (IWMH), Halle an der Saale, Germany. Doctoral research internship - 3 months

2011 – 2012

• Fraunhofer Institute for Material Mechanics Halle (IWMH), Halle an der Saale, Germany. Doctoral research internship - 10 months  

2004 – 2005  

• MIE - Magyar Iparműveszeti Egyetem (now MOME) Budapest. One-year Erasmus scholarship stay. 

Employment 

2021 –

• Department of textiles AFAD Bratislava - Associate Professor 

2016 – 2021

• Department of textiles AFAD Bratislava - Assistant professor 

2014 – 2017

• EYBL Austria GmbH & Co.KG Krems a.d. Donau, Austria - Designer of upholstery fabrics and prints for the automotive sector. Collection design and implementation according to client specifications, research and pre-production development in the field of digital printing 

2013 – 2016

• KTT VŠVU v Bratislave - assistant ½ part-time 

2008 – 2009

• Gerns + Gahler GmbH & Co.KG, Freilassing, Germany - designer of woven upholstery fabrics for the automotive and office sectors. Series realization and development for companies: BENE, BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, KIA 

2007 – 2008

• Lydia in St.Petersburg GmbH, Halle / Saale, Germany - external technical and process designer of textile wallcoverings 

 2002 – 2008

• Studio BALZER, Halle/Saale and Leipzig, Germany - external product and process designer for 

2003 – 2004 and 2005 – 2007

• Werkstattzentrum Textil, HKD, Halle/Saale, Germany - student workshop assistance in textile workshops (screen printing and dyeing)

Requested/invited lectures 

• TEXTIL HEUTE - Teaching, Research, Industrial Practice and Artistic work, invited lecture within the announcement of W2 professorship for textile design / textile art (with an emphasis on design) at the Westsächische Hochschule Zwickau – Faculty of Applied Art Schneeberg, Germany. online 2020
• STATEMENT_TEXTIL - new functions, areas of application and complexity of textiles, invited lecture within the announcement of W3 professorship for textile design at the Academy of Fine Arts - ABK, Stuttgart, Germany, 04.07.2019
• GENERATION F, CREATIVE HUB - European Fashion Accelerator, lecture and presentation of work, UNIQUE FASHION WEEK Košice, Kulturpark, 06.11.2019   
• BEYOND THE VISUAL: TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS AS INSPIRATION IN THE CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE DESIGN - lecture within the interdisciplinary double-conference IDENTITY SK + INTERIOR IN SLOVAKIA, FA STU in Bratislava, 4.10.2018
• FAST FASHION - lecture series, Ján Evangelist Purkyně University, Faculty of Art and Design, Textile and Fashion Design Studio, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, 04.04.2018 - 06.04.2018
• THE EVOLVING ROLE OF THE DESIGNER: IN RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY - lecture and seminar within the regular DESIGN SEMINAAR for students of textile and fashion design at The Swedish School of Textiles, Borås, Sweden 7.10.2014
• 1xKUNST 1xFORSCHUNG – lecture and presentation of own design research activity within the event: PLENUM at Department of Textiles, BURG GIEBICHENSTEIN HKD Halle, Halle / Saale, Germany, 30.05.2012 

Publications 

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zuzana-Sebekova
• https://vsvu.academia.edu/ZuzanaSebekova

• ŠEBEKOVÁ, Zuzana. 2025. ‘Local Resources, Process- And Material Limits as Transformative Principles in Design and Innovation’.
  In: POUTA, E.; NIINIMÄKI, K.; VAARA, M.; VAPAAVUORI, J. (eds.) SCALES in Textiles conference (conference booklet – ArcIntex & Beyond e-Textiles Conference, 2025, Helsinky : AALTO, s.21_ https://www.aalto.fi/sites/default/files/2025-04/SCALES-in-Textiles-Conference-Book_0.pdf

• ŠEBEKOVÁ, Zuzana; MACHATOVÁ,Zuzana. 2025. Utilizing Plant Derived Dyes for Designed Changeability in Textiles. pre-print accepted for: Coloration Technology – Special Issue ‘Biocolours2024’. online: https://vsvusk-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/sebekova_vsvu_sk/EeBBYXscfJBCr_kWbSsG9l4BlYSMEv_5HbjU4qyKwLnZMg

• GREW, R., FANTINI VAN DITMAR, D., ŠEBEKOVÁ, Z., & TWIGGER HOLROYD, A. (2024). Convenors’ Note – Critical Textiles. Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 12(1–2), 144–147. https://doi.org/10.1080/20511787.2024.2461924

• ŠEBEKOVÁ, Zuzana; VICIANOVÁ, Petra; MACHATOVÁ, Zuzana. 2024. Evolving patterns - utilizing plant derived dyes for designed changeability in textiles. In: DYSTER, Laura; RÄISÄNEN, Riikka. Biocolours2024 Sustainable Value Chain for Colour. Book of Abstracts, Helsinky : Helsingin yliopisto. ISBN 978-952-84-0708-9, s.45. online: https://helda.helsinki.fi/items/b0733928-0327-4b13-a894-6c39d460536

• VICIANOVÁ, Petra; ŠEBEKOVÁ, Zuzana. 2024. Investigating natural dyeing and printing with mineral pigments and plant-based protein binder.I n: DYSTER, Laura; RÄISÄNEN, Riikka. Biocolours2024 Sustainable Value Chain for Colour. Book of Abstracts, Helsinky : Helsingin yliopisto. ISBN 978-952-84-0708-9, s.94 https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/a4c91c60-f7a8-44b0-81ef-7e1c3ca1832a/content

• ŠEBEKOVÁ, Zuzana. 2021. Portfólio. Art monograph - author's catalog. Bratislava: Z.Šebeková. 240 p.
• ŠEBEKOVÁ, Zuzana. 2021. ‘Project Zero Impact‘. In: BERNAT, Sara - DOMOSZLAI - LANTNER, Doris (eds.): Fashion forward Visegrad - Sustainable Fashion in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. (E-book), Fashion Forward, p. 96-98. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=F69QEAAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PP1&printsec=frontcover
• ŠEBEKOVÁ, Zuzana. 2014. ‘Textile Design, Craft and Research. Investigating the Role of Design, Material and Process Knowledge ’. In: BREUER, Gerda - OESTEREICH, Christopher (eds.): Serial - individual: Handmade in Design. Weimar: VDG Weimar. pp. 179 - 192
• ŠEBEKOVÁ, Zuzana 2013. The Role of Textile Design (er) in the Transforming Industrial Production. (conference paper). MA AND PHD STUDENTS 4TH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE, 30.04. - 02.05.2013, Tbilisi, Georgia. ISBN 978-9941-18-152-8, pp.68-69
• ŠEBEKOVÁ, Zuzana. 2012. The Role of Designer in (Textile-) Industry. (conference paper). ARTISTS IN INDUSTRY International Conference, 01. - 02.11.2012, Bucharest, Romania

Research and grant activities 

• FPU no. 23-142-03558 - EVOLVING TEXTILE PRINTS – Design Research on the Application of Natural Pigments and Dyes for Creating Changing Patterns _ scholarship FPU _ 2023
• KEGA: 009VŠVU-4/2022 - new concepts and approaches of fashion_ author and deputy project leader _ 2022 – 2024
• FPU no. 21-142-06533 - Design research of application of natural pigments and dyes _ scholarship FPU _ 2021
• FPU no. 20-143-00913 exhibition Sustainable fashion in education, author of the project, 2020 
• INTERREG ITMS: 305041W275 Design & Innovation - Cross-border cooperation of design institutions in the digital age, co-researcher, 2018 - 2020 
• KEGA: 002VŠVU-4/2015 RE: THINK FASHION - design and creation in the context of creative industry, author and co-researcher of the project, 2015 - 2017   
• NSP (National Scholarship Program) scholarship for a 9-month research doctoral stay at STDL (Smart Textiles Design Lab) Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden, 2014
• MK-4388/2014 / 4.4.6_ Cycle of interdisciplinary seminars VŠVU and FA STU in Bratislava: SLOW / SLOV * research through design in doctoral projects, 2014
• MK-4423/2014 / 4.6.1_ realization of the work: LIFESTYLE / Material 02: Tendencies of contemporary design. Design natural fibre reinforced visual composites, 2014
• DAAD (Deutscher akademischer Austauschdienst) scholarship for a 3-month doctoral research stay at the Fraunhofer Institut von Materialmechanik (IWM) Halle a.d. Saale, Germany, 2013
• KEGA: 004VŠVU-4/2013 Innovative textile treatments in art of design, co-researcher, 2013 - 2015 
• ASFEU ITMS: 26240220088 Center for Applied Research in New Materials and Technology Transfer, project co-investigator, 2013 - 2015  
• MK-4526/2013 / 4.6.1 _ realization of the work: LIFESTYLE / Material 01 - Tendencies of contemporary design: Design natural fibre reinforced visual composites, 2013
• MK-4525/2013 / 4.6.2_ educational activity: Participation in the conference DRS // CUMULUS OSLO 2013 - 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers, 2013
• DAAD (Deutscher akademischer Austauschdienst) scholarship for a 10-month doctoral research stay at Fraunhofer IWM Halle a.d. Saale, Germany, 2011-2012
• ASFEU ITMS: 262402200 Digitization of technological processes in design, co-researcher, 2010 - 2013

Exhibition curation and project realisation 

• ZERO IMPACT - Sustainable Fashion in Education, exhibition of projects: ZERO IMPACT / GENERATION F collection, Gallery SCD Satelit, Bratislava, 23.01.2020 - 26.02.2020
• (RE) THINK FASHION - fashion design research, exhibition of doctoral projects, Gallery SCD Satelit, Bratislava, 09.06.2017-12.07.2017
• SLOW / SLOV * - design research in PhD projects, Bratislava Design Week 2014 (BADW 2014), Bratislava, 22.-28.09. 2014 
• SLOW / SLOV * - theory, research and praxis in contemporary design, Gallery SCD Satellite, Bratislava, 18.7. - 28.8. 2013 (+ reinstallation of the project and exhibition in the Salon of the Nitra Gallery, Nitra, December 6, 2013 - January 26, 2014)
• MADE IN GERMANY - new fashion & textiles, exhibition of fashion- and textile-design students of from BURG GIEBICHENSTEIN University HKD Halle, Gallery SCD Satelit, Bratislava, 6 August - 2 September 2007

Exhibitions and fashion shows: 

• DESIGNBLOK 2024 - téma: Mládí, OPEN STUDIO, Bastion Florenc - expozícia SEARCHING FOR HAPINESS, Praha, ČR (projekt Evolving Prints)
• Sonderausstellung Peter Bruckner Preis 2024 - Museum Aguntum, Dölsach, AT (projekt Evolving Prints x ASAP) https://www.pb-design-handwerk.at/
• BADW 2023 - Open Call: ODVAHA, OD Prior, Bratislava, SR  (projekt Evolving Prints x ASAP)
• BADW 2022 - Open Call: KREHKOSŤ. Zoya Gallery, Bratislava, SR (Generatívne vzory - projekt LYRDYP – Let Your Research Design Your Pattern)
• GENERATION F – textile print collections GAS and COLOURED COTTON, exhibition HUMAN BY DESIGN Probing Social and Methodological Innovation in Design, MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, 04.03.2020 - 07.06.2020  
• GENERATION F - exhibition, author's collections GAS and COLORED COTTON, ZERO IMPACT Sustainable Fashion in Education, Gallery SCD Satelit, Bratislava, 23.01.2020 - 26.02.2020
• GENERATION F - fashion show, author's collections GAS and COLORED COTTON, UNIQUE FASHION WEEK Košice, Barracks / Kulturpark K 13, Košice, 06.11.2019
• ZERO IMPACT, exhibition, HUMAN BY DESIGN, SCD Satellite, Bratislava, 05.09.2019 - 30.10.2019
• ZERO IMPACT / ZERO IMPACT, exhibition, Designblok, Veletržní palác, Prague, 19 October 2019 - 20 October 2019
• ZERO IMPACT / ZERO IMPACT, fashion show, Fashion Live 2019, Bratislava, 04. 10. 2019
• (RE) THINK FASHION, exhibition of original works, Gallery SCD Satelit, Bratislava, 19. 06. 2017 - 12. 07. 2017
• LIFESTYLE, exhibition, (RE) THINK FASHION, Gallery SCD Satellite, Bratislava, 09.06.2017 - 12.07.2017
• DEDIČSTVO / HEIRLOOM, exhibition NEARBY AND FARAWAY, 19th International Exhibition of Textile Miniatures, Umelka Gallery, Bratislava, 29.05.2017 - 25.06.2017
• KAPSULA / CAPSULES, exhibition NEARBY AND FAR / NEARBY AND FARAWAY, 19th International Exhibition of Textile Miniatures, Umelka Gallery, Bratislava, 29.05.2017 - 25.06.2017
• LIFESTYLE: MATERIAL 02, presentations within the project * SLOW / SLOV - design research in PhD projects at the show BRATISLAVA DESIGN WEEK (BADW) 2014, Bratislava, 22. - 28.09.2014
• FADING MEMORY, exhibition MEMORY OF TEXTILE, 17th International Exhibition of Textile Miniatures, Umelka Gallery, Bratislava, Bratislava, June 1-21, 2015 (+ reinstallation at MÁNES Diamant Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 01.07. - 26.07.2015)
• LIFESTYLE: MATERIAL 01, exhibition * SLOW / SLOV, Gallery SCD Satelit, Bratislava, 18.07. - 28.08.2013 (+ reinstallation at Salon of the Nitra Gallery, Nitra, 06.12.2013 - 26.01.2014)
• OBJETS TROUVÉS Participation in the symposium, Veli Iž, Croatia, 2011
• CLOTHES OVER TIME - CLOTHING IN TIME, Hall of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava. 01. 08. 2011 - 20. 10. 2011
• IM GEHEN - IDÚC, fabrisc collection TISS and MERINA, exhibition MADE IN GERMANY - new fashion & textiles, Gallery SCD Satelit, Bratislava, 06.08. - 02.09.2007
• SHEN TE – Inspired by Bertold Brecht, collection of prints and jacquard fabrics, exhibition MADE IN GERMANY - new fashion & textiles, Gallery SCD Satelit, Bratislava, 06.08. - 02.09.2007 

Works/collection of works in public collections   

• Slovak Museum of Design, 2 author's prints (GAS and COLORED COTTON) for clothes (Thief 1, Thief 2 by Mrg.art. Barbora Peuch ArtD.) From the joint collection GENERATION F, 2019
• Slovak Museum of Design, 2 upholstery fabrics of the development collection realized in the company Gerns und Gahler GmbH & Co.KG (2008) and 9 clothing fabrics of the diploma collection IM GEHEN (Idúc) - manufactured by Werkstattzentrum Textil, BURG Giebichenstein Halle / Saale, Germany and Merina a.s, Trenčín, Slovakia, 2006-2007 

Awards 

• PBP24 DESIGN x HANDWERK - honorable mention, Peter Bruckner Preis 2024, Rakúsko https://www.pb-design-handwerk.at/images/2024_07_16_Presseinformation.pdf
• DAAD PREIS 2007, Germany