DIPLOMA 2026: Intermedia and Visual Communication
We invite you to a joint exhibition of bachelor’s and master’s theses from Intermedia and Visual Communication, taking place at the Pistori Palace in Bratislava.
- PISTORI PALACE, Štefánikova 25, Bratislava
- Exhibition opening: 12 June 2026 at 18:00
- Exhibition duration: 13 – 28 June 2026
- Tuesday – Friday: 14:00 – 19:00, Saturday – Sunday: 15:00 – 19:00
VISUAL COMMUNICATION:
Question of Noise
Bachelor’s and master’s theses
- Martina Belejová, Linda Berkyová, Martin Bugár, Samuel Čenger, Nikoleta Dekanová, Charlota Rachel Horáková, Hugo Hrivňák, Ema Ižvoltová, Zuzana Kasanová, Karolína Ježíková, Ema Kern, Samuel Kráner, Sofia Kuželová, Karmen Lacková, Matej Mazák, Chiara Németová, Viktóra Stanová
- Exhibition architecture: Peter Liška
INTERMEDIA:
ANSWER TO SILENCE
Master’s theses
- Martina Čulíková, Agata Klimesová, Lenka Vallová, Veronika Verešová, Jessika Radicsová, Terézia Tomková
- Curators: Hana Ontkocová and Fanny Elisabeth Pekarčíková
Curatorial text:
The exhibition ANSWER TO SILENCE presents six diploma projects by students of the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. The exhibited works reflect a broad spectrum of social, cultural, and personal themes that shape the contemporary experience of a person moving through an environment of permanent overload. Although the individual works differ in their formal approaches and thematic points of departure, they are united by a shared interest in the critical examination of reality and the search for new ways of perceiving it.
The title of the exhibition can be read as an attempt to articulate what remains on the margins of dominant social narratives. It suggests a gesture of response to suppressed experiences, feelings of uncertainty, and the changing conditions of everyday life. In the context of contemporary exhaustion and current social trends, a deeper focus on forms of human corporeality and care naturally comes to the fore. The body ceases to appear as a stable, self-evident entity and begins to unfold as a field of transformations, projections, and speculations. The authors focus on the vulnerability of the body, its adaptability, and at the same time its capacity to withstand the pressures of the environment that constantly shapes and mediates it.
The media represented in the exhibition include video, installation, object, and digital media, which together create a multilayered way of looking at reality – from intimate experience to collective and environmental contexts.
