Exhibitions / Awards

Exhibitions + Events

2024

Miami Art Week, December 
Pulse International Architecture & Design Festiva, Prague, October
Materials Matters, London Design Festival, September
Habitare MaHabitare Materials exhibition, Helsinki, September
ICFF, Eco Solidarity Talk, NYC, May
Design Friends, Luxembourg, May
Milan Design Week, Alcova, Senseables & Collection 13, April

 

2023
Miami Design, Alcova, 5-10 December
Osmocosm Conference, MIT, Cambridge  - Talk on Interactive Biomaterials and Olfactory Biosensors Design
Dutch Design Week, Radical City Exhibition, October - Sensbiom 2.1
Materials Matters, London Design Festival, September - Sensbiom 2.1
Alcova - Milan Design Week April - Sensbiom 2

2022

Acadia, ICA Philadelphia, Sensbiom Installation, October, Philadelphia
Designblok, Ones, 5-10 October, Prague
Material Matters, London Design Festival, September 22-25 London
Sorry we are trying: Biomaterials in practice I Zichy Palace, Bratislava Design Week - until Janurary 31
Waste Age, London Design Museum | until February
Eco Solidarity, ICFF+Wanted Design, New York | 17-22 May
Gent Musem, Design fest Gent I March - June
Regionmuseet Skåne I March '22 - 2024
CMF Trends Lab of 2022 CIFF ( China International Furniture Fair) 

 

2021

Sorry we are trying: Biomaterials in practice I Zichy Palace, Bratislava Design Week
Waste Age, London Design Museum | October - Februar
Expo Dubai, Slovak Pavilion | October
Alcova 2021, Milan Design Week|  September
Maker's Show, Supersalone, Milan Design Week  |  September
BASE curated by studio Traccia, Milan  Design Week |  September
MAK Vienna, Vienna Biennale 2021, CLIMATE CARE. Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures | May - September
Kunstgewerbemuseum - Berlin - Design Lab#8, Mateiral Loops |  May - August 
Centro Centro, Madrid Design Week, exhibtion Materia Gris, curated by Ana Dominguez |  February - May

 

2020

Bratislava Design Week | Dec 3 - Jan 15
Budapest Design Week | 360 Design Budapest (virtual), Oct 8 - 10
Dutch Design Week | Rethinking Plastic / Yksi Expo, October 17 - 25 (virtual)
Dutch Design Week  | Non (depleted), October 17 - 25 (virtual)
Designblok | Design Helps, October, 7 - 11
London Design Festival | Nuatan TOGO, (virtual), Sept 12 - 20
Design Museum London Beazley Design of the Year, until - March 31
MAK Vienna Human by Design, crafting plastics! studio and De/posium - March 4 - April 5
Schloss Hollenegg for Design | Walden, May 7
Banska Stiavnica, De/posium - international symposium for designers and researchers August 12 - 17

 

2019 

Design Museum London September 11 - March 2020
Human by design, Vienna Biennale, Satelit Bratislava September
De/posium - international symposium for designers and researchers Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia August
Schloss Hollenegg for Design residency, Austria July 
Plastic Free World Conference, Frankfurt - lecture | June 28
Sustainability Summit Bratislava - presentation 
| June 20
Creative Days Vienna, Reaktor - lecture | June 14
In the Midl DESIGN Forum, Bratislava Design Week - discussion | June 9
Vienna Biennale, MAK Future Lab |  May - September
Food, Victoria & Albert Museum, London | May - October
Ad mensam, Schloss Holleneg for Design, Austria | May
Alcova Sassetti, Salone del Mobile 2019 Milan | April
Biobased - World Bio Markets, Amsterdam | April
Design Biennale of Saint Etienne, France | March - April
Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Germany |  January - March
MAK Future Lab, Vienna - discussion |  January 15
Heimtextil, Frankfurt, Germany - lecture | January 10

 

2018

Designblok Prague | October 27-31
Paris - Maison&Objet, MateriÓ Paris | September 7-11
London Design Festival  | Brompton Design District, 201 Brompton Road | September 15 - 23
Zürich Material Archive | August 15 - October 31
Venice, Design.VE, Biennale of Architecture | May 23 - June 17
Milan Design Week, Spazio Rossana Orlandi  | April  | 17 - 21
IMM Cologne I January I 15 - 21

 

2017
Operae | November | 3 - 5
Designblok Prague | October 23 - 30
Designers Open Leipzig | October 20 - 22
Brno Design Days |  October 5 - 8
Slovak Design Museum - Exhibition of Slovak National Prize Finalists | September 28 - November 30
Bratislava Design Week | June 7 - 11
Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch Netherlands | April 7 - September 3
Milan Design Week | Capitalism is over - A farewell party | Cascina Cuccagna

 

2016
Designblok Prague | Open Studio, Diploma Selection 
Dutch Design Week
Bratislava Design Week | Slowatch concept store
Beirut Design Week | Exhibition curated by studio QUEI
State Of Design Berlin | Exhibition curated by Max Borka
Milan Design Week | cp!s Collection 1 | Spazio Rossana Orlandi 
IMM Cologne | UDK selection
BASF | Mannheim exhibition

 

2015

Designtransfer | Transfect Design System! | UDK Master students final exhibition
Rundgang show UDK
Fashion Week Berlin | NotJustALabel x Zalando Fashion House

 

Awards & Others

Awards, Stipends

2023

Slovak National Prize Design 2023 - nomination

 

2022
MIT MISTI GSF Funding MISTI-Slovakia, Senseable Matter project 
Shorlisted Dezeen Award -Best Emergening Studio of the Year

2021
German Design Award - Special in Excelent Architecture Category for Breazea
Green Product Award - Winner in Product Award for BreaZea
Fulbright Funding - PhD studies, University of Pennsylvania

 

2020 + 2021
Student of the Year  (PhD) - Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

 

2019
Beazley Design of the Year, Nomination in Product Design Category
Dezeen Awards, Emerging Design Of The Year - longlisted
Fulbright Scholars recipient for 2020/2021

 

2018
German Design Award 2018 | Best Newcomer | Nominee  
Forbes Slovakia | 30under30 2018 | Vlasta Kubusova

 

2017
EU funding Openmaker PSS Call | Winner
Green Product Concept Award | Finalist
Art Prize Tatra Banka 2017 | Winner 
Slovak National Prize for Design | Design with added value | Winner
Make me! Award 2017 | Lodz Design Festival | Finalist
Talente 2017 Munich | Finalist

 

2016
Berliner Startup Stipendium (2016-2017)
Startup Award SK | Finalist
Designblok Prague | Diploma Selection | Best Product Design | Winner
Bratislava Design Week | Best Product + Special Prize Winner

 

Talks & Workshops

2019

Plastic Free World Conference, Frankfurt - lecture | June 28
Sustainability Summit Bratislava - presentation 
| June 20
Creative Days Vienna, Reaktor - lecture | June 14
World Bio Markets, Amsterdam | April
MAK Future Lab, Vienna - discussion |  January 15
Heimtextil, Frankfurt, Germany - lecture | January 10

 

2018

Bauhaus Dessau | About transdisciplinary collaboration | speaker | November 2
Brno Design Days  | speaker | October 6
Brno Design Days | workshop with Malai | October 5
Düsseldorf - The Sooner Now Conference | speaker  | September 25
London- London Design Festival | Material Consequences curated by Jane Whiters | September 20
Berlin Fashion Week | Future of Fashion | speaker | July 6
Italy, Villa Lena Foundation Artist Residency |  June
Berlin - TU Faculty of Architecture  | workshop for MA students
Brussels, European Committee | Talk - Bioplastic: Visions and challenges in the field of product design | April  | 16
Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovak Plastic Cluster | Talk - Bioplastic: Challenges and visions in the field of product design | April | 11

 

2017
Bratislava Design Week | Design Talks

 

2016
Designtransfer | VVV workshop for KollisionenWoche

 

2015
UDK - Fashion Department  | Talk for the project Bangladesh
Zalando workshop | Trend forecasting show