Hello, my name is Katarina Lukić Balažikova. I am graphic designer living and working in Bratislava, Slovakia. I had completed several international fellowships and earned a Master’s degree in Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Nowadays I am studying ArtD in Visual Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. My doctoral thesis and practice is called Visual Communication as Critical Platform. I am researching forms of critical practice and started a course called Critic! on Department of Visual Communication that focuses on developing critical projects reflecting social environment.
I am co-founder of the Open Design Studio, which was founded in 2007 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Open Design Studio is organization that addresses critical topics with visual comunication tools and approaching issues from diverse social and political aspects. Its main aim is to present graphic design as an open platform for development of critical practice by organzing workshops, exhibitions, lectures, talks or individual projects.
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2012
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February
Visible Data / presentation of project on Pecha Kucha Night, MMC / Bratislava
2011
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December
Visible data / presentation of project on Hack Day, Design Factory / Bratislava
October 7th
Visible Data / presentation of project Visible Data / Let’s see numbers in action / Utrecht, Netherlands
September 19-21th
Visible Data / mentoring workshop / Youth center CK13 / Novi Sad, Serbia
June 14th
Visible Data / presentation of project Visible Data / 20. YEARS OF Slovak Design Center / Dom umenia / Bratislava
May-June
20. YEARS OF Slovak Design Center / exhibition participant / Dom umenia / Bratislava
March
BLACK BOX / exhibition participant / Medium Gallery / Bratislava / www.vsvu.sk/galeria_medium
February
MEMFEST / jury member / Awards for Visual communication practice, MEMFEST – International festival of radical communication / www.memfest.org
January 24th – 28th
CONTENT CREATOR / mentoring workshop / Faculty of art and design, UJEP / Usti nad Labem, Czech republic
2010
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December
VISIBLE DATA / exhibition participant and organizer / SULUV Gallery / Novi Sad, Serbia / www.opendesignstudio.net/activities/visible-data/visible-data-01.10667.html
May 26th – 28th
PDP CONVENTION / jury member / Awards for visual communication, PDP Convention / Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad / Novi Sad, Serbia / www.pdpconvention.com
2009
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November 13th
I(DEOLOGIJA) D(IZAJN) ILI NIŠTA / discussion / Ideology of design / Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina / Novi Sad, Serbia / www.kuda.org
November 13th
Ideology of design/ exhibition participant / Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina / Novi Sad, Serbia / www.kuda.org
2008
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November 30th
OPEN DESIGN STUDIO / presentation / GUCA meeting / Culture space A4 / Bratislava, Slovakia / www.a4.sk
November 28th
Identity of the Slovak minority / presentation / KUPE 4 – International designers conference / Zilina, Slovakia / www.kupe.1977.sk