Katarína Balúnová (1982) 

is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and scholar working across painting, performance, installation, video, and text. Her practice explores utopia as a shifting field—interweaving historical narratives, symbolic structures, and speculative imaginaries within contemporary urban and ecological contexts.

Approaching time as a cyclical and embodied condition, she reconfigures relationships between body, habitat, and collective myth. Across different media, she constructs situations in which image, action, and space operate as interconnected systems rather than discrete forms.

A recurring motif is the three-faced figure—postgender entities that articulate a symbolic axis between past and future, the biological and the technological, spirituality and science fiction. Through this evolving visual language, her projects articulate a speculative cosmology where archaic symbols, ritual structures, and contemporary imaginaries converge.

Engaging with utopia as an ambivalent condition—between critique of the present and projection of possible futures—her work moves between architecture, memory, and myth, bringing these imaginaries into dialogue with contemporary ecological and social crises.