Katarina Balunova
is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar and curator working across painting, performance, installation and text. Her practice explores utopian narratives and cultural memory, reinterpreting symbolic systems through speculative and poetic frameworks.
Selected Solo Exhibitions & Performative Projects
2026
Mapping the Memory — Performance Arcade Festival, Wellington, New Zealand
2025
Arrivals and Departures — IBERICA Festival, Museo La Neomudéjar, Madrid, Spain
Body – Silent Ashes Shattered Voices — House of Annetta, London, UK
Silk Non-Road — Rozkvet Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Snappy: Catalogue of Curiosity — Ovada Gallery, Oxford, UK
Dimenzia Y — Šariš Gallery, Prešov, Slovakia
2024
Golden Times — Performatica / INPA, Venice, Italy
Spice Route Reframing — Zaratan Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
Dancing Imago Mundi — CAC Russafa, Valencia, Spain
The Blue Sky Connects Us — Galeria Brateanu, Timișoara, Romania
2023
Blindness — Zaratan Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
Retrotopia — Flatgallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Mothership NGC 224 — Koniaren Gallery, Trebišov, Slovakia
2022
Defenestration – Defloration — Pragovka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Parallel Utopia (with Simon Kučera) — NBS Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Tree in the Middle — La Chapêlmèle, Alençon, France
Non-Possibility of Escape — Postpost Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
2021
Personal Utopia — MŰTŐ, Budapest, Hungary
Joyful Lock — Kotolňa Gallery, Košice, Slovakia
Huta-Wood — XS Gallery, Kielce, Poland
2020
Eva – Edit – Eden — La Xina A.R.T., Barcelona, Spain
Evergreen — Kunsthalle, Košice, Slovakia
2019
Nowhere Near (with Štefan Balázs) — Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art, Medzilaborce, Slovakia
Intersection — Art Number 23, London, UK
Metrosophy — BWA Galeria, Przemysl, Poland
2018
2B & 3B (with Marek Brincko) — Vojtech Loffler Museum, Košice, Slovakia
Indoor Paradise — ONEstudio, Valencia, Spain
2015 - 2014
Urban Habitats (with Zuzana Križalkovičová) — GMB, Bratislava, Slovakia
Emplekton — Espai Nivi Collblanc, Culla, Spain
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Destino / Osud — MACQ, Querétaro, Mexico (catalogue)
Latitudes — CCP, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
2025
Shanghai Paper Art Biennale – Fengxian Museum, China (catalogue)
La Lliga de la Justicia Poetica — Lo Pardal Foundation, Lleida, Spain (catalogue)
Art Circle — Sakaide Museum, Japan
Serigrafia zo zbierok FU OU — Galéria Kolomana Sokola, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia (catalogue)
City Architecture Plan — DG Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2024
Diálogo de dos Colecciones — MACVAC, Vilafames, Spain (catalogue)
IFCA — Palais de la Culture Moufdi Zakaria, Algiers, Algeria (catalogue)
Habitat / On Paper without Borders — BWA Galeria, Przemysl, Poland (catalogue)
2023
Something Else Biennale — Citadel of Saladin, Cairo, Egypt (catalogue)
Hammer Time — Zaratan Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (catalogue)
Vrouwen Power — New Jorg Gallery, Kalmthout, Belgium
2022
Floralie Od Idyly k Halucinaci — Artinbox Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue)
Silver Quadrangle Triennial — BWA, Rzeszow, Poland (catalogue)
/Co/Operation — Sveučilišna Galerija, Split, Croatia (catalogue)
2021
Festival of Manuports — Kohta Kunsthalle, Helsinky, Finland
GEO — Riga Art Space, Latvia
Shut up and Listen — sp ce Art and Transdisciplinarity, Vienna, Austria
Covimetry — Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, USA (catalogue)
Form — CICA Museum, Samdo-Ro, South Korea (catalogue)
Only Women — Kobro Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2020
2nd Dafen Painting Biennale — Dafen Museum, Shenzhen, China (catalogue)
Presencia — Espai Nivi Collblanc, Culla, Spain
Less Obvious — Galerie Bratri Spilaru, Domažlice, Czech republic (catalogue)
2019
Justmad X — Palacio Neptuno, Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
50 Years Later — Gallery Karlovy Vary, Czech republic
Slideshow — Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, USA
Konkrétne Leto — Umelka, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018
Rational vs Intuitive — Etihad Modern, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Imago Mundi / Join the Dots — Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy
Sadiv — Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius, Latvia (catalogue)
Always Together — Art House Opava, Czech republic
Les Instants Video — Galeria Art Cade, Marseille, France
2017
Mark Rothko 2017 — Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia (catalogue)
Painting Biennial VI? — MGRS, Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia
Honey I´m Home — A217 Gallery, London, UK
2016
30 x 30 x 30 — ZS Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Faisant Foi — Hippocréne Fondation, Paris, France
Slideshow — Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, USA
Paroles en Friche — Taverne Gutenberg, Lyon, France
2015
6th Beijing Biennale — National Art Museum of China (catalogue)
2014 - 2013
VUB Painting of the Year — Nedbalka Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia (catalogue)
Who Art You? — ExFornace Art Space, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
Hommage to Jozef Haščák — East Slovak Gallery, Košice, Slovakia
Perfectionists I — Fabrica Trzciny, Warsaw, Poland (catalogue)
Awards & Grants (selected)
DAAD Fellowship, Munich (2026)
Goethe Institut – Culture Moves Europe, Timisoara (2025)
OeAD Fellowship, Vienna (2024)
Visegrad Fellowship, Belgrade (2023)
Slovak Arts Council Grants (2022–2024)
Martin Benka Prize (2019)
Education & Research
Postdoctoral Research
2026
Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Prof. Andrea Büttner
2024 – 2025
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Prof. Michaela Eichwald
2021 – 2022
Academy of Fine Arts Prague, Prof. Milena Dopitová
Doctoral and Graduate Studies
2016 – 2019
ArtD. (Doctoral Degree), Academy of Arts, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Studio of Critical Painting Analysis, Prof. Štefan Balázs
2008 – 2010
MA in Fine Arts, Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Arts, Slovakia
Contemporary Painting Studio, Doc. Adam Szentpétery
Collections
Mark Rothko Art Centre
Fondazione Benetton
National Museum in Lublin
UAE Ministry of Culture
Museum of Modern Art Al Minya
Residencies (selected)
Vlasina Colony, Serbia (2026)
Art Circle International, Austria / Slovenia (2025)
Chapelmele Residency, France (2023)
Balaton Residency, Hungary (2023)
Art Hub Abu Dhabi, UAE (2022)
Representation
Espai Nivi Collblanc Gallery, Spain
Contact
katarina.balunova2@gmail.com
www.katarinabalunova.com
Instagram: @katarina.balunova