Bratislava Design Week 2017: The Slovakia Exciting Design Week

Design is the most important interest for Covet House, so we decided to bring this article about the upcoming Bratislava Design Week! This design week was founded in 2009 as Designweek, but in 2013 was renamed as Bratislava Design Week. On this Slovakia design show, you can find extraordinary contemporary design. This is the ninth year of the design show and will take place 7th to 11h June 2017 in different places in the Slovakia’s capital city. Come discover more about the prestigious Bratislava Design Week 2017!

The curated international exhibitions will be, just like in the last year, held on the premises of the Zoya Galery on Ventúrska street 1. Another festival venue for the designers and designer collections within the Open Call section will be the abandoned building above the Urban House café on Laurinská street 14. The Klarisky church as the third venue will host different installations, the international conference BADW Design Lectures and the Design Week Awards ceremony as well as the fashion show at the start of the festival.

In 2017, the organizers opted to invite mostly the elite of young designers from Europe. Among the foreign guests are Dutch designers Sander Wessing, Olivier van Herpt, Austrian studio Vandasye, Czech designers Jakub Berdych, Tadeáš Podracký, Markéta Kratochvílová and Kateřina Plamintzerová, Samy Rio from France together with the great shooting star Guglielmo Poletti or Spanish designer Jorge Penandes, all of them winners and finalists of different prestigious design competitions. Apart from their objects presented at the festival exhibition „Settled Waters“ (curated by Ľubica Hustá and Silvia Lovasová), the guests will deliver lectures within the BADW Design Lectures conference. The curated projects will include a traveling exhibition of Hungarian design in collaboration with the Hungarian Culture Institute and the exhibition titled “Pass it on” as the follow-up of the Flowers for Slovakia project.

The site-specific installations will see chiefly Slovak artists. For example, the curated project of the architectural studio PLURAL /Martin Jančok a Michal Janák/ which seeks to make a temporal architecture of space utilizing the main theme. Their installation represents architecture in its fundamental form – as a limit, delimitation of space. The artists of the younger generation Jaroslav Kyša and Juraj Rattaj will actualize a piece on the cusp between contemporary art and design. Part of the design transformation of the Klarisky church will be a temporary garden in the interior. The rest of the installations, again working with the theme Limit, will be put together by the winners of the past Design Week Awards (Mejd, Allt, Rudolf Rusnák, Lucia Gašparovičová a Braňo Laho) in the premises of their choice across the Old Town.

This year, BADW will be linked with the SELF festival (Festival about the overlaps of graphic design, culture, and society) for the first time.

Traditionally, BADW will offer lectures, discussions, workshops for general and professional public and for children, let alone the music program to underline the festival vibe.

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