Body and Space

Architect Danica Pišteková founded the Studio of Architexture: Body and Space in 2021 as the first woman in charge of the Department of Architectural Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Danica Pišteková comes from Šala, where she lives again after many years. Her assistant in the studio is architect Tomáš Tholt.

A group presentation of students of the Architexture Studio itself experiments with exhibiting architecture in gallery/non-gallery spaces. It induces a feeling or flow, draws you into its own play with covers, with the relationship of body and space. It encourages touch, reveals the hidden, sets boundaries, reinforces the infinity of possibilities.

It brings experimental approaches of thinking, creating, designing, processes, speculating, discovering, denying, stimulating, ways of looking, finding, exploring.

The exhibition experiment comprehensively, collectively, in a way unaddressed and yet one-by-one, captures and presents the changing language and architecture itself. An architecture that is shifting and unstable, an architecture of softness and haptics, an architecture that is caring yet vulnerable. The elusiveness of architecture as a whole.

The exhibition Body and Space presents samples, prototypes, material bio-speculations also in 1:1 scale. Will it make us think about our perfectly imperfect bodies and imperfectly perfect spaces to live in to the sound of Future Scenarios?

Architecture, tectonics, textile, texture, cover, garment, content, material, element, process, decay, transformation, space, environment, cycle, response, time, impermanence, eternity, temporality, gap, hole, fracture, cut, rupture, patch, layer, joint, connection, design, plan, outline, transformation, change, body, model, module, modulor, humanity, dignity, man, woman, child, animal, softness, care, sensitivity, touch, behaviour, uncertainty, vulnerability, post-humanism, visible, invisible, present, absent, notation, diagram, scale, grid, prototype, geometry, topology, ecology, biology, variation, possibility, mode, universality, interpretation, inspiration, digitalization, interdisciplinarity, optimization, boundary crossing, limitation, extinction, rebirth, displacement, reality, fantasy.

The cluster of spoken/written words, the key words of the studio of Architexture – they become a starting point, inspiration, basic elements or a way to search, find, attempt, result, or unattainable or other solution.