On Friday, November 19, 2021, a discussion session about the architecture of exhibitions, entitled "How to exhibit?", was held in the Jozef Kollár Gallery. The discussion was an accompanying programme to the exhibition “Edmund Gwerk: Parallels and Paradoxes”, curated by Zsófia Kiss-Szemán, which has a specific architecture, made of wavy transparent partitions, designed by Jakub Kopec. The discussion addressed questions such as: Why do exhibitions need architecture? What is it good for? What prerequisites should an exhibition architecture meet? What are the possibilities and trends in the current practice of designing architecture for exhibitions? Is it possible to think ecologically here? The guests of the discussion session were Lucia Gamanová – a designer, Jakub Kopec – an architect, and Peter Liška – a designer. The discussion was moderated by the GaJK curator Mária Janušová.
About the discussants:
Lucia Gamanová is a PhD student in the Space Studio at the Department of Visual Communication of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (VŠVU). She graduated from the VŠVU, after taking classes at the Departments of Visual Communication and Applied Arts. He is actively involved in film art directing and theatrical scenography designing. She is a member of the organizing team of the Oskár Čepan Award and of the creative duo of the Gamanova Bakushina design studio.
Jakub Kopec is an architect, performing an n-1 subversive architectural practice. He is a member of the editorial board of ERA21 and ARCH magazines, as well as of the gallery board of Galerie Médium in Bratislava. He is the founder of the 4 AM/Forum for Architecture and Media publishing house and a member of the equally named association. He is also engaged in editorial activities and in curating various exhibition and educational projects. He is a (co)author of many temporary installations as well as "permanent" structures. For the projects “Nový park in Leopoldov” and “Informal Mo(nu)ments in Petržalka”, he received the CE ZA AR award in 2019 and 2021 in the “Exterior”category.
Peter Liška focuses in his work on graphic and exhibition designs. He participated in designing the permanent exhibitions of the Slovak National Museum and the exhibitions and publications of the Slovak National Gallery, the Slovak Centre for Design, the Bratislava City Gallery, and others. He is the designer of the visual identity of the Žilina-Záriečie Station, the New Synagogue in Žilina, and the Bratislava Design Week. He is a member of the Oskár Čepan Award organizational team, for which he develops graphic and exhibition design proposals.
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