OLJA TRIAŠKA STEFANOVIĆ
Visual Artist / Photographer / Associate Professor
Department of Photography and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
www.oljastefanovic.com • olja.stefanovic@gmail.com
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
2019 – Habilitation Lecture — Associate Professor in Visual Arts, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2010–2017 – Doctoral Studies, Department of Intermedia and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia (Art.D.)
2004–2007 – Master of Arts, Department of Photography and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia (Mgr.art.)
2000–2004 – Bachelor of Arts, Department of Photography and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia (Bc.)
2010–2017 – Doctoral Studies, Department of Intermedia and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia (Art.D.)
2004–2007 – Master of Arts, Department of Photography and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia (Mgr.art.)
2000–2004 – Bachelor of Arts, Department of Photography and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia (Bc.)
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Department of Photography and New Media, AFAD Bratislava (2019–present)
Department Chair, Department of Photography and New Media, AFAD Bratislava (2019)
Lecturer/Researcher, Department of Photography and New Media, AFAD Bratislava (2017–2019)
Assistant, Department of Photography and New Media, AFAD Bratislava (2009–2017)
Department Chair, Department of Photography and New Media, AFAD Bratislava (2019)
Lecturer/Researcher, Department of Photography and New Media, AFAD Bratislava (2017–2019)
Assistant, Department of Photography and New Media, AFAD Bratislava (2009–2017)
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2022–2023 – Fulbright Scholar, Parsons School of Design / The New School, New York, USA
2019 – Laureate, Foundation Novum — Grant for Contemporary Artists, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 – Laureate of the Mayor's Prize in Bratislava — Slovak Press Photo, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015 – Photographer of the Year — Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015 – DAM Architectural Book Award, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany (Architect Friedrich Weinwurm)
2010 – Finalist, Award 333, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 – UNESCO Bursaries for Artists, Centre d’Art i Natura, Farrera de Pallars, Spain
2002 – UNESCO Bursaries for Artists, Centre d’Art i Natura, Farrera de Pallars, Spain
2019 – Laureate, Foundation Novum — Grant for Contemporary Artists, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 – Laureate of the Mayor's Prize in Bratislava — Slovak Press Photo, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015 – Photographer of the Year — Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015 – DAM Architectural Book Award, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany (Architect Friedrich Weinwurm)
2010 – Finalist, Award 333, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 – UNESCO Bursaries for Artists, Centre d’Art i Natura, Farrera de Pallars, Spain
2002 – UNESCO Bursaries for Artists, Centre d’Art i Natura, Farrera de Pallars, Spain
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2025 – Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2025 – STUDIO DAS WEISSE HAUS (BLOCKFREI / Creative Europe: In)Visible Traces), Vienna, Austria
2024 – BHROX bauhaus reuse, Berlin, Germany
2022–2023 – Fulbright Scholar, Parsons School of Design / The New School, New York, USA
2003 – Centre d’Art i Natura, Farrera de Pallars, Spain (UNESCO)
2002 – Centre d’Art i Natura, Farrera de Pallars, Spain (UNESCO)
2025 – STUDIO DAS WEISSE HAUS (BLOCKFREI / Creative Europe: In)Visible Traces), Vienna, Austria
2024 – BHROX bauhaus reuse, Berlin, Germany
2022–2023 – Fulbright Scholar, Parsons School of Design / The New School, New York, USA
2003 – Centre d’Art i Natura, Farrera de Pallars, Spain (UNESCO)
2002 – Centre d’Art i Natura, Farrera de Pallars, Spain (UNESCO)
RESEARCH / PROJECTS
The Elephant in Tito’s Menagerie: Animal Diplomacy, Hunting, Exchange, and the Non-Aligned Movement — ongoing
Patterns of Diplomacy — ongoing
Quiet Fronts: Mapping the (In)Visible Cold War — ongoing
Patterns of Diplomacy — ongoing
Quiet Fronts: Mapping the (In)Visible Cold War — ongoing
COLLECTIONS
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (since 2018)
Nitra Gallery, Nitra (since 2015)
Nitra Gallery, Nitra (since 2015)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 – Aren’t They Cute, das weisse haus, Vienna, Austria
2024 – Stories from around the Non-Aligned, BHROX bauhaus reuse, Berlin, Germany
2024 – Yutopislavia, Artwall Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2023 – Non Monuments for Non-Aligned, FOG Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2023 – Brotherhood and Unity, CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth, USA
2021 – Brotherhood and Unity, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana & Vienna; Photo IS:REAL, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020 – Brotherhood and Unity, City Gallery — Mirbach Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 – New Bratislava, Primate’s Palace, Slovak Press Photo, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 – As If It Never Happened, Open Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 – Relay Race of Youth, Month of Photography, Z Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 – This Could Be a Place for a Nice Life, Design Factory, Bratislava, Slovakia
2010 – Pink Shadows, Fiducia Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2004 – For Rent, IZBA Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2024 – Stories from around the Non-Aligned, BHROX bauhaus reuse, Berlin, Germany
2024 – Yutopislavia, Artwall Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2023 – Non Monuments for Non-Aligned, FOG Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2023 – Brotherhood and Unity, CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth, USA
2021 – Brotherhood and Unity, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana & Vienna; Photo IS:REAL, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020 – Brotherhood and Unity, City Gallery — Mirbach Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 – New Bratislava, Primate’s Palace, Slovak Press Photo, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 – As If It Never Happened, Open Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 – Relay Race of Youth, Month of Photography, Z Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 – This Could Be a Place for a Nice Life, Design Factory, Bratislava, Slovakia
2010 – Pink Shadows, Fiducia Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2004 – For Rent, IZBA Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 – Medze krajiny, Rosenfeldov palác, Žilina, Slovakia
2024 – Pred časmi, Pistoriho Palác, Bratislava, Slovakia
2024 – Pod spoločnou krehkou strechou, Slovak Institute Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2023 – Family Matters, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
2023 – Somebodies Somewheres Somethings, Gallery at Bratislava Castle, Slovakia
2022 – Humanity, Pistoriho Palác, Bratislava, Slovakia
2022 – Archive Layers, Danube Festival of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbia
2021 – Hommage á Isaac Bashevis Singer, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2021 – Sugar — Industrial Heritage and Colonialism, <rotor> contemporary, Graz, Austria (with Ilona Németh, Eastern Sugar)
2020 – No Demolitions! Forms of Brutalism in Prague, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2020 – Contemporary Art from Slovakia in the Time of Pandemic, Slovak Cultural Institute, Berlin (virtual)
2020 – Sucre de l’Est / Sugar of the East, La Box / ENSA, Bourges, France (with Ilona Németh, Eastern Sugar)
2019 – Urban Fragments, OKNA Gallery, Porto, Portugal
2019 – Architect Alexander Skutecký, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2019 – Faces of Freedom, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
2019 – Memories of the Future, Schemnitz Gallery, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
2018 – Eastern Sugar, Kunsthalle Bratislava (with Ilona Németh), Slovakia
2018 – Friedrich Weinwurm, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 – Nekem Trianon // For Me, Trianon, OFF-Biennále Budapest, Chimera Project, Hungary
2016 – Social Unit, Ernest Zmeták Gallery, Nové Zámky, Slovakia
2016 – Neighbouring, Nomadic Arts Festival, tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
2016 – Fear from the Unknown, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
2016 – White Spaces in Slovak Photography, Leica Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2014 – Disturbances, EMOP — European Month of Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012 – DELETE, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2024 – Pred časmi, Pistoriho Palác, Bratislava, Slovakia
2024 – Pod spoločnou krehkou strechou, Slovak Institute Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2023 – Family Matters, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
2023 – Somebodies Somewheres Somethings, Gallery at Bratislava Castle, Slovakia
2022 – Humanity, Pistoriho Palác, Bratislava, Slovakia
2022 – Archive Layers, Danube Festival of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbia
2021 – Hommage á Isaac Bashevis Singer, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2021 – Sugar — Industrial Heritage and Colonialism, <rotor> contemporary, Graz, Austria (with Ilona Németh, Eastern Sugar)
2020 – No Demolitions! Forms of Brutalism in Prague, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2020 – Contemporary Art from Slovakia in the Time of Pandemic, Slovak Cultural Institute, Berlin (virtual)
2020 – Sucre de l’Est / Sugar of the East, La Box / ENSA, Bourges, France (with Ilona Németh, Eastern Sugar)
2019 – Urban Fragments, OKNA Gallery, Porto, Portugal
2019 – Architect Alexander Skutecký, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2019 – Faces of Freedom, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
2019 – Memories of the Future, Schemnitz Gallery, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
2018 – Eastern Sugar, Kunsthalle Bratislava (with Ilona Németh), Slovakia
2018 – Friedrich Weinwurm, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 – Nekem Trianon // For Me, Trianon, OFF-Biennále Budapest, Chimera Project, Hungary
2016 – Social Unit, Ernest Zmeták Gallery, Nové Zámky, Slovakia
2016 – Neighbouring, Nomadic Arts Festival, tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
2016 – Fear from the Unknown, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
2016 – White Spaces in Slovak Photography, Leica Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2014 – Disturbances, EMOP — European Month of Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012 – DELETE, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
BOOKS
Brotherhood and Unity, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, 2020 — ISBN 978-80-8189-038-3
Bratislava/(Un)Planned City, ed. Henrieta Moravčíková, Slovart, Bratislava, 2020 — EAN 9788055646961
Eastern Sugar, eds. Ilona Németh; Maja & Reuben Fowkes, Stenberg Press / Slovak National Gallery, 2021 — ISBN 978-3-95679-573-2
Shared Cities Atlas: Post-socialist Cities and Active Citizenship in Central Europe, ed. Helena Dudová, nai010 publishers, Rotterdam, 2019 — ISBN 978-94-6208-521-3
At the End of the Road — Crematorium in Bratislava, Matúš Dulla; Olja Triaška Stefanoviċ, Slovart, 2017 — ISBN 978-80-556-2985-8
Friedrich Weinwurm: Architekt, ed. Henrieta Moravčíková, Slovart, 2014 — ISBN 978-80-556-1158-7
Štafeta mladosti / Relay Race of Youth, self-published, 2014
Modern and/or Totalitarian in Architecture in the 20th Century, ed. Henrieta Moravčíková, Slovart, 2013 — ISBN 978-80-556-1056-6
Bratislava/(Un)Planned City, ed. Henrieta Moravčíková, Slovart, Bratislava, 2020 — EAN 9788055646961
Eastern Sugar, eds. Ilona Németh; Maja & Reuben Fowkes, Stenberg Press / Slovak National Gallery, 2021 — ISBN 978-3-95679-573-2
Shared Cities Atlas: Post-socialist Cities and Active Citizenship in Central Europe, ed. Helena Dudová, nai010 publishers, Rotterdam, 2019 — ISBN 978-94-6208-521-3
At the End of the Road — Crematorium in Bratislava, Matúš Dulla; Olja Triaška Stefanoviċ, Slovart, 2017 — ISBN 978-80-556-2985-8
Friedrich Weinwurm: Architekt, ed. Henrieta Moravčíková, Slovart, 2014 — ISBN 978-80-556-1158-7
Štafeta mladosti / Relay Race of Youth, self-published, 2014
Modern and/or Totalitarian in Architecture in the 20th Century, ed. Henrieta Moravčíková, Slovart, 2013 — ISBN 978-80-556-1056-6
LECTURES / ARTIST TALKS (Selected)
2023 – Brotherhood and Unity, PhotoAlliance, San Francisco, USA
2023 – Presence of the Past, UMass Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA
2021 – Brotherhood and Unity, PHOTO IS:REAL, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021 – Brotherhood and Unity, Inside Art (International Conference of Contemporary Art), Art Market Budapest, Hungary
2021 – Eastern Sugar — Book Launch, Graz Museum, Austria
2021 – Eastern Sugar — Book Launch, Festival of Literature, Žilina, Slovakia
2020 – How to Make a Photobook, Artget Gallery, Cultural Centre Belgrade (online)
2020 – Brotherhood and Unity — Book Launch, City Gallery, Mirbach Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
2020 – Presence of the Part, Festival of Contemporary Art, Tehláreň, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
2019 – Photo Books Culture, Paperlust Photo Book Fest, Kraków, Poland
2019 – What Is the Monument?, Kino Úsmev, Košice, Slovakia
2019 – MONUMENT, STU Faculty of Architecture, Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 – Artist Talk, SUPERDESIGNSTUDIO, DAAD Festival of Architecture and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 – Presence of the Past, UMPRUM, Prague, Czech Republic
2017 – Art in Public Space, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
2023 – Presence of the Past, UMass Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA
2021 – Brotherhood and Unity, PHOTO IS:REAL, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021 – Brotherhood and Unity, Inside Art (International Conference of Contemporary Art), Art Market Budapest, Hungary
2021 – Eastern Sugar — Book Launch, Graz Museum, Austria
2021 – Eastern Sugar — Book Launch, Festival of Literature, Žilina, Slovakia
2020 – How to Make a Photobook, Artget Gallery, Cultural Centre Belgrade (online)
2020 – Brotherhood and Unity — Book Launch, City Gallery, Mirbach Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
2020 – Presence of the Part, Festival of Contemporary Art, Tehláreň, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
2019 – Photo Books Culture, Paperlust Photo Book Fest, Kraków, Poland
2019 – What Is the Monument?, Kino Úsmev, Košice, Slovakia
2019 – MONUMENT, STU Faculty of Architecture, Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 – Artist Talk, SUPERDESIGNSTUDIO, DAAD Festival of Architecture and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 – Presence of the Past, UMPRUM, Prague, Czech Republic
2017 – Art in Public Space, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
WORKSHOPS (Selected)
2021 – Masterclass, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia — Lector
2020 – Masterclass, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia — Lector
2020 – Local Journal, Academy of Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Lector
2019 – Local Journal, Academy of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia — Lector
2017 – How to Make a Photo Zine — Balkan Photo Fest, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Lector
2016 – How to Make a Photo Zine — Organ Vida Photo Festival, Zagreb, Croatia — Lector
2013 – Stage–Auditorium–Applause, Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany
2013 – Chapter 2 — Intercultural Visual Dialogue (SK–FI–DE), Rostock, Germany — Lector
2012 – Chapter 1 — Intercultural Visual Dialogue (SK–FI–DE), Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia — Lector
2020 – Masterclass, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia — Lector
2020 – Local Journal, Academy of Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Lector
2019 – Local Journal, Academy of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia — Lector
2017 – How to Make a Photo Zine — Balkan Photo Fest, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Lector
2016 – How to Make a Photo Zine — Organ Vida Photo Festival, Zagreb, Croatia — Lector
2013 – Stage–Auditorium–Applause, Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany
2013 – Chapter 2 — Intercultural Visual Dialogue (SK–FI–DE), Rostock, Germany — Lector
2012 – Chapter 1 — Intercultural Visual Dialogue (SK–FI–DE), Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia — Lector
TEACHING EXPERIENCE — FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES (Selected)
2021 – Academy of Fine Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia — Erasmus (virtual)
2021 – Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Erasmus (virtual)
2019 – Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2019 – Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, Netherlands — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2018 – University of Arts — Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2018 – Academy of Fine Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2017 – Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, Netherlands — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2016 – University of Arts — Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2013 – Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2021 – Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Erasmus (virtual)
2019 – Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2019 – Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, Netherlands — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2018 – University of Arts — Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2018 – Academy of Fine Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2017 – Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, Netherlands — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2016 – University of Arts — Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
2013 – Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany — Erasmus Teaching Mobility
COURSES — AFAD BRATISLAVA
Studio of Photography & Critical Practice — BA, MA, PhD supervision and consultations
Creation of Photo Zines — BA course, Photography & Visual Communications
Creation of Photo Books — MA course, Photography & Visual Communications
Creation of Photo Zines — BA course, Photography & Visual Communications
Creation of Photo Books — MA course, Photography & Visual Communications
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2013–present – Moderator & Author, Triaska & Čejka_FM, 60 min live radio talk show on visual art and culture — Radio_FM, Slovak Radio and Television