Natália Sýkorová

Natália Sýkorová (b.1998) is an artist and researcher whose work looks at infrastructures, either technological, ecological, biochemical, and the systems of belief and control built into them. Working across sculpture, sound, and installation, she builds environments that actively shape the world, turning visitors into participants in constant exchange with its surroundings. Her work is situated on the premises of speculations; notions which she investigates through the study of technology, infrastructures and hidden systems. She integrates critical research, science, and installations to reveal systems of transmission and containment that are by design kept concealed. They carry hidden values and decide who or what gets protected, made visible, or left exposed.

Residency dates:  5. 8. – 30.11.2026

RESIDENCY PROJECT

During her residency at MeetFactory, Natália will develop a new installation and instrument series continuing her research into the theological residue inside cryptographic infrastructure. Technology today promises a channel without noise, immune to interception, and integrity guaranteed by mathematics rather than trust. Natália treats this promise as a contemporary cosmology: a system of oracles, seals, and thresholds. Her self-built instruments stage encryption as ritual apparatus, complete with gatekeeping, sacrifice, and revelation. Her creative process will merge critical research, sound with expanded storytelling, asking what forms of governance are smuggled into the language of "security," and what opens up politically and bodily at the moment a secure channel fails. 

EDUCATION

2025    PhD  degree - Digital Arts: Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava Artistic Research in Practice, supervisor: András Cséfalvay, Bratislava (ongoing)

2025    Post-Master research Fellowship: Academy of Arts,  Architecture and Design in Prague, Fine Arts - Art & Technology, supervisor: Lucie Rosenfeldová & Julie Žil Vostalová, Prague 

2024    MA degree: Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Fine Arts - Dominik Lang, Amálie Bulandrová, Tereza Jindrová, Zuzana Jakalová, Prague 

2020    BA degree: University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture, [ARB/RIBA Part 1], BA Science, London 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

solo

2026    'In the Dust of this Planet' Galéria Jána Koniarka, in collaboration with Oliver Torr, curated by Lýdia Pribišová, Trnava, 4 Jul - 30 Oct 2026 (SOLO)

2025    ‘Begone Estrone’  Medium Gallery,  in collaboration with Paula Gogola, curated by Zuzana Jakalová, Bratislava

2025    Vienna Contemporary, Artfair presentation with VUNU (Nico Bernath), Zone 1, Vienna 

2023    ‘Soon we’ll be people again’  Nová Synagóga v Žiline, Žilina

group

2026    'Aaaand... Scene' Shedhalle Zurich,  in collaboration with Paula Gogola, curated by Jen Kratochvil, Laura Amann, Zurich 15 Apr 2026 - ongoing 2027

2026    'Dark Paradise' BWA Wrocław Glówny, curated by Magdalena Lazar and Katarzyna Oczkowska, Wroclaw 

2026    'Dossier Stunts' Spektrum Galerie, curated by Anna Sýsová in collaboration with Adam Rýznar & Kindred Haller, Brno 

2026    'Biopersistence'  Galerie UM, curated by Karolína Voleská & Agáta Hošnová, Prague 

2025    'Station for Paused Forecasting'  Czech Center New York, New York 

2025    ‘Begone Estrone’  Medium Gallery,  in collaboration with Paula Gogola, curated by Zuzana Jakalová, Bratislava 

2025    ‘Distant, endless Hum’  Vunu Gallery,  duo exhibition, with Milan Vagač, curated by Michal Stolárik, Bratislava 

2025    'The day it rains Jellyfish' Industra, curated by  Text my Sister, Brno 

2025    'Enter the Room'  GHMP (Prague City Gallery), Prague 

2025    'The Landscape of Absence'  Meetfactory, curated by Ján Gajdušek & Tereza Havlovicová, Prague

2024    'New Translation II'  East Slovak Gallery, Košice

2024    'Forest Families'  Berlinskej Model - Prague Art Week, curated by Tired Mass / Alexander Klaubert, Prague

2024    ‘There has to be smth in the room’  ACUD MACHT NEU Galerie, curated by Alžběta Čermáková, Berlin

2023    '...and they lived...'  Kunsthalle Bratislava, curated by Tjasa Pogacar, Jelisaveta Rapaic, Jen Kratochvil, Bratislava 

2023    'Pěstovat plevel, sklízet vichřici'  Galerie Hraničář, curated by Amalie Bulandrova, Ústí n. Labem

2023    'Eternal Maze / Rendering into Hypersensitivity'  Jedna Dva Tři gallery, Prague 

AWARDS

2025    Bildrecht SOLO Award 2025 at Vienna Contemporary

2025    Nadácia Tatra Banka emerging artist award  for Fine Arts

all information is current as of June 2026.

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