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    Lucia Gašparovičová, Soft Icelandic Water, 2022. A sheet of silver immersed in Icelandic drinking water reveals oxidation layers, reflecting the water’s journey—from geothermal origins and soft mineral content to shaping Iceland’s landscape. The piece contemplates how even a “simple” glass of water embodies planetary processes, linking natural forces with human experience and value. Photo: Ján Skaličan.

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    Lucia Gašparovičová, Soft Icelandic Water, 2022. A sheet of silver immersed in Icelandic drinking water reveals oxidation layers, reflecting the water’s journey—from geothermal origins and soft mineral content to shaping Iceland’s landscape. The piece contemplates how even a “simple” glass of water embodies planetary processes, linking natural forces with human experience and value. Photo: Ján Skaličan.

  • Lucia_Gašparovičová_Material_with_Certain_Value_2016_01_Web-res

    Lucia Gašparovičová, Soft Icelandic Water, 2022. A sheet of silver immersed in Icelandic drinking water reveals oxidation layers, reflecting the water’s journey—from geothermal origins and soft mineral content to shaping Iceland’s landscape. The piece contemplates how even a “simple” glass of water embodies planetary processes, linking natural forces with human experience and value. Photo: Ján Skaličan.

  • Lucia_Gašparovičová_Material_with_Certain_Value_2016_02_Web-res

    Lucia Gašparovičová, Material with Certain Value, 2016. A 9 cm sphere, 1104 grams of silver melted from works created between 2011–2016. Freed from prior forms and intentions, it explores whether the value lies in the material’s weight or the artist’s labor and intent, reflecting on its endless reformation. Photo: Ján Skaličan.

  • Lucia_Gašparovičová_Tearing_Silver_2024_Web-res

    Lucia Gašparovičová, Tearing Silver, 2024. A silver sheet is hand-sewn to remain one piece while transforming from flat to three-dimensional, referencing extraction and material tension. The process leaves behind silver filings, contemplating how each subtle intervention creates new form but also traces what is lost. Photo: Ján Skaličan.

Lucia Gašparovičová (Slovakia/Czech Republic) is a visual artist working with materiality as a dynamic field shaped by human, environmental, and physical processes. Her practice is rooted in slow, durational methods and direct engagement with materials, allowing landscapes and natural forces to actively participate in the work. This hands-on approach is central to her understanding of how things come into being.

During the residency, Lucia will develop written research grounded in her artistic practice and material explorations. The focus will lie on materiality as a political, historical, and ecological agent in times of crisis, with the long-term aim of shaping this research into a publication.

Selected solo exhibitions include: And I Think To Myself What A World, Partner BSC, Banská Štiaynica, Slovakia (2023); Practice of Solitude, Šopa Gallery, Košice, Slovakia (2020); The Sun Does Not Revolve Around the Earth, Galerie XY, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2018. Her work was also notably featured in Jungle at East Slovak Gallery, Košice, Slovakia (2025); and Soft Water, The Living Art Museum / Marshall House, Reykjavík, Iceland (2023); Industry Art – Apo Tychés, To Automaton (with Ramon Feller and Ján Gašparovič), Brno, Czech Republic, 2019. Lucia also completed a PhD in Metal and Jewellery at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, in 2019.

Born in Slovakia, Lucia is now based in Brno, Czech Republic.

With support from:

Delfina’s Network of Central & Eastern Europe Patrons with additional support from Novum Foundation

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