Mária Beňačková Rišková

Born	Trnava, Slovakia
Lives in	Bratislava, Slovakia

Mária Rišková (1974, Trnava) is a curator, educator and graphic designer based in Bratislava.

She holds a Master's Degree in History of Art and Culture from Trnava University where she studied at the Faculty of Humanities in the Department of History of Art and Culture. Mária has coordinated and participated in a number of contemporary art programs, independent spaces and experimental projects across Slovakia and Central Europe. She is a founding member and president of the civic association Poster which was implementing a cycle of poster events in the public space in Plane, Trnava. From January 2001 to 2004 she was as a curator, program co-ordinator and manager of the gallery and club Buryzone which she initiated together with STUPIDesign. She coordinated Multiplace festival for new media culture (2002-2004), and curated for the XYZ group (2001, 2002). In 2003 Mária co-started the BURUNDI media lab, and later in 2005 co-founded 13m3 organisation devoted to exploring new modes of cultural presentation. She is also a founding member of the group NADA (*2003). Mária has co-edited publications for a number of projects. In 2013 she co-founded the Design Museum in Bratislava where she works since then.

Publications

Essays, articles

• "Bienále v Benátkach", 3/4 revue 2, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2001. (Slovak)
• "Fínsko - Sauna a taide", 3/4 revue 2, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2001. (Slovak)
• "NoD, Praha", 3/4 revue 2, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2001. (Slovak)
• with Oliver Rehák, Slávo Krekovič and Zuzana Černáková, "Who is doing the art of tomorrow? Ars Electronica 2001", 3/4 revue 3, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2001. (Slovak)
• "Metelkova", 3/4 revue 3, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2001. (Slovak)
• "Poster story", 2003. Curatorial text for the Trnava Poster Triennial, 2003. (Slovak)
• "Ovocie vizuálnej komunikácie", 3/4 revue 13, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2003. (Slovak)
• with Stupid, "Velká grafická lúpež", 3/4 revue 14, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2003. (Slovak)
• "Agónia a extáza nových médií", Flash Art 9 (Jul-Oct 2008). (Slovak)
• "Hry Husákových detí na Slovensku", A2 13 (2009). [1] (Slovak)
• with Katarína Hubová and Ľubomír Longauer, "Potreby reálne a potreby ideálne: Prečo je dôležité založiť zbierkovú inštitúciu pre dizajn?", Designum 16:2, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2010. [2] (Slovak)
• "Nové o logu", Designum 17:2, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2011. [3] (Slovak)
  • "News about the SCD logo", Designum 17:2, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2011. (English)
• "Sto percent navyše", Designum 17:2, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2011. [4] (Slovak)
• "Jozef Dóka ml.", Designum 17:6, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2011. [5] (Slovak)
• "Správy o 'múzeu' 4. časť", Designum 18:1, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2012. [6] (Slovak)
• "Správy o 'múzeu' 5. časť", Designum 18:2, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2012. [7] (Slovak)
• "Grafický (komunikačný) dizajn na Národnej cene za dizajn 2013", Designum 19:2, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2013. [8] (Slovak)
• "O nowych mediach na Słowacji i w Czechach", trans. Arkadiusz Wierzba, Techsty 9:1 (2014). (Polish)
• "Kabinet Školy umeleckých remesiel a pokračujúci výskum histórie ŠUR", Designum 20:1, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2014. [9] (Slovak)
• "Pokus o rehabilitáciu. O knihe Vyzliekanie z kroja", Designum 20:2, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2014. [10] (Slovak)
• with Maroš Schmidt and Lívia Pemčáková, "Škola základ života?", Designum 20:4, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2014. [11] (Slovak)
• ""Na obrazovky priniesol modernú grafiku", Denník N, 27 Feb 2015. On Pavel Blažo. See also. (Slovak)
• "Terminal:Inferno", Enter+: "Creative Manual for Repurposing in Electronic Literature", eds. Maria Mencía and Zuzana Husárová, Košice: Dive Buki, Mar 2015, pp 82ff. [12] (English)
• "Legendárny časopis Mladá tvorba nakoniec zakázali komunisti", Denník N, 23 Aug 2015. (Slovak)
• "Zbierky komunikačného dizajnu v Slovenskom múzeu dizajnu", Designum 21:3, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2015. [13] (Slovak)
  • "Collection of Communication Design at the Slovak Design Museum", Designum 21:3, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2015. [14] (English)
• "Talent a samouk zastavuje ľudí plagátmi", Denník N, 11 Oct 2015. On Milan Mikula. (Slovak)
• "Mohol byť maliarom či sochárom, je všetkým", Denník N, 12 Nov 2015. On Emil Drličiak. (Slovak)

• Articles in 3/4 magazine. (Slovak)
• Articles in Denník N. (Slovak)

Interviews (given)

• "Buryzone: Maria Riskova & Ivana Moncolova interviewed by Nina Czegledy", Subsol 2 (2002). (English)
• Michal Murin, "Mária Rišková: Vízie budúcich spomienok", Profil 3 (2012). (Slovak)
• Jana Németh, "Umenie budúcnosti funguje už dnes", SME, 10 Oct 2014. (Slovak)

Interviews

• "Dizajnér ako čitateľ. Rozhovor s Petrom Biľakom", 3/4 online, n.d. (Slovak)
• "Zdvihol som každý kameň a pozrel podeň. Rozhovor s Ľubomírom Longauerom", Designum 15:3, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2009. [15] (Slovak)
• "Pochopená kultúra a kultúrnosť. Múzeum umenie Olomouc", Designum 16:2, Bratislava: Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2010. [16] (Slovak)

Literature

• Denisa Kera, "Žena – síť, 'Spidergirl z Bratislavy'", Umělec CZ 1 (2005). (Czech)
  • "Woman-Network: Mária Rišková, 'Spidergirl from Bratislava'", Umělec EN 1 (2005). (English)

See also

• Buryzone
• Multiplace
• BURUNDI
• 13m3

Links

• Home page
• Home page (archived)
• Mária Rišková in 100nazorov.sk, video, 2 min. (Slovak)