Katarina Balunova

KATARINA BALUNOVA (1982) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and scholar whose practice explores the material and spatial possibilities of utopian visions within contemporary urban and ecological contexts. Working across painting, performance, installation, video, and poetry, she investigates cyclical time as a lived, embodied rhythm, reconfiguring the boundaries between body, habitat, and collective myth. Her work stages a posthuman, postgender cosmology of the everyday, where old cosmologies and retro-futuristic imaginaries merge into a speculative spirituality. Through conceptually driven, media-flexible strategies, she re-animates historical narratives and symbols, reframing utopias, personal mythologies, and social crises in the present.
Her projects have been exhibited in national and international contexts including the Shanghai Paper Art Biennale (2025), 11th Asia-Europe Mediations Biennale, Kunsthalle Hannover (2025), MACVAC Contemporary Art Museum, Spain (2024), Something Else Off Biennale Cairo (2023), Riga Art Space, Latvia (2021), Kohta Kunsthalle, Finland (2021), Ely Center of Contemporary Art, USA (2021), Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea (2021), Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen (2020), Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia (2017), 6th Beijing International Art Biennale (2015), and others.
As a curator she collaborated with Knoll Gallery Wien in Austria, Kunsthalle Košice in Slovakia, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Querétaro in Mexico, among others. Balunova completed postdoctoral research at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2025) and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (2026), following her doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia (2019), where she is currently an assistant professor. She is represented by Espai Nivi CollBlanc Gallery, Spain, and lives in Bratislava, Slovakia.