Silvia Sukopova,
(born 1988) is an independent designer based in Bratislava, creating collectible design objects, as well as commissioned works for various clients.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (AFAD) in 2013, specializing in experimental design, and earned her doctoral degree in design in 2019 from AFAD’s Department of Digital Technologies. Her studies background and hands-on approach form the foundation of her design language, which bridges the realms of craft, technology, and conceptual thinking.
Her creative practice focuses on researching new visualities and innovative ways of applying digital fabrication tools such as FDM 3D printing and CNC milling. Silvia explores how digital processes can shape material expression, emphasizing the authentic aesthetic qualities that arise from technological methods themselves.
In her work, the digital and physical worlds are not opposites but complementary parts of one coherent reality. She seeks to merge these two dimensions, reflecting how contemporary life is inherently hybrid. Through this approach, she challenges conventional perceptions of digital production, demonstrating that technological precision can also be poetic and expressive.
Silvia’s objects often do not immediately appear as printed or milled pieces—a result of her original and experimental approach to these technologies. By pushing the limits of digital fabrication, she creates works that blur boundaries between the artificial and the organic, the designed and the naturally evolved.
Throughout the years of her practice, collections of Silvia Sukopova were exhibited internationally – at Villa Noailles in Hyéres, Galleria Luisa Delle Piane in Milan, Prague’s Designblok, Saint – Étienne’s Biennale Internationale, MAK in Vienna, Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier in Marseille or at Galleria Rossana Orlandi in Milan. Her objects are part of the permanent collection of Slovak Museum of Design and of Slovak National Gallery.
Galleries and design shops representation
Galleria Rossana Orlandi
Via Matteo Bandello, 14
Milan, Italy
Slávica Design
Laurinská 19
Bratislava, Slovakia
Contemporary Suvenir
Medená 19
Bratislava, Slovakia
Kút Museum Shop
Primaciálne nám. 3
Bratislava, Slovakia
Selected exhibitions
2025
Designblok Prague, Czech Republic (individual presentation)
1000 vases — Paris Design Week, France (collective exhibition)
Grand hotel — Bratislava Design Week, Slovakia (collective exhibition)
RoCollectible — Milan Design Week, Italy (collective exhibition)
Hues — Window Gallery of Contemporary Souvenir, Bratislava, Slovakia (individual presentation)
2024
Designblok Prague, Czech Republic (individual presentation)
Transmodernity — Marseille, Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier , France (collective exhibition)
New Generation — Czech Design Week, Prague, Czech Republic (collective exhibition)
2021
National Prize for Design — Bratislava, Slovakia (collective exhibition)
Krehký betón — Marseille, Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier, France (collective exhibition)
Since 2019 — MAK Design Lab, Vienna, Austria (collective exhibition)
2018
100 years of design, Slovak Museum of Design, Bratislava, Slovakia (collective exhibition)
Slávica store — Bratislava Design Week, Slovakia (individual presentation)
Rovina — Bratislava Design Week, Slovakia (individual presentation of studio trivjednom)
2016
European Design Stories — Atelier Clerici, Milan Design Week, Italy (collective exhibition)
2015
Favoris #01 — Paris Design Week, France (collective exhibition)
Vous-avez dit bizarre? — Saint -Étienne, Biennale Internationale, France (collective exhibition)
Rovina — Galéria Plusmínusnula, Žilina, Slovakia (individual presentation of studio trivjednom)
2014
1994… e lucce fu… — Galleria Luisa Delle Piane, Milan, Italy (collective exhibition)
Lódž Design Festival, Poland (collective exhibition)
Designblok Prague, Czech Republic (individual presentation)
Design Parade — Villa Noailles, Hyéres, France (collective exhibition)
Graduation Projects — Zamek Cieszyn, Poland (collective exhibition)
2013
Slovak Therapy — Vienna Design Week, Austria (collective exhibition)
Bratislava Design Week, Slovakia (individual presentation)
From us to you, from you to us — East Slovak Gallery, Košice, Slovakia (collective exhibition, studio trivjednom)
2012
Servus from Bratislava — Walking Chair Design Studio, Vienna, Austria (collective exhibition)
From us to you, from you to us I. — Satelit Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia (individual presentation of studio trivjednom)
2011
Len do vypredania zásob — Konsepti, Bratislava, Slovakia (individual presentation of studio trivjednom)