Studio Eva Garibaldi  KVK: 87715708
garibaldi.eva1@gmail.com  swampmatter@gmail.com

(b. 1996) Ljubljana, SI
based in Rotterdam, NL

open for collaboration, projects etc.





















Eva Garibaldi (b. Ljubljana, 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and published researcher from Slovenia, based in Rotterdam. Her practice engages with topics focusing on ecological collapse and the perception of landscape. Her research focuses on marginal landscapes focusing on swamps as spaces of resistance. She holds a BA in Industrial Design from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2018) and a Master of Interior Architecture: Research + Design (Cum Laude) at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2021). Together with Ana Laura Richter, she is the founder of Swamp_Matter a research, art, and design studio based between Rotterdam and Ljubljana. Currently, they are developing a research project on caves in the karstic landscape through a more-than-human narrative in collaboration with Škocjan Caves Public Service Agency and Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art funded by the Creative Industries Fund NL. The results will be presented in their first solo show in Fall 2024 at Aksioma Gallery in Ljubljana.





education
2019 – 2021
MA Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design (Cum Laude), Piet Zwart Institute, Willem do Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (NL)
2014 – 2018
BA Industrial design, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana (SI)

awards/grants

2023 The Stones Only Appear To Be Non-Living (Swamp_Matter), Internationalization of the Design Sector Grant Recipient, Creative Industries Fund NL
2023 The Stones Only Appear To Be Non-Living (Swamp_Matter) Aksioma U30+ 2024 Winner
2022 Elena candleholder, Young Balkan Designers 2022 Winner
2021 The Unstable Ground, WdKA Master Research Award 2021 Finalist
2020 Paper + Bioplastic, Made in Slovenia – badge for design exellence,
Centre for Creativity

2019 Paper + Bioplastic, Winner open call Creative & Circular (org. Centre for Creativity & Circular Change)
2019 Scholarship for Specialized Professions in Culture for Postgraduate Studies Recepient, Ministry of Culture (SI)
2018 Utopia by Design, University of Ljubljana Award for Special Achievements and Active Participation in Extracurricular Activities


selected exhibitions / residencies
2024 The Stones Appear To Be Non-Living (Swamp_Matter), Aksioma U30+, Ljubljana (SI) (forthcoming fall 2024)
2023 Shifting Ecologies-Swamps as Utopian Grounds performance (with Matilde Stolfa), performance, Garage Cafe #2.3, Rotterdam (NL)
2023 The Pillnitz Chronotopes Tour (with Leoni Fischer), Design Campus: School of Phyto-centered Design, Curating Change by studio d-o-t-s, SDK (full name) Dresden (DE)
2023 The River Knows (Swamp_Matter), PifCamp 2023 residency, Projekt Atol & Zavod Ljudmila, Bovec (SI)
2022
Elena candleholder, Christmas Design & Craft Market, Huiden Club, Rotterdam (NL)
2022
Elena candleholder, Young Balkan Designers 2022, Milan Design Week 2022 (IT)
2021 Paper + Bioplastic, Future of Living (org. Centre for Creativity), Dutch Design Week 2021, Eindhoven (NL)
2021 Paper + Bioplastic, [Tunel XXIX] Design for a Post-Apocalyptic World (org. Centre for Creativity & Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana), SUPERSTUDIO PIU, Milan Design Week 2021 (IT)
2021 The Unstable Ground, The In-Between: MIARD21' Graduation Show, Art Rotterdam (NL)
2021 Paper + Bioplastic, Future of Living (org. Centre for Creativity), Berlin Design Week 2021 (DE)
2020 Tree as Archive, The Social Body (org. MIARD), Rotterdam (NL)
2020 Intertidal Object, Domestic Territories (org. MIARD), Digital Exhibition
2020 Paper + Bioplastic, [Tunel XXIX] Design for a Post-Apocalyptic World (org. Centre for Creativity), Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana (SI)
2019 T.1883.1411, Borderland (org. MIARD), WIJKcoop, Rotterdam (NL)
2019 Marx after Marx: Kunst-Marx (org. Academy of Fine Arts and Design and Goethe Institute), Ljubljana (SI)
2019 Paper + Bioplastic, Paperology, Ljubljana Town Hall (SI)
2017 Screening of Utopia by Design, The National Celebration of the Day of Independence and Unity of Slovenia and broadcast on Radio-Television Slovenia
2017 Chair 6683, Top Ideas, Furniture Fair Ljubljana (SI)

talks and publications

2023
speaker, Spatial Folders Launch Event, Het Niewe Institut, Rotterdam (NL)
2023
The Unstable Ground in Abbasi, G., Dittel, K. (ed.) in Extraction - A trans-scalar inquiry, Rotterdam
2022
speaker, BIO27: Current Vernaculars, panel Supervernacular movement: New Generation of Designers - Issues of Local Communities and the Environment, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana (SI)
2022
Art&Education, The Unstable Ground image on MIARD Call for applications feature (link)
2021
Paper + Bioplastic recipe book in collaboration with Pekinpah

2021 speaker, 6th Symposium of Slovenian Researchers Abroad 2021, panel Sustainability in Art and Design, online
2021 The Unstable Ground, #HeyDDW feature (link)  
2021 Interview, Cafe com Europa by EUNIC Brasilia, University of Brasilia and Istituto Europeo di Design (dubbed Portuguese) (link)
2020 Paper + Bioplastic published as a case study of academic paper by Predan, Barbara. "Circular Design in Design Education: A Case Study on the Use of Paper in Interior Design." The International Journal of Design Education 14 (4): 47-59. (link)
2019 Paper + Bioplastic in Predan, B., 2019. Papiro-logía: circular design and the use of paper in interior design. Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region: Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana. pp 89 - 95



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