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 researcher from Slovenia, based between Rotterdam and Ljubljana. Her practice engages with topics focusing on ecological collapse and the perception of landscape, focusing on marginal landscapes particularly on swamps as spaces of resistance through a glitch feminist perspective.
She is a member of CBK Rotterdam and Architectural Humanities Research Association. Her work has been presented in several publications and art exhibitions across Europe (BIO27, Spatial Folders, Milan, Berlin and Dutch Design Week, Art Rotterdam, Garage Rotterdam, HuidenClub). Together with Ana Laura Richter, she is the founder of Swamp_Matter. Their work has been supported by Škocjan Caves Public Service Agency, Aksioma U30+, Creative Industries Fund NL and Kino Šiška.
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
2025 Fantastic Glitch Swamp (Swamp_Matter), Kulturni Evro 2024, Kino Siska, Ljubljana (SI) (forthcoming spring 2025)
2024 The Stones Appear To Be Non-Living (Swamp_Matter), Aksioma U30+, Ljubljana (SI) (forthcoming fall 2024)
2024 VJ set (Swamp_Matter), Niansa Sonic Gathering, Rakov Skocjan (SI)
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 Dresden (DE)
2023 Curating Change by studio d-o-t-s, Design Campus: School of Phyto-centered Design, Design Campus: Kunstgewerbenmuseum, 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 Prostorož, Urbana Akademija, summer school, Kamnik (SI)
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
2024 Vračanja / Returning (with Eva Bevec, Gaja Pegan-Nahtigal, Ana Laura Richter, Lea Topolovec) in Robida 10: Correspondences / Korespondence / Correspondenze (forthcoming)
2024 The Unstable Ground in Soapbox 5.0: SWAMPED! Overwhelming Affects and Environments of Decay (forthcoming)
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
She is a member of CBK Rotterdam and Architectural Humanities Research Association. Her work has been presented in several publications and art exhibitions across Europe (BIO27, Spatial Folders, Milan, Berlin and Dutch Design Week, Art Rotterdam, Garage Rotterdam, HuidenClub). Together with Ana Laura Richter, she is the founder of Swamp_Matter. Their work has been supported by Škocjan Caves Public Service Agency, Aksioma U30+, Creative Industries Fund NL and Kino Šiška.
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
2025 Fantastic Glitch Swamp (Swamp_Matter), Kulturni Evro 2024, Kino Siska, Ljubljana (SI) (forthcoming spring 2025)
2024 The Stones Appear To Be Non-Living (Swamp_Matter), Aksioma U30+, Ljubljana (SI) (forthcoming fall 2024)
2024 VJ set (Swamp_Matter), Niansa Sonic Gathering, Rakov Skocjan (SI)
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 Dresden (DE)
2023 Curating Change by studio d-o-t-s, Design Campus: School of Phyto-centered Design, Design Campus: Kunstgewerbenmuseum, 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 Prostorož, Urbana Akademija, summer school, Kamnik (SI)
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
2024 Vračanja / Returning (with Eva Bevec, Gaja Pegan-Nahtigal, Ana Laura Richter, Lea Topolovec) in Robida 10: Correspondences / Korespondence / Correspondenze (forthcoming)
2024 The Unstable Ground in Soapbox 5.0: SWAMPED! Overwhelming Affects and Environments of Decay (forthcoming)
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