MANIFESTO

[TypospoT] is a street indie exhibition space in Bratislava’s Old Town that provides a platform for emerging and young graphic designers and artists, focusing primarily on conceptual typography. The aim is to offer them a creative and free space for self-realization, which can often be difficult to achieve in the early stages of their careers, especially given the current societal and cultural situation in Slovakia.

At the same time, we want to highlight the discipline of graphic design and typography itself. Typography is an integral part of our daily lives, yet it is often overlooked and undervalued by the general public. [TypospoT] demonstrates that typography can also evoke various emotions and visual impulses. The individual installations thematically respond to current issues and phenomena related to the lives and challenges of young people, such as activism, otherness, individualism, information overload and disinformation, extremism, and climate change. Additionally, our exhibition space is an open and safe space for queer individuals, fostering inclusivity and dialogue through typography and design.

We host both individual and collective exhibitions on a monthly basis. In agreement with the Old Town administration, the exhibitions take place in three blind windows on the side façade of the Zichy Palace, facing Prepoštská Street. This is a busy area frequented by locals, Bratislava residents, and tourists alike. Each exhibition introduces a designer through their own installation, enriched with accompanying events such as an opening vernissage, guided tours, DJ performances, live acts, and more. We also publish a catalogue [T]-review, which comes out both physically and digitally, featuring interviews with our exhibiting artists. By placing this project directly in public space, we increase its visibility and reach, contributing to the city’s identity-building and visual emancipation, similar to what we see in other contemporary metropolises, while fostering a deeper understanding of typography and Bratislava’s Old Town.

The exhibitions in 2026 carry the theme [layers]. For some, this might be a beautiful word, and for others (especially graphic designers) a slightly traumatic one. We rename them, group them, lock and unlock them, hide them, and sometimes we lose control over them and they reaaaaally piss us off. But conceptually, layers can be so much more. They can create and symbolize surface, depth, structure, fragments, systems… And then they piss us off some more.

[TypospoT] is organized and founded by a young collective of graphic designers: Monika Juríková, Peter Pozník, Nikki Stanke, and Tomáš Paulen, in collaboration with the Old Town cultural centers.

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MANIFESTO

[TypospoT] is a street indie exhibition space in Bratislava’s Old Town that provides a platform for emerging and young graphic designers and artists, focusing primarily on conceptual typography. The aim is to offer them a creative and free space for self-realization, which can often be difficult to achieve in the early stages of their careers, especially given the current societal and cultural situation in Slovakia.

At the same time, we want to highlight the discipline of graphic design and typography itself. Typography is an integral part of our daily lives, yet it is often overlooked and undervalued by the general public. [TypospoT] demonstrates that typography can also evoke various emotions and visual impulses. The individual installations thematically respond to current issues and phenomena related to the lives and challenges of young people, such as activism, otherness, individualism, information overload and disinformation, extremism, and climate change. Additionally, our exhibition space is an open and safe space for queer individuals, fostering inclusivity and dialogue through typography and design.

We host both individual and collective exhibitions on a monthly basis. In agreement with the Old Town administration, the exhibitions take place in three blind windows on the side façade of the Zichy Palace, facing Prepoštská Street. This is a busy area frequented by locals, Bratislava residents, and tourists alike. Each exhibition introduces a designer through their own installation, enriched with accompanying events such as an opening vernissage, guided tours, DJ performances, live acts, and more. We also publish a catalogue [T]-review, which comes out both physically and digitally, featuring interviews with our exhibiting artists. By placing this project directly in public space, we increase its visibility and reach, contributing to the city’s identity-building and visual emancipation, similar to what we see in other contemporary metropolises, while fostering a deeper understanding of typography and Bratislava’s Old Town.

The exhibitions in 2026 carry the theme [layers]. For some, this might be a beautiful word, and for others (especially graphic designers) a slightly traumatic one. We rename them, group them, lock and unlock them, hide them, and sometimes we lose control over them and they reaaaaally piss us off. But conceptually, layers can be so much more. They can create and symbolize surface, depth, structure, fragments, systems… And then they piss us off some more.

[TypospoT] is organized and founded by a young collective of graphic designers: Monika Juríková, Peter Pozník, Nikki Stanke, and Tomáš Paulen, in collaboration with the Old Town cultural centers.

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@typospot_

contact@typospot.eu

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