2025: [1]
[currently doomscrolling...]
Adriana Baránková
August 14th – September 19th



On August 14th, we all finally collectively stopped doomscrolling for 5 seconds, to attend our shiny exhibition [currently doomscrolling...] by Adriana Baránková!
The installation explores and critiques the impact of our current chaotic socio-economic reality on young people, where scrolling through social media has become a state of overstimulating paralysis of dopamine, anxiety and detachment. Conceptually, it addresses the bizarre dissonance of online consumption, where a single minute of scrolling might take you from a cute cat video to a war crime, to a luxury brand ad, to falling for the “Labubu matcha Dubai chocolate yoga” propaganda.
Adriana’s exhibition responds to this year’s TYPOSPOT theme of [1] through a critique of the hyper-individualistic, consume-driven social media culture obsessed with the self. It examines how self-care morphs into chronic online presence, where real-life relationships are avoided because they demand too much effort or too many inconvenient emotions. The posters themselves also formally play around with the motif of the number 1. Together with the number 0, they reference the binary language of the digital world, as the very foundation of the virtual spaces we endlessly scroll through. This subtle visual coding ties the physical exhibition back to its conceptual roots in digital overstimulation and the fragmentation of attention.
You might feel a bit uncomfortable, suddenly being outside, breathing real air, holding an analogue piece of paper that “just doesn’t give you the visual rush you need.” But don’t worry! The exhibition offers all the sensory stimulation of doomscrolling itself! At least until your short attention span gets hungry again.
Adriana Baránková is an interdisciplinary artist and designer who completed her bachelor’s studies at the Medialab studio, Department of Visual Communication at AFAD in Bratislava (2024), and is currently finishing her education at the Platform of Digital Arts at AFAD. In her personal work, she explores digital phenomena, aesthetics, and the social dimensions of the internet. Adriana is a pioneer of visual maximalism, creating layered, overstimulating compositions that reflect the chaos of contemporary digital life, both playful and unsettling in equal measure.
This project was supported by Nadácia Tatra banky, Fond LITA and Staromestské kultúrne centrá.
Exhibiting artist:
Adriana Baránková
@ejdrien.a
Event photos:
Tomáš Paulen
@design.paulen








2025: [1]
[currently doomscrolling...]
Adriana Baránková
August 14th – September 19th



On August 14th, we all finally collectively stopped doomscrolling for 5 seconds, to attend our shiny exhibition [currently doomscrolling...] by Adriana Baránková!
The installation explores and critiques the impact of our current chaotic socio-economic reality on young people, where scrolling through social media has become a state of overstimulating paralysis of dopamine, anxiety and detachment. Conceptually, it addresses the bizarre dissonance of online consumption, where a single minute of scrolling might take you from a cute cat video to a war crime, to a luxury brand ad, to falling for the “Labubu matcha Dubai chocolate yoga” propaganda.
Adriana’s exhibition responds to this year’s TYPOSPOT theme of [1] through a critique of the hyper-individualistic, consume-driven social media culture obsessed with the self. It examines how self-care morphs into chronic online presence, where real-life relationships are avoided because they demand too much effort or too many inconvenient emotions. The posters themselves also formally play around with the motif of the number 1. Together with the number 0, they reference the binary language of the digital world, as the very foundation of the virtual spaces we endlessly scroll through. This subtle visual coding ties the physical exhibition back to its conceptual roots in digital overstimulation and the fragmentation of attention.
You might feel a bit uncomfortable, suddenly being outside, breathing real air, holding an analogue piece of paper that “just doesn’t give you the visual rush you need.” But don’t worry! The exhibition offers all the sensory stimulation of doomscrolling itself! At least until your short attention span gets hungry again.
Adriana Baránková is an interdisciplinary artist and designer who completed her bachelor’s studies at the Medialab studio, Department of Visual Communication at AFAD in Bratislava (2024), and is currently finishing her education at the Platform of Digital Arts at AFAD. In her personal work, she explores digital phenomena, aesthetics, and the social dimensions of the internet. Adriana is a pioneer of visual maximalism, creating layered, overstimulating compositions that reflect the chaos of contemporary digital life, both playful and unsettling in equal measure.
This project was supported by Nadácia Tatra banky, Fond LITA and Staromestské kultúrne centrá.
Exhibiting artist:
Adriana Baránková
@ejdrien.a
Event photos:
Tomáš Paulen
@design.paulen









Open Call
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 be often 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.
TYPOSPOT is a display in public space, where we host both individual and collective exhibitions on a six-week cycle. 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. At the end of each year, a catalog featuring interviews with the exhibiting artists will be published. By placing this project directly in the public space, we increase its visibility and reach, contributing to the city's identity-building, visual emancipation, similar to what we see in other contemporary metropolises, and fostering a deeper understanding of typography and the Old Town.
2025 marks the first year for TYPOSPOT, and the annual theme is... you guessed it... It symbolically carries the theme of [1] along with its different meanings and associations. Start. Odd. Beginning. First. Mono. Alone. Unique. Single. Individual. Whole. TYPOSPOT is inspired by the Viennese project Typopassage and Bratislava’s Typogaráž. While the goals and presentation methods of these typo-projects vary, they are all united by one thing: a love for typography. TYPOSPOT is organized and founded by a collective of graphic designers: Monika Juríková, Peter Pozník, and Tomáš Paulen, newly joined by Nikki Stanke, in collaboration with the Old Town cultural centers.
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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 be often 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.
TYPOSPOT is a display in public space, where we host both individual and collective exhibitions on a six-week cycle. 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. At the end of each year, a catalog featuring interviews with the exhibiting artists will be published. By placing this project directly in the public space, we increase its visibility and reach, contributing to the city's identity-building, visual emancipation, similar to what we see in other contemporary metropolises, and fostering a deeper understanding of typography and the Old Town.
2025 marks the first year for TYPOSPOT, and the annual theme is... you guessed it... It symbolically carries the theme of [1] along with its different meanings and associations. Start. Odd. Beginning. First. Mono. Alone. Unique. Single. Individual. Whole.
TYPOSPOT is inspired by the Viennese project Typopassage and Bratislava’s Typogaráž. While the goals and presentation methods of these typo-projects vary, they are all united by one thing: a love for typography. TYPOSPOT is organized and founded by a collective of graphic designers: Monika Juríková, Peter Pozník, and Tomáš Paulen, newly joined by Nikki Stanke, in collaboration with the Old Town cultural centers.
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