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2025: [1]

[insulation]
Nikoleta Dekanová
September 25th – November 5th

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This year’s last official TYPOSPOT exhibition will close up the theme of [1] with the its symbolic ties to the allegory of isolation.

[insulation] by Nikoleta Dekanová is the first installation not in a form of a poster, but rather a material play with typography, realized through styrofoam. With its fragile, but also stubborn body, its layers, and its natural hue, styrofoam becomes both the medium and metaphor of a surface that conceals as much as it reveals. Nikoleta works with this material by cutting, layering and shaping it in a way that reflects the invisible presence of isolation. Something, that is always here, always surrounding us, yet often unnoticed until you come closer to uncover what lies beneath. Styrofoam is literally the material used to isolate. To hide something. In plain sight.


Conceptually, [insulation] expands on the complex emotions of loneliness and detachment experienced by young people today. Pressure to perform at school, at work, and on social media creates a climate where many build protective, insulating layers, to shield themselves from the outside world. This exhibitions mirrors that very tension: typography that resists easy visibility, façades that keep things in, and a material whose function is to separate rather than connect. 


And because every insulation also has its pop-cultural insulation, the vernissage features as Nikoleta’s drink of choice the White Monster. To those who know, one of today’s most ironic digital symbols, and to those who don’t, just another energy drink. Funny how knowing and not knowing isolates us, huh?


Nikoleta Dekanová is a graphic designer, who is currently working on her diploma project in the studio Typolab, at the Department of Visual Communication at the AFAD in Bratislava. Her work focuses mainly on typography, which she combines with various other design disciplines. She is also involved in type design and sign painting, and organizes workshops on these topics.


This project was supported by Nadácia Tatra banky, Fond LITA and Staromestské kultúrne centrá.


 

Exhibiting artist:

Nikoleta Dekanová
@nicoledekan


Event photos:

Ester Šmídová
@esters.lens

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2025: [1]

[insulation]
Nikoleta Dekanová
September 25th – November 5th

This year’s last official TYPOSPOT exhibition will close up the theme of [1] with the its symbolic ties to the allegory of isolation.

[insulation] by Nikoleta Dekanová is the first installation not in a form of a poster, but rather a material play with typography, realized through styrofoam. With its fragile, but also stubborn body, its layers, and its natural hue, styrofoam becomes both the medium and metaphor of a surface that conceals as much as it reveals. Nikoleta works with this material by cutting, layering and shaping it in a way that reflects the invisible presence of isolation. Something, that is always here, always surrounding us, yet often unnoticed until you come closer to uncover what lies beneath. Styrofoam is literally the material used to isolate. To hide something. In plain sight.


Conceptually, [insulation] expands on the complex emotions of loneliness and detachment experienced by young people today. Pressure to perform at school, at work, and on social media creates a climate where many build protective, insulating layers, to shield themselves from the outside world. This exhibitions mirrors that very tension: typography that resists easy visibility, façades that keep things in, and a material whose function is to separate rather than connect. 


And because every insulation also has its pop-cultural insulation, the vernissage features as Nikoleta’s drink of choice the White Monster. To those who know, one of today’s most ironic digital symbols, and to those who don’t, just another energy drink. Funny how knowing and not knowing isolates us, huh?


Nikoleta Dekanová is a graphic designer, who is currently working on her diploma project in the studio Typolab, at the Department of Visual Communication at the AFAD in Bratislava. Her work focuses mainly on typography, which she combines with various other design disciplines. She is also involved in type design and sign painting, and organizes workshops on these topics.


This project was supported by Nadácia Tatra banky, Fond LITA and Staromestské kultúrne centrá.


 

Exhibiting artist:

Nikoleta Dekanová
@nicoledekan


Event photos:

Ester Šmídová
@esters.lens

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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 by a collective of graphic designers: Monika Juríková, Peter Pozník, and Tomáš Paulen—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 by a collective of graphic designers: Monika Juríková, Peter Pozník, and Tomáš Paulen—in collaboration with the Old Town cultural centers.


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@typospot_

contact@typospot.eu

Supported by

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