/About/

Polina Slavova // she/her // b. 1999, Bulgaria based in Eindhoven, Netherlands is a multidisciplinary research-based designer. She explores hidden structures and human behaviourisms in the context of contemporary digital and consumerist culture. Her work seeks to understand our relationship to the tangible and intangible through text, image, video, interactive tools and installations.

Co-founder of DuctTape Collective.



Education
2018 – 2022 BA Graphic Design, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem (NL)

Exhibitions
2026 – Uitnacht Arnhem, Caps Lock, Arnhem (NL)
2025 – Young Revolt x Piece of Resistance - The New Look of Anti-Facism, Bakbasecamp, Utrecht (NL)
2025 – Tactology Lab at Rewire Festival, The Grey Space in The Middle, The Hague (NL)
2024 – INNOVATE Experience, Musis, Arnhem (NL)
2024 – Parameter: Generative Arts Fair, Adela festival, Ljubljana (SI)
2024 – Extratonal Special #2: Puzzling Printers Camp, Varia, Rotterdam (NL)
2023 – Second Thought, ARC Amsterdam (NL)
2023 – Manifestations, DDW 2023, Eindhoven (NL)
2023 – Spark Narration, Amsterdam (NL)
2023 – Not Just A Fair, Platform POST, Arnhem (NL)
2022 – From (A) to (X), Arnhem (NL)
2021 – Yet To Be Named, Arnhem (NL)

Experience
2025 – Workshop at Speculative Design Minor program of Maastricht Institute of Arts (NL)
2025 – Guest-teaching: Sprint week, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem (NL)
2024 – Lecture at Speculative Design Minor program of Maastricht Institute of Arts (NL)
2023 – Presenting at Spark Narration, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
2023 – Presenting at Layered: Mapping Global Design Histories, Groningen (NL)
2022 – Student Jury member, De Best Verzorgde Boeken 2021 (NL)
2021 – 2022 Design Intern, Studio Cream on Chrome, Rotterdam (NL)

Publications
2025 – essay – Navigating Authorship Flux in the Making of Mimesis – Mimesis
2023 – essay – The Omnipresent Seat Where Time Stops – Mapping East European Design Histories
2022 – jury report – The Best Dutch Book Design Student Catalogue 2022
2022 – essay – A Metamorphosis of Soviet Architecture: From a symbol of Socialism to aesthetic in a Capitalistic era – Thesis Omnibus 2022 Graphic Design Arnhem

Awards & Grants
2024 – Grant Makersregeling het Cultuurfonds Noord-Brabant
2023 – Parameter 2024 Honorary Award, Adela Festival
2023 – (Not) Jammed selected for De Best Verzorgde Boeken 2023

Art Residencies & Workshops
2023 – Spark Narration, ACED, Amsterdam (NL)
2023 – Mapping East European Design Histories, Designers Thinking, Groningen (NL)

© Studio Polina Slavova 2024