DUSTS INSTITUTE

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European Cultural Capital Trenčín 2026
2025-2026
This research project explores the evolving roles of urban and architectural surfaces in response to climate change, new technologies, and material processes. By examining weathering, patina, cleaning protocols, and renovation practices, the project reinterprets façade transformations as dynamic interactions between materiality, aesthetics, and environmental forces, challenging conventional notions of maintenance and urban identity.

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Venice Biennale
2025
What should outer architectural surfaces look like, and why? Epidermitecture challenges conventional notions of cleanliness and maintenance by exploring naturally occurring stains—thin layers of microorganisms (biopatinas) that filter air pollutants, reduce heat islands, and support biodiversity. Exhibited as part of the curatorial selection at Arsenale. 

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India Design Week
2025
The Dust-Free Chamber exhibited at India Design Week, hosted in city with some of the world's worst air quality - New Delhi, offering a rare experience of breathing purified air. As part of the event, Dusts Institute will present its vision for sustainable urban environments, emphasizing the interplay between activism, architecture, and ecological responsibility.

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Terre et Temps
2024
As part of a European art/culture festival in France, the performance revealed and enacted the lifecycle of a dust particle, from its formation to its dispersal and transformation. Through movement, sound, and material interventions, the piece made visible dust’s unseen choreography—how it drifted, accumulated, eroded, and reconfigured space

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Klima Biennale
2024
"All Surfaces Clean at All Times" was the title of the exhibition we attended as part of the Klima Biennale in Vienna, highlighting the urgent need to rethink aesthetic norms in architectural surfaces, particularly in the context of climate change.

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Bordering Plants
2024
For the Bordering Plants exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, our contribution extended beyond co-curating the show to creating a site-specific installation—a Growing Garden that responded to its environment.

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