Photography by Berenice Guzzo.
Denisa Zajacova (b. 1995) is a Slovak-born conceptual artist who has lived in England since 2009. She graduated with a First Class BA in Fine Art Mixed Media from the University of Westminster in 2023. Her work has been exhibited at Bow Arts Nunnery Gallery, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, Marylebone, and Fabrica, Brighton. She is also a co-founder of Transit Grp., a peer-to-peer artist collective that develops workshops and exhibitions centred on making work through travel and experimentation, and participated in the RAW Labs Artist Residency in 2025.
Working through documentary methods including photography, sculpture and rubbing, Zajacova investigates the ambiguities of everyday urban life and questions systems of value through encounters with overlooked objects, materials and infrastructure. Photography acts as a document of encounter, forming the starting point for sculptural works that reconstruct familiar objects using discarded plastic food containers, where material becomes inseparable from the concept of the work. Alongside sculpture, her rubbings record the overlooked textures of the built environment, examining labour, urban memory and the material traces embedded within everyday infrastructure. Across her practice, she embraces the contradictions of consumer culture, inviting viewers to reconsider how value is assigned through context, use and perception.
CONTACT
EDUCATION
BA FINE ART MIXED MEDIA
University of Westminster, London, 2020-2023
COLLABORATION
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
RAW LABS X ART RESIDENCY March 2025
Bow Arts at Royal Albert Wharf, London
PIONEERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2021
University of Westminster, 309 Regents Street, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Current
MY ESCAPE 2026 August 10 - August 30
Kings Cross Art Benches, The Outside Art Project, Coal Drops Yard, Granary Square, London
TO BELONG 2026 June 5 - August 30
Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, Bow Road, London
2026
COLLECTIVISM May - June
The Bomb Factory Art Foundation Marylebone, London
RESONANCE April
Fabrica x Sussex Contemporary, Fabrica, Brighton
2025
SPUDOPEN: PRIVATE SPACES December - January
spudWORKS, Lymington
MARKETPLACE: TRACES, MANIFESTATION & VISIONS October
Creative Youth Charity at Kingston Ancient Market House, Kingston upon Thames
IN TRANSIT TO RETRITO SMARSAS October
Retrito Smarsas, Vilnius, Lithuania
IN TRANSIT TO ROYAL ALBERT WHARF March
Bow Arts at RAW Labs studio 10, Royal Albert Wharf, London
RCA OPEN January - March
The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy
2024
IN TRANSIT TO THE GREEN
The Green, Clerkenwell Green, London
MAKING A MARK: INFORMED BY INK
Saan1 Gallery, Manchester
2023
LAWLESS IMAGINATION
RuptureXIBIT (+Studios), Kingston upon Thames
IN TRANSIT TO FILET
Filet, Old Street, London
DEGREE SHOW
Ambika P3, London
PUBLICATIONS
ARTEVOL, VOICES FROM THE UNDEFINED, p. 337 November 2025
London Art Collective at Saatchi Gallery, London
UNKNOWN QUANTITIES, December 2024
-annual publication by MA Culture, Criticism and Curation program from Central Saint Martins university.
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