Viktoria Arvayova | Vaera is a sound and multimedia artist, from Slovakia, currently based in The Hague. Her practice is moving between sound installation, spatial composition, and audiovisual work, exploring sound as a transforming presence that unfolds across physical and digital environments. Her spatial compositions emerge from curated collections of field recordings, found footage, vocals and synthesis, led through layers of digital processing that form evolving sonic environments. Alongside her artistic practice, she runs Suzvuky, a platform through which she organises Rezone, a series of multichannel listening events in Bratislava that create spaces for collective listening and engagement with spatial sound.
She has presented her fixed-media compositions and performed across festivals, galleries, and venues in the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Including, Paysages Composés, Sonorities Festival, 4bid Gallery, Sound House, The Melusines, Halp Festival, Festival Tehláreň, Rozptyl. Her spatial compositions have been presented in multichannel formats including the GRM Acousmonium, Ambisonics and Wave Field Synthesis (WFS). Her work has also been broadcast on platforms including Intergalactic FM, Radio WORM, Radio Devín, BUG Radio, and OnSite Radio. Her art projects have been exhibited at art festivals such as; The Art Machines and the Gaudeamus Festival in Utrecht (NL).
Viktoria has participated in several educational programs focused on sound technology, including the Sonology One Year Course in The Royal Conservatory in Den Haag (NL), summer school in Willem Twee studios in Den Bosch (NL) and Phonon Residency in Ústí nad Labem (CZ), focused on multichannel composition.
email: viki.arvay@gmail.com
instagram: @vikii_a
Upcoming events
*Paysages Composeés 2026 festival (Apneés), 8 channel fixed media piece “Into the wetgrounds” (27.09.2026, Grenoble, FR)
*Live set with Nefeli Sani in Sound House (09.10.2026, Den Haag, NL)
*Next festival, multichannel live set (26.11.2026, Bratislava, SK)
Latest Concerts
WIllem Twee Studios, end of residency presentation (10.09.2026, Den Bosch, NL)
Kunstbar, live set with Nefeli Sani, part of the exhibition program: Bodies in (E)motion (1.08.2026, Den Haag, NL)
Crawl Space in Sound House, live set with processed tape (1.05.2026, Den Haag, NL)
4bid gallery “4S4S“ - 12 channel live set with processed tape (24.06.2026, Amsterdam, NL)
Sonorities festival, 16 channel fixed media piece, (15-18.4.2026, Belfast, NI)
GRM Acousmonium concert at The Royal Conservatoire, “No one’s song”, Royal Conservatoire (5.3.2025, Den Haag, NL)
Sonology Discussion concert, “No one’s song” , Royal Conservatoire (15.2.2025, Den Haag, NL)
WFS concert, “No ones’s song”, Royal Conservatoire (30.5.2025, Den Haag, NL)
Cvernovka, Not a wasted youth festival (28.06.2025, Bratislava, SK)
10x10x10 Laak, Interfaculty fundraising event (12.12.2024, Den Haag, NL)
Melusines Concert, 25-channel Ambisonic Concert (27.6.24, Ústí Nad Labem, CZ)
Live set Halp Festival, Kaštiel Moravany (22.6.24, Moravany, SK)
Tehláreň (26.8.23, Liptovský Mikuláš, SK)
Rozptyl, Karpatská 24 (25.8.23, Bratislava, SK)
Hudobná Emisia, Fuga (21.8.23, Bratislava, SK)
Garáže, Guest Munis (11.8.23, Bratislava, SK)
Fuga, Mondays of Poetry, Guest Munis (24.7.23, Bratislava, SK)
Pink Whale, Hudobná Emisia (7.6.23, Bratislava, SK)
Profil Gallery, Exhibition of M. Čunderlíková (1.6.23, Bratislava, SK)
Latest Exhibitions
Re-composing a place - Kra Rural Arts Residency (19.8.2025, Hranice Vysočina. CZ)
Soniferous Garden at BREEK - Visual installation (8.11.2024, The Hague, NL)
10x10x10, Soniferous Garden - Performative Environment (1.12.2023, The Hague, NL)
Rozptyl, Converting Analog Spaces - Light Installation (1.9. - 30.9.23, Bratislava, SK)
Acousmatic Garden, Bachelor Work Exhibition, VŠVU (16.-17.6.23, Bratislava, SK)
Headless, Old City Cultural Centre, Školská 14 (4.3.-11.4.23, Bratislava, SK)
Signalling Cell, Art Machines (7.-11.12.2022, Utrecht, NL)
YES or NO, Gaudeamus Festival, Screen Swarm (7.-11.9.2022, Utrecht, NL)
Quatro Amici (Group Project) - KB Library (23.5. - 4.6.2022, Den Haag, NL)
Radio streams
Radio Worm, Gg[ghay] radioshow, talk on speculative cartographies (14.9.2025, Rotterdam, NL)
Radio Devín, talk on the topic Experimental music (2.7.2025, Bratislava, SK)
Radio Worm, FUZZ take-over (2.12.2024, Rotterdam, NL)
BUG Radio featured track “Imagine you’re a place” (19.12.2024, Den Haag, NL)
OnSite Radio Stream, Nest (26.5.24, The Hague, NL)
Intergalactic FM (13.9.23, The Hague, NL)
Collaborative projects
Open improvisaiton session at Grey Space in The middle (05.05.2026, Den Haag, NL)
Workshop: “That which waters the curiosity, That which sound the Scapes” - situated listening and Fieldrecording,in collaboration with Celestina Minichova. (Vrakuňa, 31.8.2025, SK)
MoiRai with Celestina Minichova and Martin Kosorín, (21.11.2024, Groningen, NL)
Another Failed Project (23.8.2023, Chemical Waste Dump Vrakuňa, Bratislava, SK)
Sound Performance - JAMA, Media Art/Alternative Music Festival (2021, SK)
Piece Fashioned for Random 12 Specific Non-Actors, Directed by P. Gonda (2021, SK)
Residencies, awards
KRA Vysočina - Residency supported by Višegrad fund (1.7.-30.8.2025, Hranice, CZ)
Phonon Residency - Lab/Ambisonic Residency (5.-29.7.2024, Ústí Nad Labem, CZ)
Sound Arguments - Lectured Meetings (Feb. - June 2024, The Hague/Ghent, NL/BE)
Lom+You - Supported Project Idea with 2 Uši microphones (2023)
Screen Dive, Part of Gaudeamus Festival (6.-10.9.2023, Utrecht, NL)
INSIDE AWARD - Winner of Trophy Design for INSIDE AWARDS (2018, Bratislava, SK)
Organised workshops
“That which waters the curiosity, That which sound the Scapes” - Situated listening and Fieldrecording workshop (Vrakuňa, 31.8.2025, SK)