Viktoria Arvayova

Viktoria Arvayova is a Slovak multidisciplinary artist and sound gatherer, currently based in The Hague (NL). Her practice explores forms of acoustic communication across both physical and virtual spaces, investigating how sound, voice, and listening can act as bridges between bodies, environments, and technologies. She translates these relations into sonic environments, visual works, and sound compositions.

Viktoria is also the runner of Suzvuky, a platform based in Bratislava that is curently focusing on the curation of multichannel listening events called Rezoné, with the technical support of A4.

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Viktoria has participated in various residency programs, including the Phonon Residency in Ústí nad Labem (CZ), which focused on multichannel composition, and the Screen Dive Residency during the Gaudeamus Festival in Utrecht (NL). Her works have been showcased at art festivals such as The Art Machines and Gaudeamus Festival in Utrecht (NL), and Rozptyl exhibition in Bratislava (SK).

Her sound compositions have been performed in diverse settings, acousmatic concert “The Melusines” in Ústí nad Labem (CZ), to broadcasts on radio platforms such as Intergalactic FM (NL), Radio Worm (NL), and the OnSite Radio Festival in The Hague. And live concerts at art festivals including Halp Festival in Moravany (SK), Tehláreň Festival in Liptovský Mikuláš (SK), and Rozptyl exhibition in Bratislava.

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)

Latest Concerts / Radio streams

Radio Devín - Radio talk on the topic Experimental music (2.7.2025, Bratislava, SK)
Live set Cvernovka, Not a wasted youth (28.06.2025, Bratislava, SK)
BUG Radio featured track “Imagine you’re a place” (19.12.2024, Den Haag, NL)
10x10x10 Laak, Interfaculty fundraising event (12.12.2024, Den Haag, NL)
Radio Worm, FUZZ take-over (2.12.2024, Rotterdam, NL)
Melusines Concert, Ambisonic Concert (27.6.24, Ústí Nad Labem, CZ)
Live set Halp Festival, Kaštiel Moravany (22.6.24, Moravany, SK)
OnSite Radio Stream, Nest (26.5.24, The Hague, NL)
Intergalactic FM (13.9.23, The Hague, NL)
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)

Collaborative projects

MoiRai with Celestina Minichova and Martin Kosorín, (21.11.24, 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)

Workshops

“That which waters the curiosity, That which sound the Scapes” - Situated listening and Fieldrecording workshop (Vrakuňa, 31.8.2025, SK)