Peter Paliatka


Peter Paliatka is Slovak designer, sculptor and university pedagogue. His works include designs in serial production, interior design and sculptural realizations in architecture.

Biography

After high school, where he studied Spišská Nová Ves, he studied "Tvarovanie výrobkov spotrebného priemyslu" at Vaclav Kautman's studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava from 1972 to 1978.
After graduation and until 1993, he worked as a pedagogue at the AFAD, first as an assistant of Kautman, later Tibor Schotter. In 1983, he spent one year on a study exchange in Italy.
Since 1990, he was leading the AFAD's Institute of Design. 1993 was the year of his successful habituation as a university lecturer.
In 1995, Paliatka co-founded SSUŠ – Private Secondary Art School in Bratislava, where he was active as a director and pedagogue until 1998.
Since 2000, he has been leading his studio at the Institute of Industrial Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, as the head of the department.

Works and awards

  • Hydraulic rotary loader Detvan Hon 200, produced by, co-authors Peter Chlpek, Peter Varga
  • FUTURA, set of armatures for Slovak manufacturer of armatures in Myjava
  • Children's playgrounds for Vrbové and Bratislava
  • Mid-tonnage lorry, BAZ Bratislava, 1985

Projects

Exhibitions