Tatra banka · Platinum VISA
The first 3D payment card in the world, carrying Haas’s concentric light design. Tatra banka also holds his work in its private banking collection.
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Light that listens.
Objects of optical plexiglass, glass and steel that vibrate with sound and glow. Studio and atelier in Bratislava.
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On view until 4 October 2026
Resonare
Galéria Nedbalka, Bratislava · 17 June to 4 October 2026 · curated by Michal Stolárik
“I try to gently derail the viewer and offer them a different angle.”
Ašot Haas
Thirteen years after Inside, Haas returns to the gallery where he once built the round optical element that still divides its permanent and temporary halls. Resonare is a dark, focused refuge from the summer outside: cold white light, slow rotations and an ambient layer of sound, broken by accents of light that refract, pulse and reflect in optical materials.
New kinetic objects, light installations and reliefs explore the meeting of movement, light and optical illusion. Precise geometry, and the fragile instability of what the eye believes it sees.
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David, turned 360 degrees
For Insight at the Slovak National Museum, Haas took Michelangelo’s David and set him spinning. The rotation deforms the figure into a symbol of the tireless reach for the unreachable, and the old story of David and Goliath, the underestimated one who wins, becomes a message for now.
DAVID · appropriation of the present time · epoxy · 170 × 60 × 60 cm · 2023
The perfect cut
In 1919 the engineer Marcel Tolkowsky calculated the proportions of the ideal round brilliant. Haas scanned Tolkowsky brilliants, made his own versions, cast them in optical glass and coated them in a vacuum. The diamond series premiered at Insight.
DIAMOND · optical glass, 24 karat gold · 30 × 30 × 12 cm · unique 1/1 · 2023
Ninety-six brilliants, one pulse
Luminous Nexus joins 96 faceted light objects into a single living body across three floors. Each brilliant stands for one company, distinct and valuable. Together they breathe in one rhythm.
LUMINOUS NEXUS · site-specific light installation for UNICO MODULAR with CODES Brand House · 2025
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The works
For banks, cars and buildings
When a company invites Haas in, the work is made for that one place and that one name.
AeroMobil · flying car
A livery drawn from aerodynamics. Layered foils of moiré graphics simulate depth and motion on a flat surface, so the car seems to move even while it stands still.
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KOSCOM · Florentinum, Prague
A water clock, a cybernetic sculpture of 200 × 60 cm, made for the opening of the new Florentinum business centre in 2014.
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PLAY the MOVE · 2025
Ten metres of super-mirror stainless steel, RGB light and motors. A triangle for the play symbol and for the three North Poles: the moment a thought becomes a decision, and then movement.
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Art Film Fest Košice The festival awards, REC, PLAY, Film FRAME
Tatra banka Foundation Stage and animation for the Award for Art 2016
UNICO MODULAR Luminous Nexus, three floors, 96 light objects
Twenty years in one line of light
Born 1981 in Moscow, Haas lives and works in Bratislava. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava from 2000 to 2007, moving through industrial design, transport design, glass, and sculpture, object and installation.
Awards
- 2024 Krištáľové krídlo, visual art
- 2022 MUSE Creative Awards, Gold, with KVANT for Resonance of Light, New York
- 2019 ILDA Awards, 2nd place Innovative / Art, with KVANT, Frankfurt
- 2007 Gallery NOVA Glass Award, 1st place
- 2006 IFF Bratislava, 1st place for the one minute film Mother Wit
In collections
- Tatra banka, private banking
- J&T Banka, private collection
- DSC Gallery, Prague
- Gallery Nedbalka, Bratislava
- The Orava Gallery, Dolný Kubín
- Gallery Bratislava
- SOGA Auction Company
- Private collections at home and abroad
Shown alongside
- Saatchi Gallery, London · START 2016
- MAXXI, Rome · ET CETERA 2015
- Michelangelo Foundation, Venice · HOMO FABER 2018
- Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana · 2016
- Prolight+Sound, Frankfurt · 2019
- Levant Art Gallery, Shanghai · 2013
Bring the light into your space
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