What happens to the objects that surround us when we look away? Do they stretch, misbehave, or whisper to each other? Do they wait for us to use them, or do they move in rhythms of their own?

House of Creatures brings together the works of ten contemporary Slovenian design practices and imagines them not as products, but as beings. These creatures defy fixed definitions and refuse to be confined to conventional categories of use, discipline, or typology. What matters is not what they are for, but how they exist.

By stretching, bending, and undoing established notions of form and function, each creature unsettles our expectations of use, scale, and identity. They sway, sag, leak, grow, disrupt, and spill beyond their intended spaces. Together, they rethink design as a practice of establishing relations between objects, spaces, bodies, and imaginations.

This is a shared home for them: an intimate habitat where creatures position themselves in relation to one another. Here, they observe, respond, and adapt to one another, forming interactions that bring their home to life. In this home, the creatures are not used, but rather lived alongside. As such, the exhibition does not replicate human modes of living or control. A chair does not sleep. A lamp does not seek comfort. Instead, the space allows creatures to exist on their own terms.

The creatures inhabiting this home emerge from practices by Soft Baroque, Lara Bohinc, Dan Adlešič, and Juicy Marbles, among others. The exhibition seeks to stretch the boundaries of design, bringing together fashion, product design, food development, and other creative practices that treat design as thinking, making, and relating across disciplines, challenging fixed definitions of objects and their use.

Visitors encounter the creatures not as spectators, but as temporary inhabitants moving through a space already occupied. Meaning emerges not through instruction, but through encounter; and the identity of each creature is inseparable from how it is met, lived with, and remembered.