Alex Bernatzky is a multihyphenate. One part transdisciplinary designer, one part visual storyteller, one part researcher, and several parts insatiably curious.

Alex is a Johannesburg-born creative with an enduring love affair with cities; The soul encased in the concrete and asphalt; the heartbeat provided by the thrum of daily life.

Their mantra is: be BEFOK... Not Gefok. 

Befok: Afrikaans slang means really cool, crazy, stupid or a combination of all of the above.

Gefok: Stupid, messed up, in a state of disrepair

BEFOK exists in a contested space. Like the language, it stems from BEFOK is unmoored. Something that belongs neither in Africa where it was born nor in Europe where it finds its roots. Alex seeks to delve deep into that contested space, embrace the liminal and emerge with a perspective as yet unexplored.

Current explorations: speculative cultural futures as humanity evolves and adapts — especially in response to migration and climate change; avenues for the hybridisation of print and digital media.