Interrupted Song
June 28 – October 28, 2012
Esterházy Palace, 1st and 2nd Floor
Curator: Alexandra Kusá
This exhibition project studies the visual art of Stalin’s Socialist Realism, also called Socrealism, Socreal or Sorela when art was dictated, monitored and financed by the new political garniture. We limit this exhibition by the proclamation of the Congress of National Culture in 1948 and the legalizing consequences of the events connected with Stalin’s death (1953), i.e., the outcomes of the congresses up to 1956, when Stalin’s phase of Socialist Realism ended in our country and the “cult of the personality” was revealed. The Union of Fine Artists approved more liberal statutes and the art of socialism absorbed Moderna in its “axioms.”
Oskar Čepan Award
June 15, 2012 – July 26, 2012
Water Baracks, 1st Floor
Presentation of the winner of the Oskar Čepan Award 2011
Robert Capa (1913 - 1954)
October 31 - December 2, 2012
Esterházy Palace, 1st Floor
Viliam Malík
November 2, 2012 - January 2013
Water Barracks
Curator: Aurel Hrabušický
Monographic exhibition of Viliam Malík revising the outcomes of Malík’s scientific-research project with the 2001publication entitled Viliam Malík, which was edited by Fotofo and prepared by Aurel Hrabušický.
Jana Želibská
November 29, 2012 – March 2013
Esterházy Palace, 2nd and 3rd Floor
Curators: Lucia Gregorová, Vladimíra Büngerová
This monographic exhibition of Jana Želibská (1941) is a continuation in the SNG’s permanent ambition to present significant figures of the history of Slovak art of the second half of the 20th century.
Želibská, who belongs to the progressive generation of action and conceptual authors of the late 1960s in Slovakia, specifically re-evaluated the impulses of neo avant-garde tendencies, French New Realism and post-Moderna. She was present at the birth of environment art in the 1960s, object and installation at the end of the 1980s and video-art in the 1990s. She openly thematizes the female body through a feminist approach which in her work blended with the characteristic period themes of the alternative scene and unofficial art in Slovakia. This exhibition project will be accompanied by the publication of a monographic catalogue containing studies of several art theoreticians and historians.
Blood
December 13, 2012 – March 2013
Esterházy Palace, 1st Floor
Curator: Dušan Buran
Blood – the main category of the trans-historical curator project on one hand connected with the human body and consequently life (or death) on the other; is the subject of various literary, religious and social projections. For the secular culture, blood was never just a matter of biology, medicine or gastronomy. Terms and phrases such as “bloody revenge” , “blood ties,” “blue blood” as well as “blood-and-thunder story”, “bloodthirsty” or “his blood froze” are quite persuasive tools for getting to know society’s relation to blood; but primarily the potential for developing a thrilling deliberation on the visual capacity of blood (and its metaphors) from the 14th century up to the present.