Archive of exhibitions

The Slovak National Gallery will again be dressing up! Following our 2017 exhibition Sew Long! which featured an extensive look at fashion in socialist Czechoslovakia, contemporary fashion practice and support of live art take center stage in our current project entitled Oh, That Dress!

Each summer, as part of its Kolegovia cycle, the Ľudovít Fulla Gallery presents selected works of a Slovak Modernist who was a contemporary of Ľudovít Fulla. The project features the top works of each artist and possible mutual relations, "influences" and inspirations.

The project refers to a term established by Karol Vaculík and curators of the national gallery in the early 1960s through the large exhibition Generation 1909 - Conscience of the Epoch (1964). The title reflected the "arithmetic" average of the birth dates of the particular authors selected for the group by the curator. Their affiliation to the group was not only biographical; the curators tried to find also other common features and connections.

In 2020, Slovak professional theater celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of its founding, and in commemoration of this occasion the Slovak National Gallery prepared an exhibition of professor Ladislav Vychodil(1920-2005), for whom this year marks the one hundredth anniversary of his birth.

The city of Ružomberok is indeed situated at the crossroad, and its possibilities and limitations arise from this fact. A crossroad also symbolizes the point at which decisions are made; either the city will choose the path of development or the path of the status quo and stagnation.

Solo exhibition by Anna Daučíková (b. 1950 in Bratislava) presents her work as glass artist, painter, photographer, and performance and video artist. As the title implies, this is no retrospective, looking back to present finished work. The challenge is to show a selection of her complete and preserved pieces in a mutual relationship and connection with pieces she is now developing, along with others that she is yet to rework, finish, or otherwise create during the exhibition's run.

The exhibition features Simona Čechová's illustrations from the new illustrated book about a small hero who "gets lost" during his vacation in a miraculous house filled with paintings that come to life. How will the small hero in Jánošík's band survive by the sea, in a hot air balloon or among partisans? Will he meet the little mouse that cooked the porridge? This illustrated book inspired by the life and work of Ľudovít Fulla is also a tribute to the artist.

The Central Slovak Gallery in cooperation with the Slovak National Gallery and the Banská Bystrica self-governing region invites you to the opening of the exhibition.

The Ľudovít Fulla Gallery was established to exhibit Fulla's paintings but also to provide a home for him. The spaces designated for the general public were cleverly separated from his private spaces.

This time we did not focus on Ľudovít Fulla and his work in our cycle Viac Fullu / More of Fulla. Instead, this exhibition maps and interprets the qualities and interesting facts about this exceptional structure from the 1960s which was the first specially designed and constructed gallery building in Slovakia.