Archive of exhibitions

The exhibition remembers the work of Friedrich Weinwurm (1885 – 1942), the most significant representative of architectural avantgarde in Slovakia.

The fine art of Miloš Alexander Bazovský (1899 – 1968) as one of the founders of modern Slovak painting has been introduced in many exhibitions and publications. However, Bazovský in the role of a  photographer will have his first solo exhibition on the grounds of SNG.

Master of the former Marian altar from the Franciscan monastery in Okoličné near Liptovský Mikuláš belongs among the best painters of the Central European Late Gothic and he worked with other important Spiš sculptors, including Master Pavol.

The Slovak school of printmaking represented by the personality and work of Albín Brunovský, has a firm position in our art history.  The exhibition entitled Drsná škola (Hard-Boiled School) is indirectly related to this tradition while also confronting it and representing the polar opposite in printmaking thinking and approach for artists who were born after 1970.

The exhibition Between Idyll and Drama uncovers the connections between naïve and professional art and, at the same time, presents the less well-known works in the Collection of Naïve Art at SNG to the public.

Jana Želibská, the important representative of the generation of action and conceptual artists and alternative art scene in Slovakia, created a new multimedia installation for the pavilion. It is dominated by a monumental projection of the sea, filmed in Venice. 

Exhibition Sew Long! charts Slovak fashion in the period 1945 – 1989.

The solo exhibition of the neo-avantgarde intermedia artist Milan Adamčiak (1946 – 2017) presents the main features of his work from the 1960s to the present.

The exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow with almost 150 objects from more than two dozen institutions is the first truly comprehensive presentation of Baroque art from the territory of the present-day Slovakia not only in Poland but beyond our borders in general.

This intervention follows the tradition of presenting the laureates of the Oskár Čepan Award at the SNG. The challenge for solo exhibitions was not the usual empty exhibition space, but the non-permanent exposition of old art, whose ambition was also to exhibit contemporary art in a  confrontation with the historical roots of the Slovak art.