Events: Exhibitions

In the 18th century, it was very fashionable to furnish rooms in castles, the walls of which were covered with regularly arranged pictures. These rooms were called graphic cabinets. Check out our Bratislava one!

More than 2000 years ago there was a Celtic city, so-called oppidum, on the place of present day Bratislava. It used to be three times bigger than later medieval town

Its main part was made up by antipictures, in which Koller was coming into terms with the conceptual art and the climate of the times

In the past, the Danubeland was inhabited by many peoples and ethnicities, which over the past 1500 years have left their mark on the land

The Slovak National Gallery is dedicating a double exhibition to “its” architect Vladimír Dedeček (1929 – 2020), creator of great concepts and almost a hundred realisations, an important co-author of the architectural form of modern Slovakia. Dedeček was also the architect of the recently renovated Slovak National Gallery building on the embankment.

A unique exhibition by one of the most acclaimed artists in contemporary global glass art, presented on the occasion of his 80th birthday, is coming directly to Bratislava Castle.

Discover fascinating documents, photographs, and personal testimonies that take you back in time to the 1980s. A time when Slovaks and Czechs stood up against the totalitarian regime.

Slovak painter Kristína Mésároš presents her unique artwork at the Origin exhibition held at the prestigious Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum.

The exhibition of Ján Hlavatý, one of the most prominent contemporary Slovak artists, is currently on display at the prestigious Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum.

Kristína Mésároš’s extensive exhibition entitled Origin (Počiatok) features paintings of environments, landscapes, and situations connected to her own experience of everyday events. However, personal experiences, ephemeral situations, the perception of changes in the landscape, but also the emergence of old memories, are connected with the abstraction of feelings and moods, and the search for a deeper meaning.

In the largest restaurant in Central Europe, you will find a clay Bethlehem with 365 figures from saints to traditional Slovak crafts and with models of the most important Slovak castles and chateaux in the background.

Through an example of rich cultural exchange, the exhibition in the Slovak National Gallery presents the interesting yet dramatic story of Hungarian-Ottoman relations during the 16th and 17th centuries. It introduces the period of Ottoman expansion in Hungary and the related mutual influences, especially overlaps of Ottoman material culture into Central European art.