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The longest night of the year is White Night. It lasts from Friday to Sunday. The streets of Bratislava will once again be filled with art, visitors and a unique atmosphere. The largest and most visited contemporary art festival in Slovakia, White Night brings contemporary art forms closer to the general public and at the same time reveals unconventional, unknown and significant places in the city.
Bratislava once again becomes the host of the international contemporary art festival Biela Noc, which annually transforms the city’s night streets into a glowing gallery. This year, the festival has a special atmosphere, celebrating its milestone anniversary. As part of this celebration, the organizers have decided to reprise beloved artworks from previous years, placing them in new areas of the city, beyond the traditional festival routes. One such artwork will be The Moon, a crescent that will light up the outdoor event space of DoubleTree by Hilton Bratislava from October 4 to 6, situated on the border of the city’s Nové Mesto and Ružinov districts.
The largest international festival of contemporary design in Slovakia will take place this year from 16 to 20 October. The main headquarters of its 15th edition will be in OD PRIOR on Kamenné Square, in the permanent exhibition of the Baroque collection in the Mirbach Palace of the Bratislava City Gallery and other selected locations in the Old Town.
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
Christian motifs from the art collections of the Slovak National Museum – Historical Museum
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 third exhibition from the successful series “Tradition Untraditionally“, presented in the ÚĽUV Gallery in Bratislava, brings us closer the Non-ageing popularity of field plants – linen and hemp.
In Slovakia iconic Čierne diery are no longer only printing popular graphics, but published a bestselling book about beautiful historical tiles of Bratislava, now you can see them juxtaposed with the collections of Bratislava City Museum.
It always makes sense to face difficult times head on. Even with an exposed chest. The DPOH is opening an exhibition of Ladislav Bielik’s photographs to remind its visitors and viewers of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops. The violent military invasion led by the Soviet army halted the development of our country for decades, reversed democratisation reforms and destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of its inhabitants. Normalisation, persecution, censorship, political purges and fear took over society.
The Laputa exhibition is the completion of the artist’s work dedicated to the three hundredth anniversary of Jonathan Swift’s fantasy novel Gulliver’s Travels. The exhibited works were created for the latest edition of the book (Slovart, 2023) from Uchnár’s illustrations from 1998. More than fifty full-page pictures of the new edition were created from the original acrylic paintings using digital collage and newly painted parts.
Josef Mikl is one of the most influential artists since World War II. Born in Vienna in 1929, he lived and worked in his home town until his death in 2008. His curriculum vitae lists impressive international successes, countless exhibitions and tributes. These, as well as the manifold projects he was hired for are indicators for his importance. Curator: Günther Holler – Schuster.
Ferenc Lantos was one of the most significant geometric abstract artists in the Central-European region. As a student of Abstraction-Création member Ferenc Martyn, he was delved into the current Parisian abstract trends in 1940s in Hungary, and developed an own geometric language built on the mentioned international approach.
