Bratislava, March 15 – May 13, 2017, http://gandy-gallery.com The exhibition presented “artists who critically examine the world in which they were born” (the press release said). There was a mixture of Czech and Slovak artists from various generations.
Bratislava, April 2017, http://www.danubiana.sk/en Danubiana is a huge private museum located at the outskirts of Bratislava on an island in the middle of the river Danube. Gerard Meulensteen, the owner of the museum is the founder of Neways Electronics International, a global electronic manufacturing services provider from the Netherlands with subsidiaries in Germany, East-Europe and…
Bratislava, April 4 – 16, 2017, http://www.svu.sk The Umelka Gallery is managed by the Slovak Union of Visual Artists (SVU). The building was purpose-built in the 1920s for the union, and it is a beautiful classic exhibition space, with roof windows spreading even light through the space. The two rooms of the gallery contained two…
Bratislava, March 24 – June 4, 2017, http://www.sng.sk Simply speaking, Milan Adamciak is the Slovak John Cage. This was the main message the exhibition conveyed. The retrospective exhibition exhaustively covered the creations of Adamciak from 1964 to 2017. The majority of works was in the form of notations, sketches and visual poems on paper. There…
Bratislava, November 2, 2016 – May 21, 2017, http://www.sng.sk The space was dark, the exhibition design was fresh and contemporary. The combination of gothic to baroque religious paintings and sculptures with Zelinka’s dead animal sculptures was special. It made Zelinka steal the show. The contemplative approach to looking at religious paintings was somehow disturbed by…