Virtual gallery → Painting
Artwork of the month:
Ľudovít Slamka —On Pasture by the Nitra River
We are looking at the opposite river bank whose left side is covered in trees and there is a woman with three cows on the right. The image is very sketch-like, relaxed, the background melts into blurred colours, the small surface area of the painting captures the atmosphere very convincingly, without the need for any details to fill in the blanks…
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Current exhibitions
Legend of the (Regional) Artist
December 13, 2025 – May 24, 2026
The third in a series of annual exhibitions of the Nitra Gallery is inspired by the essay The Legend of the Artist by Ernst Kris (1900-1957) and Otto Kurz (1908-1975). The text was written almost 100 years ago (1934) and focused on the clichés and strategies that complete the so-called legend of the artist…
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Current exhibitions
The Story
April 26, 2026 – April 25, 2027
The Story is an exhibition without an instruction manual on how to look, perceive, feel, read, or interpret, or what emotion it should or should not evoke…
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Exhibitions → Bunker
Oľga Paštéková — Will-o’-the-Wisps
April 10 — May 31, 2026
For the current exhibition at the Nitra Gallery, Paštéková has prepared new series of works and luminous lamps, which have predetermined both the title and the overall atmosphere of the exhibition…
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Publications
Legend of the (Regional) Artist
This full-colour, 144-page catalogue accompanying the exhibition Legend of the (Regional) Artist also reflects on selected events from the institution’s recent history (2016–2025). Within its pages, readers can delve deeper into the theme of Nitra Gallery’s latest anniversary exhibition…
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