Duration:
December 13, 2025 – May 24, 2026
Opening:
December 12, 2025
Exhibiting artits:
group exhibition
Curators:
Ľudmila Kasaj Poláčková and Andrea Pleidel
Venue:
Representation Halls and Youth Gallery
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.
The exhibition at the Nitra Gallery is a very loose paraphrasing, tracing authors/artists, especially in the gallery’s collection, which has been built up over 60 years in various ways, and at the same time the exhibition is dominated by a question that seeks to understand, to imagine, to present a vague notion: the regional artist. What is this phenomenon? Does it reflect the limits or specificities of the region’s environment, place of birth, place of activity, or is it a different kind of strategy that reinforces the cult of the artist. Is it a place/environment in which the artist creates his/her story, or is it still a kind of imaginative enigma that is unchanging across the passage of time?
In addition to these questions, the exhibition will be a unique showcase of artists who are represented in the gallery’s collections, while at the same time the exhibition will raise the question of the future of the collection and one of its possible acquisition directions through artists whose works are not yet represented in the collection, but whose diverse connection to the region is traceable.
Almost 50 artists who have various connections with the Nitra region will be presented in an interesting curatorial narrative.