Nitra Gallery Week & The Night of Museums and Galleries 2024

Monday, May 13, 2024

4 – 6pm / for general public (youth, adults and seniors)
The World of Karol Baron in the Botanical Garden at SPU Nitra
a workshop with Elena Tarábková and Martin Daniš
Meeting Point: Botanical Garden, SPU Nitra, Tr. Andrea Hlinku 2
Admission: 3 €
Registration: pedagog@nitrianskagaleria.sk

Homunculs, Eyepods, Longnoses, Gryfs, Thumblogoids, Mutants vs. Abies, Juniperus, Corylus, Larix, Picea, Taxus. What would happen if the creatures from Baron’s works visited a botanical garden? Would they resort to mimicry and get lost in a herb bed or, on the contrary, stick out from the grass? Would we be able to recognise these patchworks of human, zoomorphic and vegetational elements among other fauna and flora or would they escape our attention forever? The main creative activity will consist of creating aquarelle creatures inspired by Karol Baron’s surrealistic work. 

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

10am – 12 noon / for general public
Anyone Can Create!
a pottery workshop for the blind and visually impaired with focus on creating a relief
Venue: art studio
Registration: pedagog@nitrianskagaleria.sk

6pm / for general public
SHAPES OF SAXOPHONE – concert
Performers:
Ladislav Fančovič – saxophones
Jana Macíková – violin
Jakub Čižmarovič – piano
Venue: the Concert Hall of the County House in Nitra
Admission: adults: 5 €, seniors, students: 2,5 €, disabled: 1 €

When Adolphe Sax constructed the saxophone in 1842, an important part of the concept was to create an instrument that would serve as a kind of a unifying element of the symphonic orchestra, uniting string and wind instruments. The main goal of the concert’s concept was to emphasise this main idea of the inventor of the saxophone – the saxophone sound’s flexibility of being able to join the piano and violin. We will take a look at the world of classical music, famous, but also unjustly forgotten composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Ladislav Fančovič is a renown representative of European interpretative arts and he is also one of the most versatile artists on the Czech and Slovak music scenes. He studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (M. Lapšanský) and then he received his doctoral degree at AFAD in Bratislava. He has been a finalist and laureate of various national and international competitions. 

Concert Program

Jean-Baptiste Singelée (1812 – 1875):
Solo de Concert for baritone saxophone and piano, op. 77 (6 mins)

Ali Ben Sou Alle (1820 – ?)
Shanghai Redowa Waltz for soprano saxophone and piano (3 mins)

Adolf Busch (1891 – 1952):
Suite for alto saxophone and violin (9 mins)

1. Prelúdium
2. Sarabanda
3. Gavota
4. Gigue

Marc Eychenne: Cantilène et danse (1933 – 2012) (13 mins)

1. Très librement
2. Danse. Très rythmé

Erwin Schulhoff (1894 – 1942):
Hot-sonata for alto saxophone and piano (15 mins)

Leon Stein (1910 – 2002):
Concert trio for violin, alto saxophone and piano (18 mins)

1. Spiritoso
2. Siciliano
3. Scherzoso

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

10am – 11.30am / for general public
Crayonland
a creative workshop for families with children (children up to 6 years old), with focus on creating a relief
Venue: Nitra Gallery’s Loft Studio

4pm – 6pm – for general public
Dream and Cyanotype
a workshop with the photographer Ema Lančaričová
Venue: Nitra Gallery’s Loft Studio
Registration: pedagog@nitrianskagaleria.sk

The workshop will showcase a unique historic photography technique called cyanotype. It is also commonly referred to as photographic blueprint. By reducing the colour range to white and blue, you will be able to create dream compositions. It will be based on using different unconventional materials in the process, like salt. We will apply the solution to paper or canvas of your own choice. After a short demonstration, you will have plenty of material available for experimenting and realisation, under professional supervision, of course. At the end, you will be able to take with you your unique, handmade prints.

Thursday, May 16, 2024

10.30am / for schools
Môj priestor
a workshop with Andreoa Pleidel and Jana Štofan Styková
Venue: Nitra Gallery’s Loft Studio
Registration: pedagog@nitrianskagaleria.sk

First, we will clean up and then we will have fun, or vice versa? Where do we play, where do we sleep and where do we clean ourselves up? We will search, explore and create new spaces, and maybe even a house. 

5pm / for general public
4-3-2-1
a book debate with Dado Nagy
Guest: Peter Juščák
Venue: The County House courtyard, Samova 1, Nitra (in case of bad weather, the event will be moved to Nitra Gallery’s Salon)

Friday, May 17, 2024

10.30am / for schools
Art for Schools at Nitra Gallery/Gate to Eyepods
an educational program with Elena Tarábková and Martin Daniš
Venue: Colourful Gallery
Registration: pedagog@nitrianskagaleria.sk

An Eyepod? Who or what is it? Where does it live and how does it look like? Together, we will use small textile collages to create a Gate to Eyepods.

Saturday, May 18, 2024
The Night of Museums and Galleries

Tours of current exhibitions
1pm – 9pm

To Love Like Everyone Else
Artist: Maroš Rovňák
Curator: Ivana Komanická
Venue: Representative Halls

Parallel Worlds
Artist: Oľga Paštéková
Curator: Barbora Kurek Geržová
Venue: Youth Gallery

Family Matters
Artists:
Elvíra Antalová – Eduard Antal,
Ján Mudroch – Marián Mudroch,
Lucia Papčová – Štefan Papčo,
Jozef Srna Sr – Jozef Srna Jr
František Studený – Michal Studený
Olja Triaška Stefanović – Ján Triaška
Raimund von Wichera – Maximilián Schurmann
Curator: Barbora Kurek Geržová
Venue: Salon

The World of Karol Baron
Presented Artist: Karol Baron
Exhibition Concept: Martin Daniš, Elena Tarábková
Venue: Colourful Gallery

Commented Tours

1:30pm
To Love Like Everyone Else
a commented tour given by the artist Maroš Rovńák

3pm
Parallel Worlds
a commented tour given by the curator Barbora Kurek Geržová

Focus on Art XIII.
All-day competition for the gallery visitors

Sunday, May 19, 2024

Tours of current exhibitions
1pm – 6pm

To Love Like Everyone Else
Artist: Maroš Rovňák
Curator: Ivana Komanická
Venue: Representative Halls

Parallel Worlds
Artist: Oľga Paštéková
Curator: Barbora Kurek Geržová
Venue: Youth Gallery

Family Matters
Artists:
Elvíra Antalová – Eduard Antal,
Ján Mudroch – Marián Mudroch,
Lucia Papčová – Štefan Papčo,
Jozef Srna Sr – Jozef Srna Jr
František Studený – Michal Studený
Olja Triaška Stefanović – Ján Triaška
Raimund von Wichera – Maximilián Schurmann
Curator: Barbora Kurek Geržová
Venue: Salon

The World of Karol Baron
Presented Artist: Karol Baron
Exhibition Concept: Martin Daniš, Elena Tarábková
Venue: Colourful Gallery

All programming is subject to change.