Painting
Adam Šakový — 1914 & Still Alive 4
Two titles from Adam Šakový’s monumental painting cycle became a part of Nitra Gallery’s collection in 2017…
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Printmaking
Anabela Sládek — from the series I Am a Slovak Girl
Anabela Sládek’s longterm focus is on various issues related to wartime Slovak State, especially themes that refer to nationalism…
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Edita Spannerová — Reflected Light & Open Horizons & Dreaming
Nitra Gallery’s depository includes sixteen pieces of art by the Slovak painter Edita Spannerová.
The virtual gallery presents three of them…
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Erik Šille — Untitled
Erik Šille is probably the best known member of a distinctive generation of painters that are associated with the 4th Studio of Ivan Csudai at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava….
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Ernest Špitz — Singer
The painting in Nitra Gallery’s collection belongs to a free cycle depicting classical music concerts or musicians playing classical instruments.
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Ervín Semian — Marienka & Girl in a White Sweater
The two female portraits by Ervín Semian were created at the dawn of the artist’s life…
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Printmaking
Ivana Šáteková — There Were Both People and Women
Ivana Šáteková is an artist and activist who focuses on social and political topics, reflects on Slovak folklore and literature, traditions, proverbs and last but not least, Slovak human nature, which she re-evaluates critically and offers…
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Photography and other media
Ivana Šáteková — Untitled
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Ivana Sláviková — Cervus Elaphus (Red Deer) 1, 2
For Sláviková’s artwork, the action of touching is one of the most defining characteristics of her oeuvre.
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Jozef Srna ml. — Pier
Jozef Srna ml. is the son of a forgotten (but distinctive) painter Jozef Srna st. [Sr.] who also uses features of a similarly constricted or even underdog-like creative style…
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Jozef Srna Sr. — At a Bridge & Dawn & Summer
Jozef Srna Sr. is one of the artists of the 20th century we are very familiar with, but in a certain sense, he is still unknown within the concept of the national art history…
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Photography and other media
Ľubo Stacho —
Town House
The black and white photographs from the Town House I and Town House II series were created during the artist’s academic years at Prague’s FAMU as a part of a term project that focused on documenting urban areas as well countryside and was led by the students’ mentor and well-known photographer Pavel Štecha.
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Maximilián Schurmann — Cyril and Methodius
Each historical period a nation experiences requires the immersion into the distant past of previous generations. It is only then that the nation learns to know the roots of its national and cultural existence…
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Drawing
Maximilián Schurmann — Old Man
Holding in a hand and examining more than a100 year old drawing by Max Schurmann, the portrait of the old man on a yellowish paper, a charcoal drawing from 1907, from the period when Maximilián was the freshmen at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna..
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Maximilián Schurmann — Women of Dražovce & Sketch and Study for Women of Dražovce
There is an interesting story related to the Women of Dražovce painting which leads to a speculation whether the artist had some kind of a suspicion of the tragic fate of one of the women. It has been described by Štefan Valent, the first director of Nitra Gallery and Schurmann’s personal friend…
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Michal Studený — Contemporary Still Life
The Contemporary Still Life image is from the 1980s when the artist had already been on the art scene for twenty years. What connects him to his early works from the 1960s is the depicted reality of ordinary life…
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Miroslav Švolík — from the series What Awaits Us, What Will Not Miss Us?
Miro Švolík is one of the most important representatives of the Slovak New Wave – a generation of photographers who…
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Patrik Ševčík — Conformism
Two of the Conformism – Alternative cycle canvases are a part of the Nitra Gallery collection and they come from Ševčík’s early period…
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Printmaking
Patrik Ševčík — from the series Day Off
Patrik Ševčík’s large format prints from the series Day Off I – IV have been produced using an original mixed-media technique on paper. The series title itself emphasises the uncertainty of these days and asks questions related to worldwide globalisation…
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Pavla Sceranková — From the Cycle A Visit Home, Enough and to Spare
The work from the cycle Visit Home (Enough and to Spare) belongs among a larger series of objects that was first presented during the exhibition of finalists of the Oskár Čepan Prize in 2010. The point of departure for the series are childhood recollections where the author examines and demystifies paying visits as a social phenomenon…
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Rudolf Sikora — From the Cycle * => † (Touches)
Rudolf Sikora is one of the most distinctive figures of Slovak visual art not just because one cannot “overlook” or “overhear” his physical appearance…
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Tono Stano — Illusion & In the Dark
Tono Stano is one of the most important photographers of his generation. He demonstrated his talent already at secondary school under the guidance of a special photographer Milota Havránková…
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Veronika Šramatyová —
From archives (Biennale Venezia)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
In a series of six gouaches titled From Archives (Venice Biennale), Veronika Šramatyová continues her strategy of not using painting as a tool for self-expression…
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