Exhibition archive

Venus, Street, Palm, Bone…

February 9 — April 7, 2024

Martina Rötlingová’s first solo exhibition focuses on the topic of women – the heroines. Rötlingová often draws inspiration from works of old masters. Over the past two years, she has been shifting her focus back to self-portraits. Her work leans on various themes women are confronted with…

Forest Line

Earth’s climate changes tend to trigger various processes in nature. Some of them are more apparent than others, but one thing is certain. Everything is changing at a rapidly increasing pace. Often it is too late to do anything about it, and thus we become witnesses to a constant extinction of old life forms and inception of new ones.

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Slavomíra Ondrušová’s exhibition is based on her interest in drawing, contemplating it, visualising it and materialising it. Drawing is not just a means to the artist’s personal deliberations, but to her own experiences and expressions. Her drawings are touching, sometimes funny, but most of all, true. She considers drawing “a dialogue with herself”. 

LACUS

Lucia Žitnayová’s first solo exhibition held at the Youth Gallery presents her as a regional artist. The exhibition title LACUS (a fish pond in Latin) implies a theme the artist has been working on for a long time. Her life has always been connected to fish ponds, ever since her childhood in Malé Zálužie where she grew up…

Dostatočne ďaleko / Far Enough

We all know Drosophila melanogaster. A flock of randomly flying tiny “wine flies” suddenly appears seemingly “out of nowhere” next to a forgotten piece of fruit, sweet beverages or alcohol.

Touch Fine Art!

The haptic exhibition Touch Fine Art! is the first exhibition that Nitra Gallery has prepared for the blind and visually impaired visitors as a part of the project Anyone Can Create!

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According to the dictionary, sea is a large area of salt water that is partly or completely surrounded by land. But we all know that sea is more…

White on White

The exhibition titled White on White is a selection of works created by the students of the Department of Creative Arts and Art Education at the Faculty of Education at UKF in Nitra.

The Universe of Technical Images

The Universe of Technical Images is the title of a joint exhibition by the photographer Ema Lančaričová and visual artist Veronika Šmírová, who have now joined their exhibition forces for the second time. They cover various themes related to the digital world and digital environment where we all live, work and use digital technologies to reflect upon.

Jana Farmanová — Memory

Jana Farmanová’s monographic exhibition is based on the reoccurring themes and motives that are present throughout her whole catalogue and which she returns to in different time periods, contexts, moods and frames of mind. The exhibition presents paintings created over a large time span, from the earliest to the most recent ones.

Fourth Dimension

The Fourth Dimension exhibition presents selected works by nine students of the Studio of Free Creativity 3D (ASK3D) at the Department of Fine Arts and Intermedia at the Faculty of Arts at the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia.

Final Exhibition: From Kite to Cookie

The final exhibition of works created by the participants of various workshops and educational programs inspired by Nitra Gallery’s Happy Birthday exhibition.

Easy Life Is Hard

The visual exhibition poem Easy Life Is Hard consists of various original presentations which reflect upon different life situations and emotions people encounter. Everybody leads their private life, which often ties to their artistic/creative language, which is often bound by, or perhaps defined as “abnormality”…

Tamara Kametani — Shrine

Tamara Kametani’s work responds to current social topics and critically (and ironically) incorporates a certain amount of absurdity into various themes that cover politics, migration and its management, power, different forms of oversight and control in both the digital and real worlds, excessive growth and proliferation of new technologies that form us and shape our perception of reality.

Happy Birthday

Statistically, September produces the highest number of newborns. By that logic, most artists and curators celebrate their birthdays that month – just like the curator of this exhibition. The project will connect Slovak artists of the 20th and 21st centuries born in September and September-born curators will also be invited to join the collective.

Levels of Touch

The exhibition titled Levels of Touch presents works by a trio of graduates from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. Martin Bízik, Ľubomír Slovinský and Klára Štefanovičová present their work in a joint project where they process their theme using different creative techniques and both classic artistic and digital media.

Miroslav Sandanus — Earth, Wind & Fire

Miroslav Sandanus’ creative program focuses on urgent social and environmental themes, reflects on the escalating ecological crisis caused by man’s doing and its negative effect on the natural environment, nature, landscape and the whole planet.

Štefan Belohradský — Sculptor Between Drawing and Painting

The concept of the exhibition titled The Sculptor Between Drawing and Painting focuses on presenting Belohradský’s work from the period 1964 to 2003. It presents his sculpture artefacts only in a second-hand form.

THE X. FILES

Another one of Nitra Gallery’s small-scale Salon exhibitions is dedicated to nude art and its numerous representations in the gallery’s fund of drawings. The collection includes a rather large number of nude drawings, but we have selected only two artists with the highest number of nudes on paper. The artists, their works and life paths are is some way linked to the region of Nitra. “The X. Files” will be a standard genre and theme-focused exhibition.

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Landscape

The exhibition will present a curatorial selection of works by current students of the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. The department, led by Ján Triaška, consists of four main studios and one preparatory one…

Juraj Kollár — On Board

Besides the artist’s own perception of the world, the On Board exhibition project also delivers a specific way to experience the painting process itself. His work focuses mostly on the relationship between the material of the image, what the depicted theme represents and how it is delivered thanks to the physical presence of the canvas.

λήθη–Lethe

Richard Marco’s first solo exhibition at Nitra Gallery titled λήθη – Lethe will be the first of five exhibitions reflecting upon the themes of ephemerality and forgetfulness which will be held at various galleries across Slovakia.

Miloš Kopták — Does This Thing Have a Purpose?!

The exhibition presents objects, sculptures and assemblages by Slovak fine artist and illustrator Miloš Kopták which he has been working on since the 1990s. His first solo exhibition in Nitra Gallery presents this part of his work as a whole and in a range as never before.

Final Exhibition: Anyone Can Create!

The final exhibition of Nitra Gallery’s educational project titled Any Can Create 2021 will present a selection of works from the gallery collection alongside corresponding pieces created by the project participants.

A Mirror Image

Storytelling is probably one of the oldest and most widespread oral traditions in every culture. Not many other things can match the complexities offered by fairytales. They keep us company from early childhood when they serve as a learning tool all the way to our old age when we hand their wisdom and morale down to our grandchildren. We often create stories and fictional images in our minds.

FOLK-LORE

The main objective of the FOLK-LORE exhibition is to map and critically reevaluate, with regard to the present day, various representative pieces by both male and female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries who reflect upon the specific phenomenon of folklore which has had a rather large impact on the development of our culture.

Šimon Chovan — Wings in Motion

Šimon Chovan is a visual artist and designer who belongs to the youngest generation of artists at the contemporary art scene. His work critically reflects upon our growing addiction to new and sophisticated technologies that define these times. He is interested in the way society, nature and the world work and our place in it, but also in our interaction with entities outside of the human realm.

Focus

The goal of the FOCUS acquisition exhibition is to present the artists of a younger and middle generation whose works were added to the gallery collection fund over the period of the last two years. We specifically concentrate on artists whose work has never been a part of the gallery fund before.

Karol Felix — Following the light

Karol Felix’s art is miscellaneous, just like his themes and expression language. It is a story of an artist following his light. Honestly, patiently, gracefully. It is open to communication, but does not take into account the viewer’s taste. It rejects nonchalance, endless repetition of established patterns and riding on previous accomplishments. Which is one of the things that makes it true.

Hunters and Gatherers

Jana Mináriková spent two years going on hunting trips. In the spring, summer, autumn and also winter. She would take pictures of hunting towers all over Slovakia.

Blackline

An exhibition by the students of Art Education at the Department of Creative Arts and Art Education at the Faculty of Education at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra.

Into the Nature of the Gallery?

The exhibition project Into the Nature of the Gallery? is a kind of a (post/humane) contemplation on the behaviour, status and perception of the individual (artist/man). The Nitra Gallery visitor will be confronted with traces (metaphors) of nature that have been brought into the gallery in the form of artistic artefacts.

Eeny meeny!

Eeny Meeny is a miniature exhibition project based on the curator’s testament which is explored through various layers of meanings. He reflects upon the circularity of his own and the society’s, articulated in his subjective search for the breaking point we can identify ourselves with in today’s world.

SHIRT STRIH

Human body can be very much like architecture. The skeleton and body mass represent its structural frame while the organs work as functional units – rooms, while the skin is its facade…

Safe(ly) Hidden

How safe and hidden is the place where artists keep their sources of inspiration? And what is it that is safely hidden and which serves as the actual inspiration for the artist’s creative process?

Robert Bielik (Omnia et nihil)

What is a full life? Fulfilling our spiritual, material or physical needs? Or is it much more complicated, or, on the other hand, more simple? Would it not be enough to live our lives and die without getting angry at ourselves or the world?

Permanent Exposition — František Studený

Nitra Gallery has reintegrated one of its long term projects back into its portfolio – an exposition dedicated to an artist whose life and work is linked with the region itself.

Eiron

Irony is a means of expression that enriches our everyday communication with various additional meanings. It gives our statements different connotations than they seem to have at first glance, adds a pinch of humour and sometimes even offends.

The Time of Servants

A documentary introspective into the gallery’s acquisition history. The curators have decided to present a part of the collection fund. They divide the pieces into different theme categories without following any judging criteria which might seem senseless, and they themselves actually admit that it is.

4 Ways of Nature

Natural themes have always played an important role in the history of art. They have been a part of it since its very early days and become one of the key inspirations throughout its development. But what is nature’s position in contemporary art? Have its artistic resources been depleted and should it be moved to the art history section?

Palo Čejka — Beautiful Things

“(I think) the depicted image is not separated enough from the object and its story.
It is simply not abstract enough…”

The Net According to the Net

In the beginning was the Net. The Net was with the Net and the Net was the Net. The same was in the beginning with the Net. All things were made by the Net and without the Net was not any thing made that was made. And in the Net was the Net and the Net was the Net of Nets.

Ema Lančaričová — Noplace/Notime

Ema Lančaričová’s photography exhibition focuses on the medium of photography from the point of view of its technological and functional properties.

Stories of (After) Life

The composition of the exhibition project titled Stories of (After) Life is a rather “surreal curatorial automatism” (if something like that is even allowed to exist in today’s world).

F0—F5

In 1956, the chief of the Border Patrol’s cynology department came up with an idea to crossbreed the Carpathian wolfs with German Shepherds in order to create a resilient service dog.

Object: The New Existence

The exhibition is a collective effort of seven artists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the United States. It is a follow-up to two previous exhibitions, White Laboratory and Beast on Sale.

Faces of Freedom

How can we define and understand freedom? How do people of different nationalities and social groups perceive it? What does it mean to us? Do we need to fight for it? And how, by which means? What do we do when it is exploited? Where does the freedom of speech end in a world full of conspiracies, hoaxes and fake news?

Antihygge

Ingrid Kepková and Viera Zubalová work together in order to address the latest problems of our inti-macy and our ability to lead (un)successful lives. They are not afraid to confront themselves with any-thing; they are not afraid to be unhappy.

(Un)Natural

The (Un)Natural exhibition directly confronts both artists’ works which makes it impossible not to distinguish who is the artist behind the individual pieces.

Ľudmila Machová — Transfigurations

Transfigurations are an exhibition project by Ľudmila Machová (*1990) which follows in the footsteps of her current exhibition series that has explored the borders of natural, artificial, private and public environments while searching for their new meanings and personal demarcation.

Limits of Navigation

No map, mind, is a faithful reflection of reality, but rather a set of a number of subjective decisions which in turn directly affect the way it is read…

Ivana Šáteková — The True History of the Slovak

The “truth” is not important. All that matters is our search for the true knowledge. The absolute truth will remain hidden from man forever. (Oskár Cvengrosch)

Questions for Dance / FIVE

A lone body in an empty quiet space that is trying so survive 40 minutes without loosing its concentration…

The Harvest

The focal point of this specific part of the collection are artworks that belong to the official art doctrine of the period called socialist realism whose central themes were agriculture and simple rural life.

Marika Volfová — Temporary Paradises

The Temporary Paradises exhibition explores it on the intersection of three basic relations: aid and privilege, the others and us, action and escapism.

Ján Šipöcz — Album

The “Album” exhibition can be perceived as an intuitive photographic composition of the artist that emphasises relationships that may appear to be hidden at times.

O₂H₂O

In the beginning was water. Life was made of water, a foetus grows in water, the human body is 70% water and the Earth’s surface is 70% water as well. Water runs in cycles, it has its own memory and is able to clean itself. In the beginning of every step is the courage to take it. Every morning we need a fix of courage to make it through the upcoming day. Life is cour-age.

North Czech Wave

What is expected of photography today? What do we value about photographies? Is there still something new to be invented in photography? Do we even want to look at photographies when everybody is a photographer?

Juraj Rattaj — Lay-off

Juraj’s seemingly trivial dialogue about vacation time serves as a background for a broader conflict of the contemporary perception of the concept of time. New technologies that radically compress time and space, automate processes, improve effectiveness, production and accumulation and promise more time for creativity, regeneration, contemplation and personal development. Is this all just an illusion that will bring us even more binding mechanisms for new manufacturing, accumulation, investment, absorption and consumption?

The Fetishes of Today

A dominant female curator and a subjugated male curator created an exclusive exhibition in nine acts that serves as a (self)ironical presentation of human weaknesses and deviations. The exhibition presents works by Slovak and Czech artists, designers, writers and filmmakers responding to various themes and variants of fetishes, fetishism and fetishisation of contemporary society.

Marián Žilík — Everything Is Different

Marián Žilík „Everything Is Different“ is the title of an exhibition that will be held on the occasion of the artist’s 70th birthday as he passed away a year shy of it. The exhibition explores the artist’s work, focusing mostly on his painting, while also presenting a selection of photographies and public space art in the form of a creative participation – a film by Jana Mináriková.

The Dark Side of Paradise

In his book Artificial Paradises, from 1860, Charles Baudelaire describes states caused by hashish, opium and wine and warns his readers against the destructive effects of the illusions of pleasure these drugs can cause. In Nitra Gallery’s Bunker, in 2018, Andrej Kolenčík holds an exhibition titled the Dark Side of Paradise that responds to the reality we live in.

Compression of Emptiness

The exhibition titled the Compression of Emptiness presents an pressing Polish and Slovak dialogue of various sculpture forms and shapes of two intermedia artists: Marcin Berdyszak (*1964) and Patrik Kovačovský (*1970). Together, they form a 3D model of a situation that features strong sculpture materials – barricades, gentle “compression”, wrapping of emptiness and recycling of various found and repurposed materials.

Ján Kekeli — Vague Script

The exhibition presents the latest artworks by young Slovak artist. Kekeli’s main focus is on the medium of photography, while his domain lies on the intersection of documentary and artistic photography.

In a Nutshell | In der Nußschale

The group show of the students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf presents three distinctive artistic approaches in mutual interaction to the specific exhibition space. Their multidisciplinary approach is manifested in the project that took 10 days of preparation on the site – in Nitra Gallery’s Bunker.

Until … Do Us Part

The first exhibition project by Martina Chudáand Peter Lančarič also becomes a probe sent to explore their personal lives. Besides creating art together, they are also partners in life. Which is why they have decided to respond to this very popular art theme – two people’s personal relationship.

All About Verona?

The monographic exhibition by a Czech photographer, painter and performer is the largest monographic exhibition that has ever been held at our scene. The project presents many of her pieces that feature her work with body and corporeity.

Alžbeta Malcová — Secret (Garden)?

This illustrative and casually designed intimate project presented at a solo exhibition by Alžbeta Malcová at Nitra Gallery’s Salon implies an effort to bring around a little bit of illusion and daydreaming that takes place behind the window, behind closed doors, behind the gallery walls.

Ten Seas

Photography and other new media, as the latest ways to describe the world, are constantly evolving at the speed of light. Fine art in general seems to be a perfect tool to redefine the properties and qualities of what we consider reality and what attitude we have towards reality and ourselves. A proper visual translation of core values requires a much stronger focus on philosophy and human sciences than on the technologies alone.

I Am Not Here, I Am in Arcadia

The exhibition project presents internal and imaginary worlds in Slovak visual art from the early 20th century until today. The concept of the exhibition is based on a broad interpretation of two terms – “utopia” as an image of an ideal world order and “arcadia”, an idyllic, pastoral, unreachable country described in Greek mythology.

Kristína Kandriková — The Viewer’s Movement

Kristína Kandriková is a Slovak artist of the upcoming generation who is about to celebrate the first anniversary of her graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. The first year after school is often the key to a young artist’s future. So how is she doing?

A Sync at the Psychiatrist’s

A Sync at the Psychiatrist’s is an exhibition that is a direct result of several events that have been synchronised in time. Between Spring 2016 and Summer 2017, the curator of the exhibition had been having a difficult time dealing with personal losses and the subsequent depressions. She started to use the virtual world of a social network to take in (thoughtlessly, but intensely) the daily works of the artist David Cajthaml and the poet Buddy Ungrad. At the same time, over the course of a year, she regularly attended the psychiatrist’s office that seemed to resemble a gallery.

Diana Cencer Garafová — Vertical Limit

How can we explore our whole world? Can we rely on our senses as their capabilities of evaluating and storing information are limited? And what if we become a “victim” of an illusion? Will it sharpen our senses or, on the contrary, will we start doubting them? What is the role of art and its form of presentation when it comes to exploring the world? Can art and its various forms be an illusion that helps us understand (or, on the contrary, blur) our world and its laws?

Paniczi

The exhibition titled Paniczi presents works created by students of the Intermedia Studio led by doc. Miroslav Nicz and the assistant lecturer Peter Janáčik, PhD. All study levels of the IM Studio at the Department of Intermedia and Digital Media at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica are represented at the exhibition.

Petra Mešša — Detected Landscape

As the title of the exhibition suggests, it refers to an effort of updating the genre of landscape painting and the landscape in general. This update is generally outlined by the Anthropocene geological epoch and the pervasive recording and overseeing technologies or satellite imagery and drone recordings.

HateFree?

HateFree? is an international exhibition whose main theme is the Roma minority. The exhibition is based on the belief that the unpleasant position of the Roma people within our society is a result of the systematic failure of mechanisms that are supposed guarantee dignified living conditions for all people regardless of their colour of skin or ethnicity.

After the Radio

Radioart is defined by Tetsuo Kogawa is his 2008 manifesto which is based on his own experience and described in its relationship with the internet, radio broadcasting, music and sound art. Radioart (according to him, it needs to be spelled together as a single word) uses radio not just like a medium, but the actual broadcasting is an important part of the experience. He sees radioart more like procedural art, rather than object art.

TA BOO BOO

Nitra Gallery’s Bunker is to host a traditional exhibition of artworks created by students at the Department of Creative Arts and Art Education, Faculty of Education, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. This year’s exhibition project reflects upon various taboos present in both our personal lives and the society in general.

Final Exhibition: Anyone Can Create!

The final exhibition of works created for Nitra Gallery’s educational project titled Any Can Create 2023.