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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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sea
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…
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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.
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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”…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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).
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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