Youth Gallery
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?
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Representative Halls
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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Salon
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.
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Bunker
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.
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Representative Halls
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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Salon
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.
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Bunker
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.
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Youth Gallery
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.
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Representative Halls
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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Salon
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.
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Bunker
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.
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Representative Halls
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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Bunker
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?
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Salon
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.
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Youth 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?
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Bunker
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.
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Salon
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.
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Representative Halls
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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Youth Gallery
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.
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Bunker
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.
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