This section contains a selection of curated exhibitions. For more informations scroll down.
exhibition’s yearbook
2025
◾️ This is a skin of tortured forest | Helen Tóth
This is the skin of a tortured forest | Helen Tóth
Exhibition viewed at: At Home Gallery, Šamorín
Duration: 25. 10. – 12. 12. 2025
Artist: Helen Tóth
About exhibition: Helen Tóth brings to the Synagogue in Šamorín an oversized 17-meter drawing depicting a spruce tree on a 1:1 scale. The portrait of the tree is rendered in an atypical “royal blue” color, which the author uses to refer to the visuality of delicate porcelain or
ceramics. By lending it, she points to the fragility and vulnerability of trees and forests. The subtle drawing on a clear canvas, hanging from the top of the sanctuary and reaching down to the ground, is
a symbolic representation of the “stripped skin of the forest.” Just as reptiles shed their old skin, so too can a forest lose its protective layer when humans interfere with it without any respect.
The drawing depicts a tree in the process of dying. And where one tree dies, the entire forest gradually dies. The protective barrier disappears and what remains of the area full of life is only an area of emptiness and death.
The upper part of the synagogue is immersed in the atmosphere of a moonlit night. Here, the author exhibits paintings that “look down” on the stripped skin of the forest. The night sky with a full moon and
light clouds becomes a distant observer and silent witness to the events below on Earth.
Photocredit: Jan Sipocz
2024
◾️ Metanoia | Ema Lančaričová
🗓 5. 4. -1. 5. 2024, Bratislava
Exhibition viewed at: Staromestská galéria Zichy, Bratislava
Duration: 5. 4. – 1. 5. 2024
Artist: Ema Lančaričová
With financial support of the Slovak Arts Council public funds.
2023
◾️ Forest line | Martin Bízik, Michal Czinege, Denis Kozerawski a Peter Kašpar, Maija Laurinen, Michal Machciník, Martin Piaček, Jozef Suchoža, Helen Tóth
🗓 30. 11. 2023 – 25. 2. 2024, Nitra
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.
The exhibition project titled Forest Line presents nine contemporary visual artists and their works that reflect upon the mentioned changes. The exhibition features a wide spectrum of artistic media forms, from drawings and paintings to objects, site-specific installations and all the way to video and audio installations.
The exhibition is not just a simple tale of the forest, it talks about exploring the landscape and vegetation, its ancient history, recent history and life and death which it is closely related to. It tries to educate visitors on matters of the protection of nature and brings up many questions on this topic that will matter in the future. It is a place for self-reflection and evaluation of our
approach to natural environment. Forest Line is also a space of aesthetic experience with elements of playfulness, providing an opportunity to dive deep into the forest and into ourselves.
Exhibition viewed at: Nitra gallery, Nitra
Duration: 30. 11. 2023 – 25. 2. 2024
Artists: Martin Bízik, Michal Czinege, Denis Kozerawski a Peter Kašpar, Maija Laurinen, Michal Machciník, Martin Piaček, Jozef Suchoža, Helen Tóth
With financial support of the Slovak Arts Council public funds. The Council is the leading partner of the project.
◾️Depth of photography | Ema Lančaričová
🗓 26. 8. – 16. 9. 2023, Piešťany
Depth of photography (Hĺbka fotografie) | Ema Lančaričová
The exhibition titled Depth of Photography presents the current work of photographer and visual artist Ema Lančaričová, whose program is devoted to researching changes in the medium of photography in the present. Her copyright the approach it is based on the exploration of analog and digital photography through their interplay overlaps, experimenting with erasing the boundaries between them and especially searching for answers to questions, what is the medium of photography today?
An essential feature of the medium of photography today is the fact that it can no longer be divided into traditional categories – analog and digital, but that its form changes and transitions into a fluid medium, including, for example, augmented reality, thus creating new, hybrid forms of it. Change
it occurs in the very concept of the creation of photography, as well as in the design of photographic devices. More important the component when creating photos consists of software, i.e. a program that runs in the background. It is invisible and he can complete, reshape or add to the photo. As a result, the hardware, i.e. the body, is no longer essential
camera as in the past.
Maximum digitization and easy access for anyone in the world to create new photos / images, launched a massive stream of endless image data. Although with the advent of digital photography as the medium has dematerialized and ceased to be physically tangible, the volume it represents in data of the system is huge and yet only materialized as a result. A daily influx of trillions of images po all over the world it is stored in external data devices, hard drives or on so-called cloud. Cloud (word
cloud) already misleads a bit with its name and, in the first place, it mythologizes the place where this material is archives. As a cloud, it is constantly expanding, but its physical position is unchanging and remains static form right on Earth.
Original press release in slovak below 🔽
Exhibition viewed at: Arta, Piešťany
Duration: 26. 8. 2023 – 16. 9. 2023
Artist: Ema Lančaričová
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With financial support of the Slovak Arts Council public funds. The Council is the leading partner of the project.
◾️ The Universe of Technical Images | Ema Lančaričová, Veronika Šmírová
🗓 21. 4. – 4. 6. 2023, Nitra
The Universe of Technical Images (Univerzum technických obrazov) | Ema Lančaričová, Veronika Šmírová
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.
The Universe of Technical Images is an exhibition by the photographer Ema Lančaričová and visual artist Veronika Šmírová. The exhibition title is adopted from the original publication “Into the Universe of Technical Images” written by Vilém Flusser, published in 1985. The book describes the author’s predictions about the development of technologies and their impact on the future, in which we already live today. Technical images represent photographs, videos, films, television or computer screens (including smartphones and tablets of today) which have taken the role of linear/written texts and turned them into images, thus acquiring a more simple and especially faster form factor and source of information.
Exhibition viewed at: Nitra gallery, Nitra
Duration: 21. 2. 2023 – 4. 6. 2023
Artists: Ema Lančaričová, Veronika Šmírová
photocredit: Martin Daniš
2022
◾️Levels of touch | Martin Bízik, Ľubomír Slovinský, Klára Štefanovičová
🗓 9. 9. – 20. 11. 2022, Nitra
Levels of touch (Hladiny dotyku) | Martin Bízik, Ľubomír Slovinský, Klára Štefanovičová
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.
We can really call this time we live in the Age of Touch. Most of the things around us are controlled by touch – phone screens that we do not seem to be able to part with, tablets, trackpads, etc. Our fingers are in almost constant contact with touch screens. To what degree are we aware of our (including) electronic touches, how do we use them and how do we evaluate them? What do we get in return and what is the meaning of this reward?
The period of the last two years has been tough on individuals, but also on mankind as a whole. Human contact was restricted to a minimum and any kind of touch was immediately identified as a threat. We have been given a great opportunity to improve and rehabilitate the world we live in. But have we succeeded?
The exhibition talks about the importance of touch which needs to be fully understood. Any kind of touch might be not just pleasant and aesthetic, but also stimulating to human senses and able to generate some disturbing processes. The exhibition presents various levels / planes of touch there are in the sense of coming into contact with various kinds of matter and materials and in the sense of different levels of interference into the thinking and actions of an individual. In all of the cases, man comes into contact with non-living materials and surfaces which are brought to life and activated by our touch.
Exhibition viewed at: Nitra gallery, Nitra
Duration: 9. 9. 2022 – 20. 11. 2022
Artists: Martin Bízik, Ľubomír Slovinský, Klára Štefanovičová
photocredit: Martin Daniš
◾️Interference | Veronika Šmírová
🗓 20. – 24. 6. 2022, Banská Bystrica
Interference (Interferencia) | Veronika Šmírová
The exhibition Interference represents an artist’s research, based on so-called Young’s attempt or double-slotted experiment of 1803, throught who proved that light is a wave.
According to the simplified definition, it is Interference in physics folding (superposition) of several coherent ones corrugations of the same kind into one of the resulting ripple. This phenomenon can be observed, for example, on the water surface (flexible environment), when the increasing circles (wavefronts) meet others, overlap, until finally they merge into one. We can have a slightly different result observe if we focus on the light waving.
The interference pattern is where the two the crests of the waves will connect with the greatest intensity of light falling on the opposite surface (shade). At the point where two waves cancel each other anything can be seen on the opposite wall. etc…
However, the work of Veronika Šmírová is not repeating this physic experiment but rather the ambition to develop it to the next, copyright level. The author borrows name and expands his experiment against to the original attempt through adding addition surfaces / boards with slots connecting in space behind each other, which creates light spatial environment.
Original press release in slovak below 🔽
Exhibition viewed at: Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Academy of Arts, Banská Bystrica
Duration: 20. 6. 2022 – 24. 6. 2022
Artist: Veronika Šmírová
photocredit: Gabriela Birošová
With financial support of the Slovak Arts Council public funds. The Council is the leading partner of the project.
2021
◾️Open Shells | Michal Czinege
🗓 6. 12. 2021 – 28. 1. 2022, Bratislava
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Open Shells | Michal Czinege
Michal Czinege’s deformed painting canvases make extensive use of distinct colours: magenta, ultramarine, turquoise, which are characteristic for his works. However, the colour
selection has been mostly intuitive and his task is mainly to consume their shapes.
The deformed forms of canvasses were created according to the template of a cross section of a human body, in combination with manual scanning of a picture from a computer screen. What arises is something that can be called “biological symmetry”. This is created with a method of mirroring a biological object. The symmetry is however preserved only in a separate diptych.
Each of those has its own colour palette and a degree of curvature. The painter works with a colour and its properties. The paintings are made with tens of glaze layers, and thanks to passing light they create a deep space, which can be spotted only with a careful look.
The artwork named “Dreamer 1” is an interactive object that reacts to human motion or human proximity, and is based on heat energy. Similar to other artworks, you can uncover what lays below the surface by a longer contemplation.
The exhibition “Open Shells” is based on examining the relationship between light and colours, its properties and changes that happen only when both of them are present. It is also about building a space through the surface.
Exhibition viewed at: Čin Čin Gallery, Bratislava
Duration: 6. 12. 2021 – 28. 1. 2022
Artist: Michal Czinege
◾️(Vý)Stavoprojekt Piešťany | Lucia Mlynčeková
🗓 27. 9. – 26. 11. 2021, Piešťany
(Vý)Stavoprojekt Piešťany
Third exhibition from the (Vý) Stavoprojekt series, was focus on the city of Piešťany. (Vý)Stavoprojekt Piešťany thus concluded research into the activities of the design studio Stavoprojekt Trnava, which has expanded its scope (apart from Trenčín) to Piešťany.
A separate studio 07 was established here in 1975. The third exhibition in the (Vý) Stavoprojekt series was, like the previous ones, based on the same principle. Most of the documentation and materials come from careful research activities in the city and regional archives. However, the active participation of spectators was also needed to complete the mosaic / image of the functioning of the mentioned project institutes. The exhibition served the public (also) as a record with the possibility to supplement such materials, which according to the visitors were missing from the exhibition. Whether it’s photographs, pictorial material, or interesting personal stories and experiences of former employees, with whom they would like to share and lend for the purpose of the exhibition.
The interactive exhibition and its result in the end will serve as background material for further elaboration of this topic by the author.
Exhibition viewed at: MsKS A. Dubčeka Piešťany (Slovakia)
Duration: 27. 9. – 26. 11. 2021
Artist: Lucia Mlynčeková in cooperation with Marek Badinský
Co-curated with: Linda Blahová
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◾️Unseen | Ema Lančaričová, Veronika Šmírová
🗓 9. 9. – 10. 10. 2021, Jihlava
The joint exhibition of artists, photographer Ema Lančaričová and intermediate artist Veronika Šmírová, was a fusion of diploma theses of graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica.
The exhibition project was their first encounter, in which they presented their work thematically focused on astrophysics, physics and philosophy transformed into their own artistic language.
The exhibition was presenting an interactive light and sound installation by Veronika Šmírová, in which it is possible to physically enter and change its appearance.
In the second room, the audience entered, on the contrary, the dark object installation by Ema Lančaričová, which in turn points to the importance of the main components of photography – light, time and space.
Light (darkness), time and space were the central themes in the work of both artists, and at a joint exhibition we found their diverse grasp, which also met in the Space Theme.
Original press release in slovak below 🔽
Exhibition viewed at: Oblastní galerie Vysočiny. Jihlava (Czech republic)
Duration: 9. 9. – 10. 10. 2021
Artists: Ema Lančaričová, Veronika Šmírová
photocredit: Dominika Chrzanová, OGV
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◾️Artrooms Moravany 3
🗓 4. 7. – 19. 9. 2021, Moravany nad Váhom
In 2021 third year of the international art exhibition Artrooms Moravany was organised.
The exhibition presented works by more than 40 contemporary visual artists, represented by: object, sculpture, painting, graphics, photography, video and other media.
–FUTURE OF THE WHEEL– (title of 3rd edition). Transport is a big environmental issue in Slovakia, but also around the world. The exhibition The Future of the Wheel focused on several areas that identify the problems of personal, especially car, transportation. At the same time, artists presented solutions: promoting of public transport, cycling and highlighting walking as a natural human movement.
The Future of the Wheel related to the further advancement of human mobility. It emphasized that humanity is at a crossroads and can choose which path to take.
Exhibition viewed at: Kaštieľ Moravany nad Váhom (Slovakia)
Duration: 4. 7. – 19. 9. 2021
Exhibiting artists: Akintunde Akinleye, ASIO, Blažej Baláž, Mário Birmon, Jiří Černický, Jakub Geltner, Václav Girsa, Patrik Hábl, Anna Beata Háblová, Andrej Haršány, Jitka Havlíčková, Oto Hudec, Jana Kalinová, Peter Kalmus, Michal Kindernay a Sára Vybíralová, Tomáš Klepoch, Daniela Krajčová, Zorka Lednárová, Marcel Mališ, Stano Masár, David Možný, Martina Nosková, Dušan Pacúch, Nongkran Panmongkol, Lexa Peroutka, Mariana Repovská, Oliver Ressler, Lukáš Rittstein, Tomáš Roubal, Zdeněk Ruffer, Andy Singer, Petra Skořepová a Lucie Králíková, Monika a Ľubo Stacho, Marek Štuller, Iveta Tomanová, Ján Triaška, Vladimír Turner, Tomáš Werner, Stanislav Zámečník, Martin Zet and others.
Co-curated with: Lenka Kukurová, Milan Mikuláštik, Zuzana Sabová
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With financial support of the Slovak Arts Council public funds. The Council is the leading partner of the project.
2020
◾️(Vý)Stavoprojekt Trenčín | Lucia Mlynčeková
🗓 22. 9. 2020 – 14. 3. 2021, Trenčín
(Vý)Stavoprojekt Trenčín | Lucia Mlynčeková
(Vý)Stavoprojekt is a set of exhibitions focusing on Stavoprojekt organisation. It’s an open call for anybody who knows any information about it, or who remember this organisation.
The (Vý)Stavoprojekt Trenčín is after the (Vý)Stavoprojekt Trnava from 2018 is the second exhibition in a row, which aims to examine the project institutes operating in the former Czechoslovakia during the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition is based on artistic and architectural research, on the basis of which the author Lucia Mlynčeková collects the largest possible amount of available materials and, through research in city or regional archives, reveals the history of the functioning of project institutes. However, it is not a closed result or a finished exhibition. It is open and is gradually being built up organically, also with the help of former employees or memorialists voluntarily contributing their memories, photographs or other personal items to the exhibition. Collective memory thus becomes an important factor, which helps to complete the image of the history and urban development and development of the city.
In addition to Stavoprojekt, which was the first project institute in Czechoslovakia, and at the same time the first researched institute of the project, at the exhibition you can learn, or contribute more to the topic of enterprises: Keramoprojekt, Stavoindustria, Agroprojekt, Texing and others, which played an important role in the post-war urban and architectural development of the city of Trenčín.
The topic of project institutes interests the author in its entire breadth and she is interested in developing it gradually in several cities in Slovakia.
Exhibition viewed at: Galéria M. A. Bazovského. Trenčín (Slovakia)
Duration of exhibition: 22. 9. – 14. 3. 2021
Artist: Lucia Mlynčeková
Co-curated with: Radka Nedomová
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With financial support of the Slovak Arts Council public funds. The Council is the leading partner of the project.
◾️ Entrotopia 2.0 | Laura Beloff, Teemu Korpela, Pia Männikkö, Mari Mäkiö, Ville Mäkikoskela, Jukka Virkunen
🗓 6. 2. – 20. 3. 2020, Trnava
Entrotopia 2.0
Exhibition exchange project between HTS, Helsinki Artists’ Association (Finland) and Publikum.sk (Slovakia). Exhibition contained spatial installations, objects, paintings, sound-art objects and bio-art.
Exhibition viewed at: Synagogue – Center of contemporary art. Trnava (Slovakia)
Duration of exhibition: 6. 2. 2020 – 29. 3. 2020
Co-curated with: Ville Laaksonen
Participating artists: Laura Beloff, Teemu Korpela, Pia Männikkö, Mari Mäkiö, Ville Mäkikoskela, Jukka Virkunen
photocredit: Petra K. Adamková
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2019
◾️ Isolated words | Jiří Valoch
🗓 19. 11. 2029 – 19. 1. 2020, Trnava
Isolated words (Izolované slová) | Jiří Valoch
Jiří Valoch’s work takes place primarily inside, it cannot be grasped or captured. He transports us in space and time, plunging us into the depths of his own reasoning, which may appear incomprehensible to the observer, due to the use of his own language. He experiments with words, reviving their meaninglessness and linearity as they are without our presence, voice and action. The existence of words in space triggers our inner monologue. For him, words and signs are a tool with which he works creatively using mutations, rotations or gradations. Working with words is a game with endless possibilities to vary them. Subsequently, innovations and connections arise that do not make sense, but through them the author points out their power and ability to confuse our logic. It is built on learned coding originating from our culture. Once these principles are violated, rational decipherment fails.
The exhibition is a selection of the author’s works from his early optical poems, through performances in nature, haiku exercises and other semantic language compositions. Morning poems, talking about love or grief, have a greater representation. Just as the author’s voice is important, the exhibition is also designed with it in mind. The presented works can be perceived by one’s own inner voice, heard spoken by another’s voice and perceived through the visual component that creates optical sound/noise. The viewer tries to orient himself in the landscape of the text, which is accompanied by lines and spatial delineation.
Exhibition viewed at: Čepan gallery, Trnava
Duration of exhibition: 19. 11. 2019 – 19. 1. 2020
Artist: Jiří Valoch
photocredit: Dominika Chrzanová, Petra K. Adamková
Original press release in slovak below 🔽
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We thank the Moravian Gallery in Brno for their help. The selection of works came from the archive and collection of Jiří Valoch.
◾️Entrotopia 1.0 | Michal Czinege, Ema Lančaričová, Jaroslav Kyša, Jarmila Mitríková & Dávid Demjanovič, Jozef Pilát, Kata Mach
🗓 24. 8. – 15. 9. 2019, Helsinki
Entrotopia 1.0
Exhibition exchange project between HTS, Helsinki Artists’ Association (Finland) and Publikum.sk (Slovakia). Exhibition contained objects, videos, sound object, photographies, spatial installations, ceramics, pyrography paintings and embroidery.
Exhibition viewed at: Galleria Rantakasarmi, Helsinki
Duration of exhibition: 24. 8. 2019 – 15. 9. 2019
Co-curated with: Ville Laaksonen
Participating artists: Michal Czinege, Ema Lančaričová, Jaroslav Kyša, Jarmila Mitríková & Dávid Demjanovič, Jozef Pilát, Kata Mach (in memoriam)
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◾️ Šuňawood | Jozef Pilát
🗓 11. 4. – 26. 5. 2019, Trnava
The exhibition of the young artist Jozef Pilát was a cross-section of his artistic work. Presents paintings, drawings, spatial objects, installations and video installations created during the period of study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The themes and connecting elements of the entire exhibition are wood, forest, nature and the countryside, which have the greatest representation in Pilatus’ work. The theme of wood and forests can also be perceived directly in the title of the exhibition, which is a combination of two words. It bears a hint of the name of the artist’s hometown – Šuňava, which is located in the Poprad district and where all presented works were created. The second word is the English Wood, translated as wood, or even a forest, mountain or grove.
The key works of the ŠuňaWood exhibition are two spatial objects called Mimézis, which they are located in the main nave of the Synagogue. They were created as a direct response to the illegal cutting of spruce the grove that the artist’s great-grandfather once planted on his property. After several lawsuits the family managed to get the wood back, but only in the form of cut boards. They happened source of inspiration and material with which the author decided to work. With the help of a woodcut he gradually pushed the structure of the wood fibers onto the non-woven fabric. Fifty-four ten meter pieces prints were placed in a radial shape, creating a cylindrical object suspended just below ceiling of the Synagogue and which ultimately imitates one of the felled trees. Types the object, half the size, was created in the same way, but the concept of its installation directly comments on the cold machinery and mechanics with which the forest was cut down. Mimesis diagonally inclined is driven by an electric motor, which creates a rotational movement of the saw.
In addition to the main objects, the exhibition includes paintings and drawings that were created during the process production of Mimézis. The exhibition also presents other paintings and a video capturing Landart work Domino, which was also created in the village of Šuňava.
The work can also be understood as a direct criticism of illegal felling and clearing of forests, which Slovakia is currently facing The exhibition is a reminder of the unstoppable cycle in nature and ours interfering with it.
Exhibition viewed at: Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Trnava
Duration of exhibition: 11. 4. – 26. 5. 2019
Artist: Jozef Pilát
photocredit: Petra K. Adamková
Original press release in slovak below 🔽
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With financial support of the Slovak Arts Council public funds. The Council is the leading partner of the project.
2018
◾️(Vý)Stavoprojekt | Lucia Mlynčeková
🗓 4. 9. – 4. 11. 2018, Trnava
(Vý)Stavoprojekt
Exhibition about most popular architecture company in whole Czechoslovakia called Stavoprojekt. This architectonic studio was working in the field of urbanism and housing. Exhibition contained architectonic projects, photos and lot of documents from archives of Trnava city.
Exhibition viewed at: AF bookstore, Trnava
Duration of exhibition: 4. 9. 2018 – 4. 11. 2018
Artist: Lucia Mlynčeková
photocredit: Dominika Chrzanová, Petra K. Adamková
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◾️Duty mainly among of other things | Roman Gajdoš
🗓 6. 4. – 29. 4. 2018, Bratislava
Duty mainly among of other things / Povinnosť, najmä okrem iného
The exhibition presented a series of paintings and collage drawings with emphasis on painting as the tension between spontaneous and mechanical activity.
Exhibition viewed at: Medium Gallery, Bratislava
Duration of exhibition: 6. 4. 2018 – 29. 4. 2018
Artist: Roman Gajdoš
photocredit: Medium Gallery
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