Archive

25.11.2019 - 5.7.2020

Workshop

School programs to the show Power of the Powerless

We will travel 30 years back in time to investigate what happened in former Czechoslovakia in November 1989 and what the situation was like at the SNP Square in Bratislava where Kunsthalle is headquartered. We will learn how artists lived at the time, how people used the keys on the square, and what their common goal was – although they did not know each other personally. The educational programs are held on-demand and adapted to visitor age.
22.11.2019 - 3.7.2020

Exhibition

THE POWER OF THE POWERLESS

November 1989 is an important political turning-point in the Slovak modern history, which has also essentially influenced the status of art in society. The newly-acquired freedom of expression enabled artists not only to present their works in public but also to express critical opinions. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the November events Kunsthalle Bratislava has prepared The Power of the Powerless, an exhibition focused on art that critically reflects on social problems in the Slovak and Czech context.
22.11.2019 - 16.2.2020

Exhibition

DEIDI VON SCHAEWEN: Wrapped City

This artist’s work focuses mainly on the photography of architecture, and she is one of the most compelling photographers active on the international scene. In Kunsthalle LAB she will present a monumental wall with photo collages entitled Wrapped City.
16.11.2019 - 5.7.2020

Exhibition

RUDOLF SIKORA: Exclamation Mark (1974-2020)

Kunsthalle Bratislava welcomes the transformation of the public space in its immediate vicinity on Treskoňova Street where it plans to implement outdoor exhibition activities under the new brand "Kunsthalle EXT". The abbreviation "EXT" stands for the exterior, extension or exit, and it will mainly cover objects and installations, as well as other works of art intended for public spaces. The pilot artwork to kick off the new dramaturgy of this extended exhibition space in Kunsthalle Bratislava is the "signaling" object by Rudolf Sikora - Exclamation Mark.
27.9.2019 - 3.11.2019

Exhibition

PLASTIQUE FANTASTIQUE: The Right Pill

The Right Pill is a project dealing with the uprising nationalism and xenophobia within the western counties as well as with the increasing ignorance in our society. The European history is full of examples of people having to leave their native lands to escape war and misery. Nowadays many immigrants set o on their odyssey until they get stuck. If they are rescued, they mostly get a space blanket as a first aid for immediate thermal relief. Since a few years in Berlin people started to use space blankets in demonstrations to protest against the upcoming fascism.
12.7.2019 - 6.10.2019

Exhibition

ORIENT2

Orient2 is a meditation on East European identity. The exhibition finds a unifying aspect in this ambiguous region: a contradictory but also complementary self-underestimation, and a simultaneous arrogance. These are two definitional positions of the region’s wounded identity. Suggesting that a suppressed inferiority complex is a possible reason for the recent upsurge of nationalism and non-democratic tendencies in Eastern Europe, the exhibition asks whether the failure in constituting and performing Eastern European identities, if it were accepted, could not be turned into a virtue.
5.7.2019 - 15.9.2019

Exhibition

ŽILVINAS LANDZBERGAS: The Fog

In Kunsthalle LAB the artist presents a site-specific installation consisting of heterogeneous natural and artificial elements. He uses diverse materials which refer to multi-layered contexts, thereby creating works which he calls social portraits.
1.7.2019

Discussion

Žilvinas Landzbergas

Kunsthalle Bratislava invites you to the discussion with Lithuanian artist Žilvinas Landzbergas led by art historian and curator of contemporary art Lýdia Pribišová!
26.4.2019 - 23.6.2019

Exhibition

ZORKA LEDNÁROVÁ: Perspective

Zorka Lednárová’s project visually combines a variety of scripts and symbolic systems. Using a cartographic language, she shows the world as a single living organism transmuted by the mental activity of its inhabitants, which develops freely outside of state borders and often despite the political arrangements of countries.
14.4.2019

Curatorial guide

The Last Guided Tour of the Sissi Quartier Exhibition

Kunsthalle Bratislava invites you to the last guided tour of the Sissi Quartier exhibition led by member of the Polygon Creative Empire team - an independent curator and aesthete Kinga Lendeczki.
5.4.2019 - 16.6.2019

Exhibition

INVERSE ROMANTICISM

The exhibition presents the work of five prominent artists of the current scene (Ivan Pinkava, Josef Bolf, Martin Gerboc, Jiří Petrbok, Richard Štipl). Via the media of photography, painting, drawing and sculpture, the artists elaborate the theme of “inversion”, which is essentially present in their works and takes a critical stand towards the present time.
15.2.2019 - 14.4.2019

Exhibition

POLYGON CREATIVE EMPIRE: Sissi Quartier

Project Sissi Quartier, created by Polygon Creative Empire, was critically reflecting on how branding is upgrading real estate investments and non-places, even in the cultural field. The work Sissi Quarter by Polygon Creative Empire was produced for the exhibition Stopover – Ways of Temporary Exchange, frei_raum Q21 exhibition space, Museumsquartier, Vienna, 2017. Project was curated by Judit Angel, Christiane Erharter, Dóra Hegyi, Michaela Geboltsberger, Heide Wihrheim.