Events: Culture

Uprising is Central Europe’s biggest reggae festival – but it is far from being monothematic. Over the course of two days, the festival will feature many genres: reggae, dancehall, ska, latino, hip-hop, dub, dubstep, ragga-jungle, and drum’n’bass. Love, peace, unity.

September 27 will be the day when annual re-enactement of Battle for Bratislava will take place in famous Sad Janka Kráľa – the oldest park in Central Europe.

In the 18th century, it was very fashionable to furnish rooms in castles, the walls of which were covered with regularly arranged pictures. These rooms were called graphic cabinets. Check out our Bratislava one!

The collection of contemporary art since the second half of the 20th century presents works of prominent artists who were crucial in determining the nature of artistic development in Slovakia.

Slovak design and applied art of the 20th century have a key place in the SNG collections, primarily in an author’s and solitary position. Pairs or trios of artifacts are allowed by the curators to converse in harmony and tension, peace and ambivalence

The Slovak National Gallery is dedicating a double exhibition to “its” architect Vladimír Dedeček (1929 – 2020), creator of great concepts and almost a hundred realisations, an important co-author of the architectural form of modern Slovakia. Dedeček was also the architect of the recently renovated Slovak National Gallery building on the embankment.

A unique exhibition by one of the most acclaimed artists in contemporary global glass art, presented on the occasion of his 80th birthday, is coming directly to Bratislava Castle.

Slovak painter Kristína Mésároš presents her unique artwork at the Origin exhibition held at the prestigious Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum.

Kristína Mésároš’s extensive exhibition entitled Origin (Počiatok) features paintings of environments, landscapes, and situations connected to her own experience of everyday events. However, personal experiences, ephemeral situations, the perception of changes in the landscape, but also the emergence of old memories, are connected with the abstraction of feelings and moods, and the search for a deeper meaning.

Through an example of rich cultural exchange, the exhibition in the Slovak National Gallery presents the interesting yet dramatic story of Hungarian-Ottoman relations during the 16th and 17th centuries. It introduces the period of Ottoman expansion in Hungary and the related mutual influences, especially overlaps of Ottoman material culture into Central European art.

Dušan Sekela is one of the most distinctive visual artists of Slovak painting and a prominent representative of geometric abstraction. The selection of his abundant work from the last ten years entitled Abracadabra (Čiary, Máry, Fuk in original) will be exhibited at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum.

Concerts of the Slovak Philharmonic take place in the magnificent Reduta building, built in an eclectic style in 1911-1915 on the site of an 18th-century Baroque granary. Here are our picks from the January concerts, including the New Year’s concert.

A photo exhibition at Bratislava Castle captures the personal stories of people affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Jana Rajcova’s photographs put a face to statistics and reveal humanity in the midst of crisis.