Events: Culture

The longest night of the year is White Night. It lasts from Friday to Sunday. The streets of Bratislava will once again be filled with art, visitors and a unique atmosphere. The largest and most visited contemporary art festival in Slovakia, White Night brings contemporary art forms closer to the general public and at the same time reveals unconventional, unknown and significant places in the city.

Enjoy local Bratislava wines at the city festival and come to celebrate St. Martin’s Day with us in the historic centre. In addition to good wine, you can look forward to a rich music programme, competitions, guided tours for the disadvantaged and a quiz on winemaking and good food.

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

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.

Matúš Matátko and book illustration belong inseparably together. Like salt to the sea, wind to the mountains, oily black earth to the fertile field. The mother is an element… Rough lines, often the colours of tricolour, an expressive shortcut to harsh pointe. His handwriting has inspired linocut, comics and street art.

The popular summer multi-genre city festival in the Bratislava area is taking place for the 50th time and it will be full of music, literature, movement and much more.

The annual musical highlight of autumn Bratislava, during which dozens of symphonic and chamber concerts are performed.

The Pre-Christmas time in Bratislava is inseparably connected with illuminated streets, Christmas trees or stalls full of goodies and handicrafts.