New trends in theatre gather in capital
The New Drama festival will be held in Bratislava as of Monday, 15 May. Apart from presenting 10 productions in the main competition, the festival focuses on Ukrainian drama. The main topic of a discussion featuring international experts is theatre in exile. According to Vladislava Fekete, the director of the festival, the essence of New Drama is not just to present existing productions in the main competition programme, but also to stimulate creative writing. The competition awardees including the Grand Prix laureate will be announced on Saturday, 20 May.
Critical context of Slovak history in contemporary art
Memory as a reference. Critical contexts of the Slovak State in contemporary visual art. That is the title of the exhibition which opened on Monday in the Holocaust Museum in Sered, southern Slovakia. According to its curator Bohunka Koklesova, 7 artists look in historical layers for metaphors that can work as topics providing context to the contemporary political and social situation. The exhibition also brings the great historical facts and poses the question of their impact on small histories of individuals.
ART IS HERE in Banska Bystrica
In co-operation with Moravian gallery in Brno, the Central Slovak gallery opens an exhibition entitled ART IS HERE on Thursday in Banska Bystrica, central Slovakia. The project maps the 1968-1974 period of the so called neo-avantgarde in the city of Brno, east-southern Czech Republic. Presenting the works by Jiří Valoch, Stano Filko, Milos Laky, Jan Zavarsky and others, the exhibition will be held until mid August.
Another Kosice modernism artist in East Slovak gallery
Elemír Halász-Hradil is the name of an artist that has so far been seen as a not so progressive modernist. Curators of the East Slovak Gallery in Kosice present their exhibition project as a result of a two year long research into his life and work. 140 oil paintings and drawings on display re-evaluate this artist’s extensive work. Halasz-Hradil followed the legacy of plain-air painting influenced by post-impressionistic tendencies.
For all those who would like to see the Elemir Halasz-Hradil show in the East Slovak Gallery as well as the project in the Central Slovak Gallery and many more exhibitions, here comes a reminder of the highlight of the year in all museums and galleries not only in Slovakia.
NIGHT OF MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
The Night of museums and galleries will be held in the majority of these institutions in Slovakia over the upcoming weekend. On Saturday, 13 May, go to any museum in Slovakia for learning more about the country’s cultural heritage. It’s worth it. All the information on www.nmag.sk.
