Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
The Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, one of the most romantic museums of modern art in Europe, is situated 20 kilometers south of Bratislava, the capital of the Slovak Republic. It was founded by Gerard Meulensteen of Eindhoven, a Dutch collector and art patron, and Vincent Polakovič, a Slovak gallerist.
Since 2000 when the museum was opened, dozens of exhibitions of the most prestigious figures of the Slovak, European and global art scene, such as Joan Miró, Sam Francis, Karel Appel, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Lucebert, Walasse Ting, Antoni Clavé, Martín Chirino, Markus Prachensky, Ilona Kesserü Ilona, Jozef Jankovič, Rudolf Sikora, Vladimír Kompánek, Miroslav Cipár, Vladimír Popovič and others have been organized here.
Now on view
5 exhibitions
THE MAGIC OF INK
Wolfram Anders
Ink painting is a traditional Chinese art form. Water and ink are mixed on an inkstone to create different shades of black, then applied with a brush to hand-made bast paper. The amount of water, the brush and the…
Free fall
Ivan Jančár
Falling into Oneself When the name Patrícia Koyšová is mentioned, most of us think of cultivated, yet unconventional abstract paintings created with a compressor and airbrush. Amidst the flood of global and Slovak…
Tail Light (Retrospective)
JUST AS NATURE IMITATES ART (OSCAR WILDE), SOME OLD MASTERS IMITATE ME The creator of a programme of analytical painting based on the principle of trompe l’oeil (optical illusion). Member of the avance-retard artists’…
Wait, what?
Ida Želinská
Have you read those encyclopedias? About coffee, chocolate, sushi or tea? In them, Dávid Soboň illustrates what he enjoys and tells us about it. He has so much to say! He has a trick for this: he writes a short text and…
Beneath the Surface
Tereza Petrželková
Ivan Ouhel’s work has a special place in the context of Czech art of the last decades. Although he was a member of the free group 12/15 Pozdě, ale přece and Umělecká beseda, his painting style always retained a distinct…
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3 upcoming
On the Seventh Floor of a Dream
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Paintings / Sculptures
The work of Austrian painter Marcus Anton Huber is spontaneous, inspired by free thought flows and subconscious imagination. He creates according to the principles of psychic automatism – the creative method of the…
Satori in Cífer II
Sveťo Ilavský is one of the prominent figures of the Slovak intermedia scene. His work cannot be confined to a single style or linear development. Operating between order and chaos, harmony and destruction, rational…
