Bratislava City Gallery
Bratislava City Gallery was established in 1961 as an independent cultural organisation under jurisdiction of the capital city of the Slovak Republic. Its core mission is purposefully and systematically to collect, professionally process, protect, and document items from the field of visual arts, and to make them publicly available in the form of temporary and permanent exhibitions, scientific research, educational activities, and publishing. The gallery is methodically building its collection as part of the cultural heritage of the city of Bratislava. It currently cares for more than 35,000 collection items, documenting the development of fine art in Slovakia from the Gothic period to the present day. The collection further includes a set of works by Central European Old Masters.
Now on view
12 exhibitions
The Centre is Elsewhere II
Jana Babušiaková
The exhibition The Centre is Elsewhere II explores trauma as a consequence of the functioning of society. The artists Klára Kusá and Andrea Uváčiková critically challenge the societal notion that a deteriorating mental…
The Art of Interaction
Vendelína Kováčová
Can art set our entire body and mind in motion? The Art of Interaction exhibition focuses on ways of engaging audiences in the process of perceiving, interpreting, and creating works of art from the decades since the…
Anetta Mona Chiça, Lucia Tkáčová: Totems
Mira Keratová
The installation Totems comprises a series of five unique sculptures made of burnt books on concrete bases. Individual book titles are not recognisable, however, as in the process of burning they merged into a complete…
Maria Bartuszová – Being Nature
Gabriela Garlatyová
“I want to work with clean principles. I believe that shapes, in and of themselves, have a powerful psychological impact – for example: angular, sharp, inorganic shapes convey a sense of coldness; rounded, organic…
Graphics Cabinets
Mgr. Patrícia Ballx
The Graphics Cabinets form the interior decoration in two rooms on the first floor of Mirbach Palace, having probably been commissioned by one of the original owners of the building. They are exceptional not only for…
English Tapestries
The Primate's Palace, one of the most beautiful classicist buildings in Bratislava, was built in 1778 by Archbishop Cardinal Jozef Batthyány in accordance with the project of architect Melchior Hefele. The palace and…
BIATEC. Celtic Mint
Margaréta Musilová
New permanent exhibition BIATEC. Celtic Mint, prepared by the Municipal Monument Preservation Institute Bratislava (MÚOP) in cooperation with Bratislava City Gallery (GMB), presents cultural heritage through visual…
Gothic Panel Painting and Plastic Art
Mgr. Dominika Zbončáková
The exhibition was originally designed by curator Želmíra Grajciarová. It opened in 1998 on the first floor of Pálffy Palace following complete reconstruction of the building and its subsequent opening to the public…
Matej Krén: Passage
Mira Keratová
The project "Passage" represents a kind of symbolic "shortcut across worlds" in which we exist or reside: from the factual, real world to the world of human culture, where reality is replaced by another reality – the…
Picture Gallery
Mgr. Jana Luková
The Archbishop's Winter Palace, in its current classicist form known as the Primatial Palace, was built by Archbishop Jozef Batthyány (1727–1799). It was completed in 1781 and belonged to Hungarian Primates until 1903,…
Central European Baroque Painting and Sculpture
Mgr. Dominika Zbončáková
The works from the Bratislava City Gallery´s collection included in the permanent exposition represent the Central European art of the eighteenth century. Selected paintings and sculptures provide a comprehensive…
Výzva na novú vizuálnu identitu GMB
Vizuálna identita a grafické služby pre Galériu mesta Bratislavy 2021 – 2022 Galéria mesta Bratislavy vyhlasuje výzvu na predkladanie ponúk na tvorbu novej vizuálnej identity a grafické služby na rok 2021 - 2022\. Výzva…