Slovak National Gallery
The Slovak National Gallery (SNG) – the emblematic gallery institution of Slovakia – is located on the Danube embankment in the centre of Bratislava in a complex of buildings that underwent impressive extension and reconstruction until late 2022. In addition to the distinct and valuable architecture, the SNG's hallmarks are its diverse collections comprising almost 90,000 objects, its four branches across Slovakia, and, above all, its constant search for new ways to create an open, inspiring, and up-to-date space for people and art.
Now on view
12 exhibitions
Jiří Kolář and Ladislav Novák: Homage to Flies Spiders Fish Mice and Dogs
One of the poems from Jiří Kolář's 1969 collection Návod k upotřebení lends its title to this joint exhibition of two friends, two Czech visual artists and poets in one – Jiří Kolář and Ladislav Novák.
Galanda and The Galandites
"This exhibition has no banner. Anyone looking for a group with a single, complete artistic programme would be disappointed. Rather, it is inconsistency, all too varied, that accompanies it. But after a period of…
ADAM SZENTPÉTERY: NETWORK
The exhibition Network, the first solo exhibition by the Slovak painter Adam Szentpétery to be staged at the Slovak National Gallery, offers a comprehensive overview of his more than forty-year career. The artist has…
Bang?! Bang! 2
This is the second edition of an exhibition that charts variability of the predominantly Slovak art scene from the 1960s to the present. It builds on the Bang! Bang?! exhibition, broadening it and, in certain areas,…
The Modern
The Modern tells the story of visual art in Slovakia in the first half of the 20th century. Our selection of works for it centred on the most important developments in domestic art between 1890/1900 and 1948.
Sacred Art
Art in the past had a variety of functions, essentially different from those it has today. One of the most important was its cultic or religious function, which predominated in the evolving visual culture throughout…
Biblioman
He lived and breathed books. The bibliophilia were both his unplanned escape from contemporary art and his lifelong delight as a collector. The book collection of Igor Gazdík (1943 – 2006), theoretician and art…
Amazing Art History with Professor Hamster
Whether you are a child or an adult, a layman or an expert - your age or knowledge does not matter! It is your desire to discover the story of art that truly counts! In a short 15-minute interactive projection,…
The Kornel and Naďa Földvári Library
The Library presents an extensive collection of books owned by the writer, literary critic and satirist Kornel Földvári and his wife, Naďa. The project's initiator was the writer and director Peter Krištúfek, who was…
Antimuseum of J.K.
Thanks to a comprehensive monographic exposition of Július Koller you will get to know the personality and work of one of our most famous conceptual artists, whose name has been resounding abroad as well.
From Collector to Art Patron
Dr Ivan Zubaľ started building this collection – works by the old masters, and from Slovakia’s 19th century and modern and contemporary art – in the 1970s.
Design Unpacked
Design, applied arts and artistic craft from the SNG Collections offer an adventure journey across centuries of everyday life and throughout big and small history as well.