Exhibitions

Look, Pressburg! From Graphic Veduta to Photographic Views

19. 4. – 3. 9. 2023

Bratislava City Gallery is staging an exhibition to showcase various methods of depicting the city of Pressburg – today's Bratislava – featured within the works of artists from the Central European circle. The individual works guide the viewer through graphic vedute, drawings, watercolours, and oil paintings to photography; from its first depictions in 1563 through to 1918. Following authors such as Matthäus Merian (1593–1650), Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690–1778), Jozef Anton Lántz (active around 1820), Johann Vincenz Reim (1796–1858), and others, we will observe the past appearance of the city of Pressburg. Its visuals are also evoked by photographers active directly in the town, represented by names such as Eduard (Ede) Kozics (1829–1874), Károly (Carl) Körper (1845–1923), and Alois Krauss (Alojz Krausz, active around 1904).
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THIS! is the Story of Illustration

4. 5. – 15. 10. 2023

Book illustrations are often the first work of art we encounter as children. It is through the illustrations that we discover the world of individual stories. We learn to be eager to discover new things, look for connections, and get to know the logic of things and events. The stories of these paper heroes and heroines even make us think about the values: why we should be good, brave and honest. While the details of these stories often slip our minds, the images stay there forever. However... Have you ever wondered where the originals of all those stunning works are today?
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Ľ. S. (de)materialised

18. 5. – 8. 10. 2023

Ľuba Sajkalová (1973 – 2019, Bratislava) is both known and unknown within the visual art scene. Her work, with its base in the textile medium, has been presented through several solo and thematic exhibitions, such as Memoriae (Cyprián Majerník Gallery, 2008) and Delete. Art and Wiping Out (Slovak National Gallery, 2012).
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Permanent Exhibitions

Gothic Panel Painting and Plastic Art

Permanent exhibition in Pálffy Palace

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 under management of the Bratislava City Gallery.
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Central European Baroque Painting and Sculpture

Permanent exhibition in Mirbach Palace

On the first floor of Mirbach Palace, a significant number of the original interior elements of Rococo decoration have been preserved. These include tiled stoves, wooden wall panelling with coloured graphic sheets, and rare stucco ceiling decoration. The lives of the aristocratic families who lived in the Palace were primarily spent in the state rooms facing Františkánske Square, rooms in which period decoration was complemented by works of art and luxurious furniture.
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English Tapestries

Permanent exhibition in the Primate's Palace

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 its famous Hall of Mirrors have been the scene of many important historical events: in 1805, the Treaty of Pressburg between the Austrian and French armies was signed there; and the Hungarian Parliament, although it convened in the building of today's University Library, used to be opened there.
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Picture Gallery

The Primatial Palace

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, when church leaders sold it to the town. The Primatial Palace is closely connected with the history of Bratislava City Gallery, which was located there until 1975 and regularly held temporary exhibitions in the current Justi Hall on its ground floor. Prior to reconstruction of the building in 1986, the city's art collections were installed in various arrangements, mainly within state rooms on the first floor.
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The Virgin Mary as Queen of Angels

Permanent exhibition in Chapel of St. John the Evangelist

The painting was administratively transferred from the Municipal Museum in Bratislava to the GMB Collection in 1965. It is classified under inventory number A2470. An original assumption that it had continuously formed part of the interior of the Clarissine Church in Bratislava since dissolution of the monastery of the same name in 1782 proved incorrect.
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Graphics Cabinets

Permanent exhibition in Mirbach Palace

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 their rococo stucco decorated ceilings, but also for wooden panelling into which are embedded 290 graphic sheets, engravings, etchings and mezzotints from the second half of the 17th and 18th centuries that have been secondarily coloured by unknown authors.
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BIATEC. Celtic Mint

Permanent exhibition in Pálffy Palace

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 stories. Combining architectural design of a relatively small space with modern digital technologies brings rich content to the audience through interactive processing.
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