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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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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