The triennial heads to the streets of Košice
NEWS| OCTOBER 8. 2021
The East Slovak Gallery was established in 1951 in the second largest city in Slovakia. Since its establishment, the gallery has undergone many changes and numerous high-quality artworks have been added to its collection. Our task is to continually collect, showcase and preserves Slovak and foreign fine art, and raise awareness of its complexity and diversity.
The establishment of our gallery, and the building of the former county hall in which the gallery is located, is closely linked to the city of Košice and the rich history of the region of Eastern Slovakia, which has cultural and national significance. Our commitment is not only to work with visual art, but also to highlight relevant contemporary issues such as the climate crisis, social inequality, segregation and intolerance. We take care of the environment and follow the Green Code. We have set ourselves the objective of becoming an inclusive institution that reflects the world in which we live. In addition to collecting, researching, documenting and presenting fine art, we have re-opened our library with a specialized library fund for our visitors and researchers.
We build on the hard work of our predecessors with the energy of a new generation of curators, gallery educators, and professional staff thinking about art as a catalyst for present and future ideas. Our exhibition projects are diverse and range from old to contemporary art. Outside of exhibitions, the gallery also prepares a rich programme for the professional and general public from the youngest visitors to the elderly. Our team is working to create a professional documentation centre, and we are gradually improving the conditions in the depository for the storing of artworks. We strive to bring quality solutions and new approaches, working in cooperation with renowned architects, artists and scientists.
The inclusive programme is oriented on various visitors. The museum preserves an extensive collection of art from the old masters to contemporary art. Our visitors are diverse, from children to seniors and we use an inclusive approach and programme to open our cultural institution to anyone. We want culture to be bonding and to be available to everyone.
We selected a topic of real and virtual worlds and how we form them. With the rising wave of nationalism and conservativism, we think, as a public institution, our mission is to look back and talk about the past to understand the future. We create our own reality, and we strongly believe that by knowledge, understanding, and respect, we can help in forming a considerate and thoughtful society. Our programme consists of different talks, presentations, discussions tailored to our exhibitions, with the focus on the above-mentioned topics with the special focus on moving borders, mixing nationalities, ethnicities, minorities, etc. As for the virtual worlds, we want to work with our new mobile application and present these ideas in the world of the new normal.
