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Sediments of the World

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The transgenerational group exhibition Sediments of the World is the first large-scale exhibition project in Slovakia dedicated to the phenomenon of collecting as a creative impulse. Curated by Naďa Kančevová, it introduces almost thirty representatives of our art scene who, among other things, create through collections, collecting, and accumulation in various senses of the word.

Where?

  • Pálffy Palace

  • Panská 19, Bratislava

When?

  • Opening: April 16, 2025, 6:00 PM

  • Exhibition duration: April 17, 2025 – September 28, 2025

*** More info on the GMB website ***

Curator:

  • Naďa Kančevová

Graphic Design and Spatial Arrangement

  • Lucia Židek Gamanová & Olexandra Bakushina

 

Exhibiting Artists:

Marcel Benčík (1977), Erik Binder (1974–2023), Petra Feriancová (1977), Mária Fulková (1962), Jana Hojstričová (1972), Gabriel Hošovský (1966), Patrik Illo (1973) & Alexandra Stencel (1987), Zuzana Janečková (1979), Katarína Karafová (1990), Peter Kalmus (1953), Matej Krén (1958), Patrik Kovačovský (1970), Marek Kvetan (1976), Terézia Jandušíková & Dominika Korbášová (1999), Otis Laubert (1946), Zorka Lednárová (1976), Jana Machatová (1972), Svätopluk Mikyta (1973), Roman Ondak (1966), Karol Pichler (1957), Peter Rónai (1953), Júlia Sabová (1958), Kristýna Španihelová (1982), Tibor Uhrín (1966), Karol Weisslechner (1957), Lucia Židek Gamanová & Matej Židek (1993)

Annotation

Sediments of the World - poster

 

Why do visual artists collect and preserve various objects in the era of overproduction (of things, information, and cultural content)? What types of items attract them? Where do they find their material? What significance do they assign to it? What stories do they tell through their collections? How do they live with them? How do they work with them? How does collecting reflect in their artistic practice and their thinking about our existence and impermanence? Are their collecting fascinations (snow globes, old family clothing, lost keys, historical photographs, books, old prints, dead insects, discarded furniture, medicine packaging, etc.) an escape from reality, or do they instead highlight, define, and interpret reality anew through the acts of collecting, sorting, and occasional exhibiting?

Each personality featured in the exhibition reveals their own fascinations, obsessions, and inspirations from found remnants of the material and natural world—“sediments” revived in new and often surprising contexts.

 

This project was financially supported by the Bratislava Self-Governing Region.