Exhibition plan
Exhibitions planned for 2026
January – February 2026
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WEAPON. HOME. LANDSCAPE
- Artists: Olya Kobryn, Kateryna Pokora, Anastasia Trykoz, Illia Turyhin, Khrystyna Silivon, Anastasia Ion, Iryna Pryakhina, Sophia Kozlova, Stanislav Semenjuk, Alyona Korchan
- Curators: Daryna Skrynnyk-Myska and Mychajlo Barabaš from the Department of Contemporary Art Practices at the Lviv National Academy of Arts
The exhibition is the result of intensive communication between the Photography, Reality, Construction Studio (Jana Hojstričová), the Department of Art Theory and History (Beata Jablonská), and the Department of Contemporary Art Practices ( Daryna Skrynnyk-Myska , Mykhaylo Barabash) and several years of mutual cooperation between the International Relations Department of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Kseniia Rozhal Lytvynenko) and the partner schools: the Academy of Fine Arts and the Lviv National Academy of Arts. The concept of the exhibition is based on a selection of works by students studying at the Department of Contemporary Art Practices, curated by teachers Daryna Skrynnyk-Myska and Mykhaylo Barabash, so that the experience of a war-torn country is spread through art as an authentic message and an urgent message.
March - April 2026
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Finally Landing
- Artists: Trin Alt, Morgane Billuart, Nanna Kaiser, Ida Kamerloch, Hanna Kučera, Sebastian Koeck, Charly Mirambeau, Jonas Morgenthaler
- Accompanying program: Ado/Aptive- Janina Weißengruber and Daniel Hüttler, Hanna Kučera and Mira Samonig
- Curator: Teuta Jonuzi
Finally Landing is an exhibition tracing the afterlife of objects as they move across emotional, economic, and symbolic borders. What gets carried, replicated, or left behind? Where memory holds onto souvenirs, costumes, and furniture, forming a shifting, temporary and mutating archive of longing, loss, and transformation. And finally, If the archive exists as something we keep to reminisce, what then is the future we construct out of the remnants?
April - May 2026
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Slash and Burn
- Artists: Roberta Andrášková, Filip Bielek, Tomáš Červinka, Michal Golák, Martin Hrvol, Anka Mihoková, Simona Novická, Samuel Šošovička, Anabela Ralbovská, Juraj Rattaj
- Curator: Adam Galko
- Exhibition Concept: Lucia Čarnecká, Alexandra Smolková
The Slash and Burn exhibition explores the tension between renewal and loss, between anticipation of the new and the threat of emptiness. It moves in the space after the "fire" – between traces of destruction and hints of new forms. Its aim is to publicly present, after a long hiatus, a thematically coherent cross-section of the current work of students and graduates of the Department of Sculpture, Object, Installation at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design. The selected works will be complemented by a selection from an open call targeting current students of the department.
June - July 2026
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Homes
- Artists: Trin Alt, Ester Gašparová
- Curator: Olívia Ondreičková
The exhibition explores the home as a space of tension and refuge at the same time. Public, from which we are separated, and private, which we transform with our own gestures. Hard interventions are mixed with gentle touches, rough lines with delicate details. In contrast and harmony, it reveals that home is not a constant certainty, but a changing space where the ordinary intertwines with the unique, intimacy with distance, presence with absence.
July – August 2026
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IN NATURAL HABITAT: Mirroring of Dreams
- Artist: Lena Gallovičová
- Curator: Lucia Gavulová
Mirroring Of Dreams is an environment/site-specific installation/original scenography by artist Lena Gallovič, created for the Medium Gallery. The author composes images and scenes according to an intuitive key, working with attributes of eternity (dried flowers, old furniture, historic objects, mirrors). The environment of objects, images, and natural materials will include large-format photographs, which are not hung on the walls but are composed in various other ways into a whole that overgrows the gallery space. In times of crisis of futurality, everything old that he brings to the gallery can also be understood as a specific approach to the future, which can be examined as something that will no longer happen, and at the same time as a valuable contribution to the issue of the archaeology of the future.
July – August 2026
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Anatomical Venus
- Artist: Ľudmila Bubánová
- Curator: Eleonora Bojanowska
Anatomical Venus is an exhibition using textiles as both medium and testimony. It features hand-crafted objects made from garments once belonging to women close to me—my grandmother, mother, sister, and friends. Reworked into sculptural, suspended silhouettes arranged in a circle, they evoke intimacy, shared memory, and invisible bonds of care and sisterhood.
September 2026
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Hard to Cut a Garden in Half 2
- Artists: Kristína Bukovčáková, Jakub Navrátil
- Curator: Marianna Brinzová
Hard to Cut a Garden in Half 2 presents the work of Kristína Bukovčáková and Jakub Navrátil, who share an interest in the medium of painting, generational kinship, shared space, and a personal relationship. In her colorful, narrative, and at times surreal paintings, Bukovčáková addresses themes of climate grief and environmental crisis. Navrátil, on the other hand, is more restrained in the colors and themes of his paintings, which tend to be minimalist and introspective, exploring individual starting points, structures, and sections.
September 2026
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Magda Stanová
- Solo exhibition
Resident of the AFAD in the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris
October 2026
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Šperk Stret 2026
- Group exhibition
November – December 2026
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Capitalist Romanticism
- Artists: Collective MONIKA
- Curator: Vikória Citráková
The exhibition CAPITALIST ROMANTICISM is conceived as a triptych of large-scale projections divided into three thematic lines—burnout, resort tourism, and spa culture. Through the exhibition, it critically examines the way capitalism transforms rest, relaxation, and leisure into commodities. It reflects on the crisis of individual strategies for rest, healing, and our relationship to work. It asks: what space needs to be created so that we can lie down—and at least imagine the act of surrender?
November – December 2026
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Gabriela Smetanová
- Solo exhibition
Resident of the AFAD at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris.
Exhibition plan of Medium gallery for 2025:
mid-January - February
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Doe vs. Siren: On Metabolization and Shapeshifting
Artists: Alex Quicho, Bogna Konior, Nikola Balberčáková, Jakub Pohlodek, Junn
Zhou, Camille Wiesel
Curator of the exhibition: Doris Sisková, Václav Janoščík
Doves, bunnies, lambs and Bambis. It seems that the online space has been invaded by the cute. It is no longer just the images and cute cat memes. Our own identities and behaviour embody this interlocking of pure and commercial, innocent and exploitative, or the cute and the gore. In the exhibition we present several artists working with this particular logic of online environments.
March - mid-April
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PARALLEL WORLDS - 5th Anniversary of the Experimental Design Studio
Exhibitor(s): students, graduates and alumni of the Experimental Design Studio
Curator: Damir Daniel Demovič
The Experimental Design Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava has completed its first five years. The exhibition project "Parallel Worlds" is not meant to be a retrospective, but rather an invitation to explore diverse approaches to design as a discipline, using the full breadth of media interfaces. At the same time, it will present in a concentrated form the specific focus of the studio, which views design as a complex system deeply interconnected with everyday life, hence the high level of responsibility and motivation to critically explore its operational space.
mid-April – May
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All the stories I have ever told you were fiction
Kuba Stępień
Curator: Romuald Demidenko
The video installation All the stories I have ever told you were fiction by Kuba Stępień takes viewers into a dreamlike world of gestures and non-verbal narration produced by performers united in semi-impromptu movement. The six interweaving scenes making up the video performance create a hypnotic collage of fiction, imagination and desire, constructed from images of bodies, collective movement and intimacy, challenging the standards of normative communication and binary orders.
mid-April – May
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Jana Kapelová
Curator: Eliška Mazalanová
Jana Kapelová's exhibition project for Medium Gallery presents 3 videos of the artist from the last 2 years, in which she deals with the now ubiquitous search for happiness, or trying to achieve balance and live a happy life. This is often unthinkable without self-analysis and processing different areas of life. The author experiments in her latest projects with a slightly different authorial approach. This reflects a desire to do something spontaneous, manual, material and physical, to break out of her familiar patterns. The actors and actresses in the videos are ceramic or glass vessels, which can be seen as metaphors for the desire of personal fulfilment, or the artist's hands, which "play" assigned roles.
June - mid-July
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Simona Gottierová
resident of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Cité
July - mid-August
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Begone Estrone (There's something in the water and it tastes bittersweet…)
Artists: Natália Sýkorová, Paula Gogola
Curator: Zuzana Jakalová
‘Begone Estrone’ is a collaborative exhibition that brings together practices of two artists Paula Gogola and Natália Sýkorová, whose work intersects at the convergence of personal identity, technological landscapes of female and trans bodies, both of which they explore through the perspective of female health and care. The exhibition explores the bathroom as a simulacrum—a distorted reflection—of a safe, indoor space and coalesces their critical practices into a meticulously constructed environment that interrogates the bathroom as both a site of sanctuary and a simulacrum of oppressive forces. By amplifying a version of an everyday bathroom, the installation invites viewers to step into a hyperreal scenery that destabilizes the assumed neutrality of domestic spaces.
September - mid-October
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Carnivores
Artists: Zsófia Antalka, Eszter Metzing, Andrea Szilák
In the course of our project, we are examining the archetype of the hunter, the associations of being a carnivore, and the issues of inclusion and intolerance. The visceral and philosophical state of being a predator, is permeated by the moral dilemma of aggression, and the urge of sustaining needs of mortality, also alliterating with socio-economic systems and behaviour patterns as well. Our collaboration include, mostly installations and spatial works including a range of diverse materials, made coherent by our common denominator in organic thinking and construction.
September - mid-October
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Failed Consciousness
Denisa Štefanigová
Curator: Martina Mrázová, Jan Kristek - exhibition architect
The project maps the landscape of the unconscious, which is full of inner assumptions and demons as well as full of of intimate wonder and imagination, which Denisa allows to come to the surface in the process of painting. Our hidden inner landscapes are inhabited by animals, humans and hybrid beings who are intertwined and are changing themselves over time. The exhibition is conceived as one central object, an assemblage moving on the edge of small architecture, graphics and paintings, representing the landscape of the unconscious. On the walls, then, are canvases depicting bright moments that emerge from the unconscious at unexpected moments.
October - mid-November
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Artists: Abel Rad, Ana Avram, Nana Biakova, Paul Ilfoveanu, Mantas Valentukonis
Curators: SLPOVR
The exhibition examines water's paradoxical roles in a human-centric world through Donna Haraway's concept of natureculture, which merges nature and culture into an intertwined, co-evolving relationship. Water, symbolizing both life and destruction, serves as a key theme, illustrating natureculture's interconnected dynamics. Water’s capacity to define territories and borders underscores its role in shaping human and ecological landscapes.
October - mid-November
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Ľudmila Machová
resident of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Cité
from 28.11. - December/January