SIGNAL – The Story of (Post-) conceptual art in Slovakia

https://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/en/programme/exhibition-opening-signal-story-post-conceptual-art-slovakia

The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition

SIGNAL – The Story of (Post-) conceptual art in Slovakia
on Thursday, 18th of April 2019 at 6 p.m.

WHEN
18. April, 2019, 18:00–20.00
WHERE
Exhibition hall, 1st floor

Greeting by FABÉNYI Julia, Director of the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art
Opening speech by Katarína BAJCUROVÁ, senior curator of Slovak National Gallery

The exhibition is on view between 19 April and 23 June 2019.

The exhibition entitled SIGNAL will introduce one of the crucial tendencies present in modern and contemporary Slovak art. It will focus on the origination of and the developments in Conceptual and Post-Conceptual Art from the horizon of the past fifty years in Slovakia, i.e. from the alternative unofficial scene of the 1960s as far as to the legal artistic platform after 1989.

The works by two generations of artists, such as Peter Bartoš, Cyril Blažo, Stano Filko, Petra Feriancová, Viktor Frešo, Jozef Jankovič, Aneta Mona Chisa – Lucia Tkáčová, Martin Kochan, Július Koller, Roman Ondak, Boris Ondreička, Monogrammist D. T., Rudo Sikora, Pavla Sceranková, Peter Rónai and Jaro Varga, will acquaint with the individual forms of conceptual artistic morphology as it was moulded by the transforming, new aesthetic criteria with their intrinsic codes.

Curator: Vladimír BESKID

Exhibiting artists:
Blažej BALÁŽ, Cyril BLAŽO, Stano FILKO, Petra FERIANCOVÁ, Viktor FREŠO, Jozef JANKOVIČ, Michal KERN, Martin KOCHAN, Július KOLLER, Marek KVETAN, Ján MANČUŠKA, Roman ONDAK, Monogramista T.D, Rudolf SIKORA, Pavla SCERANKOVÁ, Péter RÓNAI, Jaro VARGA