Nedbalka Gallery
Four floors of Slovak modern art around a spiral atrium, in a converted Old Town bank building.
The gallery occupies a building on Nedbalova Street in the Old Town that had served the Slovenská sporiteľňa savings bank, with a 1990s annexe by Viktória Cvengrošová and Virgil Droppa that won the Dušan Jurkovič Award. A complete conversion to designs by the architect Jarmila Kusá turned it into a public gallery, which opened in October 2012. Circular openings cut through the floors of the annexe let visitors look between levels, and the spiral arrangement has earned it the nickname of a small Guggenheim.
The permanent display traces Slovak modern painting and sculpture across four floors, arranged chronologically from the origins of modern art in Slovakia in the late nineteenth century. Sections cover the founding generation, the Mikuláš Galanda Group of the 1930s, and later personalities and movements, with works by Ľudovít Fulla, Mikuláš Galanda and Martin Benka among others. Temporary exhibitions of contemporary art run alongside, and the building also houses a gallery café and an art shop.
Highlights
- Spiral atrium with circular openings between four floors
- Chronological survey of Slovak modern painting and sculpture
- Room devoted to the Mikuláš Galanda Group
- Gallery café and art shop on the premises
