His sons, who “caught” their father’s love for collecting, helped shape its form and character. Thus the collection increasingly stood out in scope and quality from prevailing models of motivation, principles, and intention among private collectors. In the late 1990s the collection came out of the privacy of its owners’ home, becoming known to the public at Galéria Linea and later at Galéria Horský park. It grew considerably in visibility and appreciation thanks to loans of some of its works to eminent institutions.
In 2018, some 150 pieces from this collection were donated to the SNG - sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, objects, and installations – a representative selection of the Zubaľ family’s two generations of collecting, with an acquisition value of around 3.5 million euros. The exposition is showing the greater part of the generous gift, a gesture unprecedented in the Gallery’s seventy-year existence.
