Selected works of the collection display are veiled from 14 September to 24 November 2024, as they are part of curatorial interventions and the project Freedom Endures. Censorship, Propaganda, and Art.
It explores, through works by artists from Slovakia as well as Eastern Europe and around the world, interactions between the works of a variety of “contemporary” layers. The selection, from the newest
art in SNG collections, has not been arranged in chronological order, and it will be steadily altered, in part because of the fragile and ephemeral nature of the exhibited works’ media and techniques.
Typically, museums are associated with conserving the past, creating and preserving a canon of art history. By contrast, the term “contemporary art” has adjustable boundaries: contemporary art works are innovative and experimental, and often unconventional too. Therefore our simulated “Museum of Contemporary Art” is no repository of valuable artefacts, but more a performative collection in public space: an arena for discussion. It represents a range of attitudes, convictions, and topics from artists male and female, by way of curator strategies, research, and collection-building activities over the long term, by a considerable number of experts throughout the SNG’s existence.
