Exhibition

COOL NOUVEAU
From city ring to ornamentation

Opening: 3rd of February 2022 at 18.00 
Duration: 4th – 23rd February 2022
Place: Slovak Union of Visual Arts / Gallery Umelka, Dostojevského rad 2, 811 09 Bratislava

The exhibition presents Art Nouveau in Bratislava as a Gesamtkunstwerk embracing urban concepts, architecture and the artistic embellishments characteristic of the era. It concentrates particularly on the phenomenon of the Ringstraße and other ring roads whose construction had an impact on the architectural designs selected for the buildings along them, whose shape and typology best reflect contemporary trends. The details and ornamentation characterized in the smallest scale the Art Nouveau from the final decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Curator: Henrieta Moravčíková
Architecture and design: Monika Bočková, Mária Novotná, Paulína Ebringerová
Graphic design: Eva Šimovičová

Photos from the opening of the exhibition COOL NOUVEAU: From city ring to ornamentation 

Photo credit: Jakub Michel

Added: 7/2/2022

The curator of the Cool Nouveau exhibition Henrieta Moravčíková (in the middle) with authors of the exhibition design and architecture: Mária Novotná, Monika Bočková and Paulína Ebringerová. On the right – Jozef Lavička, STUBA project manager.

Exhibition installation in the Umelka gallery grand hall representing art nouveau architecture in Bratislava.

The visitors can access accompanying videos via QR codes to enhance the exhibition experience.

Detail view on one of the 3D printers printing a model of the church of St. Elizabeth “Blue Church” designed by the Hungarian architect Ödön Lechner, constructed in 1907-08.

 Physical model of the city ring in the small hall of the Umelka gallery.

Official poster of the ARTNOUVEAU2 project in the entrance of the Umelka gallery.

The exhibition is part of the Slovak participation of the ARTNOUVEAU2 project within the Danube Transnational Program Interreg scheme co-financed by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA II). The Slovak partner of the project is the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU in Bratislava.