Haptic Echo. Nature, Body, Politics and Art in Former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.

In collaboration with numerous regional, state and private collections and non-profit associations at home and abroad, Bratislava City Gallery has prepared a thematically orientated international exhibition enriched with works from its own collections.

The exhibition represents a unique assembly of well-known and lesser-known works of conceptual and performance art. Thematically concentrated, while also including art works in considerable numbers, the curator’s selection stresses environmental motifs in art from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Stories of art are developed and counterposed here: parallel (but often intertwining) stories from two modern European federations that ceased to exist at the end of the twentieth century. At this exhibition one can see experimental, investigative, critical and emancipatory art practices, which frequently even go beyond the limits of art. Unexpected situations confront us as we trace the opening of new horizons of cultural exchange, between regions of Europe whose history had latterly been determined by communist ideology, as well as by an uncompromising pursuit of freedom.

List of authors and art collectives:
Abramović Marina, Adamčiak Milan, Adamus Karel, Ambroz Vladimír, Anděl Jaroslav, Autopsia, Balić Branko, Bartoš Peter, Bartusz Juraj, Bartuszová Maria, Bašičević Dimitrije Mangelos, Belić Zoran, Bogdanović Slavko, Bosch + Bosch, Csernik Attila, Ćosić Bora, Čekić Jovan, Delimar Vlasta, Demur Boris, Dimitrijević Braco, Djurić Dubravka, Drča Čeda, Družina u Šempas, Džafo Nikola, Ďurček Ľubomír, Filko Stano, Gorgona, Gotovac Tomislav, Grazio-Tolj Marija, Group (Ǝ, Group 143, Group KOD, Group of Six , Grozdanić Gera (Živko), Hadžifejzović Jusuf, Havlík Vladimír, Horvat Miljenko, Iveković Sanja, IRWIN,  Jerman Željko, Jevšovar Marijan, Jozić Milan, Juhász Rokko József, Kern Michal,  Knifer Julije, Koller Július, Kopicl Vladimir, Kovanda Jiří, Kozarić Ivan, Ladik Katalin, Laibach Kunst, Laky Miloš, Mandič Dušan, Mandić Miroslav, Martek Vlado, Matanović Milenko, Matković Slavko, Meštrović Matko, Miler Karel, Milivojević Era, Mlčoch Ján, Mohar Miran, Molnar Marijan, Németh Ilona, Nez David, OHO Group, Oravec Viktor, Pagáč Ladislav, Pagáč Milan, Paripović Neša, Peristil Crveni, Petrović Nenand, Pogačnik Marko, Poznanović Bogdanka, P.O.P. Artprospekt, Putar Radoslav, Radojičić Mirko, Radovanović Vladan, Raković Ana, Ságlová Zorka, Savić Maja, Savski Andrej, Seder Djuro, Sikora Rudolf, Stanković Paja, Steiner Ivo, Stilinović Mladen, Stilinović Sven, Stošić Josip, Szombathy Bálint, Šalamun Andraž, Šalgo Judita, Šejn Miloš, Štembera Petr, Štúdio erté, Šuvaković Miško, Tišma Slobodan, Todosijević Raša, Tolj Slaven, Trbuljak Goran, Trtovac Selman, Uranjek Roman, Valoch Jiří, Vaništa Josip, Vogelnik Borut, Vučemilović Fedor, Vuličević Slobodan, ZzIP, Zavarský Ján, Želibská Jana