Open House Day in Regional Centres of Crafts of Centre for Folk Art Production in Košice, Banská Bystrica and Bratislava
Open House Day in Regional Centres of Crafts of Centre for Folk Art Production in Košice, Banská Bystrica and Bratislava would provide its visitors with full day programme that consist of morning creative workshops with a children, interactive demonstrations of traditional crafts, quided tour of exhibitions with curators, craftsmen and craftswomen in our galleries in Bratislava and Košice. Gallery ÚĽUV in Bratislava offers its visitors exhibition named Masters of Tradition and is dedicated to 80 masters of folk art production. ÚĽUV awarded the title of Master of Folk Art Production since 1959 and continues to recognize the most outstanding figures among folk art producers to this day. The social and professional prestige of this title has brought satisfaction to the artisans themselves while also serving as motivation for their fellow craftsmen and successors. Gallery ÚĽUV in Košice presents an exhibiton named Rings in Water which contains outcomes of the same name international craft-oriented design competition. The purpose of the competition is to develop a dialogue about traditional values, their preservation and innovation in contemporary craft, applied arts and design.
The programme will be suplemmented of free entrance to ÚĽUV Library in Bratislava and ÚĽUV shops in all three Regional Centres.
Programme
Regional Centre of Crafts, Obchodná 14, 811 06 Bratislava
2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Presentation of Folk Art Production
2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Entrance to ÚĽUV Library
2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
The access to the exhibition Masters of Tradition in Gallery ÚĽUV Bratislava
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Museum of Folk Art Production – presentation / Radoslava Janáčová
03:30 p.m. – 04:00 p.m
Guided tour of exhibition with curators / Eva Ševčíková, Dominika Žažová
in the presence of masters of folk art production / Oľga Obertová, Martin Mešša
05:00 p.m. – 05:30 p.m.
Guided tour of exhibition with curators / Eva Ševčíková, Dominika Žažová
in the presence of masters of folk art production / Alena Hlucháňová, František Hubek
02:00 p.m. – 06:00 p.m.
Design Studio ÚĽUV – exhibition In the Country of Crafts 2025
Regional Centre of Crafts, Dolná 14, 974 01 Banská Bystrica
08:30 a.m. – 02:30 p.m.
Crafts for Children – programme for school groups / Presentation of Folk Art Production
03:00 – 05:00 p.m.
Presentation of Folk Art Production for public
Regional Centre of Crafts, Mäsiarska 52, 040 01 Košice
09:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Crafts for Children – programme for school groups / Presentation of Folk Art Production
Creative workshop for students of School of Applied Art Košice
02:30 p.m. – 04:30 p.m.
Presentation of Folk Art Production for public
02:30 p.m. – 06:00 p.m.
The access to the exhibition Rings in Water in Gallery ÚĽUV Košice
04:30 p.m. - 05:30 p.m.
History of Centre for Folk Art Production 1945 – 1989 in new publication – presentation / Zuzana Dedík Šidlíková
05:30 p.m. – 06:00 p.m.
Guided tour of exhibition Rings in Water
