PhDr. Katarína Bajcurová CSc.

Birth year
1957

Active in
Slovenská národná galéria, Bratislava / Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava

Studied at
Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Komenského, Bratislava / Faculty of Arts at Comenius University, Bratislava

Last modified date
02.04.2019

Art historian and curator. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava (1980) and continued studying for a research degree in art history. Katarína Bajcurová worked at the Institute for Art Studies of the Academy of Sciences (1983 – 1994, after 1990 the Institute for Art History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences). Since 1994, she has been working at the Slovak National Gallery, initially as a curator of the Collection of Slovak Painting of the second half of the 20th century, later as a deputy director, and from 1999 to 2009 as Managing Director of the Slovak National Gallery. She is currently working as a curator of the Modern and Contemporary Art Collection. She specialises in 20th century Slovak sculpture and painting. Katarína Bajcurová has published several monographs, and has been involved in the preparation of a number of major exhibition projects of the Slovak National Gallery, and monographic exhibitions of leading 20th century Slovak artists. She was the curator of the Slovak exhibition at the 46th Biennale in Venice (1995) and the 26th Bienal de São Paulo (2004). In 2008, she won the Martin Benka Award, and in 2017 the Tatra banka Foundation Award for Art (with Petra Hanáková and Bohunka Koklesová). Katarína Bajcurová lectured on Slovak modern art history in the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University. She is an expert on Slovak modern art, and a member of the Slovak Section of the International Association of Critics AICA.

photo: Michaela Dutková

Curatorial Projects (selection):

2019

LACO TEREN / Nothing Will Stop Us. Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2018
Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková. Ľudovít Fulla Gallery, Ružomberok (SK)

2018
The Eights. Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
FILLA – FULLA: The Artist´s Fate. Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2017
Mikuláš Galanda z cyklu Kolegovia. Ľudovít Fulla Gallery, Ružomberok (SK)

2016 – 2017
Dream × Reality. In cooperation with Petra Hanáková and Bohunka Koklesová, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2016
Zolo Palugyay z cyklu Kolegovia. Ľudovít Fulla Gallery, Ružomberok (SK)

2015
Palo Macho. Ľudovít Fulla Gallery, Ružomberok (SK)
Janko Alexy z cyklu Kolegovia. Ľudovít Fulla Gallery, Ružomberok (SK)

2014
Miloš Alexander Bazovský from the Cycle - Collegues. Ľudovít Fulla Gallery, Ružomberok (SK)

2013
Gustáv Mallý from the cycle Colleagues. Ľudovít Fulla Gallery, Ružomberok (SK)

2012

Poklady slovenskej moderny. Palais Porcia, Vienna (AT)

MODERNISM. Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

Martin Benka z cyklu Kolegovia. Ľudovít Fulla Gallery, Ružomberok (SK)

2011 – 2012

The New Slovakia . In cooperation with Petra Hanáková and Aurel Hrabušický, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2011
Ernest Zmeták – The Artist. Slovak National Gallery, Zvolen Castle, Zvolen (SK)

2010 – 2011

She is Madonna... Slovak National Gallery, Zvolen Castle, Zvolen (SK)

2010
Juraj Bartusz. gestá / body / sekundy. In cooperation with Vladimíra Büngerová and Lucia Gregorová Stach, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2009

Mudroch & Mudroch. In cooperation with Marian Mudroch, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2008 – 2009
Slovenský obraz (anti-obraz). Prague Castle – Riding, Prague (CZ)
2. Russian Avantgarde. Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2007
Milan Bočkay. In cooperation with Rudolf Fila and Jiří Valoch, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2005
Socha piešťanských parkov. Spa Island, Piešťany (SK)
Mária Bartuszová. In cooperation with Vladimír Beskid, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2004
Adriena Šimotová - Tvár. In cooperation with Pave Brunclík. Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2003

Václav Cígler a jeho škola. In cooperation with Václav Cígler, Hall of Slovak Ministry of Culture, Bratislava (SK)
2002
Juraj Meliš (Dielo 1967 - 2002) Kovadlina snov. Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
Ľudovít Fulla 2002. In cooperation with Alexandra Kusá, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

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