The collection experts left the National Gallery. The descendants of artists are worried about the fate of the works
3. Apr 2025 at 18:07
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The SNG has almost a hundred thousand works in the collection.
BRATISLAVA. The descendants of artists and artists, whose works are in the collections of the Slovak National Gallery, are concerned about the protection and future of collection items.
« Our concerns are not only concerned with the fate of the works of our acquaintances and recognized ancestors, but also the preservation of the whole cultural heritage that belongs to the public – it is the property of all of us, » said the visual artist Ivana Šáteková, who read a joint statement of the offspring of artists and artists on Thursday.
Forty -one of the descendants, including the relatives of Ľudovít Fulla, Viera Kraicová, Július Koller, Rudolf Filu, Alexander Trizuljak and Andrej Rudavský, was signed.
Outgoing employment
- The total number of SNG employees is 270.
- At the end of March, about 70 employees ended.
- Among them are all six senior SNG curators, almost the entire economic department, employees of gallery pedagogy, program department and the entire department of digital technologies.
- The section of marketing was also disintegrated, the head of the art library left.
- The SNG also ended the Ex libris bookstore after 12 years.
- The gallery was also left by employees who took care of the production of exhibitions or some exhibition technicians.
- Furthermore, the technician of multimedia installations, the manager of digital services, curatorial manager, IT administrator, accountant/officer of the preliminary control, research and development director, publicity managers, economic management manager, bookstore, program assistant, program assistant, Digital archive documentary or catalogs and catalogs. positions.
No one from day to day will not happen to the artegistoric
As for April 1, SNG left approximately 70 employees and employees across the institution, others are on leaving.
More than a third of the Department of the Section of Collections and Funds, including its director Maria Bohumelová, also ended. Other experts end up to April 30.
« This departure represents a significant intervention in the gallery, as specialists and specialist workers who have been involved in various collections for a long time are key to maintaining and protecting the cultural heritage that SNG manages, » said Šáteková.
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Art historian Marcela Macharáčková, niece of sculptor Jozef Kostka, sees the situation as critical.
« We lived in the free world and suddenly a bunch of non -educators took the power of the power. They do not realize that every expert in the gallery has been honestly studied. Nobody will happen to day by day.
The Slovak National Gallery currently has about 96,000 works in the collections.
According to the descendants, the departure of employees seriously threatens the quality of professional management of collections and exhibition projects, increasing the risk that some valuable works will not be properly maintained and made available to the public.
They ask how the current and future management plans to provide protection of these collections and professional care when the professional capacity of the gallery is weakened.
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