The list of national projects SAS
Art Research Centre of SAS
“Clergy in the choir, people outside of the choir”. The Hierarchy of the Sacral Space in the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
„V chóre klérus, mimo chóru ľud“ : hierarchizácia sakrálneho priestoru v neskorej antike a ranom stredoveku
| Duration: |
1.1.2024 - 31.12.2027 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
Mgr. Pomfyová Bibiana PhD. |
| Annotation: | From its beginnings, Christian sacral architecture was conceived as a hierarchical space. The basis of this hierarchy was formed through the division of the interior of the church into the section in the vicinity of the altar, which was reserved for the clergy, and the remaining space, where the laity gathered. The aim of the project is to analyse the aspects of this division in the Late Antiquity and Middle Ages from the viewpoint of the art history (and primarily architecture) and from social and liturgical-theological viewpoints. Special attention will be dedicated to the partitions which contributed to the creation of this division – the liturgical screens (choir screens, altar screens) and rood screens. They were multifunctional objects which formed a physical, and frequently also a visual barrier, but also created liminal and communication zones. |
Aristocracy and art collections: Count Ján Pálffy and his manor in Pezinok
Aristokracia a umelecké zbierky: Gróf Ján Pálffy a jeho kaštieľ v Pezinku
| Duration: |
1.1.2024 - 31.12.2027 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
doc. PhDr. Ciulisová Ingrid DrSc. |
| Annotation: | The project focuses on one of the most significant Central-European art
collectors of the nineteenth century, Count János Pálffy (1829-1908).
János Pálffy came from an old Hungarian aristocratic family that gained
prominence under Habsburg rule. In response to the changes following 1848,
such as growing nationalism and the increasing political power
of the bourgeoisie and intelligentsia, Pálffy sought to revive the aristocratic
traditions of his family. His efforts included the art collections Páffy amassed
and displayed in his primary residencies in Vienna, Bratislava, Kráľová,
Bojnice and Pezinok. He also instructed his heirs to maintain these collections as
public museums. One exception was the manor in Pezinok. This interdisciplinary
project aims to explore the history of this exceptional property, its significance to
the owner, the collections housed there, and the economic background of its
possessor for the first time.
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Theatre as a Programme
Divadlo ako program
Distopian narrative in film
Dystopický naratív vo filme
| Duration: |
1.1.2024 - 31.12.2026 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
doc. Mgr. Palúch Martin PhD. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the project is to identify films with a dystopian vision and delineate their typological characteristics. Such themes appear throughout the history of film, but we will be particularly interested in current contexts and reflections on environmental stresses, ecological disasters or climate change, the development of artificial intelligence, post-human technologies, social ruptures and the prediction of the extinction of civilization and the natural environment of animal species. Given global trends and the advanced stage of climate change, the dystopian narrative is increasingly the focus of filmmakers, the content of film genres and television series. Art film actively reflects these phenomena at different levels of representation and approaches to the chosen themes, increased levels of dystopian narratives appear not only in documentaries, but also in feature and animated films. |
Local versus Global: Personalities and Tendencies of Modernism in Slovakia from the Perspective of New Heuristic, Methodological and Interpretive Approaches
Lokálne verzus globálne: osobnosti a tendencie výtvarnej moderny Slovenska z pohľadu nových heuristických, metodologických a interpretačných prístupov
| Duration: |
1.1.2025 - 31.12.2028 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
PhDr. Bajcurová Katarína CSc. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the project is a new interpretation – a critical reassessment, supplementation, and summary of new knowledge concerning the modernism of Slovakia (1890 – 1948/1949) in the current domestic and international context. We first attempted to interpret this issue with colleague Ján Abelovský at the Institute of Art History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in the first half of the 1990s (Výtvarná moderna Slovenska. Maliarstvo a sochárstvo 1890 – 1949, 1st ed. 1997, 2nd ed. 2000 Art in Changing Times: Painting & Sculpture 1890 – 1949, 2000). Almost three decades have passed since then, during which time knowledge, approaches, and methods for interpreting the issue have shifted fundamentally. The main contribution should be to 'illuminate' and 'read' the issue of Modern Slovak art from the current and new perspectives available to contemporary art historical scholarship and practice, and related disciplines, reflecting on how new museum/gallery concepts have changed and where they have shifted academic thinking about and interpretation of modernism. |
At the castle and underneath
Na hrade a v podhradí
| Duration: |
1.7.2023 - 30.6.2027 |
| Program: |
SRDA |
| Project leader: |
doc. Mgr. Mgr. Art. Hodásová Barbara PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project "At the Castle and underneath" represents an attempt by historians and art historians to construct, in a mutual interdisciplinary dialogue, a contemporary viewer's perception of a particular work of art, or rather a broader environment, created within the space of the imperial court residence at Bratislava Castle between 1536 and 1780. The ambition of the research team members from the ranks of historians will be to interpret Bratislava Castle as a mental, communicative and mediating space between the courtly milieu and the early medieval environment of Bratislava. Furthermore, thus by creating a unique experience for a specific individual, i.e., Hungarian royal officials, representatives of the Hungarian nobility and the ecclesiastical administration of Hungary, Bratislava townspeople, and even foreigners who had access to the spaces of Bratislava Castle due to the exercise of their office or their social status.
On the part of art historians, the grant aims to find and apply methodological tools, particularly the concept of actual visual studies, to formulate the reception of these exclusive works in the domestic space. Research into social elites' cultural and visual experiences is particularly relevant and promising for the future. On the other hand, on the part of historians, modern archaeological, prosopographical and genealogical research has great potential, especially in studying officials and official families engaged within the early modern Kingdom of Hungary.
Thus, the main tasks of the research team will be to identify the structured and multiple visual messages that specific works of art, or the wider environment, were intended to convey to contemporary audiences. Furthermore, it describes the interaction between physical space and its visual component on the one hand and the intangible or ephemeral cultural milieu recorded by textual or visual sources on the other.
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Nostalgia in the premodern period in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
Nostalgia v predmodernom období v strednej, východnej a juhovýchodnej Európe
| Duration: |
1.1.2025 - 31.12.2026 |
| Program: |
Other projects |
| Project leader: |
Mgr. et Mgr. Zervan Vratislav PhD. |
| Annotation: | The joint project aims to investigate the expressions and images of nostalgia that occur in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe from the 13th to 16th centuries. The inquiry will highlight four topics of nostalgia: the rhetoric of nostalgia, the figures or individuals of nostalgia, the communities and audiences of nostalgia, and lastly the sites and images of nostalgia. With the aid of a broad range of sources, the project will examine whether it is possible to uncover the strategies of nostalgic thinking, the author’s choice of a past period or occasion, respectively the genres in which nostalgic sentiments most often occur. The project attempts to compare features of nostalgia in the West with those in central, eastern and southeastern regions of Europe and evaluate the hypothesis that nostalgic expressions appear mostly during social acceleration. The project contributes to the understanding of nostalgia and its role in historical and societal transformations. |
Orient in the Fine Art of Slovakia
Orient vo výtvarnom umení Slovenska
| Duration: |
1.1.2023 - 31.12.2026 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
PhDr. Herucová Marta Ph.D. |
| Annotation: | Oriental works of art, works that imitate or are inspired by oriental themes, are preserved in memory institutions in Slovakia. Their authors come not only from the Orient, but also from Europe, including Slovakia. Many of them decorate the interiors of our castles and chateaux. In addition, there are works with oriental themes, scattered around the world, by artists who come from Slovakia. Most of them are from the 19th century. Interest in the oriental world was expressed in the fine art earlier, e.g. by portraits in oriental clothing, Ottoman themes and depictions of harem scenes. Some artists relied on illustrations (e.g. Friedrich Loos, represented at Červený Kameň), others themselves travelled to distant lands (from our country Libay from Banská Bystrica, Tornai from Hrhov, Székely from Levoča, etc.). The Middle East environment provided the background for religious works of art valued for their authenticity. The research will be focused on their mapping, closer identification and interpretation leading to their understanding and adequate assessment. |
Radical Museology and Contemporary Art: Post-Secular Strategies for Representing and Rewriting Art History in Central and Eastern Europe
Radikálna muzeológia a súčasné umenie: Postsekulárne stratégie reprezentácie a prepisovania dejín umenia v strednej a východnej Európe
| Duration: |
1.1.2026 - 31.12.2029 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
Mgr. Gregorová Stach Lucia PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project examines how contemporary art museums contribute to the redefinition of art history and the creation of hybrid identities in post-socialist societies. It draws on critical theory and the discourse of post-socialist horizontal art history and integrates perspectives from radical museology, decolonial strategies, and the post-secular space theory. The aim of the project is to examine the role of contemporary art museums in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 as agents of cultural transformation, representation of diversity, and the rewriting of art history in a post-socialist and global context. |
Gray normalization (?). Discourse on stereotypes in the perception of Slovak theater in the 1970s and 1980s
Sivé normalizačné (?). Diskurz o stereotypoch v nazeraní na slovenské divadlo v 70. a 80. rokoch 20. storočia
| Duration: |
1.1.2025 - 31.12.2027 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
doc. Mgr. art. Mišovic Karol PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project focuses on research and reflection on Slovak professional theatre at the time of the normalisation paradoxes in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite ideological constraints, there were artworks created at that time that disprove the stereotypical claims of artistic monotony. The research is based on an analytical-critical view of drama and opera through productions and creators in the given socio-political and Czechoslovak context, with creators extending beyond 1989. The research will provide an innovative perspective on previously published works based on new knowledge from different types of archives from a contemporary political-cultural perspective. |
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Temporality ikonológie
| Duration: |
1.1.2023 - 31.12.2026 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
prof. PhDr. Gerát Ivan PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project aims to map and analyze the various temporal modalities of iconology in its ideological, thematic, and historical-social contexts and concerning its perspectives as a research method developed in a lively relationship to contemporary developmental tendencies of imagery and visual culture, and fine art. The cross-cutting methodological studies primarily focus on the following issues: 1, historical time and historical memory in relation to the interpretation of visual culture (historical ruptures, past futures); 2, lived time in the creative experience of both artists and recipients of the image (processualism of creation, the organization of the viewer's time, exceptional situations and exceptional moments); 3, the representation of time in pictorial narratives (at the level of pictorial theme and historical construct); 4, anachronisms in the history of images and their interpretations; 5, the ideological horizons of iconological studies and their historical mutability. |
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Transregionálne, národné a horizontálne dejiny umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia
| Duration: |
1.1.2025 - 31.12.2028 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
doc. Mgr. Grúň Daniel PhD. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the project is to critically rethink the concept of horizontal art history as a relatively new methodological initiative in the field of Slovak art history. Horizontal art history, which was elaborated and promoted on a global scale by the Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski, will be examined from the position of national, regional and global art history. The comparative research focuses on art after 1945 in Central and Eastern Europe. In the research, we will try to introduce the approaches that emerge from the concept of horizontal art history: the revision of the canon of modernity and binary narratives (e.g. East and West, official and unofficial scene, centres and peripheries), to reopen the problem of national or ethnic narratives, the questions of localization, identity, subjectivity and cultural translation, i.e. from which positions the stories of art are told, and finally what are the possibilities and limits of opening up national themes on a transregional level. |
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Umelecké zbierky Márie Uhorskej (1505-1558), českej a uhorskej kráľovnej, regentky Nizozemska
| Duration: |
1.6.2025 - 31.7.2026 |
| Program: |
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| Project leader: |
doc. PhDr. Ciulisová Ingrid DrSc. |
| Annotation: | This international project re-examines – from multiple perspectives – the legacy of Mary, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (1505 – 1558) and Governor of the Low Countries for her brother, Emperor Charles V. By exploring her roles as collector, curator of the Habsburg collections, and patron of the arts, as well as her involvement in diplomacy and military affairs, the study deepens our understanding of the strategies employed by Habsburg female dynasts to strengthen and consolidate family power in the early modern period. |
The total number of projects: 13
