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On October 2, 2025, the exhibition “Josip Plečnik – Central European Architect” opened to the public at Bratislava Castle and will run until June 30, 2026. The exhibition presents Plečnik’s work across the stages of his creative life – from his years in Vienna, through his work in Prague, to his architecture in Slovenia – and also shows how he influenced the development of architecture in Central Europe, especially in Slovakia.
Visitors can look forward to a rich collection of Plečnik’s models, original drawings, archival documents, and artifacts from collections in Czechia, Slovenia, Austria, and Slovakia. A significant part of the exhibition is devoted to Plečnik’s relationship with Slovakia – the themes here include inspiration from folk art, the work of his students, and works connected with Dušan Jurkovič, with whom Plečnik was in contact. Among the exhibits, you will find a model of the Mohyla na Bradle monument, Jurkovič’s villa, furniture from a student dormitory, and a cross from a military cemetery in Galicia.
The exhibition offers not only visual experiences, but also deeper context – it presents three fundamental stages of Plečnik’s life (Vienna, Prague, Slovenia) and indicates how his concept of space, composition, relationship to cultural tradition, and technological progress gradually developed.
This exhibition is also unique in that it combines culture and diplomacy – its opening was attended by the presidents of four countries, underscoring the Central European significance of Plečnik’s legacy. The interplay between tradition and modernity, between regional roots and a European vision – this is the structure that Plečnik embodied and which the exhibition now presents to visitors as a dialogue between the past and the present.
Photo: Damjan Prelovšek
Editor: Lada Šretrová
