Gallery profile
The Turčianska Gallery is a museum-type institution with a regional scope, which also implies its focus and activities. Its primary mission is to build, record, present and protect the collection.
Its activities include scientific research, cultural-educational and exhibition activities. At present, its founder is the Žilina self-governing region.
With its presentation activities, the gallery presents the work of Turčian artists of various generations through chamber author exhibitions, extensive retrospectives or collective presentations. In addition to exhibitions dedicated to regional artists, the gallery also presents the work of established Slovak and Czech artists, but does not neglect the youngest generation of artists.
County House
The county house, the seat of the Turčianska Gallery, was probably built in the 17th century as a chamber, seat of the courthouse, county archives, treasury and for the representative purposes of the burghers of Turčiansky Svätý Martin. The building went through two styles
stages and several construction modifications.
In the first stage, a late Renaissance two-storey L-shaped building was created together with a tower from 1808. The second Baroque-Classicist design, extended to a U-shape and increased by one floor, gave the building a stylistic expression similar to the present. During the 20th century, a small courtyard between the east and west wings was closed by building modifications, which created a block building with a new roof.
In the years 2008 - 2009, thanks to the city of Martin, the building underwent a significant exterior and interior transformation, which contributed to a higher standard of the gallery as a professional workplace of its kind.
In 1983, the gallery defended its independent position as the Gallery of Fine Arts in Martin and a year later, with a new name: Turčianska Gallery. Since 1987, the county house building on Daxnerova Street no. 2. In the same year, it opened its gates to the public and, with an exhibition presentation of the permanent exhibition, introduced the visitors to the art of the Turčianske region.
History
In 1933, the first Slovak picture gallery was opened in the building of the Slovak National Museum under the name Národná galéria slovenská. In its program, the Picture Gallery had ambitions to grow into an independent nationwide art-collecting institution, but until the mid-1950s it remained only a part of the Slovak National Museum in Martin. In the years 1952 - 1955, Martin sought to establish a regional gallery. Its seat was to be the premises of the former National Gallery of Slovakia, and in 1953 it even began its activities. A year later, two art purchases were made for the gallery in preparation, but despite this effort, it has not yet been created. Instead, all major works of art were transferred to the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, and in 1955 it acquired the status of the regional gallery Obrazáreň PM Bohúňa in Liptovský Mikuláš. It took 30 years for the city to acquire its gallery, initially as part of the District Monument Administration in Martin.
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