Exhibitions in its own galleries and exhibitions intended to be presented abroad have been part of ÚĽUV permanent cultural and promotional activities for six decades now. Several of ÚĽUV’s events are repeated regularly.
For twenty years, we have been organising in Bratislava a festival of traditional crafts and folk production called ÚĽUV Craftsmen Days. Every two years, ÚĽUV hosts competitions for young professional designers and for pupils of primary schools and art schools.
The current exhibition presents a selection of student works from the Design and Woodworking Department of the Josef Vydra School of Applied Arts in Bratislava over the past 25 years.
The concept of the exhibition presents the institution as an innovative post-war Czechoslovak project which brought new ideas and impulses into the local environment. It points to interesting connections between the effort to maintain the folk tradition while also trying to modernise it. The ÚĽUV/Krásna izba brand entered th history of design in Czechoslovakia as a clear signal of artistic and craft quality.
For 80 years, the Centre for Folk Art Production has been protecting and developing living heritage in the form of traditional crafts and homemade products. This remarkable anniversary will be celebrated at the largest urban craft festival in the country.
To date, 454 individuals have been awarded the title of Master of Folk Art Production. This exhibition showcases the works of the most recent 80 masters, symbolically selected to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Centre for Folk Art Production. It presents the work of contemporary artisans, the majority of whom are still active today.
The third exhibition from the successful series “Tradition Untraditionally“, presented in the ÚĽUV Gallery in Bratislava, brings us closer the Non-ageing popularity of field plants – linen and hemp. The unique character of those historical objects and products made from them in the past decades under the ÚĽUV brand, will guide visitors through the fascinating past.
ÚĽUV in 2024 established cooperation with another Art School, the School of Design - Bohumil Bača Private School of Art Industry in Bratislava. Within the framework of this school, students of the Graphic Design Department worked on the theme of the logo for the 80th anniversary of ÚĽUV with application to promotional items in the form of an assignment. The students of the Fashion Design Department created models and accessories inspired by traditional folk textile techniques or elements of clothing.
The international craft-oriented design competition Rings in Water is a platform for showcasing new works seeking inspiration in traditional crafts. The purpose of the competition is to develop a dialogue about traditional values, their preservation and innovation in contemporary craft, applied arts and design.
The aim of the national arts and crafts competition In the Country of Crafts (for children and young people aged 8-16 years) is to arouse interest in traditional folk crafts and strengthen their consciousness of cultural identity, to encourage creativity in the field of crafts and to provide an opportunity for creative use of leisure time.
The 12th edition of the international crafts-oriented design competition is a platform aimed at finding innovations inspired by traditional craft production. Organized by ÚĽUV since 2000, the competition’s mission is to foster dialogue on traditional values, their preservation and innovation in contemporary craft, applied art and design.
The largest urban festival of traditional Slovak crafts is coming! During the weekend masters of folk art production will fill the heart of Bratislava's Old Town, where they will showcase their skills and craftsmanship.
The workshop "In Line with Linen II." will take place from 14 to 16 June 2024 with the support of the House of Traditional Weaving in Kokava nad Rimavicou. It is a follow-up to last year's event In Line with Linen, during which ÚĽUV in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava prepared lectures on linen, its cultivation, characteristics and processing.
CRAFTMOVE is the name of the project - namely three short-term mobilities in the adult education sector (KA122-ADU), in this case three lecturers from ÚĽUV, which we are carrying out in cooperation with foreign partners for the next few months until 30 November 2025.
This year ÚĽUV is bringing linen, hemp and nettle closer to the public through various events. The stories of these unique natural materials, strongly connected with the history of material culture of mankind, are fascinating.
The third exhibition from the successful series “Tradition Untraditionally“, presented in the ÚĽUV Gallery in Bratislava, brings us closer the Non-ageing popularity of field plants - linen and hemp.
The School of Crafts ÚĽUV has been inscribed on the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices to the UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The nineteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, meeting in in Asunción, Paraguay from December 2 to 7, 2024, brought a historical success for Slovakia.
The “Rings in Water” competition initiates and supports the creation of new designer products inspired by traditional craft. It develops a dialogue about traditional values, how they are safeguarded and how they appear in contemporary craft, applied art and design. In the course of its existence, the competition has earned its reputation as a respected competition, not only within Slovakia but also abroad.
The Centre for Folk Art Production (ÚĽUV) has a mission to safeguard and develop traditional crafts and home-made production in Slovakia. Both in the past and today, it focuses mainly on looking for, mapping out and protecting crafts that are dying out.
