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 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.
In front of the ÚĽUV shop, craftsmen and masters of folk art production will meet on 21 July - 12 August 2023 (every Friday and Saturday ❘ 10.00 a. m. – 06.00 p. m.) to present their skills and share their precious knowledge. You can look forward to demonstrations of tinkering, gingerbread decorating, curved needle embroidery, pottery, blacksmithing and woodcarving.
The main characteristic of wooden products from the village of Kyjatice is their unique decoration, consisting of variations of engraved ornamentations. It is mostly strikingly represented today by Kyjatice toys, although at the beginning of the 19th century, the inhabitants of this village were making mainly furniture out of beech wood, and toys were just a side range.
In 2023, ÚĽUV presents natural materials for weaving in traditional and contemporary craft as well as design in its year-round activities. The ambition of the new exhibition at the ÚĽUV Gallery in Bratislava, which continues the thematic cycle Tradition Untraditionally, is to show visitors the diversity and functionality of the works of master craftsmen, designers and students.
ÚĽUV organizes SPLINTS WEAVING WORKSHOP in the frame of the European Days of Arts and Crafts. The workshop is aimed at familiarizing with the process of making a splints basket from the beginning to the final product - collecting, steaming and chopping the wood, preparing the splints and knitting.
The “Design by Nature“ exhibition is another showcase of the current semester works of the students of the Innovation Studio in the premises of the ÚĽUV Regional Crafts Centre in Košice. Studio Innovation was founded in 2005 by Tibor Uhrín and operates within the Department of Design of the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University in Košice (Faculty of Arts TUKE).
Centre for Folk Art Production ( ÚĽUV) announces the 9th anniversary of In the Country of Craft, art-craft competition for children and young people. The goal of the competition is to raise the interest of children towards the traditional craft skills, enhance the cultural identity, support the creativity a provide an innovative option to use free time.
The “Rings in Water” competition is organized bi-yearly by ÚĽUV. The goal is to initiate and support 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.
Dear Craft Fans, we are delighted to inform you that the The School of Crafts ÚĽUV is nominated for inscription on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage – Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. Support our nomination with your experiences from The School of Crafts ÚĽUV!
