Art Café, Saturday 19.11, 1pm – 2.30pm

Street art is visual art created in public places, visible to the public. Can the public do whatever they want in public spaces? One of the main differences between so-called commercial art, advertising, folk and activist art and original graffiti lies mainly in the message. Art is mostly intended to provoke thought in the people. The issue of permission has also come to the centre of street art, as graffiti is usually done illegally, whereas street art can be the result of an agreement or even a commission. Is it better if these street processes are spontaneous or controlled? If we want to manage street art, what is the best way? We will talk with curators and conservationists.

Discussing Katarína Terao Vošková and Adrián Kobetič, moderated by Zuzana Duchová

Katarína Terao Vošková is an architect-monumentist. She is dedicated to education in the field of protection, presentation and restoration of monuments and scientific research projects at the Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Restoration of Monuments, Faculty of Architecture and Design, STU in Bratislava. She lives and works in Banská Štiavnica, where she has long been dedicated to saving and coordinating the restoration of the Banská Štiavnica Calvary. She is the editor and co-author of several publications and monographs presenting the cultural heritage of Banská Štiavnica and its surroundings, the curator and author of three permanent exhibitions presenting the history and present of Baroque Calvary.

Mgr. Adrián Kobetič (*1995) studied history and theory of art and architecture at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Trnava. He completed a study stay at the Masaryk University in Brno and at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana in Rome. After finishing his studies, he worked as a curator in the Nitra Gallery. He deals with medieval and contemporary art, within which he prepared several exhibition projects. He currently works as a city curator in Trnava and is also a doctoral student at the Institute of Art History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Trnava. He lives in Trnava.