Glocal Equality and Hospitality (Invalidated Ideas?)

Venue: County house (Župný dom), Mierové Square 46, Trenčín

Dates: 8 August – 7 December 2026 (The County House will be closed on 4 and 5 November for operational reasons.)

Opening: 7 August 2026

Curators: Edit András & Ilona Németh

Exhibition Architect: Zbyněk Baladrán

Participating Artists:

Kateryna Aliinyk (Ukraine), Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán (Romania), Border Emergency Collective (Poland), Cooking Sections (United Kingdom), András Cséfalvay (Slovakia), Disobedience Archive – Marco Scotini (Italy), Ferenc Gróf & Zsófia Gyenes (France), Sanja Iveković (Croatia), Szabolcs KissPál (Hungary), Hito Steyerl (Germany), Zdena Kolečková (Czech Republic), Oliver Ressler (Austria), Emília Rigová (Slovakia), Lucia Tkáčová (Slovakia), Jaro Varga (Slovakia), Martin Zet (Czech Republic), Artur Żmijewski (Poland)

The exhibition explores some of today’s most pressing challenges, including growing social, economic, and gender inequalities, the climate crisis, geopolitical conflicts, and the impact of technology, social media, and artificial intelligence on our everyday lives.

Through the work of internationally acclaimed artists, the exhibition offers diverse perspectives on global issues and their local consequences. Art becomes a space for critical reflection, dialogue, and the search for new ways of understanding social processes, strengthening solidarity, and responding to the challenges of our rapidly changing world.

Glocal Equality and Hospitality (invalidated ideas?) invites visitors to reflect on the future of our society and the meaning of coexistence, hospitality, and responsibility at a time when the boundaries between the local and the global are becoming increasingly intertwined.