Stano Filko, 5.D.-ABSOLUTOBJEKTIVINFINITYUPTIMEQ (c. 2005). Installation view, Prague Biennale 3, Prague, 2007. Collection of the Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava.
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Photo: Paťo Safko, 2007. Courtesy of The Estate of Stano Filko.
ARTIST

Stano Filko

(1937, Veľká Hradná – 2015, Bratislava)

Stano Filko was a pioneering Slovak conceptual and multimedia artist, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures of the Central European avant-garde. From the 1960s onward, his practice examined systems of thought—spanning spirituality, science, colour, and space—through an expansive range of media including painting, installation, text, performance, and architectural interventions.

A key participant in the neo-avant-garde in former Czechoslovakia, Filko exhibited internationally despite periods of political restriction and exile. His concept of “cosmohumanism” and his colour-coded systems became central to his artistic philosophy. His works are held in major museum collections and continue to be presented in exhibitions worldwide.

Exhibition history

2026

STANO FILKO: COLOUR AND SYSTEM, FRONT AND BACK, curated by Boris Ondreička, Miloš Alexander Bazovský Gallery, Trenčín (SK)

Stano Filko, co-curated by Boris Ondreička and Jürgen Tabor in collaboration with the Generali Insurance Art Collection, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg (AT)

2024

Hidden Agenda, Stano Filko and Franz West, Layr, Vienna (AT)

2022

Stano Filko: A Retrospective, curated by Sandro Droschl, Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz (AT)

Stano Filko, RED EXILE, curated by S.ren Grammel & Jan Verwoert, Layr, Vienna (AT)

2021

Registration of Stano Filko / Registrace Stana Filka, curated by Boris Ondreička, Fait Gallery, Brno (CZ)

2020

Allegra Projects, St. Moritz (CH)

2019

Cosmoscow with Layr, Moscow (RU)

STANO FILKO - STANO FILKO, curated by Pia-Marie Remmers, Layr, Rome (IT)

Multimodal Googlification of Cosmology-Oriented Diagrammatic Experimentations of Stano Filko, curated by Boris Ondreička, Layr, Vienna (AT)

2018

Feature, with Layr, Art Basel, Basel (CH)

2017

2037, curated by Nina Vrbanova, Kunsthalle Bratislava (SK)

2016

Stano Filko: Po.zia o Priestore a Kozme, curated by Lucia Gregorov. Stach in cooperation with Aurel Hrabusicky and Joanna Kordjak, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

Stano Filko v Žiline. Fragment výstavy, Nov. Synag.ga, Žilina (SK)

2015

FILKO - FYLKO - PHYLKO, curated by Lucia Gregorová Stach and Joanna Kordjak, Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL)

Focus, Frieze Art Fair London, with Layr, London (UK)

5.D., PlATO - platforma, curated by Marek Pokorny, Ostrava, Vitkovice (CZ)

Stano Filko, Kiki Kogelnik, Lira Gallery, Rome (IT)

Kiedy ludzie kr po miecie (with Janina Kraupe-widerska), curated by Christian Kobald, National Museum, Krakov (PL)

2014

WHITE (Essence), 1974, with, Milos Laky and Ján Zavarský, curated by Fedor Blascak, Layr, Vienna (AT)

Postbigbang - Antebigbangsf, curated by Mira Keratová, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (IT)

ERUPEKCIA-ORGIAMUS-ORGAZMUS-YANG-YING=SLNKOMESIAC-INLIFELOVE-ENTITA-EXIST-BEINGHSF-HERMAFRODIT, KAžDÉMU PODĽA SVOJICH MOžNOSTÍ A SCHOPNOSTÍ 5.4. 3.D. - PRE ŽIVOT, (with Ji􀀀í Kovanda), curated by Mira Keratová, Donnaregina, Naples (IT)

2012

erupekcia-orgiazmus-orgazmus-yang-jin=slnkomesiac-in like-love-entitaexist-beingsf-hermafrodit kazdemu podla svojich moznosti a schopnosti-v-in-5.4.3.d-pre zivot singular truths vsetkych ludi na tejto zemeguli-tranzscendenciev-in-existencii-len v 3.d., amt _ project, Bratislava (SK)

Stano Filko - White as an ontological space and the beginning of everything, curated by Zsófia Kiss-Szemán, Galeria Nedbalka, Bratislava (SK)

Vernisáz výstavy TRANzSCENDENTEAOQ 5.D. (4.3.), Galéria Cypriána Majernika, Bratislava (SK)

TRANzSCENDENTEAOQ 5.4.3.D = METODIKA = INTELIGENTEAOQ, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)

2008

Filkova archa a oltare sucasnosti, curated by Ivan Jancar, City Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2005

UP 300000 KM/S tranzit workshops, curated by Vit Havranek and Boris Ondreička, Bratislava (SK)

2003

Stano Filko. SONDA EGOQ 1937-2037 GEMINIY, Galéria Slovenská sporiteňa,Bratislava (SK)

FIYLKONTEMPLACIAKCIEQ, SONDA 1950-1969, SONDA 1971-1984, Štátna galéria, Banská Bystrica (SK)

2000

EGOQ, Východoslovenská galéria, Košice (SK)

1999

Starý a Nový testament, Slovenská filharmónia, Bratislava (SK)

1996

Galeria Tatrasoft, Bratislava (SK)

1994

Výber z tvorby (Červená biologická energia, 3. dimenzia, Modrá kozmologická, 4. dimenzia, Biela metafyzická enerhia, 5. dimenzia), Slovak National Gallery, Zvolen (SK)

1993

Stano Filko – Výber z diela. I. Červená energia (cyklus Sondy), Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

1987

Stano Fylko, The Donell Library Center, New York (USA)

1986

FYLKO. Special Exhibit of Recent Work 1983 - 1985, P.S. 1- The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York (US)

1984

Stano Filko. Exhibit of Painting, North Arlinghton Public Library, North Arlinghton, New Jersey (USA)

1980

Stanislaw Filko. Transcendencja I.-II. 1978-1979, Mala Galeria PSP- zPAF, Plac zamkowy, Warsaw (PL)

1979

Transcendencja. 1978. Stano Filko, Galeria GN ZPAF, Gdansk (PL)

1978

Stanislav Filko. Emotion – 1977, Galeria LDK Labirynt, Lublin (PL)

1974

Biely priestor v bielom priestore. Stano Filk- Miloš Laky- Ján Zavarský, Dum umení, Brno (Cz)

1969

Stanislav Filko. Environnement Universel 1966-1967 und Grafik, Galerie Ursula Wendtorf, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg (DE)

1967

Grafika, Galeria Václava Špály, Prague (CZ)

Stano Filko. Obydli soucasnosti a skutecnosti, Galeria na Karlove namesti, Prague (Cz)

Externé prostredie - komunikácia, Galéria Cypriána Majerníka, Bratislava (SK)

1962

Obrazy, Reduta, Bratislava (SK)

1958

Obrazy – Grafiky, Kultúrny dom, Bánovce nad Bebravou (SK)

2026

“…each thing is itself in not being itself, and is not itself in being itself…”, curated by Boris Ondreička, Layr, Vienna (AT)

2025

The Cynics Republic - Plac Defilad, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (PL)

2024

Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s, curated by Pavel Pyč, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (US)

Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s, curated by Pavel Pyč, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (CN)

Ringen, Loggia, Vienna (AT)

Unknown Familiars, The Vienna Insurance Group Collections, Leopold Museum, Vienna (AT)

Worlding, Platform Arts, Geelong VIC (AUS)

La République (Cynique), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)

2023

Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)

Alle Farben fixieren chromosomale Glieder, Kunstverein Lingen, Lingen (DE)

Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture Without Borders, 1960s–1980s, Estonian Museum of Architecture, curated by Andres Kurg and Mari Laanemets, Tallinn (EST)

Dowsing, curated by Nick Irvin, Layr, Vienna (AT)

2022

New Space Show, Layr, Vienna (AT)

Statements, Art Basel, Basel (CH)

BARBE À PAPA, curated by Cédric Fauq, CAPC, Museum of Contemporary Art ofBordeaux, Bordeaux (FR)

Prológ. 12 farieb reality, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SVK)

Riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave: art as a state of mind, PLATFORM München, Munich (DE)

2021

Enjoy, mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (AT)

Lichtenfels Sculpture, Ruine Lichtenfels, Lichtenfels (AT)

Stars Down to Earth, curated by Sung Tieu and Nicholas Tammens, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin (DE)

2019

Presentation of the Collection, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel (CH)

Frieze with Layr, London (UK)

Going to the Moon, Eres Stiftung, Munich (DE)

Collective Exhibition for a Singke Body - the private score - Vienna, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna (AT)

Signal - The Story of (Post)Conceptual Art in Slovakia, curated by Vladimír Beskid, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (HU)

Material Art Fair with Layr, Mexico City (MX)

Where do we go from here?, curated by Anna Goetz, Salón Acme, Mexico City (MX)

2018

Who was 1968?, c urated by Hedwig Saxenhuber and Georg Schellhammer, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (AT)

2017

MASMEDIÁLNE OBRAZY ŽENY, curated by Lucia Ramljaková, Bratislava City Gallery (SK)

2016

Kunst in Europa 1945-1968, curated by Eckhart Gillen and Peter Weibel, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe (DE)

2015

Ludwig Goes Pop + The East Side Story, curated by Soma Bradak, Viktoria Popovics and Katalin Timar, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest (HU)

Die Schule von Kyiv, curated by Hedwig Saxenhuber, Georg Schöllhammer and Anja Casser, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)

LISTE Basel 20 - Stano Filko, Benjamin Hirte, Lili Reynaud-Dewar and Ramaya Tegegne, Basel (CH)

The Soft Codes, Conceptual Tendencies in Slovak Art, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw (PL)

Shifters: Signaling in Latin America and Eastern Europe, curated by Florencia Cherñajovsky, GB Agency, Paris (FR)

Conceptual art and Communism 1965 – 1989, Gallery BBLA, New York (US)

Boris Ondreička. The Beginning and the End of the Passage, curated by Adam Budak, National Gallery, Prague (CZ)

2014

Lotte Sonnenstein: Bildbaumeister extended, curated by Angela Stief, Casa Roja Temporäre Kunsthalle Linz, Linz (AT)

Lotte Sonnenstein: Bildbaumeister, Parallel II Art Fair, Vienna (AT)

Personal Hi-Stories, curated by Elena Yaichnikova and Nicolas Audureau, Garage Project Space, Moscow (RU)

Cosmos Calling! Art And Science In The Long Sixties, curated by Joanna Kordjak-Piotrowska and Stanislaw Welbe, zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL)

Strom zivota / Tree of Life, curated by Zsófia Kiss-Szemán, Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava (SK)

Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, curated by Vít Havránek, Dóra Hegyi and Georg Schöllhammer, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (US)

2013

The Earth Turns And All Things Slip Away, curated by Edith Jerabkova and Jiri Kovanda, Hunt Kastner Artworks, Prague (CZ)

Collection 1 2 3 / The Tracks of History in Acquisitions - Part 3, GASK, Galerie Stedoceského kraje, Kutná Hora (CZ)

2012

Blood, Esterházy Palace, Bratislava (SK)

Fremde Überall - Foreigners Everywhere, zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Pomeranz Collection, curated by Ami Barak, Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna (AT)

zero Years - Slovak Visual Art between 1999 and 2011 from Four Curatorial Perspectives, curated by Juraj 􀀀arný, Gabriela Garlatyová, Richard Gregor and Mira Sikorová-Putišová, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen (HU)

Delete - Art and Wiping Out, Esterházy Palace, Bratislava (SK)

Strata, Sammlung Lenikus, curated by Francesco Stocchi, Bauernmarkt 9, Vienna (AT)

as a poem might celebrate these, Stano Filko, Marjorie Keller, Rita Vitorelli, curated by Christian Kobald, Pleasantpleasant, Copenhagen (DK)

Mit sofortiger Wirkung: künstlerische Eingriffe in den Alltag (with immediate effect: artistic interventions in the everyday), Kunsthalle project space karlsplatz, Vienna (AT)

Papier Kole, Czech and Slovak koláz /Collage of 20th and 21th centuries, East-Slovakian Gallery Kosice, Kosice (SK)

2011

The Present and Presence, curated by Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur and Igor Španjol, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana (SL)

Eyes Looking for the Head to Inhabit, curated by Aleksandra Jach, Katarzyna Sloboda, Joanna Sokolowska and Magdalena Zió􀀀kowska, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz (PL)

A Terrible Beauty Is Born, curated by Victoria Noorthoorn, 11th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (FR)

Ostalgia, New Museum, New York (US)

East by South West,… sein Dasein verlässt und seine Gestalt der Erinnerung übergibt, curated by Severin Dünser and Christian Kobald, Layr, Vienna (AT)

Museum of Parallel Narratives, curated by Zdenka Badovinac, MACBA, Barcelona (SP)

2010

Porträt einer Sammlung, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz (DE)

Les promesses du passé, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)

Star City - The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary (UK)

2008

BETWEEN CONCEPT AND ACTION, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (IT)

2007

Arta Slovaca 1960 - 2000, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bukarest (RO)

Prague Biennale 3, Prague (CZ)

tranzit, Kunstverein Frankfurt (DE)

OUT OF THE CITY Landart, curated by Daniela Carna, City Gallery of Bratislava, Bratislava (SK)

Stage, Backstage, Auditorium, Kunstverein Frankfurt (DE)

2006

Kontakt... aus der Sammlung der Erste Bank Group, mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (AT)

I (ICH), Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT)

Living Art - On the Edge of Europe, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL)

2005

51st Venice Biennial, Venice (IT)

2004

Collected Views from East to West, curated by Sabine Breitwieser, Generali Foundation, Vienna (AT)

2003

FIYLKONTEMPLACIAKCIEQ, SONDA 1950 -1969, SONDA 1971 - 1984, státna galéria (State Gallery), Banská Bystrica (SK)

Slovak Contemporary Art, Gallery Art Factory, Prague (CZ)

2001

Umenie akcie 1965 - 1980, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

Slowakische Träume, Museum moderner Kunst, Passau (DE)

Samizdat. Alternative Kultur in zentral- und Osteuropa. Die 60er bis 80er Jahre, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DE)

Global Conceptualism – Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, MIT/List Visual Art Center, Cambridge (USA)

Aspect / Positions. 50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949 – 1999, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (HU) and John Hansard Gallery, City Gallery Southampton (UK)

1999

Aspekte / Positionen. 50 Jahre Kunst aus Mitteleuropa 1949 - 1999, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Liechtenstein, 20er Haus, Vienna (AT)

Global Conceptualism - Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, QMA - Queens Museum of Art, New York (US)

Slovak Art for Free, Biennale de Venezia, Venice (IT)

Akce Slovo Pohyb Prostor. Experimenty v umení šedesátych let. Galerie hlavního mesta Prahy, Prague (CZ)

1996

Sculpture in Time / Socha v 􀀀ase. Centrum Rze􀀀by Polskiej w Oro􀀀sku (PL)

1995

Šestdesiate roky v slovenskom výtvarnom umení, Slovenská národná galéria, Bratislava (SK)

1994

Torso - Slovak Photography. Design Works, Durham, New Castle (IR)

Enter for Computer, Kunsthaus, Vienna (AT)

1992

Zwischen Objekt und Installation. Slowakische Kunst der Gegenwart, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (DE)

Arte Contemporanea ceca e slovacca 1950 - 1992. Palazzo del Broletto, Novara (IT)

1991

Sen o múzeu? Považská galéria umenia, Žilina (SK)

1987

Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York (US)

1986

Off the wall, Kamikadze Gallery, New York (US)

Undercurrents in the Visual Arts, Wiesner Gallery, New York (US)

1985

Eastern Europeans in New York, La Galerie en El Bohio, New York (USA)

1984

Mysterious Figurative, Annual Exhibition, Staten Island Museum, New York (US)

1982

documenta 7, Kassel (DE)

Bilder Aus Der Slowakei 1965-1980, Galerie Pragxis, Essen – Kettwig (DE)

1979

Time, Gallery Kitano Circus, Kobe (JPN)

1975

Biennale de Paris. Manifestation internationale des jeunes artistes. Musée d‘Art Moderne / Musée Galliera, Paris (F)

Arte de sistemas, Centro de Arte y Comunicacion en al Museu de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad, Buenos Aires (ARG)

Junge Tschechoslowakische Künstler, Informationszentrale für Ereignisse, Bielefeld (DE)

1970

Happening&Fluxus, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (DE)

Contemporary trends (Le dyamisme du présent), EXPO Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka (JPN)

International Festival of Contemporary Art, Municipal Art Museum, Yokohama (JPN)

Art Concepts from Europe, Binino Gallery, New York (USA)

Graveurs tchécoslovaques contemporains. Cabinet des Estampes (Cabinet d‘Arts graphiques), Musée d‘Art et d‘Histoire, Geneva (CH)

Polymúzický priestor I., II., III., Kúpeľný ostrov, Piešťany (SK)

Slovenské výtvarné umenie 1965 - 1970, Valdštejnská jízdárna, Palác Kinských, Mánes, Prague (CZ)Art Concepts from Europe, Bonino Gallery, NYC, US, Buenos Aires (ARG)

1969

Biennale de Paris 1969, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (FR)

Environnement lumino-cin􀀀tique. La Place de Chalet, Centre National d‘Art Contemporain, Paris (FR)

Pläne und Projekte als Kunst, Kunsthalle Bern, Aktionsraum München, Munich (DE)

Vier Aspekte der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstverein Oldenburg, Oldenburg (DE)

Arte Contemporanea in Cecoslovacchia. Galleria Nazionale d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM), Rome (IT)

Ars Popularis. Bilder - Objekte - Grafik von 18 Künstler aus Belgien, Deutschland und der CSSR. CENTRUM Galerie im Siemers Hochhaus, Hamburg (DE)

III. Rassegna Internazionale d´Arte Contemporanea. Acirea le Turistico Termale, Catania, Sicilia (IT)

1968

Nová citlivost, Brno, Karlovy Vary, Praha (CZ)

Cinétisme – Spectacle – Environment, Maison de la culture, Grenoble (FR)

Danuvius 1968, Dom umenia, Bratislava (SK)

Izložba savremene 􀀀ehoslova􀀀ke grafike. Muzej savremene umetnosti, Belgrade (SRB)

Contemporary Prints of Czechoslovakia. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CAN)

1967

Tschechoslowakische Graphik, Sonninhalle des Kieler Schlosses, Kiel (DE)

1966

Výstava mladých. AICA (pri príležitosti medzinárodného kongresu AICA), Moravská galerie, Brno (CZ)

Malarstwo. Rzézba. Grafika Bratislawy, Pawilon wystawovy, Krakov (PL)

1965

Celoslovenská výstava. Dom umenia, Bratislava (SK)

5 Cecoslovacchi, Galeria Numero, Florencia, Rím, Milan (IT)

1964

Výstava mladých, Moravská galéria, Dum pánu z Kunštátu, Brno (CZ)

1963

S.Filko - L. Gajdoš - A. Mlynár􀀀ik - I. Vychlopen, foyer of the editorial office of the daily paper Smena, Bratislava (SK)

Výstava mladých, Moravská galerie, Brno (CZ)

2022

Stano Filko – A Retrospective, Sandro Droschl, Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2022

Stano Filko I Universal Environment, Lucia G. Stach, Aurel Hrabušický, Slovak National Gallery, Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2022

2021

WHITE SPACE IN WHITE SPACE / BIELY PRIESTOR V BIELOM PRIESTORE, Stano Filko, Miloš Laky, Ján Zavarský. 1973􀀀1982, Edited by Daniel Grú􀀀, Christian Höller, Kathrin Rhomberg for Kontakt Collection

2016

Gregorova Stach, Lucia - Hrabušický, Aurel: Poézia o priestore - kozme / Poetry on Space - Cosms. Bratislava: SNG, 2016.

Eckhart Gillen, Peter Weibel (eds.): Art in Europe 1945-1968, ZKM Karlsruhe, 2016.

2011

Verwoert, Jan: World as Medium: On the Work of Stano Filko, e-flux journal #28, Oct 2011

2006

Georg Schöllhammer, Life in the 5.4.3. Dimension. A retrospective in Bratislava rediscovers the work of Stano Filko, Die Springerin, Feb 2006

Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Portrait Stano Filko. 1945 I had my first post-modern thought, Spike, July 2006

2005

Grzonka, Patricia: Stano Filko. Arbor vitae, 2005

2002

Hoptman, Laura - Pospiszyl Tomás (ed.): Primary Documents. A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2002

2000

Badovinac, zdenka - Weibel, Peter: Arteast 2000+. The Art of Eastern Europe.

A Selection of Works for the International and National Collections of Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Folio Verlag, Bolzano - Vienna 2000

1999

Havránek, Vít (ed.): Akce Slovo Pohyb Prostor. Experimenty v umení sedesátýcj let/ Action Word Movement Space. Experimental Art of the Sixties, Prague 1999

1971

Filko, Stano: Stano Filko II. 1965/69, vlastním nákladem/self-published, Bratislava 1971

1968

Frank Popper, Origins and Development of Kinetic Art, New York, 1968

1961

Výstava Grafiky, Reduta, Bratislava, SK

1959

Výstava grafiky a obrazov, Osvetový dom, Trenčín (SK)

Centre Pompidou, France (FR)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (NY)

Guggenheim Collection, New York (NY)

Tate Modern London (UK)

Kunstmuseum Basel (CH)

Slovak National Gallery (SK)

Walker Art Center (MN)

Folkwang Museum (DE)

Kröller-Muller Museum (NL)

mumok, Vienna (AT)

Generali Foundation (AT)

Kontakt. Art Collection (AT)

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (LIE)

National Gallery Prague (CZ)

V-A-C Foundation, Moscow (RU)

Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Den Haag (NL)

Vienna Insurance Group, Vienna (AT)

Ludwig Mùzeum, Budapest (HU)

ESTATE

Mandate

The Estate of Stano Filko (ESF) safeguards and stewards the legacy of Stano Filko—one of the most visionary artists of his generation.

ESF is responsible for the long-term care of his artworks and ideas, supports research and exhibitions, and maintains his Bratislava studio as a living site of encounter for curators, art historians, and the public.

Through collaborations with museums, cultural institutions, and researchers worldwide, ESF ensures that Filko’s work remains accessible and continues to inform new generations.

Estate
Stano Filko, S.FILKLINIC.DEATHS.F. (2006). Installation view, Art Basel Unlimited, 2022. Curated by Søren Grammel. Presented by Layr, Vienna. Courtesy of The Estate of Stano Filko. Photo: Courtesy of Art Basel.

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Document, catalogue, restore, and prepare works for exhibitions under museum-grade conditions.

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Memorial studio Snežienková

Maintain Filko’s original studio in Bratislava as a living meeting point for research and dialogue.

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Partnerships

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