> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Needle & Balloon | Exhibition at Synagogue-Center of Contemporary Art, curated by Michal Stolárik - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/needle-balloon-exhibition-synagogue-center-michal-stolarik/ - Published: 2022-06-14T07:30:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-01-18T17:02:33.000Z - Description: Michal Stolarik curates Needle and Balloon at Synagogue Center of Contemporary Art . - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibition ## NEEDLE AND BALLOON | GROUP SHOW AT SYNAGOGUE - CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART, TRNAVA, SLOVAKIA CURATED BY MICHAL STOLÁRIK ‍ The international **exhibition** **Needle & Balloon** is a response to the issue of fragility and related feeling of borderline tension. It follows central motifs in the context of contemporary visual arts, emerging on the background of deliberations on economic systems, the alarming ecological situation, the state of our planet, and the impact of today’s decisions on our potential future. ![needle and balloons, exhibition, contemporary art center slovakia](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d01bed2a8f0c8fe694ad06_needle%20and%20ballon%20exhibition.jpg) Exhibition View | Needle and Balloon | Image by Adam Šakový ![viewing room, art exhibition, art now, slovakia](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d01c6b693bf8b803c9ab48_contemporary%20art%2C%20slovakia%2C%20now.jpg) On View now: Needle and Balloon | Contemporary Art Center | Image by Adam Šakový The curator’s project **(Michal Stolárik)** focuses on a new-age emotionality and inner feelings, following inclinations towards personal mythology and renewed ideas of romanticism. The exhibition goes hand in hand with the feelings of anxiety, melancholy, and sadness, and intriguing aspects of fiction, mysticism, unsettled reality, and a dystopian and post-apocalyptic atmosphere. The current ecological and political situation or state of society, marked by the context of recent period of at least two years, make contemplations on fragility more pressing than ever. Such slogans as stability, value, and guarantee have lost their meaning. After all, the impossible and unimaginable seems to be possible and real. ![andras csefalvay artist, exhibition view, dino, sekeleton ](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d01d767155102c3068748e_andras%20csefalvay%20artist.jpg) András Cséfalvay – Model for Extinction Survival: Take to the Sky, 2020, installation, 3D print, video, 7:15 min, Variable dimensions | Image: Adam Šakový The group exhibition, anchored in the space, history, and the atmosphere of the Trnava Synagogue, is a selection of young and mid generation artists from Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Austria. Connected to the topic of fragility in multiple layers, the multimedia selection naturally shifts from painting to sculptures, installations, and videos. The narratives of selected artworks, underlining transience of human life, and existence as such form a central motif of the project. ![contemporary art daily, now on view, slovakia](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d01da30b3fc87c0e4141fb_exhibition%20now%2C%20curated%20by%20michal%20stolarik.jpg) Installation View: Needle and Balloon | Image: Adam Šakový ![adam vackar, trees, bronce, installation view](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d01db7d014f0788e7b4c5f_adam%20vackar%2C%20artist.jpg) Artwork and Installation by artist Adam Vačkář | Image by Adam Šakový The chosen artworks speak about natural evolution, the end of the world or, alternatively, an impossible and unnatural effort to stop time and preserve the present. The strong symbolism of motifs and materials used underscores the lyrical facet of the display of works, complemented by their formal aspects, with suggestive use of materials, their stability, durability, and visual representation. [Michal Stolárik | Curator, Art Critic And Art WriterWHO IS MICHAL STOLÁRIK? Michal Stolárik is an independent curator, art critic, and art writer. Born in 1988, Michal lives and works in Bratislava, Slovakia. Since October 2019 he is a curator for the Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Slovakia. Between 2015 - 2016 he worked in Kunsthalle Bratislava and![](https://now-i-am-in-your-head.ghost.io/favicon.ico)Now I am in Your Head | Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://now-i-am-in-your-head.ghost.io/content/images/size/w1200/2024/02/michal-stolarik--new-independent-curator-in-contemporary-art-2024.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/michal-stolarik-curator-art-critic-and-art-writer/) Read more about the Curator: Michal Stolárik Although the project does not offer a direct reaction to the history associated with the Jewish culture, or unrelenting echoes of global pandemics and wars, their presence remains to a subconscious memento, a warning finger of the exhibition itself. - Text by *Michal Stolárik* ### PARTICIPATING ARTIST ARE: APART collective, Radek Brousil, András Cséfalvay, Andrej Dúbravský, Ádám Horváth, Šimon Chovan, Yein Lee, Kristián Németh, Céline Struger, Adam Vačkář ‍ ## SELECTION OF ARTWORKS BY ARTISTS: ### APART COLLECTIVE: ![installation view, contemporary art now, apart collective](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d02214d014f039f27b6d48_apart%20collective%2C%20artist%20group.jpg) APART collective – The Most Beautiful Catastrophe, 2018, HD video, 28 min. | Image by Adam Šakový ![apart collective, artist group, ](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d0225232b75335abe2104b_art%20collective%20apart.jpg) Installation View: APART collective – The Most Beautiful Catastrophe, 2018, HD video, 28 min. | Needles and Balloon Exhibition | Photo credit: Adam Šakový ### ARTWORKS BY ANDRÁS CSÉFALVAY : ![andras csefalvay, artist, artwork with dino, print](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d0240ce7656a8b27e80686_andras%20csefalvay.jpg) ![detail of a skeleton by andras csefalvay, 3d print, new skulpture](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d02487bcde8b5d4119ee90_detail%20of%20a%203d%20sculpture%20by%20artist%20andras%20csefalvay.jpg) András Cséfalvay Contemporary Artwork | Photo credit: Adam Šakový and Detail of the work of András Cséfalvay – Model for Extinction Survival: Take to the Sky, 2020, installation, 3D print, video, 7:15 min, Variable dimensions | Photo credit: Adam Šakový ![video work, art, by andras csefalvay, aritst](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d0242c387770cb47373a8e_contemporary%20art%20now.jpg) András Cséfalvay | Exhibition View | Photo credit: Adam Šakový ### ‍SELECTION OF ARTWORKS BY ADAM VAČKÁŘ ![detail of an sculpture, bronze, adam vackar, artist](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d0253c5e1d283ea09c5cba_art%20exhibition%20jpg.jpg) ![tree bronze, adam vackar, exhibition view](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d0256f20a58d9c147fd458_adam%20vackar%2C%20artist%2C%20installation%20view.jpg) Adam Vačkář | Photo credit: Adam Šakový ### ‍YEIN LEE INSTALLATION ![installation view, synagogue, contemporary art center, yein lee artist](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d027796c176b7e296943cb_yein%20lee%2C%20artist.jpg) Yein Lee – Rejuvenate Body Order Now, 2021 – 2022, 3D print, epoxide binder, wire, computer spare-parts, sheet metal, steel, Variable dimensions ![yein lee, artist, artwork, detail](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d0279ebcde8b5eee1a1b0b_detail%20of%20the%20contemporary%20artwork%20by%20yein%20lee.jpg) Detail of the artwork | Yein Lee – Rejuvenate Body Order Now, 2021 – 2022, 3D print, epoxide binder, wire, computer spare-parts, sheet metal, steel, Variable dimensions | Photo credit: Adam Šakový ### VIDEO INSTALLATION BY RADEK BROUSIL ![video work by radek brousil, needle and balloon](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d0284efbf2db29cc142745_radek%20brousil%2C%20artwork%2C%20can%20you%20still.jpg) Radek Brousil – Can You Still Feel The Butterflies?, 2021, HD video, 13:17 min. | Photo credit: Adam Šakový ![needle and balloon exhibition ](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d0285b6a94158b96c2693f_radek%20brousil%2C%20video%2C%20artist.jpg) Radek Brousil – Standing, Holding a Waterlily, 2019, installation, variable dimensions | Photo credit: Adam Šakový ### INSTALLATION VIEW: ANDREJ DÚBRAVSKÝ ![fantastic work in a synagogue, slovakia, by artist andrej dubravsky](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d0292544d27de6b58fbc80_andrej%20dubravsky.jpg) ![artwork by andrey dubravsky, yellow and black](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d029457d1684cf75f3109d_contemporary%20art%2C%20now%2C%20andrej%20dubravsky.jpg) Andrej Dúbravský – Only one in hundred, 2022, Acrylic on canvas , 200 x 250 cm ### WORKS BY CÉLINE STRUGER ![celine struger, artwork, on view](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d02a7bcdb1de62310feee6_celine%20struger.jpg) Céline Struger – Good Bye Horses, 2021 – 2022, Various materials, Variable dimensions | Photo credit: Adam Šakový ![celine struger, sculpture detail, dino](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d02a89983c88db63ae96d0_detail%20of%20the%20work%2C%20artist%2C%20celine%20struger.jpg) Detail of the artwork | Céline Struger – Good Bye Horses, 2021 – 2022, Various materials, Variable dimensions | Photo credit: Adam Šakový ### KRISTIÁN NÉMETH – MONUMENT ![kristian nemeth, artist](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d02b44cd07e87821992c92_contemporary%20artist%2C%20kristian%20nemeth.jpg) Detail of the work by Kristián Németh – Monument of Possible Fall, 2019, Polystyrene, 50 x 660 cm | Photo credit: Adam Šakový ![monument, detail, exhibition view, kristian nemeth, artist](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d02b6033b29774c412b91a_kristian%20nemeth%2C%20artist.jpg) Kristián Németh – Monument of Possible Fall, 2019, Polystyrene, 50 x 660 cm | Photo credit: Adam Šakový ##### ÁDÁM HORVÁTH ![adam horvath, sculpture, installation, now](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d02c0b08633fe03fc864fc_adam%20horvath%20%2C%20artist.jpg) Ádám Horváth – Fragile symbiosis between hollow bones, 2021, Wood, metal chain, extruded hardened polystyrene, cement, acrylic, polish, silicone, straw, leaves, cotton thread, plastic ivy leaves, metal lock, 100 x 115 x 75 cm ![detail, with eye, contemporary sculpture, adam horvath](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d02c21e3bf26aa1590b1f4_adam%20horvath%20art.jpg) Detail of the work of Ádám Horváth | Needle and Balloons Exhibition | Slovakia ### ŠIMON CHOVAN – DEAR THEARLINGS ![simon chovan, artist](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d02cfd62cba3ee5b551402_simon%20chovan%2C%20art%2C%20installation%20view.jpg) ![art on view, artist, simon chovan, artwork, now](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/62d02d24cdb1de0a061021e4_Installation%20view%2C%20simon%20chovan.jpg) Šimon Chovan – Dear Thearlings, 2019 – 2022, Silicone, soil, plaster, stones, concrete, nails, rust, dust, Variable dimensions /right Šimon Chovan – Dear Thearlings, 2019 – 2022, Silicone, soil, plaster, stones, concrete, nails, rust, dust, Variable dimensions --- ## More from Michal Stolarik on Catapult Munchies Art Club [Michal Stolárik | Curator, Art Critic And Art WriterInterview with Michal Stolárik with Dominique Foertig for Munchies Art Club![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-812.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club | 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