Slovakian art of the 1960s was notably pluralistic. At that time, niether younger nor older generation artists found Socialist Realism interesting any longer. Modern art and its various directions were known to artists and promoted by art critics. 

At the ICC exhibition Art Informel was represented by the works of Marián Čunderlík and Miloš Urbaásk, New Figuration by Milan Paštéki and Jozef Jankovič, Gesture Painting by Rudolf Fila’s compositions, and pop-art by Stanislac Filek and Jana Želibska’s objects and Vladimír Popovič’s paintings. The works were selected to fully illustrate the innovative character of that art and the wide array of expressive media the artists used.

On the one hand, the diversity of Slovakian art was nourished by the rich palette of the artists’ existential moods and postures, which fostered a vast range of expressive modes, from lyrical abstraction to figurative expressiveness. On the other hand, solutions in which the rational was paired up with the avant-garde encouraged this variety.