Art auction supporting sick children starts on Tuesday
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- 27 Sep 2022
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The Bratislava-based SOGA art auction company is holding an online auction this week to help children suffering severe illnesses.
Alongside the Bátor Tábor Foundation, which runs a range of activities for seriously ill children, the SOGA Auction House is presenting a charity art auction to raise funds supporting children and their families.
"Thanks to the raised funds, the children will be able to attend camps, our GO! hospital programme, and the school programme helping to smoothen children's return to school after a long treatment," the foundation stated.
The organisation helps children and their families from four countries – Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Poland. Besides activities for children, the foundation offers emotional support as well, for example, to families who have suffered the loss of a child.
Art for kids
The exhibition of the auctioned works, with free admission, is available between 10:00 and 18:00 until October 5 on SOGA's premises at Medená 16 in Bratislava.
The exhibition features works by artists like Jana Želibská, Andrej Dúbravský, Milan AdamÄiak, Milan Paštéka, Katarína JaneÄková Walshe, Erik Binder, Roman Ondak, Erik Šille, Rudolf Sikora, Július Koller, Stano Filko, Žofia Dubová, Dorota Sadovská, Jana Zatvarnická, and others.
The activities the foundation provides are free of charge for children, families and schools. The auction annually helps to financially back the cause. This year, a collection of contemporary art carefully curated from works by Slovak, Hungarian and even Romanian artists is serving as the motivation to both support the foundation and obtain something memorable.
All auctioned works were hand-picked according to the recommendations of artists, and an advisory board consisting of art historians and curators Nina GazÌŒovicÌŒovaÌ, Alexandra KusaÌ, Krisztina Hunya and JuÌlius Barczi.
The auction will be in-person as well as online. The live auction for registered members starts on October 6, at 20:00. Read More...
