From 13 February 2026, you can look forward to the exhibition My Little World by Michal Kiráľ at the Dušan Roll Gallery.

The exhibition My Little World presents the rich body of work of Michal Kiráľ, a Vojvodinian visual artist of Slovak nationality. He devoted a significant part of his artistic efforts to children, becoming a master of vibrant and imaginative children’s illustrations. At the same time, he demonstrated exceptional talent in the field of free graphic art and rightfully deserves a place in the golden fund of Slovak culture.

Michal Kiráľ was born 21 February 1955 in Báčsky Petrovec. Despite his innate talent and significant presence on the Vojvodinian art scene, he remains little known within the Slovak cultural context- undeservedly so. His contribution to Serbian culture was brief, yet intense. As one of the first artists, he introduced professional, academically grounded art of the highest level into Vojvodinian naïve painting, which was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2024, thereby taking over the baton from his academically trained predecessors.

From the early 1980s, he devoted fifteen years of his characteristic energy and enthusiasm to the visual arts life of the Slovaks in the Vojvodina region. He illustrated numerous publications, books, and magazines, organized the group of young Serbian graphic artists ORFELIN, and later founded the BLATNO Gallery in Báčsky Petrovec. His promising creative trajectory was cut short by serious illness, followed by his untimely death in 1995.

Michal Kiráľ made a significant contribution to the cultural life of the Slovaks in the Vojvodina region as a painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and educator. It should be noted that he accomplished an enormous amount of work in the fields of culture and art against the backdrop of the complex economic and political situation in the disintegrating Yugoslavia during the 1980s and 1990s. Despite these challenges, his work continues to impress with its professionalism, personal expression, and timeless artistic language.

Script and exhibition design: Ľubomír Ferko

Visual design: Rastko Ćirić

Dramaturgy: Martina Pavlikánová

Graphic design: Martina Vozárová

Realisation: Allan Lučenič and collective

My Little World — Michal Kiráľ (from 13 Feb 2026)

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