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Albrecht House

The Albrecht House is the seat of an independent cultural center in the heart of Bratislava. It is located on Kapitulská street no. 1 in the city monument reserve, in the oldest part of the historic city center. It was originally the home of one of the canons of the Bratislava Chapter, the so-called canonical benefit. On the east side it is adjacent to the former convent of the Poor Clares, on the west side it is separated from Kapitulská Street by a high street wall rebuilt in the 19th century. The Albrecht family lived in the house from 1945 to 2003: Alexander Albrecht (1885-1958) – composer, teacher of the Municipal Music School, conductor and director of the Church Music Society at the Dome of St. Martin, his spouse Margaréta née Fischer (1887-1985) – language teacher and their son Ján (Hansi) Albrecht (1919-1996) – music teacher, violist, esthetician, editor, and founder of the early music movement in Slovakia and the ensemble Musica aeterna (1973).

In 2010, we founded the civic association ALBRECHT FORUM and we have been renovating and revitalizing the house since then with the help of many sympathizers. Following the tradition of long-term artistic meetings at the Albechts, we are working on creating a center in which classical music, literature, fine arts, theater, film, philosophy, art sciences, and other social sciences will find their permanent home – simply a passion for art and knowledge. The center will consist of a garden with a stage and auditorium, a cafe, a multifunctional hall for chamber events, memorial rooms of the Albrecht family, and the Church Music Society for the Cathedral of St. Martin and administrative premises of ALBRECHT FORUM center with coworking.

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2% of the tax for the year 2025 for ALBRECHT FORUM, o.z.

Dear friends of art in the Albrecht House, This year, we would like to kindly ask you to donate 2% of your tax for the year 2025 to support the activities of the independent cultural centre – Albrecht House. We […]

Lash&Grey Concert

24.8.2022 at 20.00 in the garden of the Albrecht House – Fresh winners of the Anděl Award for Slovak Album of the Year 2021, awarded to Lash&Grey by the Czech Music Academy for their recording Blossoms Of Your World, will perform again in the garden of the Albrecht House.

HORTUS ARTIS 2022

After a year, we invite you again to the garden of the Albrecht House, where the third edition of the HORTUS ARTIS chamber music festival will take place. From 10th to July the 4th September, we will meet on Sunday [...]

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That's how it was

2024

In 2024, thanks to a fundraiser on the Donio portal, we purchased equipment (chairs), acoustic curtains, and lighting for the concert hall, and partially financed a small concert grand piano. We renovated the ground floor to its final form, installed radiator covers, commissioned and implemented the construction of an interior staircase between the 2nd and 3rd floors, made cladding for the chimneys inside the building, restored the thresholds, renovated the interior mirror wall, painted the interior staircase, and more. We launched new music projects – we established a chamber music festival inside the building – Domus Artis, which focuses on chamber music with piano, we continued with the Hortus Artis garden festival, and we launched a series of lectures, discussions, workshops, and master classes within the Salon Artis format. We regularly hosted partner associations Albrechtina, the J. K. Mertz Society, the Association of Slovak Composers, the Society of Friends of Good Music, Stále dobrí, n.o., More than 50 events took place in the house and garden, and the house finally began to live as our and your cultural center. We would like to thank our partners: FPU, BSK, Bratislava City Foundation, SOZA, Music Fund, Polish Institute, Czech House – Czech Center in Bratislava, Spanish Embassy, numerous individuals, donors, volunteers, supporters, and visitors to our events! Despite the unprecedented situation in culture, we are not losing our enthusiasm, hope, and conviction that we must move forward. Culture is here for us, and we are here for culture!

2023

The year 2023 was a year of intensive work in the interior of the house: we insulated the roof of the building, completed and made functional the sanitary facilities in the house, had a feasibility project for the future café drawn up, completed the installation of the electrical wiring, levelled the floors before laying the wooden floors, and made the final adjustments to the vertical structures on the 2NP, commissioned the construction of the acoustic ceiling and floor in the concert hall, installed sanitary fittings throughout the building, commissioned the heating system throughout the building, fitted new doors on the 3NP and restored and installed the arts and crafts repaired original doors on the 1NP and 2NP. Our fourth annual Hortus Artis summer festival featured artists from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden; we performed a number of works by Slovak composers and composers, bringing to life music from centuries past in our area and the rest of Europe. As in previous years, in 2023 we were supported by the Fund for the Support of Arts, the Bratislava Self-Governing Region, the City of Bratislava through its foundation and SOZA. The grant of the VÚB Foundation for the finalisation of the chamber concert hall and the Albrecht family memorial room helped us immensely. Without their help we would not be here, thank you!

2022

In 2022, we continued the general reconstruction of the Albrecht House - we finalized the ceilings in the small exhibition room on the 2nd floor, we put into operation the heating with heat pumps, bathrooms on the 1st floor, we planted a green roof on the gazebo, we had an acoustics study and a project for the interior of the chamber concert hall designed. Musica aeterna gave concerts in the house, we were part of the Open Parks and Gardens Weekend in June, we hosted masterclasses during the J. K. Mertz Guitar Festival, we hosted the 3rd Hortus Artis Chamber Music Festival, the space of the house and the garden was addressed by several filmmakers, Martin and Radka Krajčovci, Lash&Grey, Fats Jazz Band, NUDE Theatre, Konvergencie Festival, Stále Dobri and other performers and artists performed here again. Our events and programs were supported by the Slovak Art Council, SOZA, the Music Fund, the Bratislava City Foundation, the Bratislava Municipality, and many individuals. We are very grateful to all of them! We are moving on.

2021

The Albrecht House began to live a busier artistic life. We organized the second year of the chamber concert series in the garden of the Albrecht House Hortus Artis 2021. We were visited by Konvergencie festival, the J. K. Mertz Guitar Festival, Opera Aeterna project, Viva Musica! Festival, NUDE theatre, Lash&Grey, Fats Jazz Band, Novum Foundation, author readings (Eva Borušovičová, Silvester Lavrík), Music at Fulla's, and others. We were again part of the Weekend of Open Parks and Gardens event. The garden became a place of relaxation, absorption of artistic expressions, and reflection. With the financial help of Bratislava Self-Governing Region, we completed the reconstruction of the heating system, Bratislava - Staré Mesto financially supported the construction of a gazebo with a green roof, Hortus Artis was organized thanks to the support of the main partner of the project Slovak Art Council and contributions from the Music Fund and SOZA. More than 150 people contributed to the 2020/2021 fundraising campaign by buying different artistic objects and through donating money. Thank you!

2020

We continued to reconstruct the exterior, design the roof insulation, respond to grant calls, and apply for support to the Bratislava City Foundation, the Bratislava Self-Governing Region, the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, SOZA, the Music Fund, and the Slovak Art Council. Applications for financing the Hortus artis event were supported - 8 chamber concerts in the garden of the house, and the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and the Bratislava City Foundation contributed to the repairs. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected cultural life. We responded by preparing a fundraising campaign and launching a donation program, the details of which can be found in other sections of this website.

2019

For future memorial spaces, we borrowed the original furniture of the house from the time of the Albrecht family. We replaced all the exterior doors and had the interior doors crafted. Lenka Hlubinová completed the project of revitalizing the garden and at the end of the summer, we set up the garden. Architects Katka Šimončičová and Eva Šperka completed the entire interior design of the house, we put a part to be produced. Archaeological research continued - this time in the garden area and at the place for the retention tank for rainwater collection and watering. In the courtyard, which turned into a garden, we co-organized an event as part of the One World festival. Michal Hvorecký hosted Sacha Batthyany, and the duo Plaisirs de Musique performed in a concert. As in other years, Zuzka Godárová presented the house on guided walks through Bratislava this year.

2018

We met two for the revitalization of the interior of the house committed architects Katka Šimončičová and Eva Šperka. We reconstructed the stone elements in the exterior and the retaining wall in the garden of the house. We have traditionally prepared Kapitulské dvory (Open courtyards at Kapitulská street event) during which hundreds of people visited the house, and we organized a few volunteer events. Guests from the Czech Republic, Martin Cára, and Vít Dvořáček performed as part of the J. K. Mertz Guitar Festival. Musica aeterna introduced Serenata a due voci (Drama per Musica) MarcAntonio e Cleopatra by Johann Adolf Hasse. The ensemble Solamente naturali also performed on our unofficial garden stage.

2017

We replaced the wiring in the whole building and applied new plasters on the first and second floors. We organized a series of events Sunday at the Albechts dedicated to music, literature, and film, featuring the Mucha Quartet, Teo Gertler, Katka Máliková, Vladimír Godár, Mila Haugová, Mária Ferenčuhová, Radovan Potočár, Martin Śulík, Peter Bebjak, Martina Buchelová, and others. We worked with supporters who did not lose their courage to continue. We co-organized the 'Kapitulské dvory' (Open courtyards at Kapitulská street event) again.

2016

We reconstructed part of the ceilings and heating system throughout the house. The facade was completely restored. We organized a memorial concert for Ivan Parík, where the Quasars Ensemble performed, one of the May Nights was dedicated to literature, we co-organized the 'Kapitulské dvory' (Open courtyards at Kapitulská street event), students and teachers of the Church Conservatory performed in Pinacotheca Musicae, and a concert at the J. K. Mertz Guitar Festival; back home Musica aeterna returned with Peter Zajíček, the Moyzes Quartet, Eugen Prochác, and Ján Slávik also performed.

2015

All old plumbing and wiring were dismantled, and its complete replacement began. The paintings were restored in the former Albrecht's salon, and a part of the courtyard near the eastern staircase was rebuilt. There were concerts of the J. K. Mertz Guitar Festival, Konvergencie Festival, and other performances during the spring and autumn during the 'Kapitulské dvory' (Open courtyards at Kapitulská street event) were held. With the support of the Slovak Philharmonic, we organized a benefit concert in Reduta. The conductor James Judd performed pro bono alongside Simona Šaturová and Marian Lapšanský.

2014

Work continued on the repair of vertical and horizontal structures throughout the building, and degraded plasters were removed. We co-organized the spring and autumn 'Kapitulské dvory' (Open courtyards at Kapitulská street event), and we helped part-time in the preparation of the event. The J.K. Mertz Guitar Festival visited the courtyard. In the autumn, the Mucha Quartet performed on the improvised stage, as well as Martin and Radka Krajčová. The children's visitors were attracted by the performances of the Bartók and the Wooden Prince. Musica aeterna organized a concert in the Moyzes Hall to support the restoration of the house.

2013

Archaeological research began in the house and the adjacent courtyard. The foundations of the building were repaired, the humidity of the vertical structures of the ground floor was repaired, the entire length of the building was dug out of the courtyard part, lowered courtyards next to the house with sewerage were created, ventilation and dehumidification of the building were installed using the IGLU system. We organized other volunteering events. Slovak fine artists donated their works to the renovation of the house, part of which was sold at an auction in SOGA.

2012

Renovation work on horizontal structures continued, and plumbing elements were replaced. An informal community of supporters and volunteers has been formed, who have long been donating funds to support the reconstruction and involved in revitalization work. We met at volunteer weekends and at the first public event - Concert in Ruins. After years, Musica aeterna played at home, and the Lotz Trio, Solamente natural, and Quasars ensemble also performed.

2011

We defined the intention to restore the site, had the architectural project of the future cultural center processed by the architect Peter Mravec, submitted the project for a building permit, and carried out static security works - replacement of the ceilings of the second floor, truss, and roofing. We organized the exhibition 'Albrechts - Memories and Desires'.

2010

Fourteen years after Hansi's Albrecht death, we founded the civic association ALBRECHT FORUM and started a general reconstruction of the house (ruins) with a vision not to forget the Albrecht family, to commemorate their commitment to the development of our culture and to reconstruct the house for contemporaries and future generations. The bridge from the past to present days and tomorrow is built on our passion for art and knowledge. We acquired the house for long-term rent from the Bratislava Archdiocese.