The large dividing wall stands on the landing at the entrance to the administrative building originally intended for the URBION Institute of Urbanism and Spatial Planning. In the early 1970s, the project was modified for the Institute of Applied Cybernetics (ÚAK) of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. 

The building’s designer was the legendary architect professor Vladimír Karfík, together with his younger colleague Ján Komrska. The building featured a large-scale ÚAK logo by the graphic designer František Bobáň (the logo design is held in the SNG collection, see webumenia.sk). 

Added later, the dividing wall with its softer shapes and oval openings contrasts sharply with the building's Karfík-esque functionalist expression that recalls Bauhaus traditions.  

The former ÚAK building was one of the "hidden" places where unofficial cultural events were held during the period of late socialism. The dividing wall was installed in the entrance at that time, and remained there following the change of the building’s occupants. The circumstances surrounding creation of the work, and confirmation of its authorship, are the subject of further research. 

According to the archival inventory of the Slovak Fine Arts Foundation, other valuable works from the 1980s remain in the building, but their fate is currently unknown.   

Research status as of 15.11.2022. 

ZD