Culture Express to the Light Art Festival
Hop on the Culture Express and experience a journey that is already part of the program itself. On selected connections, you’ll encounter a piece of the Light Art Festival – The work Medzipulz and an accompanying creative workshop. The journey to Trenčín thus transforms into a cultural experience even before arriving in the city.
Dates and connections
April 10, 2026 – Ex 621, route Bratislava Main Station (13:15) – Košice (18:53)
April 11, 2026 – Ex 618, route Košice (13:07) – Bratislava Main Station
If you get off in Trenčín, you can connect your day with additional program activities. In addition to the evening Light Art Festival, you can also visit exhibitions at Trenčín Castle or the Stano Filko exhibition at the M. A. Bazovský Gallery.
Travel to Trenčín for culture at a discount
On April 10 and 11, 2026, passengers from across Slovakia can get a 50% discount on travel to Trenčín with ZSSK. If you purchase a ticket to Trenčín and say you are traveling for culture, the same ticket will also be valid for your return journey. Tickets can only be purchased at the station ticket office or directly on the train without a service fee.
Medzipulz
An open carriage of the cultural express transforms into an intimate, pulsating space – a transitional landscape between strangers. Two aluminum spheres, suspended in the space like silent points of tension, await touch in the work Medzipulz. Each of them is separate, inactive, without a voice. Music emerges only at the moment of connection. One person touches the first sphere. Another, the second. Only when these two individuals connect – through the touch of their hands – is the circuit completed. In that moment, the space resonates with gentle harp tones. Like the music of trust.
The train route has 16 stops / 16 harp compositions / 16 light colours – and the work is loosely, metaphorically connected to them. Each represents a potential chapter. During the journey, however, the installation remains silent. Only at the moment of connection between two people does it select its tones and colour. The stops do not function as a fixed structure, but as a hidden framework: an invisible score from which a unique, unrepeatable moment emerges with each touch.
The work does not function individually. It requires the presence of another. It compels a decision: to remain isolated, or to enter a brief, unplanned connection. The train becomes a place of anonymous encounters. Movement without anchoring. People side by side, yet separated. The work disrupts this isolation – offering a moment of conscious connection. 16 stops = 16 opportunities to connect. Each different, each unrepeatable. Touch here is neither romantic nor personal. It is elemental. Functional. Necessary for the creation of sound. A familiar or unfamiliar passenger becomes, for a moment, a co-creator.
We create a situation in which random passengers cross the invisible boundary between them. We aim to transform the anonymity of public space into a brief, shared experience. To connect the physical movement of the train with the emotional trajectory of the people within it.
The work functions as a living music box tied to the route. It is not driven by a mechanism, but by people. The melody does not arise on its own – it arises between them. And it changes with every stop.