Dušan Buran

He earned his master's degree in History of Art at the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava (1992) and his doctorate at Technische Universität in Berlin (2000).

Currently he is working as the curator of the Collection of Gothic Art and the head curator of Old Art Collections at the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava. He specializes in medieval art and sculpture, partly also art and architecture of the 20th century and the issues of museology and heritage preservation.

He is the main editor of the History of the Slovak Fine Art - The Gothic, the curator of the exhibition with the same name (SNG Bratislava 2003/2004) and author and co-author of several exhibition projects home and abroad, the latest (besides exhibition at the Slovak National Gallery) being D'or et de feu, L'art en Slovaquie à la fin du Moyen Âge (Musée de Cluny Paris 2010/2011); Art and Nature in Medieval Europe (Slovak National Museum Bratislava Castle 2013/2014) and author of many articles in Slovak and foreign academic journals (Germany, Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary).