Contemporary Slovak, but also Czech, Polish and Hungarian visual art are increasingly becoming part of the collections of major world museums. However, awareness of the achievements of domestic authors abroad is relatively low in their countries. Scientific processing of facts, their critical analysis and local media coverage are lacking.

International success is generally considered to be one of the highest achievable goals, both in the career of the artist and in many other fields - science, sports, business and politics. The isolation of each art scene is largely due to a lack of international contacts in the past.

But how is it possible to attract opinion-forming curators deciding on acquisitions to the world's most important museums so that art from the periphery comes to their attention? The international reputation and success of the artists beyond their region is, like life itself, the sum of unique contexts and circumstances. The sculptor Jozef Jankovič said that "accident and chance can play a much more important role in an artist's life than talent and education". Just as creating a quality work of art is usually not only possible thanks to good education and strategic planning, a successful artistic career is not entirely constructable and no longer predictable at all. If talent, education, skills and the right ratio of accidents and coincidences are mixed in the right proportions, several other factors are still needed. Among other things, the right timing, intellectual honesty, author's consistency, systematicity and perseverance.

The exhibition Strategies of Success presents artworks that have made it into important international collections, but it is not only a schematic import of works by Slovak authors from world capitals and valuable collections. It is more a kind of "dream of a museum", a reflection on the willingness/ability to adapt to the conditions of the world art market, as well as a comment on the (in)possibilities of lending works from museum collections to other exhibitions.

At the Ústí nad Labem House of Arts, we present a collection of works by Slovak key authors to Central Europe art development, who have toured the world's museums, but also works of art more successful in the online space. We present works from important world and local private collections as well as works that are still owned by their authors.

The presented concept is only one of many options for selecting works and we encourage the audience to read careful, playful perception, participation and critical analysis.