Cultural organizer alleges Slovak arts fund has become tool for revenge and corruption

Marek Adamov, founder of Slovakia's prominent cultural center Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, has accused the Fund for Arts Support of becoming an instrument of revenge and corruption under the current government. Adamov, who has worked as a cultural event organizer under six ministers and four female ministers over three decades, said the situation has never been ideal but has now reached its worst point. The cultural organizer stated that while the arts community has endured constant tension for thirty years and grown accustomed to difficulties, they have always found reasons to continue, but current conditions represent an unprecedented low. The Fund for Arts Support is Slovakia's main government mechanism for distributing public money to cultural projects and institutions across the country.