(August 25, 2025) BIBIANA – International House of Art for Children, refutes the deliberate and false accusations that have appeared on social media regarding the alleged "disappearance" of original book illustrations from the BIBIANA collection.

In our opinion, these false and manipulative claims have only one goal, which is to damage the reputation of director Petra Flach and Minister of Culture Martina Šimkovičová as the person who nominated her to the position.

If the works did indeed disappear, it was not after March 26, 2024, when Petra Flach became the appointed and acting director of the institution. Based on the facts presented below, it appears that if such works were part of the collection, they disappeared under the leadership of Zuzana Liptáková.

We would like to clarify the facts:

• According to the inventory list created on November 7, 2022, during the tenure of director Z. Liptáková, BIBIANA has officially registered its property—identical to what we provided in response to Ms. Želinská's request for information. We would also like to emphasize that the request asked about Slovak illustrators, but the statements also mention foreign illustrators – this alone is a clear indication of intent.

• The lists of works provided are the current, official records of the collection items owned and managed by BIBIANA.

• In the past, various original illustrations may have been located on the premises of BIBIANA, a list of which was attached in 2009, but again, I refer to point 1 – according to the 2022 inventory, there is no mention of them.

• It is therefore necessary to ask the former director, Z. Liptáková, where they disappeared to.

• Since Petra Flach took office as director, no works that are officially managed and owned by BIBIANA have been donated, purchased, or discarded.

• Another lie, or rather piece of misinformation, spread by Mr. Kopták, Mr. Rojko, and Ms. Želinská is that BIBIANA is a collection-building institution. This is not the case.

• We consider statements that several works have "disappeared" from BIBIANA to be purposeful and made without concrete evidence. Such practices are unacceptable, and if the individuals spreading these lies do not correct them and the media that published them do not set the record straight, BIBIANA will consider legal action.

Finally, we ask: If these works really did disappear (and this demonstrably happened under Ms. Liptáková's leadership), then did no one miss them?

Secretariat of the Director of BIBIANA, International House of Art for Children, Ing. Petra Flach

Na záver sa pýtame: Ak tieto diela skutočne zmizli (a to sa stalo dokázateľne za vedenia pani Liptákovej), vtedy nikomu nechýbali?

Sekretariát riaditeľky BIBIANY, medzinárodného domu umenia pre deti, Ing. Petry Flach

Stanovisko k medializovaným informáciám a vyjadreniam Miloša Koptáka, Márie Rojko a Idy Želinskej

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