Welcome Bratislava - CowParade

What can I tell you about that action? Every year some artists create special sculptures - cows.

Idea of CowParade came by Walter Knapp in 1996. His son Pascal Knapp was the creator of the three cow sculptures in CowParade which had been used in Chicago and New York at the end of the last century. After a lot of modifications, Pascal finished sculpture.

Cows are very authentic, life-size, from fiberglass.

CowParade is the world’s largest public art event.

It isn’t only art, it’s fun and also charity. To paint own cow - it comes to be in, a very prestige (or show how you are rich :o) A specially in Slovakia.)

When cows were in Bratislava, many people walk through the city and tried to find most of them. Some radios made competitions - to find special cow for each day. We walked too and made pictures some of them. You can see them here.

Which cities were this famous presentation - CowParade?

YEAR CITY 1999 Chicago, Illinois, USA 2000 New York City, New York, USA Stamford, Connecticut, USA West Orange, New Jersey, USA 2001 Kansas City, Missouri, USA Houston, Texas, USA Sydney, Australia 2002 London, England Venspils, Latvia Portland, Oregon Las Vegas, Nevada 2003 Atlanta, Georgia San Antonio, Texas West Hartford, Connecticut Tokyo, Japan Isle of Man, UK Dublin, Ireland Brussels, Belgium Auckland, New Zealand 2004 Manchester, UK Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Prague, Czech Republic Stockholm, Sweden 2005 Johannesburg, South Africa Barcelona, Spain Monaco Bratislava, Slovakia Geneva, Switzerland Sao Paulo, Brazil Moscow, Russia Bucharest, Romania 2006 Buenos Aires, Argentina Florence, Italy Lisbon, Portugal Paris, France Edinburgh, Scotland Budapest, Hungary Athens, Greece Boston, Massachusetts Denver, Colorado Wisconsin, USA Belo Horizonte, Brazil Curitiba, Brazil Guadalajara, Mexico 2007 Milano, Italy Vigo, Spain Marseille, France Istanbul, Turkey Copenhagen, Denmark Miami, Florida West Hartford, Connecticut