Slovakia is the title of a group of paintings by Milan Laluha. The author tried to represent the working people of Slovakia using the motif of the Slovak village and the harmony of a life connected to nature. The work expresses three central lines across multiple paintings. In the centre is a large, stylised representation of village architecture, around a woman with bags like worker bees carrying pollen back to the hive. In the scene on the left, it is possible to make out the large figure of a man with a scythe surrounded by women with rakes. The image on the right depicts a woman with her loved ones in festive clothing, as a representation of rest after work. These basic lines are complemented by other scenes from Slovak village life.

In its current installation, the work measures 5 x 6 metres. It was originally designed for another location with dimensions of 11.5 m x 4 m, but just before its installation, it was cancelled by the Ministry of Culture of the then Slovak Socialist Republic. The work could be re-installed only after the ban was lifted in the late 1980s. Long storage in unsuitable conditions damaged several parts of the monumental work, in some cases beyond repair. Milan Laluha had to entirely repaint 16 parts and restore others. The biggest problem was matching the colours in the new paintings with those in the originals, which the author finally solved by rearranging the old and new paintings into a new composition. The work was installed at its current location in 1988. 

Milan Laluha was born in Tekovské Lužany (present-day Slovakia) on 11 November 1930. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava from 1950 to 1955 under professors Ľ. Fulla, E. Zmeták, B. Hoffstädter and D. Milly. He was one of the founding members of the Mikuláš Galanda Group (1957). His work was shown at several biennials in Sao Paulo, San Marino, at the Expo in Montreal and in Osaka, Japan. He exhibited all over the world. He was the recipient of several prizes, e.g. the Cyprian Majerník Award or the Osvaldo Licini Award from the 33^rd Venice Biennale. He devoted himself to drawing, graphics, illustration, and painting on both the small and monumental scale. His work draws on folk traditions but takes the form of testimonies with distinctive personal messages. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he publicly criticised the actions of the regime. For this, he was expelled from the Union of Fine Artists and banned from exhibiting his works. He was not readmitted until after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. He died on 10 November 2013.