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Presenting around 80 works by 46 artists, the exhibition Group Therapy is a dialogue, an encounter, an exchange of artistic ideas and concepts, and a juxtaposition of artworks from two different collections. 

Holdings from – and recent acquisitions for – the collection of Prague City Gallery are brought together here with pieces from Art Collection Telekom, which was launched by Deutsche Telekom in 2010 to promote and collect contemporary art from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

Group Therapy Collections in Dialogue

Stone Bell House 

How to be an artist when your country has been brutally invaded? What is the role of an artist? How can they help? For Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova, the only possible way forward is through objects and materials to speak about life, culture and war in Ukraine today.

Exhibition Zhanna Kadyrova: UNEXPECTED

Galerie Rudolfinum

An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by the artist Jaroslav Róna called The Explorer.

Trafo Gallery - Exhibition by Jaroslav Róna: Explorer

Guided tour: Saturday 15 June 2024 at 8 pm with Pavel Piekar.

Curators of the exhibition: Dimitra Koumantaki and Pavel Piekar

Exhibitors:
Angelopoulos Christos, Annitsakis Odysseas, Anoussi-Ilia Eirini, Antoniadi Irene, Arvanitis Zacharias, Valery Antigone, Vasilakou Argyri, Gialama Bassiliki, Dervisoglou Eleni, Drogossi Tania,Katsadiotis Christophoros, Kalamakidou Korina, Kompatsiari Maria, Kotsaris Michalis, Koumantaki Dimitra, Konstantakou Anastasia, Kotsiou Dina, Mavrodoglou Valentini, Mavroeidi Vanta, Machairidi Efstratia, Monogios Ioannis, Bakalou Alexandra, Benaki Polytim, Bizou Alexandra, Blioumi Lia, Xanalatos-Xilas Iris, Papadopoulou Natalia, Papadopoulou Sofi, Patrikiou Stefania, Petropoulou Mimi, Pristouris Panagiotis, Provata Elena, Provatidou Marina, Rokos Stefanos, Sarelakou Roubina, Siaterli Dimitra, Stavrakantonakis Nikos, Schina Mary, Touzloukof Vanessa, Falkonis Michail, Attwood Judy, Pandolfini Pino, Kotsiras Aggelos, Riva Athanasia, Spiliotopoulou Angie, Taralli Antonia, Rubi Vassiliki, Kevrekidis Georgios, Papastergiou George, Gkiatas Nikos, Anagnostatos Eleni/Elessa, Chamakou Eleni, Moniaki Katerina, Syrou Bessi, Malama Chrysanthi

The Association of Greek Graphic Artists is a non-profit organization founded in 1987 by a group of renowned Greek graphic artists. Today it has more than 70 members, printmakers who work with different techniques and research the latest trends in printmaking and guide the development of contemporary Greek printmaking. As part of the ongoing partnership between Greek and Czech printmakers and in collaboration with the Czech Centre of Athens, an exhibition of the Union of Greek Printmakers will be held in Prague. A collection of 71 works by 55 printmakers will be on display at the Hollar Gallery from 1 to 30 June. In line with this year’s tribute to Kafka and in a desire to honour the host nation, the exhibition carries the theme “Metamorphosis, Approaches to Kafka”. The contributing artists have created works that draw inspiration from this theme. Their approaches are an attempt at personal interpretation and dialogue with Kafka’s work, which is still relevant as it refers to and comments on the eternal human predicament.

 
Dimitra Koumantaki, curator of the exhibition

Metamorphosis

Hollar Gallery

Adolf Born was an important Czech illustrator, graphic artist and painter. Not only his graphic sheets, but also drawings and watercolors will be exhibited at the Chodovská fortress. His oil on wooden board will be a huge rarity.

The exhibition is complemented by ceramic sculptures by the sculptor and ceramist Miroslav Oliva, who exhibited with Adolf Born in previous years, and their works often have common humor and themes.

Adolf Born: Paintings, drawings, graphics Miroslav Oliva: Sculptures

Chodov fortress

As part of Prague Museum Night, the MeetFactory Gallery will also open its doors and present the current exhibitions The Boundaries of Ambiguity (MeetFactory Gallery) and The Light of Just One Lamp by the duo Alex Selmeci & Tomáš Kocka Jusko (Kostka Gallery) in guided tours. 

Guided tours will be led by curator Ján Gajdušek from 17:00-23:00 every hour or according to interest. 

Boundaries of Ambiguity
The collective exhibition in main gallery of MeetFactory presents ten artists whose common approach is a creative balance between free art and design. Their works grow out of applied objects, but are generally conceived as challenging experiments in form and material, pushing (and crossing) the boundaries of design objects into the realm of free art. These works are therefore more like complex sculptures that mask their original applied function with their surface as mimicry.
Artists: Julia Gryboś & Barbora Zentková, Johana Hnízdilová, Anna Jožová, Audrey Large, Judita Levitnerová, Tadeáš Podracký, David Střeleček, Roman Štětina, Tereza Vinklárková

Alex Selmeci & Tomáš Kocka Jusko: The Light of One Lamp Only
The solo exhibition at the Kostka Gallery is the thematic equivalent to the collective exhibition at the large MeetFactory gallery. The artists conceive the exhibition as a preview or a free composition of actual works and objects, without the aim of any resolution. In particular, they present new objects from the series Columns and Towers, which are related to the exterior work Cuckoo (2023), inspired by the architecture of birds, the interacting human and animal construction and its transcendence. The motif of the leeward side is important here, a kind of safe area for building, growing, anchoring, entangling or temporarily surviving. In relation to the objects, smaller series of used objects are placed in the space, co-creating the light, sound and spatial conditions of the gallery.

Exhibitions Guided Tours

MeetFactory 

National Museum of Agriculture

Museum of czech literature

Visit the interactive Exploring the Currency exhibition, focusing on the current roles of the central bank, the People and Money exhibition about the history of money and central banking, which is located in the former strongroom, and our temporary exhibitions - all presented in an unusual night-time setting.

Tour of the CNB Visitor Centre's Prague exhibitions

Czech National Bank Visitor Centre in Prague

Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Prague

Gallery of Bulgarian Cultural Institute

Experience the world of banknotes through your own creations. You can design your own currency at our creative workshop, while learning interesting facts from the world of banknotes and testing your knowledge of security features.

Discover the world of banknotes creatively

Visitors will have the opportunity to try mosaic making - traditional Bulgarian folklore motifs and copies of details from the mosaics that were revealed in the Small Early Christian Basilica and the Episcopal Basilica of Philipopol (today's Plovdiv). Smaller participants will make a small mosaic that they can take away. For adults, we have prepared the opportunity to participate in the production of a large mosaic panel, which will complement the currently ongoing exhibition Bulgaria and mosaics.

Creative workshop - the Mosaic heritage of Plovdiv and Bulgaria

During the evening, the first floor of MeetFactory, where our residents' studios are located, will be open to the public.

During her residency at MeetFactory, Adriana Bogdanova is conducting artistic research on a honey badger named Káča, who escaped from the Prague Zoo a few years ago. In his escape, Káča probably managed to overcome an electric fence and a barrier more than one and a half meters high. As part of Prague Museum Night, the artist will present an installation in her studio composed of foundry sand that responds to themes of escape and creates parallels between physical escape and the digital escape prevalent in our society, especially through social media.

In Bögdana Kosmina's studio, visitors will be able to see the exhibition "The Atlas of Traditional Ukrainian Housing from the Middle of the 19th to the Middle of the 20th Century", which maps The Atlas projectt - a project that was supposed to be jointly implemented with three academies of sciences (of the USSR) from Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine in the 1960s. In the 1990s there was a huge effort to continue the Ukrainian section led by architect and ethnographer Tamara Kosmina and the academic team including Oksana Kosmina, architect, historical scientist, and researcher of ethnology and material culture; and Dmytro Vortman, cartographer, scientific editor of the “Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine,” and compiler of historical, ethnographic maps. The publishing of the Atlas was finally abandoned by the Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology in Kyiv and the Institute of Folklore in Lviv due to its colossal scale. The Atlas consists of a series of digital maps, texts, and a visual block: architectural drawings, watercolors, and photos of the buildings’ interiors and exteriors. Each of the thematic maps and visual representations has three time gradations: the middle and end of the 19th century and the beginning and middle of the 20th century.

At MeetFactory residency Batu Bozoglu continues in his research on civilian trauma during the world wars, he is  investigating the Terezin Ghetto: a site of Nazi Genocide. Arts and crafts such as theatre, literature, games and concerts played a large role in the struggle for morale in this ghetto, thanks to the large number of artists interred here, coupled with the children present in the camp. Inspired by one of these games, he is now in the process creating a new board game that would try to emulate, and in doing so perhaps translate part of this experience in the form of a collective performance. 

Syinat Zholdosheva through her performance, seeks to encourage visitors to engage in self-exploration. She has curated a set of 61 cards (symbolizing her two-month residency at Meet Factory) to guide these conversations. These cards, akin to magical keys, contain questions designed to provoke deep introspection and open our eyes to inner truths. The performance is an outcome of Syinat's self-reflection during her residency, a period where she immersed herself in her thoughts, had profound self-dialogues, and learned to live in a state of calm and relaxation, away from everyday distractions.

During Viktoriia Tymonova's residency at MeetFactory she's worked with the theme of witchcraft. Within Prague Museum Night you can see her new works about flying ointment and try wax divination.

Dana Andrei will open the studio into a makeshift research laboratory, showcasing older works (including an audio poem and printed matter) alongside glimpses into her current research. Her project explores the challenges of recording, archiving, and reproducing soundscapes and immaterial memories often overlooked by historical research; by framing the study of the silk industry during the socialist era within a broader reflection of contextual analysis, it examines how material conditions have shaped the auditory experiences of particular generations.

Improv Session
A two-hour improvised music session initiated by resident Keyvan Paydar will take place in the foyer of MeetFactory. Participation is open to all corners of the music scene, regardless of experience or genre. Michał Łukaszuk will perform a poem he wrote in Prague during a residency at an Improv session. It starts at 9 pm. 

Line-up: 

17:00, 18:00, 19:00, 20:00, 21:00, 22:00 exhibitions guided tour
17:00–23:00 Open Studios + guided tours of the residential floor according to interest
21:00–23:00 Improv Session 

19:00 Syinat Zholdosheva - performance 
19:30  Adriana Bogdanova: Wanderlust
20:00 Oksana Kosmina: Regional features of traditional Ukrainian housing XIX-XX C - lecture 

 



Open Studios 

The exhibition commemorates the 90th anniversary of painter Jiří Bouda's birth and celebrates his extensive work with motifs of technology, public transport, and especially railways. Trains became the central theme of his paintings, illustrations, prints, and ex-libris.
Another significant aspect of his work was the creation of postage stamps. The exhibition displays his artwork, line drawings, sketches, engraved plates, postage stamps, first-day covers, and postcards from the collections of the Postal Museum. Approximately one hundred of these postal-themed items are displayed alongside works from his son Martin Bouda's collections, as well as artefacts from the world of railways.



Exhibition: Stamps, Trains, Roads, Shelters

Postal Muzeum

Eva Brodská (*1937) is a creator of monumental woven images, which she makes using a traditional tapestry technique. She uses wool as her main material, often in combination with sisal.
She graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague, where she studied under Professor Antonín Kybal, the founder of the modern interpretation of textile art. Since the 1960s she has exhibited in various places in the Czech Republic and abroad. Her consistently original tapestries are conceived as paintings. They are among the key works of Czech textile art of the second half of the twentieth century. Brodská is a member of the artists’ forum Umělecká Beseda, and her works are represented in the collections of renowned museums and galleries.

Entrance Gallery is the first artistic space in Prague that focuses systematically in its long-term program on the issues of ecological sustainability and care for the environment.

Eva Brodská - Space for Light 

Entrance Gallery

In the museum studio, visitors can create their own postcards using simple graphic techniques. The museum shop offers postage stamps and provides an opportunity to send an original greeting from the Museum Night to loved ones.

Postcard Printing

Karel Zeman Muzeum

Karel Zeman Museum

The exhibition in the former appartment of the tower guard presents the history of the New Town as well as the oldest panoramas of Prague.  

PERMANENT EXHIBITION ON THE HISTORY OF THE NEW TOWN

New Town Hall

Exposures is the first major retrospective following the life of the Prague-born photographer and writer Lucia Moholy (1894–1989). Spanning her entire career from the 1910s to the 1970s, the exhibition presents more than 600 photographs, microfilms, letters, articles, books, and audio interviews, many formerly unseen. It is the first exhibition to place better known photographs taken during her time at the Bauhaus and Britain into dialogue with her work as an information scientist in Turkey and a central figure in the Zurich art scene of the 1960s and 70s. Addressing missing works in Moholy’s oeuvre, it also incorporates installations by the contemporary Czech artist Jan Tichy. 

For visitors of Prague Museum Night, besides the exhibition, the café on the 3rd floor will also be open.


Exhibition Lucia Moholy: Exposures

Kunsthalle Praha

Welcome to the Illusion Art Museum Prague, where art meets the phenomenon of illusion! Our museum in the historic heart of Prague is home to the most amazing works of illusion and trick art. Come and see a world where reality and fiction merge and every exhibit hides a secret. Most importantly, discover that art can be fun.


The first museum in Czech Republic focused on illusions and trick-art

Illusion art museum Prague

As part of Prague Museum Night 2024, there will be an Artist Talk with both artists from the current exhibition Moments of Landscape, Maroš Belák and Jan Kovářík, at 8pm and 10pm. The Artist Talk will be led by the exhibition curator, Bára Alex Kašparová.

It will also be possible to visit the gallery terrace directly by Čertovka with a view of Charles Bridge.

Organic, amorphous, and geometric. Both artists create and depict such landscapes and their fragments in new aesthetic situations. The exhibition Moments of Landscape presents the latest paintings by Maroš Belák (* 1983, Zvolen, SK) and sculptural objects by Jan Kovářík (* 1980, Kyjov, CZE) curated by Bára Alex Kašparová.

Intertwining and merging, the transfer of material into planes, and the transformation of a structural network into objects. Both artists are intrinsic landscapists, representing the landscape in its abstract form — in its moments.

A constant doubt, which results in the existence of the exhibited paintings, is the principle of Belák's creative process. He engages with the initial surface of the canvas, introducing and creating, stagnating. Another phase and layer of possible destruction and subsequent renewal or transformation follow. Maroš Belák's approach, a graduate of the Drawing and Graphics Studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno under the guidance of Svätopluk Mikyta, is a multilayered process. This is evident not only in the resulting image but also in its formal appearance. The framed painting extends through the layering of paint into an object, becoming an archive of thought processes and a record of landscape fragments. The dense surface surpassing the initial intention grows into a synthesis of the whole. Belák's works are deeply rooted in the landscape, both natural and urban. He works with the concept of a fictional landscape, built on a combination of amorphous and geometric shapes. His paintings can be interpreted in many ways — Umberto Eco addressed the issue of ambiguous reading of a work and its manipulation through various intentionally chosen means to achieve emotional and intellectual stimulation in the reader in his work Lector in fabula (Milan: Bompiani, 1979). Direct colors and their contrasts, the tension between the edge and the point, the unexpected entry into another layer. These are some of the expressive means Belák chooses, offering the viewer a constant discovery of aesthetic moments derived from the landscape.

Natural structures and the landscape also form the basis of Jan Kovářík's sculptural objects. Coming from a sculptor family of Ludmila and Miroslav Kovářík, and following this formative experience, he studied in the Sculpture 2 studio at the Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Jindřich Zeithamml. His monumental organic forms are teeming with networks and structures found in nature, transformed into patterns and designs that create the surface of his works. His pieces draw the viewer into the fascinating morphology of the microcosm, accentuated in a scale proportionate to humans—and often exceeding it, confronting them directly with the mysteries usually hidden from the human eye. The sculptural neologisms that this leading sculptor brings forth are fascinating in terms of their final morphology, enhanced by an experimental approach to materials and their technological processing. Kovářík scales the awareness of the organic landscape, creating a continuous body of spatial visual grammar. Once again, with consistency, he presents works that capture even the subtle nuances of transience.



Artist Talk - Moments of Landscape

Curator Contemporary

The Technical and Documentary Museum of Prague Energy outlines the history of the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity since the early 20th century to the present day.


Technical and Documentary Museum of Prague Energy

Museum of Prague Energy

Svetova 1

GHMP Municipal Library of Prague, 2nd floor

Clam-Gallas Palace in the Old Town of Prague ranks among the most prominent architectural monuments of Prague and the Czech Republic. One of the prime works of Prague Baroque architecture, it is a splendid example of historical housing and the lifestyle of then aristocrats.

Tours

The Clam-Gallas Palace

For this night only, we will open the gates of the reconstructed main building of the Museum of Prague.

You'll be the first to see what the new high-tech multimedia exhibition of historic Prague will look like, including a newly restored paper Langweil model of Prague. 

A museum that will surprise you

Museum of Prague

Exhibition in the gallery on the ground floor – ZBYNĚK BENÝŠEK – PAINTINGS EXHIBITION – PRAGUE SCENE. Retrospective of work from 1994-2024 on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the painter Zbyňek Benýšek and the anniversary of 50 years of work in Prague 2.

ARTS EXHIBITION Zbyněk Benýšek: Pražská scéna

The exhibition of one-minute films includes 35 award-winning one-minute films from 19 countries over the last 30 years. All of the carefully selected works come from the longest running international minute film festival in Pozega, Croatia. The exhibition runs from 15 June to 15 September.

Visitors have the opportunity to become a filmmaker in creative film studio, create their own minute film or design a film poster. 

One Minute Film Museum

Music and thoughts of one of the leading composers of Czech music Bedřich Smetana. 
The choir of the Hlahol will please you with beautiful music and Milena Štráfeldová with thouhgts words.

Concert with lecture / Bedřich Smetana

Zpěvácký spolek Hlahol v Praze

Exhibition Body in body

Gallery Atrium Žižkov

Tour of the original Neptune SCULPTURE made of fine sandstone in the entrance hall for weddings on the ground floor, created in the years 1875 - 1877 by the sculptor Bohuslav Schnirch.

STATUE OF NEPTUNE

Café Neustadt - visitors can have refreshments in the well-known Café Neustadt with a garden in the courtyard.

CAFÉ of The New Town Hall

The Prague Planetarium will operate the first LED dome in Europe and the first facility of its size to use this technology to project the sky. It will become the most modern planetarium in the world. You can currently take a look inside the dome and see how its renovation is progressing.

Planetarium Prague - Take a look under the hood of the planetarium dome renovation

Planetarium Prague

Museum and concert hall of Hlahol Prague

Creative workshop - the Mosaic heritage of Plovdiv and Bulgaria 2

Artist Oldřich Kulhánek is well known to the Czech public mainly because of the banknotes that almost everyone carries around in their wallets. However, his artistic contributions extend far beyond banknotes. This guided tour will introduce you to aspects of his work, such as his admiration for the beauty of the human body, which we were unable to include in our exhibition.

Join our guided tour of Oldřich Kulhánek's World of Banknotes and find out more information that didn't make it into the exhibition...

In clear weather we will observe the night sky with large telescopes. In all weathers we will offer a tour of the instruments, permanent astronomical exhibitions and projections of astronomical programmes for young and old.

Dablice observatory - Observe, discover

Dablice observatory

In clear weather we will observe the night sky with large telescopes. Whatever the weather, we will offer a tour of the instrumentation, the permanent astronomy exhibition, which includes interactive exhibits, optical experiments, historical instruments and the meteorite museum, where you can touch some meteorites. There is also a special exhibition "Return of the King" dedicated to the reconstruction of the König main telescope and projections of astronomical programmes for young and old. 

Stefanik observatory - Observe, discover, dream

Stefanik observatory

Curated by Radek Wohlmuth

The painter Magdalena Turzová, with her well-thought-out, sensitive painting, touches on themes that freely arise from the double-edged position of middle age, when one is already raising children, but at the same time does not cease to be the child of aging parents. Although her images are anchored in a personal space, they relate to a generally shared experience and therefore have the ability to make an objective statement.

Exhibition  - Magdalena Turzová  Medusa Complex 

PLATFORMA 15 - Contemporary Art Space

Gas Museum

Available for viewing, the COUNCIL LOUNGE on the ground floor offers beautiful historical furniture. The dominant feature is the original painted wooden ceiling.

COUNCILOR'S LOUNGE of The New Town Hall

Černý's five-story Musoleum Gallery in the building of the former distillery in the Lihovar Smíchov area. In the gallery, visitors will find Černý's life's work, including iconic works such as babies with barcodes, a walking Trabant or a red clicking bus.

One floor is dedicated to visiting artists..
Come and see the exceptional permanent exhibition of the artist David Černý in the five-story former distillery. There are works that have never been exhibited before!



Musoleum of David Černý

The Střešovice tram depot in Prague houses a unique collection of vehicles and other artifacts that recount the history of public transport in the capital of the Czech Republic. It was opened in May of 1993 by the Prague Public Transit Company (DPP) as the "Museum of Public Transport in Prague".  The part of the permanent collection, which is always on view, includes forty historic vehicles. Other exhibits include models, photographs, historical documents, tickets, drawings and route maps.

History of the public transport in Prague

Museum of Public Transport

Tour of the MAZHAUZ, a Gothic columned hall on the ground floor with a stone floor, a vault and the remains of original drawings on the walls.

MAZHAUS of The New Town Hall

To view the Baroque CHAPEL on the first floor of the tower, originally a Gothic chapel.

BAROQUE CHAPEL of The New Town Hall

A tour of the almost 70 m high tower, a beautiful view of Prague at night / ascent to the tower gallery on 221 steps.

OBSERVATION TOWER of The New Town Hall

A tour of the paved COURTYARD with a fountain and a well, where the cushions of the sculptor Veronika Psotkova are placed for sitting.

COURTYARD of The New Town Hall

Exhibition in the gallery in the tower - HARVEST 2024. The work of students of the lower and upper gymnasium Prof. Jan Patocka.

EXHIBITION OF FINE ARTS Harvest 2024

The GREAT HALL can be viewed from the 1st floor of the tower. On the walls of there are the remains of wall paintings from the 16th century and three columns in the middle.

GREAT HALL of The New Town Hall

Dangerous Love

Museum Montanelli - Dangerous Love

To graze means to touch lightly. The Soft Graze Set casts into a timeless spatial trap from which it itself creates an escape. Gripping closeness makes both vulnerability and a desire for power.

The new exhibition by the artist Marie Holá Soft Graze will be open to visitors until 11 pm.

Marie Holá: Soft Graze

Jelení Gallery

… Both artists work with a different scale. Their works seem to exist on different levels. The installation is subtle, the works maintain a distance and communicate with each other internally, as if there were two acquaintances in the room, each doing their own thing, but present together. …

The ongoing exhibition by David Fesl and Esther Kläs "I will watch with you" will be open to visitors until 11 pm.

Trafo Gallery

Events at this location

Trafo Gallery - Exhibition by Jaroslav Róna: Explorer