Galerie Klatovy / Klenová
The Klenová District Gallery was set up in 1963. A local painter, Vladimír Levora, was named its first director. The opening of the desolated castle and chateau to the public is one of his first achievements. The gallery started to build up its own collection. In the first years of the gallery's existence it mainly exhibited Czech art of the 19th century which it borrowed from the National Gallery and the West Bohemian Gallery in Plzeň.
In 1973 the gallery lost its independence and became part of the District Museum in Klatovy. Its exhibition and acquisitions policy was very limited; the gallery also lacked expert staff. Nevertheless, there were some encouraging achievements in the history of the gallery that are worth mentioning. One of them was the famed exhibition of Maxmilián Pirner in 1979, as well as the opening of the permanent collection of Vilma Vrbová-Kotrbová and her husband restorer František Kotrba in the villa bellow the castle. (1976, in 1989 it was closed down) It is also necessary to mention the substantial purchases of work by artists of the then middle generation (1987, 1988), which were unrivalled in both extent and quality in the Czechoslovakia of the time. This deed foreshadowed the gallery´s operations after 1989.
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Art Dialog 2026 - Zwischenräume
Adéla Matasová in collaboration with Tom Kotik, the project focuses on multimedia works that engage in a dialog with the natural, cultural context of the region while exploring the possibilities for creative communication, mutual influences among formal tendencies in contemporary art.
**Sýpka Klenová Kuratorinnen und Kuratoren der Ausstellung: Adéla Matasová, Tom Kotik und Petr Krátký Grafische Arbeiten: Barbora Klimszová** Symposium: 14. 9. – 25. 9. 2026 Ausstellung: 27. 9. – 31. 10. 2026 Vernissage…
Jiří Thýn / Nacht
Jiří Machalický
Jiří Thýn ist ein unverwechselbarer Vertreter der zeitgenössischen tschechischen Fotografie. Als Mitglied der mittleren Künstlergeneration arbeitet er in thematischen Zyklen und nähert sich seinen Sujets aus…
Tiere / Transformation der Wahrnehmung
Michal Lazorčík
Vernissage 18. 7. 2026, 15:00 Uhr 19. 7. – 31. 10. 2026 Ausstellende Künstler: Marie Blabolilová, Matthias Garff, Václav Girsa, Blanka Nováková, Roman Pompe, Jan Ságl, Zorka Ságlová Die Ausstellung Tiere /…
Richard Loskot und Vítězslav Plavec / Farbmodell
Das Ausstellungsprojekt Farbmodell eröffnet ein neues Kapitel der Galerie Klatovy / Klenová in den Räumlichkeiten des rekonstruierten Wirtschaftsgebäudes Stodola. Die monumentale Größe von fast 1000m2 wird hier zu einem…
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