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.
Now on view
5 exhibitions
Martin Salajka / Blind Spot
Martin Salajka (*1981) is a distinctive representative of contemporary Czech painting. A graduate of Brno’s Faculty of Fine Arts (Petr Veselý) and Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts (Michael Rittstein), he creates works in…
Jiří Thýn / Night
Jiří Machalický
Jiří Thýn is a distinctive representative of contemporary Czech photography. A member of the middle generation of artists, he works in thematic cycles while approaching his subjects from a number of different…
Animals / The Transformation of Perception
Michal Lazorčík
Exhibiting artists: Marie Blabolilová, Matthias Garff, Václav Girsa, Blanka Nováková, Roman Pompe, Jan Ságl, Zorka Ságlová Animals / The Transformation of Perception explores our changing relationship to nature and to…
Richard Loskot a Vítězslav Plavec / Color Model
The exhibition project Color Model marks the opening of a new chapter for Galerie Klatovy / Klenová within the walls of the renovated farmstead known as The Barn. The monumental scale of nearly 1000m2 serves here as a…
Animals / The Transformation of Perception
Michal Lazorčík
Exhibiting artists: Marie Blabolilová, Matthias Garff, Václav Girsa, Blanka Nováková, Roman Pompe, Jan Ságl, Zorka Ságlová Animals / The Transformation of Perception explores our changing relationship to nature and to…
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