Exhibitions in
Ostrava's exhibition scene features numerous museums and galleries with varied focuses. For visual art, the House of Art (Dům umění) is a gallery of fine art, while PLATO serves as a space for rotating exhibitions of contemporary Czech and international work. The city also hosts a wide range of institutions exploring its history, from the Ostrava City Museum in a 16th-century hall to specialized museums dedicated to mining, railways, toys, and technology.
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Soil and Friends
PLATO Ostrava
We present to you: soil. Soil is neither invisible nor quiet, as it might erroneously seem, and the plants and animals connected with it are excellent narrators of what’s going on in the depths hidden from human eyes.…
The enchanting beauty of eternal pages
Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava
Viewed from the perspective of artists’ books and bibliophilism, a book is considered to be a unique work of art in which the text is integrated with visual, typographic and haptic properties. It is a medium in which…
Albums of resistance and hope
Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava
In the Ostrava region during the 1970s, an idea emerged to issue albums presenting works by artists who were not permitted to exhibit publicly due to the political situation. Albums 75, 76 and 77, and Art 1977, were the…
100 YEARS OF THE HOUSE OF ART IN OSTRAVA / (1926–2026)
Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava
The year 2026 is exceptional for the House of Art in Ostrava. Our exhibition building will celebrate 100 years since its opening. Since May 13, 1926, when it was first opened to the public, it has remained one of…
At the Turn of the Millennium
Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava
This exhibition consists exclusively of works from the collection of the Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava. It explores the forms of visual art created by the generation that emerged on the art scene around the turn of…
MARIANNE AUE / Returning Home
Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava
This exhibition presents the work of the German artist Marianne Aue (1932 Bruntál – 2016 Leverkusen), who was one of the most prominent (though today less well-known) figures of the European post-war avant-garde.…
MARGITA TITLOVÁ YLOVSKY / Loves of Dolls / Exhibition of a single work
Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava
The thirty-third artwork was selected by the singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist David Pomahač. The work is part of the exhibition At the Turn of the Millennium. The series of single-work exhibitions will…
Sophie Jung: Florilegium
PLATO Ostrava
The first solo institutional exhibition in the Czech Republic for Sophie Jung, the Swiss multimedia artist and performer (based in London and Basel)
Jindřich Chalupecký Award Exhibition
PLATO Ostrava
In 2026, PLATO once again hosts an exhibition of the laureates of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. This year, the international jury has honoured two artists and one art collective: Yuliya Bokhan, Tereza Kalousová and The…
MSK, History, and I Project
Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava
Online project MSK, history, and I We invite you on a journey of discovery through the Moravian-Silesian Region, during which you will be able to visit castles and chateaux, birth houses, museums and galleries,…