Prague City Gallery
Prague City Gallery (GHMP) was established in 1963 as part of Czechoslovakia’s network of regional galleries. Today, it administers a collection of more than 16,000 items from the 19th to the 21st centuries. In the past, this collection was characterized by an unsystematic approach to acquisitions, which were initially done by the city itself upon recommendations by its experts. In addition, numerous leading artists donated works of their choosing to the city as part of initial efforts at accelerating the establishment of a municipal gallery. Despite all previous endeavors, such a gallery was not established until during the communist era, when the creation of a Prague gallery was seen as a way of presenting the city as a vanguard of the communist party’s cultural policies.
Now on view
6 exhibitions
The Second Fire: Love Letter to Baikal
The Second Fire is an immersive look at Lake Baikal in Siberia, the oldest, deepest and most voluminous lake in the world, which contains more than 20% of the world’s fresh water. Authors Gabriela Bulisová and Mark…
Expanding Our Collection: Acquisitions 2013–2025
Magdalena Juříková
Between 2013 and 2025, the Prague City Gallery acquired 2,366 works of art. In the previous comparable period, the number was just 375. This expansion of the collection makes it possible not only to follow the work of…
Headless Rider
The late 1990s – a time when a dial-up internet connection was a luxury, films were shared on VHS tapes, music circulated on homemade mixtapes and humanity waited to see whether the world would end at the turn of the…
Labyrinth: Wandering Within
Karla Dvořák Hlaváčková
The labyrinth functions as a metaphor for human thought and the journey of life. It symbolises wandering, courage, transformation and the burden of responsibility each individual bears for their actions and words. Step…
Villa Bílek
Martin Krummholz
František Bílek built his studio villa in the Prague Hradčany Disctrict 1910 and 1911 according to his own plans and design. Bílek was mainly a sculptor and graphic artist, but his religious approach to art gradually…
František Bílek: The Path to the Temple Vestibule
Hana Larvová
The exhibition presents the early work of the Art Nouveau symbolist František Bílek (1872–1941).
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