MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART? CHECK OUT WHAT PRAGUE CAN OFFER YOU
In an age when growing numbers of people tend to think dangerously alike, art´s capacity to suspend, even for a moment, our habitual ways of seeing may well prove to be of its greatest value
The beauty of Prague is enormous, as well as its offer of art, culture and events. For all modern and contemporary art lovers, Prague features various modern, postmodern and contemporary installations, private gallery openings and museum to feed your quest of the Modern.
Prague has a strong background in Modernism, displayed by the avant-garde movemente of OSMA The Eight: Emil Filla, Berdrich Feogl, Max Horb, Bohumil Kubista, Otakar Kubin, Emil Pittermann Longen, Willi Nowak and Antonin Prochazka, as well as the Functionalist Movement DEVETSIL, led by Karel Teige who invited to lecture and perform in Prague personalities such as Le Corbusier, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Man Ray and last but not the least Andre Breton.
One of the main representative building of the Modern Prague is the Veletrzni Palac, which is part of the National Gallery of Prague and it was once destinated to outdo the Centre Pompidou in Paris in sheer size and cultural power.
FEW SUGGESTIONS:
- DOX Centre of Contemporary Art http://www.dox.cz/cs/ The gallery, opened in October 2008, was once a factory. After being sensitively renovated and transformed, it hosts now a minimalistic art gallery feauturing natural lights and wide space for art exhibitions. The upper level of the building features a large nice terrace and a cafe overviewing the city.
- MANES Currently undergoing to renovation, it will be opened again in September 2013. One of Vaclav Havel favourite building in Prague, its structure featurs 3 floors. It is considered one of the most importanta Functionalist buildings in Europe nowadays. A curiosity: the old 15th century water tower gives to the all structure an interesting blend of old and modern and the ceiling of the lower level has a unique Cubist fresco of Emil Filla. The Manes building with its exhibition hall opened first in 1930. Manes is hosting all forms of visual arts.
- KAMPA MUZEUM http://www.museumkampa.cz/ Located on Kampa Island this museum defintetly worths a visit. Its interesting structure is hosted in the old Sova Mill, the name the building was given in the 15th century. The combination of the renovated mill with its white facade and the view of the Vltava River is must-to-visit in Prague. The old mill was abandoned for years until Meda Mladek, a well-known Czech-American art collector, decided to turn it into a museum. Meda Mladek and her husband, the late Jan Mladek, have been collecting and promoting underground art from Central and Eastern Europe since the sixties, preserving the culture that the Communist regime tried in vain to terminate. Do not miss the David Cerny’ s installations outside the museum.
- MUZEUM OF CZECH CUBISM In the remarkable House of the Black Madonna designed by Josef Gocar is hosted a comprehensive collection of Czech Cubism.
- MEET FACTORY http://www.meetfactory.cz/ Meet Factory is an international center for contemporary art.Established in 2001 in an actual meat factory in the area of Holesovice, it sought to bring to Prague a space where international contemporary artists and institutions could collaborate. Unfortunately the flood in 2002 destroyed such a plan, but the idea of the MeetFactory lived on and the project was moved to an abandoned warehouse in Smichov area in Prague 5 in 2005.
- JIRI SVETSKA GALLERY http://www.jirisvestka.com/ Founded in 1995 it is the Prague leading indipendent gallery focusing on Czech and international modern and contemporary art.
- VERNON GALLERY http://www.galerievernon.com/ The Vernon Gallery was founded in 2001 by its direction Monika Burian Jourdan with the aim of presenting quality art of both contemporary and classical genres. From 2012 the Vernon Gallery took over the organization of the TINA B. Festival of Contemporary Art that focuses on the presentation of works in the area of new media, light art, video art and performances by artists from all over the world.
- RUDOLFINUM GALLERY http://www.galerierudolfinum.cz/cs/ Rudolfinum is a massive complex hosting art galleries, a concert hall and a fancy cafe. J. Schulz designed this neo Renaissance building. The Rudolfinum gallery opened in 1994 after an extensive reconstruction. The gallery display works from the international art scene fro famous artists as well as up-and-coming, emerging artists, presenting individual and collective projects.
- VACLAV SPALA GALLERY http://www.spalovka.cz/ This gallery was founded in 1957 and named after the avant-garde 20th century painter Vaclav Spala. The gallery held significant exhibitions during the so called golden years from 1065-1970 when the art space was under the Czech art theoretician and curator Jindrich Chalupecky.
Listed next other remarkable museum, buildings and galleries to complete your path in the Modern in Prague.
- THE CHEMISTRY GALLERY http://www.thechemistry.cz/
- PRAGUE ART & DESIGN http://www.prague-art.cz/uvod/
- DVORAK SEC CONTEMPORARY http://www.dvoraksec.com/
- DEA ORH ART GALLERY http://www.deaorh.com/cs
- MIRO GALLERY http://galeriemiro.eu/?lang=en
- HUNT KASTNER ARTWORKS http://www.huntkastner.com/
- SVIT http://www.svitpraha.org/en/
- KVALITAR http://www.kvalitar.cz/
- GAGIK MANOUKIAN’S GALLERY OF MODERN ART http://www.gagikgallery.com/
- ARTBANKA MUSEUM OF YOUNG ART http://www.amoya.cz/
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