January 2027
January at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 10 closing, and 10 more on view across the city.
National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace
A mini-exhibition marking 230 years since the founding of the Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts, with 70 works from all five NGP collections tracing the gallery's history and acquisitions.

Prague City Gallery (GHMP)
At the House of Photography: video essays and installations on how media and measurement technologies shape our perception of the Earth as a resource for extraction.

National Technical Museum
Eight restored Praga vehicles from Emil Příhoda's private collection, shown alongside a borrowed Praga Alfa and motoring awards honouring the collector.

Galerie Rudolfinum
First major European joint show by these First Nations artists, with sculpture, installation and painting on Indigenous land, trade and erased histories, woven with Czech glass beads.

Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures
Vietnam's history, traditions and contemporary culture, developed with the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic.

Museum Kampa
Photographs by Jiří Hampl with works by Medek and Koblasa from 1959-63, marking Medek's centenary and commemorating a 1963 Teplice show of existential abstract art suppressed under communist rule.

Prague CastleFree
Marking Havel's 90th birthday, this Riding School show presents the first post-Communist president through the objects that surrounded him — Bořek Šípek's furniture and glass, Theodor Pištěk's Castle Guard uniforms, and Havel's own study.

Museum Kampa
Works from the 1980s alongside contemporary paintings by Milan Kunc, blending pop-cultural aesthetics, irony and surrealist imagination to explore consumerism, ideology and identity. Curated by Filip Kazda.

DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Group show of around 50 Central European artists examining depictions of the male body and modern masculinity, curated by Vratislav Maňák.

National Gallery Prague – Schwarzenberg Palace
Prints from the NGP's Collection of Prints and Drawings tracing the allegorical figure of Chronos, "Father Time," from triumphs of time to William Hogarth's satires and Josef Bergler's New Year cards.

National Technical Museum
The story of modern rail transport as an engine of global change, told through authentic exhibits, interactive elements and artworks.

National Museum – Historical Building
Marking the 120th anniversary of composer Jaroslav Ježek's birth, twelve sections trace his life from student years through the Liberated Theatre to American exile.

Kunsthalle Praha
Solo exhibition tracing five decades of Annette Messager's work, transforming fabric, toys and stuffed animals into fragile monuments to memory, identity and desire.

Prague City Gallery (GHMP)
At the Municipal Library: the first major retrospective in almost a century of the 19th-century Czech painter, with loans from Brussels, Antwerp, Paris and Amsterdam.

Prague City Gallery (GHMP)
At the Stone Bell House: the first comprehensive retrospective of this overlooked Central European post-war painter, who withdrew from public life after brief recognition in the 1940s.

National Gallery Prague – Wallenstein Riding School
Marking 500 years since the Habsburgs' accession to the Bohemian throne, this show traces the life of Queen Anna Jagiellon through Renaissance portraits and works by Cranach, Dürer and Titian.

DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Retrospective of drawings and paintings by David Tibet, founder of Current 93, featuring recurring visionary motifs of children, angels and apocalyptic landscapes.

DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Contemporary artists respond to Géricault's "The Raft of the Medusa," exploring hope and solidarity amid war, displacement and ecological crisis.

DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Fourth instalment of DOX's Point of View series, exploring resilience as a quiet, relational form of resistance through contemporary art.

Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures
Over 420 artifacts mark the 200th anniversary of founder Vojta Náprstek's birth, exploring his life, American travels and role as a champion of technological progress and women's rights.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.