iMuseum KampaMalá Strana
Milan Kunc – Pop Renaissance
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.
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Prague's Academy of Fine Arts didn't let Milan Kunc finish his studies, citing an alleged lack of talent. In 1969 he emigrated to West Germany and made his name first in Italy and the United States. His work now sits in public and private collections around the world, so the talent question looks settled.
The show hangs paintings from the 1980s, when he was working between New York, Los Angeles, Rome, Milan, Cologne and the Netherlands, next to new canvases that develop motifs from his drawings of that decade. You get forty years of ironic pop painting about consumerism, ideology and the power of advertising images, and the museum's point is that the themes have barely dated. ČTK lists his usual subjects as bodies, women and ecology, with the colour turned right up in recent years.
It runs until 17 January 2027, daily 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30). A temporary-exhibitions ticket is 300 CZK, students and seniors 180 CZK.
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- Rainy Days
- Teenagers
Skip if
You want quiet abstraction: Kunc paints bright, ironic pop aimed at consumerism and ideology.
With kids
A family ticket for the temporary exhibitions is 580 CZK (two adults and up to three children under 15), and under-6s go free.
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- Milan Kunc – Pop RenaissanceCourtesy of Museum Kampa
- New Caledonia: An Archipelago at a CrossroadsCourtesy of Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures
- Familiar and Unfamiliar VietnamCourtesy of Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures
- Vojta Náprstek ReloadedCourtesy of Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures
- Museum KampaHynek Moravec (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY 2.5
- Czech Museum of MusicAktron / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Franz Kafka MuseumDobroš, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American CulturesVachovec1 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Gallery Prague – Wallenstein Riding SchoolVitVit, CC BY-SA 4.0