Exhibitions in Prague

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.

DOX Centre for Contemporary Art

Paintings interpreting Goethe's Faust through Jungian archetypes of desire for knowledge, love, power and fame.

Museum Kampa

Retrospective tracing sculptor Květa Kovářová's path from 1950s figurative works to 1960s abstract and architectural commissions, highlighting an overlooked woman artist of post-war Czechoslovak sculpture.

National Museum – New Building

Nearly 800 award-winning and nominated photojournalism images from the 31st Czech Press Photo competition, shown across nine categories in the New Building's Brutalist travertine hall.

DOX Centre for Contemporary Art

Glass and ceramic works by Anna Polanská and Pavla Vachunová in a silent dialogue exploring nature, memory and craftsmanship.

Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American CulturesFree

A courtyard photography exhibition by Dr Karolina Kania documenting New Caledonia's history, identity and multicultural society.

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.

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.