“Man is forever trying to fly. He keeps breaking his arms and legs, but that does not prevent him from clinging to his idea of flight.” So wrote the Swiss painter Paul Klee, for whom flight was an integral part of his life and art. Modern art presents flight in its many forms, hand in hand with technological progress but also contrasted with it.
Upcoming exhibitions
Me and Them. The individual and society in 19th-century art
exhibition hall "13"
18/06/2021 to 26/09/2021
An exhibition to be held in conjunction with the 41st Pilsen Interdisciplinary Symposium on 19th-Century Issues as part of the Smetana Days festival in Pilsen.
The Best of. The best of the collections of the Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen
exhibition hall Masné krámy
01/10/2021 to 16/01/2022
The Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen is almost the only regional gallery in the Czech Republic that has insufficient space for a permanent exhibition that would show visitors the quality of its collections. For this and other reasons we have decided to hold an exhibition in 2021 to give an idea of what such a permanent exhibition might look like in the Gallery’s new building.
Josef Sudek – Jakub Špaňhel: To Experience a Revelation
exhibition hall "13"
22/10/2021 to 06/02/2022
This exhibition of works by Josef Sudek and Jakub Špaňhel, two acclaimed artists operating in different times and different media, has a unifying and powerful theme: St Vitus Cathedral in Prague, a place that is intimately connected with the history of the entire country and has helped to define the national identity.