This exhibition is part of the annual Pilsen Symposium on 19th-Century Issues, where the theme for the symposium’s fortieth year is the greater leisure time enjoyed by various strata of society in the 19th century.
Upcoming exhibitions
PASS IT ON! Aspects of collaboration in the work of UMPRUM students
výstavní síň Masné krámy
20/03/2020 to 31/05/2020
This annual exhibition by the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM) presents the most interesting and noteworthy work by UMPRUM students from the last few years. In contrast with the Academy’s regular Diploma and Artsemester exhibitions, this is a curated selection of the best output.
BAOABC. How and why children’s books are created
výstavní síň „13“
27/05/2020 to 27/09/2020
“Hey Bao! What’s up? We’re reading… Cool, thanks.“ Baobab is not “just” a publishing company specialising in illustrated books for children, but an organic whole that is constantly embracing new activities. It supports young illustrators and writers, promotes artist books for children, maps contemporary European literature for children and young people, and introduces Czech readers to the most interesting 20th and 21st-century illustrators.
Aviation in Czech Visual Culture 1783–1957
výstavní síň Masné krámy
24/06/2020 to 01/11/2020
“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.
ART LANDSCAPES. The Swiss critic William Ritter (1867–1955) and Central Europe
výstavní síň „13“
16/10/2020 to 07/02/2021
William Ritter (1867–1955), a Swiss music and art critic, journalist, writer and a talented draughtsman too, was the first intellectual writing in French to take an interest in the culture of Central Europe as a whole. His writings presented Central Europe’s “art landscape” in words and images (including photographs), and they are a unique source of information on the epoch between the turn of the century and the first few years after World War II.
“MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE SUN”. The Pilsen Madonna and the Beautiful Style
výstavní síň Masné krámy
27/11/2020 to 28/03/2021
The Pilsen Madonna is Pilsen’s most precious artwork, and for centuries its most venerated one as well. Dating from the first half of the 1380s, this unique marlstone statue was commissioned from the cathedral workshop in Prague by the Teutonic Order, which was responsible for St Bartholomew’s Church in Pilsen; the statue was intended for the new church’s recently completed choir, where it has remained ever since.