Expanding Our Collection: Acquisitions 2013–2025 29. 4. 2026 – 30. 8. 2026
Curator: Magdalena Juříková
Between 2013 and 2025, the Prague City Gallery acquired 2,366 works of art. In the previous comparable period, the number was just 375. This expansion of the collection makes it possible not only to follow the work of established artists but also to capture developments in the emerging art scene.
The exhibition presents a selection of acquisitions made by Prague City Gallery over a period during which the institution has been led by its director, Magdalena Juříková, who also curated this exhibition and is retiring from her post this year.
The works on display cover a wide range of media: painting, drawing and sculpture, together with photography, video, spatial installations and conceptual art. Alongside well-known artists from several generations (Jitka Válová, Stanislav Kolíbal, Milan Grygar, Květa Pacovská, Milena Dopitová, Jiří David, and others), the exhibition also features younger artists (Tadeáš Kotrba, Vasil Artamonov and Alexey Klyuykov, the Podebal group, and others).
Expanding the collections is a collective curatorial effort that, by gradual steps, coalesces into a significant testimony to movements and changes within the art scene. In recent years, GHMP has continuously focused its acquisition efforts primarily on experimental art of the 1960s and 1970s, the 1990s generation (systematically tracked through several dedicated exhibition projects), and the contemporary scene, which has been mapped through the Start Up exhibition series and later through thematic projects (Thinking Through Film, 2023–2024; Enter the Room, 2025). In 2013, GHMP became the first public institution to begin collecting moving images as an important component of visual culture. Gradually, the gallery has succeeded in covering the period of the second half of the 20th century and the first quarter-century of the new millennium.
