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František Bílek in Chýnov

Address
GHMP Bílkův dům
Údolní 133
391 55 Chýnov u Tábora
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The building is not barrier-free.

Download the audio guide to the birthplace of František Bílek and the Chýnov cemetery with his works. The guide with commentary by curator Martin Krummholz is in Czech and English and can be downloaded for free.

Open
2. 5. 2025 – 29 10. 2025
Tue–Sun 10–12 am, 1–5 pm

In the winter season until 31 March 2025, the house is accessible after previous arrangement only (please call T +420 775 204 388).

Admission

CZK 50 full / adults
CZK 30 reduced / pupils and students age 11–26; holders of the International Student Identity Card ISIC, the International Teacher Identity Card ITIC; the European Youth Card EYCA
CZK 20 reduced / senior citizens age 65+; school groups (at least 10 persons) accompanied by one teacher
CZK 5 reduced / children age 6–10
free / children under age 6; GHMP Member / GHMP Member Plus; GHMP Patron; ICOM and AMG card holders; pupils of schools with focus on art – students of secondary schools and of institutions of higher learning with focus on art and art history; teachers of schools with focus on art and art history (primary schools, secondary schools, institutions of higher learning); employees of Czech galleries and museums; members of the Czech Association of Art Historians (UHS); employees of the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague and members of the Association of Art Teachers (AVP); holders of a ZTP card (persons with disability and handicap) or a ZTP/P card (persons with severe disability and handicap needing a guide); a guide accompanying a ZTP/P card holder); teachers accompanying school groups of at least 10 persons; certified PCT (PIS) guides – only when accompanying a group of at least 10 persons; journalists
20% Discount / groups of more than 20 people (the official program of Prague City Gallery has a priority over unannounced groups of more than 20 people; the group can be announced by e-mail vzdelavani@ghmp.cz); selected partners of Prague City Gallery: members of the ‘Ars Auro Prior’ Art Club; members of the ‘Skutek’ Association; owners of tickets from the Minor Theater; owners of tickets from the Divadlo v Dlouhé; Toulavka experience card holders; Lítačka card holders; employees of the Prague Municipal Police; magazine subscription card holders of Dějiny a současnost and Art & Antiques

Curator: Martin Krummholz

The exhibition at the František Bílekʼs House in Chýnov presents mainly the artist’s works with Hussite themes and reliefs from the second half of his creative period. Other exhibits commemorate the sculptor’s friendship with important Czech poets Julius Zeyer and Otokar Březina and his cooperation with Chýnov potters. Furniture designed by Bílek completes the atmosphere of the residential interiors.

view of the exposition in the František Bílekʼs House in Chýnov. Photo by Lukáš Kliment

reliéf na domě Františka Bílka v Chýnově. Foto Oto Palán — relief at František Bílekʼs House in Chýnov. Photo by Oto Palán

Dům Františka Bílka v Chýnově. Foto Oto Palán — František Bílekʼs House in Chýnov. Photo by Oto Palán

detail reliéfu na domě Františka Bílka v Chýnově. Foto Oto Palán — detail of relief at František Bílekʼs House in Chýnov. Photo by Oto Palán

Underground Garden

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During the St. Lucy festival the opening hours are extended until 11 pm.

Troja Château Stables

Open
Tue-Thu 10 am – 4 pm
Fri 1–4 pm
Sat-Sun 10 am – 4 pm

Admission

free

A unique collection of works titled Underground Garden was created over the past several months by the young artists of Aza Nizi Maza, a children’s art studio based in Kharkiv. The artists’ works invite us to reflect on the significance of gardens during times of war and ponder how joy and hope can persist even in the darkest of circumstances, drawing on rich connections to European art traditions.

Despite the ongoing daily shelling in Kharkiv, the children continue to create remarkable artworks in their basement studio. For many of them, this event marks their first journey outside Ukraine. They will personally present their creations at the opening.

The exhibition is organized by the filmmakers’ collective I AM UKRAINIAN, who are currently working on a documentary about Aza Nizi Maza. The event is made possible with the support of Prague Public Transit Company, Prague City Council, Prague City Gallery, the Embassy of Ukraine, USAID, Nova Ukraine, and If Not Now Then When.

Website of the Underground Garden project

The Palace of (Leisure) Time

Address
GHMP Zámek Troja
U Trojského zámku 1/4
170 00 Prague 7
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Barrier-free entrance: basement and ground floor.

Open
Tue–Thu 10 am–6 pm
Fri 1–6 pm
Sat–Sun 10 am–6 pm

Admission

CZK 200 full / adults
CZK 90 reduced / pupils and students age 11–26; ISIC, ITIC and EYCA card holders; senior citizens age 65+; school groups
CZK 50 reduced / children age 6–10
CZK 450 family / 2 adults + 1–4 children under 15 y.
free / GHMP Member / GHMP Member Plus; GHMP Patron card holders

Special admissions and special discounts

Ticket Office T (+420) 283 851 614

Curators: Karla Hlaváčková, Veronika Čechová

A working person usually spends eight hours a day, five days a week at their job. Some of us find fulfilment in our work and find our identities through it, while others simply work to secure an income that covers their living costs and allows them to spend their free time in a satisfying way. Much like a worker on the assembly line, urban society that earns its living through office work, finds itself in a situation where the result of its work is only one stage in the ‘production’ process. Ever since the beginning of the industrial age, society has been addressing the problems associated with the need to regenerate workers so that they not only relax but also satisfy their social and cultural needs and engage in physical activity.

But who can afford to spend their leisure time satisfactorily when leisure time is also becoming a market commodity—a time for consuming services? Do we know how to spend our leisure time idly? Or are we also motivated in our leisure time to produce something, learn something, get as much done as possible, shop, exercise in order to be beautiful and healthy? Leisure time is supposed to be a time we can fill as we choose. But this freedom presupposes a certain courage and the ability to choose between a plethora of options, which for some leads to a fear of wasted time, a fear of missing out, when in reality they just want to rest after eight hours of work.

Exhibiting artists: Zbyněk Baladrán, Anna-Marie Berdychová, Johana Hnízdilová, Peter Kolárčik, Eliška Konečná, Monika Kučerová, Judita Levitnerová, Františka Malasková, pingpongping (Anna Vašičková, Hana Kubrichtová, David Stejskal), Nicolas Prokop, Roman Štětina, Eva Volfová, Barbora Zentková & Julia Gryboś, Tereza Zichová

Eliška Konečná, Wildflowers treating, 2024, dyed velvet, embroidery, padding, 130×170 cm, property of the author

The exhibition The Palace Of (Leisure) Time will focus on the theme of spending free time in the context of a baroque palace, which, at the time of its construction, functioned as a summer palace, a summer residence whose lounges, gardens, hunting grounds and vineyards offered its owners a variety of opportunities to enjoy leisure time. The contrasts that the exhibition would like to highlight are due to the nature of the structure of Troja Château and its gardens.

This brings us to the questions of who can afford to spend their leisure time today and who can afford to spend it satisfactorily, what are the current trends in leisure time and do we spend it relaxing or are we are all still driven to perform even during moments that are not devoted to the activities that secure our livelihoods. The theme of leisure thus invites a selection of works that relate to this notion through the nature of their medium: handicrafts, textiles and ceramics, or thematically – the democratisation of leisure, the emergence of leisure in the context of industrialisation, the emptiness of work activity, and the critique of a performance-oriented society.

Johana Hnízdilová, Vase, Photo by Viktorie Macánová

Barbora Grybos & Julia Zentková, Tea Bags on Eyelids, 2022, installation from Neun Kelche, Berlin. Photo by Dorothea Dittrich

Carnations and Velvet / reprise in Lisbon

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Museu nacional de arte contemporanea
Rua Serpa Pinto, 4 | Rua Capelo, 13
1200-444 Lisboa

Curators: Adelaide Ginga (MNAC, Lisbon), Sandra Baborovská

Despite sporadic historical relations and a great mutual lack of knowledge of the artistic scene of each country, Portugal and Czechoslovakia present numerous correspondences in the chronological historical period that falls between three key dates: 1968-1974-1989. It was this conclusion that the curators reached in 2014, year zero of this project. In-depth research between them over five years resulted in the first exhibition with this theme and title, in 2019, at the Municipal Gallery of Prague, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, and is now reorganized, at MNAC, on the 50th anniversary of the Revolution of Carnations.

view to the Carnations and Velvet exhibition, MNAC, Lisbon, 2024

As a common starting point is the year 1968. The Prague Spring and the Marcelist Spring mark the first moments of hope in a political reform of the existing authoritarian regimes in Czechoslovakia and Portugal, which ended in failure, with particular coercion in Prague. The years 1974 and 1989 mark, respectively, the dates of the revolutions that allowed, peacefully, to achieve freedom in both countries: the Carnation Revolution, which took place on April 25, 1974, in Portugal, and the Velvet Revolution , on November 17, 1989, in Czechoslovakia.

The exhibition project includes a comparative chronology of historical facts from the two countries, from 1960 to the 1990s, extensively illustrated with photographs, newspaper articles, posters, books and other materials. It also evokes the episode of 50 thousand roses, in which a delegation of young Portuguese decided to travel to Prague, in December 1989, to deliver 50,000 roses to supporters of freedom and revolution in Czechoslovakia.

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An Album of Slow Images

Address
GHMP Zámek Troja
U Trojského zámku 1/4
170 00 Prague 7
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Barrier-free entrance: basement and ground floor.

Open
Tue-Thu 10 am – 6 pm
Fri 1–6 pm
Sat-Sun 10 am – 6 pm

Admission

CZK 200 full / adults
CZK 90 reduced / pupils and students age 11–26; ISIC, ITIC and EYCA card holders; senior citizens age 65+; school groups
CZK 50 reduced / children age 6–10
CZK 450 family / 2 adults + 1–4 children under 15 y.
free / GHMP Member / GHMP Member Plus; GHMP Patron

Special admissions and special discounts

Curators: Jitka Hlaváčková, Ian Mikyska

Uncertain Situations is a follow-up on Five Uncertain Situations from 2022 and Two Uncertain Situations from 2023 and represents different approaches to the interaction of auditory and visual perception. Works from Prague City Gallery’s collections serve as the basis for new compositions by contemporary composers, which then “illuminate” the temporal perception of the artwork in a new way.

Visual Artists: Tereza Bartůňková, Michal Cáb, Václav Cigler, Michal Kindernay, Stanislav Kolíbal, Tom Kotik, Radoslav Kratina, Kristina Láníková, Morgan O’Hara, Pavla Sceranková, Jiří Suchánek, Veronika Svobodová, Jiří Thýn, Jindřich Zeithamml

Audio Artists: Michaela Antalová, Jack Langdon, Sylvia Lim, Ian Mikyska, Marie Nečasová, Kory Reeder, Matej Sloboda, Michal Wróblewski

view to the Album of Slow Images exhibition, Troja Château, 2024. Photo by Jan Kolský

In the exhibition spaces of Troja Château, a selection of works from the collections of the GHMP and new musical compositions responding to them will be presented in the form of recordings of compositions and a selection of their scores. The compositions will be performed by the Prague Quiet Music Collective under the artistic direction of Ian Mikyska. All will be performed as part of a year-long accompanying programme (meetings with musicians, concerts in the main hall of the Château, music workshops and more).

The exhibition will also be complemented by several works of art that explicitly work with sound and therefore represent the opposite approach to creating a musical work based on an existing visual work.

The project is a collaboration between the Prague Quiet Music Collective and the Prague City Gallery.

Visual Artists: Tereza Bartůňková, Michal Cáb, Václav Cigler, Stanislav Kolíbal, Tom Kotik, Radoslav Kratina, Kristina Láníková, Morgan O‘Hara, Pavla Sceranková, Veronika Svobodová, Jiří Thýn, Jindřich Zeithamml

Audio Artists: Michaela Antalová, Jack Langdon, Sylvia Lim, Ian Mikyska, Marie Nečasová, Kory Reeder, Matej Sloboda, Michal Wróblewski

Album zpomalenych obrazu_Zamek Troja_GHMP_ph_Jan_Kolsky_25

Album zpomalenych obrazu_Zamek Troja_GHMP_ph_Jan_Kolsky_19

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Album zpomalenych obrazu_Zamek Troja_GHMP_ph_Jan_Kolsky_11

Album zpomalenych obrazu_Zamek Troja_GHMP_ph_Jan_Kolsky_28

Album zpomalenych obrazu_Zamek Troja_GHMP_ph_Jan_Kolsky_21

Album zpomalenych obrazu_Zamek Troja_GHMP_ph_Jan_Kolsky_14

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Jiří Suchánek, Pulse 33, 2013, algorithmic audio-visual installation (33 lights, 33 years, 33 sounds)

František Bílek in Chýnov

Address
GHMP Bílkův dům
Údolní 133
391 55 Chýnov u Tábora
Map

The building is not barrier-free.

Open
29. 3. 2024 – 30. 4. 2024
only on weekend Sat-Sun 10–12 am, 1–5 pm

1. 5. 2024 – 31. 10. 2024
Tue–Sun 10–12 am, 1–5 pm

In the winter season between 1 November 2023 and 28 March 2024, the house is accessible after previous arrangement only (please call T +420 775 204 388).

Admission

CZK 50 full / adults
CZK 30 reduced / pupils and students age 11–26; holders of the International Student Identity Card ISIC, the International Teacher Identity Card ITIC; the European Youth Card EYCA
CZK 20 reduced / senior citizens age 65+; school groups (at least 10 persons) accompanied by one teacher
CZK 5 reduced / children age 6–10
free / children under age 6; GHMP Member / GHMP Member Plus; GHMP Patron; ICOM and AMG card holders; pupils of schools with focus on art – students of secondary schools and of institutions of higher learning with focus on art and art history; teachers of schools with focus on art and art history (primary schools, secondary schools, institutions of higher learning); employees of Czech galleries and museums; members of the Czech Association of Art Historians (UHS); employees of the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague and members of the Association of Art Teachers (AVP); holders of a ZTP card (persons with disability and handicap) or a ZTP/P card (persons with severe disability and handicap needing a guide); a guide accompanying a ZTP/P card holder); teachers accompanying school groups of at least 10 persons; certified PCT (PIS) guides – only when accompanying a group of at least 10 persons; journalists
20% Discount / groups of more than 20 people (the official program of Prague City Gallery has a priority over unannounced groups of more than 20 people; the group can be announced by e-mail vzdelavani@ghmp.cz); selected partners of Prague City Gallery: members of the ‘Ars Auro Prior’ Art Club; members of the ‘Skutek’ Association; owners of tickets from the Minor Theater; owners of tickets from the Divadlo v Dlouhé; Toulavka experience card holders; Lítačka card holders; employees of the Prague Municipal Police; magazine subscription card holders of Dějiny a současnost and Art & Antiques

Curator: Martin Krummholz

Bistro Karel

Address
grounds of the Troja Château
U Trojského zámku 2/6
170 00 Prague 7
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Opening hours
Wed–Sun 9 am–10 pm

Contact and reservation
Bistro Karel
T (+420) 777 631 526

Time passes more slowly in the family bistro right on the grounds of the Troja Château. Discover the hidden atmosphere of the Mediterranean, taste the original cuisine and enjoy the colours and smells of the wild garden. The bistro is on the cycle path along the Vltava River and also includes a shop with farm products.

Light Underground V

Address
GHMP Zvon
Staroměstské nám. 605/13
110 00 Prague 1 – Staré Město
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The building is not barrier-free.

Open
Tue-Sun 3 pm – 8 pm

Admission

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Curator: Sandra Baborovská

The fifth edition of the Light Underground series, funded by the Art for the City programme, will present Radek Brousil’s Can You Still Feel the Butterflies? (2021), which is set in the basement of the Stone Bell House, and accompanied by a set design that is literally tailor-made for the medieval cellar.

We talk about the end of the world, but we don’t seem to feel it, we don’t seem to grasp its true meaning and scope. The dialogue in the film consists of lyrics from 90s indie-emo songs. They function as a reflection of the cultural collective consciousness, consisting of descriptions of personal feelings of love, anxiety, pain and self-destructive tendencies. The author achieves an authentic, intimate experience through the use of avant-garde costumes, props and stylised dialogue.

Radek Brousil, in collaboration with the exhibition’s architect Miroslav Pazdera, deconstructed the film into sets (a mid-19th-century gate by sculptor Václav Levý, a fabric installation in a functionalist church from the 1920s) and a neon sign that illuminates the medieval cellar spaces, shifting the entire audiovisual project into a contemporary aesthetic. In this way, different epochs meet in a romantic story with a final original song track performed by the author of the film (vocals and lyrics by Radek Brousil; music by Igor Bruso, Radek Brousil).

Direction: Radek Brousil, Kryštof Hlůže
Script: Alex Havelda, Radek Brousil
Camera: Kryštof Hlůže
Music: Igor Bruso, Radek Brousil
Actors: Cyril Dobrý, Tereza Hofová
Production: Tomáš Pertold
Editing: Alan Sýs
Sound: Dominik Dolejší
Scenography: Mia Jadrná, Radek Brousil
Masks: Krišpa Khinová
Costumes: Mia Jadrná

Footage: 13″ 16′

The exhibition from the Light Underground series is the fifth continuation supported by the Art for the City programme.

Radek Brousil: Can You Still Feel the Butterflies?

Darina Alster: Timelessness

Address
GHMP Zámek Troja
U Trojského zámku 1/4
170 00 Prague 7
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Barrier-free entrance: basement and ground floor.

Open
Tue-Thu 10 am – 6 pm
Fri 1–6 pm
Sat-Sun 10 am – 6 pm

Admission

full 150 CZK
reduced 60 CZK

Curator: Jitka Hlaváčková

The core of the installation is a memory medium in the form of a box of slides that Alena Alsterová, the artist’s mother, used 30-40 years ago during her lectures on Baroque art at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. In Timelessness, an endless sequence of overlapping projections, a dialogue is created between the abstract composition of Baroque forms and the artist’s personal memories.

The theme of timelessness is further naturally developed in the installation Sleeping Sculpture, which materialises the moment when the state of consciousness and the body alter: sleep. In this circular, golden-white object, viewers can rest or even fall asleep and perceive the change in the passage of time and the meaning of things in the space of imaginary worlds. The installations described are accompanied by a series of video-objects with recordings of the author’s performances.

The exhibition will include an extensive immersive group performance at Troja Château, which will take place on 22 Aug 2023.

view to the Darina Alster: Timelessness exhibition, Troja Château, 2023. Photo by Lukáš Hlavín

Heroes, Geniuses, Symbols and Muses

Address
GHMP Zámek Troja
U Trojského zámku 1/4
170 00 Prague 7
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Barrier-free entrance: basement and ground floor.

Open
Tue-Thu 10 am – 6 pm
Fri 1–6 pm
Sat-Sun 10 am – 6 pm

Admission

full 150 CZK
reduced 60 CZK

Curator: Magdalena Juříková

The GHMP is once again presenting a thematic exhibition from its collections as part of the programme for Troja Château.

This time it will be sketches for sculptural purposes and studies for monuments, memorials and statues in public spaces. Our collections contain a large number of these, some of which are very close to the final product – the sculpture.

Jaroslav Horejc, Woman with Amphora, 1938

Others are, at first sight, only the first step in the search for an overall expression. There are also some studies that were never implemented (i.e. no sculpture was made on the basis of them) because they were created for a monument competition, which was either won by one of the competitors, or, as often happens in our country, the patronage of those in power played its role. We have tried to present a number of excellent examples that led to the erection of monuments, decorative sculptures or works with a loose theme, inspired by feminine charms or respect for common craftsmanship, whether familiar from our parks and gardens or from the facades of important buildings. Visitors will encounter works from the period 1880–1980 and many famous names, such as: Bohuslav Schnirch, Josef Václav Myslbek, Ladislav Jan Šaloun, Bohumil Kafka, and Josef Mařatka, as well as the names of artists who were privileged during the socialist period – Jan Hána, Josef Malejovský and Jiří Kryštůfek.