Not only banks present their collections. Where in Prague for free for art?
Directly opposite the exit from the metro station Disabled a recently established gallery focused on interesting collections from home and abroad. The pilot exhibition draws on the bank’s own fund and captures the post-revolutionary years. The spirit of early capitalism is presented in the presented works by the winners of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award as Petr Nikl, Vladimir Kokolia, Frantisek Skala whose Lukáš Rittstein. You can visit Magnus Art for free from Monday to Saturday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
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An unmissable neo – renaissance palace in Rytířská Street below Wenceslas Square provides in basement an exhibition that the visitor can reach via narrow spiral stairs. The oldest domestic bank will fulfill the canvases, especially then landscape paintingsCzech artists from the nineteenth century to the first half of the last centuryhowever, it does not shy away from contemporary artists or designers.
The large of her collections is also reflected in the current show For the pleasure of the eye and spiritwhich does not lack paintings Luďek Marold, Antonín Chittussi or Václav Brožík. Exhibitions are free to see daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with a scene of a lunch break between half past one and two o’clock.
Photo: archive of Česká spořitelna
Majestic office building Main Point in Pobřežní Street, which filled the site a decade after the buildings destroyed by the floods in 2002, provides a seat to the Cooperative. The insurance company is part of its art collection of the most important Czech authors eighteenth to twentieth centuries regularly shows in the gallery located in the third floor of the Karlín headquarters.
Photo: archive of Kooperativa Gallery
Current exhibition Masters of Czech paintingwhich you can play until 30 Decemberpresents the one hundred and thirty canvases he opens Portrait of a pensive man from Jan Kupecký. He is also among the creators represented Antonin Slavicek, Josef Capek or Václav Špála. The gallery is accessible free of charge from Tuesday to Sunday between 2 pm and 7 pm.
In the neighborhood of the Drama Club on the street In Smečky in the very center of the metropolis operates a gallery Pražská plynárenskáwhich in the collections focus on Czech dormitory, from the workshop of a strong post-war generation, but it also offers an insight into the First Republic avant-garde movement.
Although it does not provide free admission to all, free of charge however, students, children, seniors, the disabled and also their customer card holders have the opportunity to see the gallery. Adults pay 50 crowns. Opening hours are except Sunday and Monday from 11 am to 6 pm, the gallery is closed during the holidays and Jiří Suchý’s autumn opening will begin on September 7.
Photo: archive of the Hollar Foundation
One of the largest domestic suppliers of electricity, Prague energy, has been shopping for art since the pre – war period, with about one hundred and sixty works, including paintings by Josef Lada and Emil Filla. In his gallery, which is located in the Vršovice headquarters building near Eden Street Na Hroudách, represents not only famous artists, but also budding talents. It is accessible free of charge in weekdays from noon to 6 pm, is now preparing the next exhibition.
Photo: Magnus Art