Pekelné sáně, Kroměříž

Eva Brodská, Karíma Al-Mukhtarová, Richard Štipl, Eva Maceková
until 27 September 2026

If you haven't yet visited the Pekelné sáně gallery in Kroměříž, the summer months are the ideal occasion. Right up until the end of September, no fewer than three unique exhibitions are on show here. The display by Eva Brodská and Karíma Al-Mukhtarová features hand-woven pictures and tapestries inspired by the cultural and formal diversity of Caucasian, Anatolian, Persian and Turkmen carpets. This meeting of historical artefacts and contemporary textile work opens up a dialogue between tradition and current tendencies in the visual arts.

The sculptural work of Richard Štipl, which you will come across in the gallery's other spaces, invites us to re-examine our relationship to existential questions both individual and universal. The artist draws on the sign systems of the past and transforms them through his own experience — one it is remarkably easy to identify with. Finally, we cannot fail to mention the exhibition of Eva Maceková, who, in wall-based media on the border between drawing and painting, prompts viewers to reconsider their relationship to expected aesthetic principles, showing that what is different need not threaten us but can, on the contrary, greatly enrich us.

Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb

Mikuláš Medek, Jan Koblasa
until 20 September 2026

In August 1963, a pivotal event took place in what was then the Klement Gottwald Hall in the château riding hall in Teplice — the very first presentation of Czechoslovak abstract art, specifically Czech Informel, which until then had been on the regime's blacklist. A reconstruction of this exhibition, supplemented by newly discovered photographs by Jiří Hampl, is on offer over these months at the Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb, where it was prepared together with the artists by the curators and architect Věra Linhartová, František Šmejkal and Karel Filsak. This project, highly unique for the Czech context, invites visitors not only to grasp the context of the two exhibited artists' work, but above all to understand the sequence of historical conditions that shaped the development of Czech visual art.

Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové

Polina Davydenko
until 11 October 2026

This intimate yet striking exhibition by the young photographer Polina Davydenko truly works on many levels. In her current work she gives documentary testimony to an everyday life being transformed under the pressure of war — events she captures through her own lens as a war reporter. Her work sensitively combines artistic research, activism and personal narrative. Her pictures preserve memories, but at the same time record reports of a reality that has become everyday life for people. Polina Davydenko's images tell stories that we should all know.

Museum Kampa, Prague

Adriena Šimotová
until 13 September 2026

The exhibition Milá Adrieno… (Dear Adriena…) at Museum Kampa commemorates not only the centenary of Adriena Šimotová's birth, but above all the extraordinary friendship between the artist and Meda Mládková — collector, patron and founder of Museum Kampa. At the heart of the display is a collection of works that the Mládek couple built up over several decades and which ranks among the most significant sets of the artist's work. Alongside the well-known textile collages and her characteristic cut-out drawings, the exhibition also presents less frequently shown works from private and public collections, charting the various stages of Šimotová's creative development. This is not a conventional retrospective, but a sensitively constructed dialogue between two exceptional women whose meeting significantly shaped the Czech cultural scene and, to this day, recalls the power of an authentic artistic and human relationship.

Rudolfinum Gallery, Prague

Group exhibition
until 30 August 2026

Who controls our personal sovereignty and our political freedom? This is the theme of the current exhibition DATAS: The Data and The Sovereign, built on artistic research into new technologies, automation and digital infrastructure in relation to our personal and national identity. The participating international artists do not create critical images so much as model ethical alternatives to the digital regimes that extract value from us. This speculative view can function as a moment of awakening from lethargy, but it can also offer attainable visions of a better future. What is clear, however, is that this group exhibition foreshadows one of the most important struggles awaiting our society in the coming decades: the battle to preserve the autonomy and freedom of human agency.