A Parisian Reputation, Balkan Inspiration. After almost a century, Čermák’s paintings are brought together in a major exhibition in Prague

Exhibitions

Spoils of War, a painting on loan to Prague from the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels, measures almost four metres in width. It took six people to move it. Even larger is Čermák’s final project: the composition Resting with Captive Herzegovinian Women. It has been preserved as a charcoal drawing on canvas and was transported to the exhibition rolled around a cylinder. Both works will be on display at GHMP Knihovna in the retrospective Jaroslav Čermák: Myths of European Reality, organised by Prague City Gallery in collaboration with the National Gallery Prague. From 4 November 2026 to 28 February 2027, it will also showcase works on loan from abroad, many of which the Czech public will see for the very first time.

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A Parisian Reputation, Balkan Inspiration. After almost a century, Čermák’s paintings are brought together in a major exhibition in Prague

September 29, 2026

How do media and measurement technologies influence our perception of the world and our relationship to it? The Terra Incognita exhibition at Prague City Gallery will seek to answer this question.

Film essays and gallery installations will focus on the processes that, in the long term, link the representation of the Earth with its perception as a resource to be extracted and converted into capital. It will also highlight the fact that media and measuring devices themselves are reliant on the extraction of raw materials since their manufacture requires a wide range of minerals and precious metals. The multimedia project Terra Incognita, based on Martin Netočný’s comprehensive curatorial concept, will be open to the public at GHMP Dům fotografie from 1 October 2026 to 3 January 2027.

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Exhibitions

September 14, 2026

GHMP Art Book Fair 2026

The sixth edition of Prague City Gallery’s Art Book Fair will once again showcase a selection of the most interesting publications in the fields of art books, artists’ publications and zines The accompanying programme, conceived by graphic designer and musician Martin Hůla, will be held this year under the motto DO IT TOGETHER, viewing culture as a living and collaborative process. Visitors will therefore be able not only to take part in discussions throughout the weekend, but also to get involved themselves – through drawings, texts or ideas – in the wider programme, working together to create publications, a special font or open-source tools that will continue to exist long after the festival has ended. GHMP’s Art Book Fair will take place on 19 and 20 September 2026 at Troja Château. Admission will be free throughout the weekend.

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Exhibitions

September 2, 2026

He was known both in the Paris art world and among the Montenegrins in the Balkans. GHMP commemorates the extraordinary story of Jaroslav Čermák

In 1858, he was living a comfortable life in Paris; he was just under thirty years old and had already achieved everything that most European painters of the time could only dream of. He exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salons, wealthy patrons were buying his paintings and he had before him a career that was open to only a handful of artists of his generation. Instead, he decided to travel to Dubrovnik and later to the Balkans, a region ravaged by war. He spent time among Montenegrins and Herzegovinians fighting against the Ottoman Empire and came to know their harsh way of life. He drew and sketched, was received at the Montenegrin princely court, and later transformed these experiences into monumental canvases in his Paris studio. His name was Jaroslav Čermák. Prague City Gallery, in collaboration with the National Gallery Prague, is now commemorating his extraordinary life with the first major retrospective in almost a century. The exhibition will be on display from 4 November at the GHMP Knihovna.

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Buildings

August 17, 2026

Bouchalka: GHMP Completes Modern Facilities for Its Collections

Prague City Gallery is opening a new chapter in its history: after many years of effort, a challenging project to build a new storage facility has been successfully completed; this facility will meet the demands of the 21st century for an institution that manages an ever-expanding collection comprising some 16,000 works of art.

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Exhibitions

June 22, 2026

Headless Rider Bolf Mančuška Šerých Vaněk

The Headless Rider Returns After Thirty Years. GHMP opens an exhibition on freedom, improvisation and the “archaeology” of the 1990s

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Exhibitions

May 17, 2026

The Second Fire: Love Letter to Baikal

The Prague City Gallery presents the exhibition The Second Fire: Love Letter to Baikal, by Gabriela Bulišová and Mark Isaac, at GHMP House of Photography. The exhibition will be open to the public from 19 May to 16 August, 2026.

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