4 Tips for Exhibitions in December

photo: archiv Galerie HYB4, Anna Pleslová, Filip Kartousek

We bring you a December selection of tips for exhibitions in Prague galleries. In the first half of the month, focus on catching the closing exhibitions The Player and Esoteric Pause, which showcase both strong artistic personalities and offer a glimpse into private collections. If you’ve already visited these, or want to plan further, you can turn your attention to newly opened exhibitions of contemporary young art, such as Anna Slama & Marek Delong: Time Tore the Curtain or Anna Ruth: Weaving Shadows, Spinning Light.

The exhibition Esoteric Pause showcases an extensive collection of works from private collections as well as from Vladimír Skrepl. One of the most influential artists of his generation and a former lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Skrepl presents distinctive works—some previously unseen—that offer a glimpse into his unique artistic style. The exhibition is on view at Galerie HYB4 in the Hybernská Campus until December 20, 2024.

The exhibition The Player at Galerie Magnus Art features a selection from the collection of Leon Tsoukernik. At J&T Bank’s gallery near the Invalidovna metro station, you can see unique works by Jan Zrzavý, Emil Filla, Josef Lada, Alfons Mucha, and Josef Čapek, as well as historical pieces by Henri Matisse, Auguste Renoir, and Fernand Léger. The collection also includes globally successful contemporary artists like Damien Hirst and Anish Kapoor. Part of Tsoukernik’s collection is dedicated to contemporary and emerging young art. The exhibition has been extended until Sunday, December 15, 2024, and the gallery is now open every day of the week, including Sundays.

The exhibition Anna Slama & Marek Delong: Time Tore the Curtain at Galerie NoD presents a series of sculptures, objects, and paintings where the artists continue to treat art as a space open to emotion and spirituality. This approach allows the duo to incorporate artistic practices that rely on realms beyond human reason, such as spirituality or folklore, placing them in the context of contemporary art. The exhibition runs until December 31, 2024.

The exhibition Anna Ruth: Weaving Shadows, Spinning Light at Galerie Bold is primarily about fragility, transformation, and personal growth. Ruth’s distinctive artistic language is based on a natural sense for symbolic expression, the emotional urgency of her style, and a captivating neo-romantic atmosphere. The layered, open-ended image-object installation as a whole creates an initiation-like environment, capable of transforming the whirl of everyday life into an existentially intimate process. A labyrinth of contrasts—light and darkness, butterfly and moth, fate and will. The exhibition is open from December 4, 2024, to January 11, 2025.