You can choose from the PAW24 programe by type of event, such as guided tours, performances, outdoor events or events for children. You can find the locations on the PAW24 map. You can also plan your programe on individual days. And you can find our recommendations below.
Join us for the opening of PAW24 on Thursday, 5 September at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
From 5 September, all participating galleries and other art venues will open to visitors. The opening ceremony of the festival will take place on 5 September at 7:00 p.m. at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, together with the opening of Josef Bolf’s exhibition Melancholy of the Outer Limits. This solo exhibition by one of the foremost Czech painters brings the cathartic realization that the world around us is full of unknown depths and mysteries waiting to be discovered.
This year the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art will also host the Superstudio
The program for professionals will take place from 4:00 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., and spaces are available with advanced reservation. It will present the workshops EDUcare / Breaking Down Stereotypes in Art and EDUcare / Point of View (in English), which are based on the programs of the educational department of the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. This will be followed by two discussions: Art, Architecture, and Development and Art Patrons. The conference program in the Superstudio will be available free of charge upon prior reservation. The program for professionals in the Superstudio will present two workshops and two thematic blocks, which will then be made available to watch on YouTube and on the festival website. The audience will have the opportunity to learn about repeated stereotypes in art, to gain insight into what identity is, to pose questions, together with professionals, about what kind of art belongs in the public space and how it can be positioned to make the implementation successful, or to listen to a conversation about the different forms of patronage in art.
The opening ceremony of PAW24 and the entire PAW24 program for the general public, including guided tours, accompanying events, and workshops, will be free of charge on selected dates and times. Information about the current program is available at pragueartweek.cz, in the PAW24 catalog, and in the magazine Art Antiques.
A trip to the opening of PAW24 can be conveniently combined with a visit to openings at nearby galleries in Prague 7
On Thursday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. the group exhibition Forest Families will open at Berlinskej Model, featuring works by six international artists. The Chemistry Gallery, located in Hall 40 of the Holešovice Market, will feature an exhibition by sculptor Ondřej Oliva and painter Jakub Uksa, and Holešovická šachta will host an exhibition project by Stanislav Zábrodský and Belgian artist Tom Hallet. The exhibition The Wandering Forest by the Japanese painter, carver, and dancer Sota Sakuma opens at Bold Gallery at 6:00 p.m. Just across the Vltava, you can also visit the opening of Lenka Tyrpeklová’s exhibition at Galerie NoD and the nearby opening and guided tour of two artist projects by Jiří David and Daniela Mikulášková at Etcetera Art, both from 6:00 p.m.
On Friday, 6 September visit openings and exhibitions in the city center and galleries around Vinohrady
On the afternoon of 6 September, renowned gallery hunt kastner will open new exhibitions within the scope of Prague Art Week24, including an exhibition by Marie Tučková exploring musical compositions and scores. Golden Ratio, a relatively new gallery in Prague, will present The Universal Language of Umění, an exhibition that bridges Czech and American art together. Platforma 15 is planning a guided tour of their exhibition of painter Jakub Hubálek.
On Friday, you can visit exhibitions of works by the old masters. In the city center, stop by the pre-auction exhibition Artslimit Online 8 at the KODL Gallery, which, in addition to classical works by renowned Czech artists such as Václav Špála, Václav Radimský, Olbram Zoubek, Emil Filla, and Josef Jíra, features selected pieces by Michaela Červená and Anna Martínková, who are part of the exhibition Young Selection at the Savarin Palace. The auction house Dorotheum is commemorating the anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death with a group exhibition of artists such as Emil Filla, Eugen von Kahler, and Antonín Slavíček. Galerie Zdeněk Sklenář has prepared an exhibition in tribute to František Tichý.
In addition to traditional galleries and art centers, the program of Prague Art Week24 also includes unconventional locations for art. For the first time since its extensive reconstruction, the Savarin Palace will be open to the public and will come alive with art on 7 and 8 September. And for the second time, art will fill the former bank building on Jerusalémská Street, where a major opening of several exhibitors will take place on Friday, 6 September at 5:00 p.m.
Last year, the festival organizers managed to place three exhibitions in a former bank building on Jerusalémská Street. The combination of bizarre architecture and site-specific artistic interventions attracted six thousand visitors to the site in just three days. This year the festival is looking to repeat the successful exhibition venture and return art to the building, which is on loan from festival partner PSN. The venue will host three exhibitions, the first of which is Luděk Rathouský’s solo show Black Series. The Holec Contemporary Art Collection will also present a selection of its works in HCAC: An Introduction, featuring pieces by artists such as Damien Hirst, Lucie Jindrák Skřivánková, Jiří Franta & David Böhm, Vladimir 518, Julius Reichel, and others. The third exhibition is Flicker Type Fields, which will present a trio of progressive artists of the emerging generation.
This year, the organizers have decided to expand the successful concept of housing art in currently unused buildings by adding a truly exclusive venue—the Savarin Palace, located in the heart of Prague on Na Příkopě Street. The rococo hall on the first floor of the Savarin Palace will host an exhibition of works by ten young artists. Entitled Young Selection, the exhibition consists of paintings, sculptures, and glass objects by Dominik Běhal, Petr Dejmek, Michaela Červená, Ester Parasková, Anna Ruth, Jan Schulz, Anna Martinková, Erika Velická, Barbora Vovsová, and Stanislav Zábrodský. The selection of these ten talented artists who have great potential and whose work bears following was decided by experts from among the organizers and festival partners: Lenka Bakešová on behalf of Prague Art Week, Alexandra Bízková and Adam Hnojil from the investment fund Pro arte, curators Jan Reindl and Eva Vele, the owner of the gallery KodlContemporary, Jakub Kodl, and Matyáš Kodl from Artslimit, who will also be including three works by selected artists in the autumn auction Artslimit Online 8.
On the ground floor of the Savarin Palace will be an exhibition of the glass masters Martin Janecký and Rony Plesl and a neon installation by Michal Škapa, presented by KodlContemporary. There will also be a site-specific installation of several design pieces by THE DESIGN, inviting visitors to have a pleasant stay in the atrium of the palace and enjoy a free coffee prepared by the official coffee distributor of PAW24, De’Longhi.
The exhibition can be visited on 7 and 8 September from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. with a prior reservation made online at pragueartweek.cz or on site. PAWPASS holders will be able to enjoy the exhibition two days earlier, on 5 and 6 September. The auction of selected works by Michaela Červená and Anna Martinková will run throughout the duration of the exhibition and will culminate on 22 September 2024 at artslimit.com.
New solo and group exhibitions in Prague galleries
Aia Contemporary will be presenting South Korean artist NADi for the first time ever in Prague. Young artist Maatty is an autistic person who lives in his own world and creates imaginary maps, which will be on display in the vestibule of the metro station Muzeum. SVĚTOVA 1, in collaboration with the Society for Queer Memory, will be presenting a solo exhibition by Polish artist Karol Radziszewski. MeetFactory will be hosting an exhibition in which five international artists relate to transfuturism as an emancipatory artistic genre as well as an exhibition of works by Olbram Pavlíček in the Kostka Gallery. SmetanaQ will present the group exhibition Reload. A project by a number of artists entitled Post-hearing____Post-listening can be found at GAMU, while Galerie Portheimka will present an extensive group exhibition, featuring works by more than fifty students and graduates of the Drawing Studio of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. At Opero you can visit an exhibition of Radek Bodzewicz and Filip Dvořák during guided tours with the Art Part Club. The Emblem Hotel is presenting selected works from its collection, supplemented by artists recommended by the EduArt Advisory Board. An interactive performance by Ledet will take place at Kampus Hybernská, where there will also be an all-day lounge with DJs and refreshments on Friday.
From Friday to Sunday, 6–8 September you can check out unusual events, workshops for children, and free programs in major institutions
On Friday starting at 1:00 p.m. the Prague City Gallery’s Eco-Studio at Troja Château will host a workshop designed for visitors of all ages. At 5:00 p.m. Kunsthalle Praha is offering a guided “double tour” of the Lucia Moholy retrospective Exposures and Ester Geislerová’s exhibition What We Should’ve Said but Didn’t. While there, you can also see a video installation by the world-famous Jon Rafman, which consists of a collection of shots from Google Street View. On Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art will host a creative family art workshop called Coffee with Kafka, which is connected with the exhibition KAFKAesque. At 3:00 p.m. the National Gallery Prague will offer a free guided tour of the international group exhibition No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection as well as a tour of the Biennale Matter of Art, followed by the discussion From the Streets to Instagram. How Has Politics Changed in Art? at 4:00 p.m. On Saturday visitors can enjoy free admission to the exhibition Art of Books at the Royal Summer Palace at Prague Castle, with a guided tour at 5:00 p.m. The opening of the exhibition Housing Standard at Sotheby’s International Realty will take place at 6:00 p.m. At any time during the festival you can visit the Odkolekce open-air art collection created by leading Czech sculptors and painters in the newly constructed housing development Vysočany Mill.
On Sunday at 2:00 p.m. Galerie Rudolfinum will host a calligram workshop to go with the exhibition of British artist Anthony Gormley and Czech poet Pavla Melková. At 2:00 p.m. Museum Kampa will have a workshop for children inspired by artists from their collection as well as a guided tour of Vojtěch Kovařík’s exhibition From Lines to Matter. From 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. PAW visitors can take a peek into the art studios of Jiří Pitrmuc, Alex Selmeci & Tomáš Kocka Jusko, Natália Sýkorová, and Jakub Choma at Černokostelecká 90 in Prague 10. At 4:00 p.m. Kunsthalle Praha will host KunstKino: Viva Video, Video Viva, followed by a discussion with Adéla Komrzý, Ester Geislerová, and Věra Geislerová.
Sunday evening will be capped off with the Meda Mládková Art Prize Ceremony at Museum Kampa at 6:30 p.m., and then the entire Prague Art Week24 festival will conclude with a double concert by Sifon (WWW) and AidKid in David Böhm and Jiří Franta’s exhibition Fabulant at the Prague City Gallery’s House of Photography. During the concert and all day Sunday the exhibition will have a symbolic admission price of 1 CZK.
Prague Art Week includes a rich program of lectures, debates, and educational guided tours for the general public, which will be complemented by VIP events allowing the public to discover the diversity of the Prague art scene. You can join the PAW24 event on the Prague Art Week24 Facebook page, get regular information about the program in our newsletter, and connect with us on Instagram and LinkedIn.
