Galerie Rudolfinum

Annelies Štrba - Rudolfinum
Uncertain States of America
Entrance to the gallery

The Galerie Rudolfinum is an art gallery in Prague, Czech Republic. The gallery opened on January 1, 1994 and is a non-profit institution directed and financed by the Czech Ministry of Culture. It is located at the back of the Rudolfinum, a neo-Renaissance building completed in 1884.[1][2]

Galerie Rudolfinum has no collection of its own, and runs on the Kunsthalle principle, hosting a series of temporary exhibitions.[2] It has around 1500 square metres of exhibition space. The gallery director is Petr Nedoma.

The gallery's exhibitions focus mainly on contemporary art. Major exhibitions have included: František Drtikol – Photographer, Painter, Mystic (1998); Cindy Sherman: Retrospective (1998); Jürgen Klauke: Side Effect (1998); Czech Photography 1840–1950, (2004); Annelies Štrba (2005); Neo Rauch: Neue Rollen (2007); Uncertain States of America (2007–2008); and Gottfried Helnwein: Angels Sleeping (2008).

Selected exhibitions

Propaganda for Happines, Josef Váchal, Louise Bourgeois – Locus of Memory, Jürgen Klauke, Along the Frontier, Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Angel, Angel - Legends of the Present, Kiki Smith: Sculptures, František Drtikol – Photographer, Painter, Mystic, Cindy Sherman – Retrospective, Nan Goldin – I’ll be your mirror, Nests of Games, Qiu Shihua - Landscapes, Jiří David - The Glow, Michael Biberstein – Towards Silence, Reality Check, Czechoslovak socialist realism 1948 - 1958, A Strange Heaven – current Chinese photography, Czech photography 1840-1950, Ivan Pinkava – Heroes, Skála in Rudolfinum, Alén Diviš, Annelies Štrba, Václav Jirásek - Industria, Rineke Dijkstra – Portraits, Shomei Tomatsu – Skin of the Nation, Neo Rauch: Neue Rollen, Uncertain States of America, Gregory Crewdson, Gottfried Helnwein, Chinese Painting - Zhang Xiaogang, Fang Lijun, Feng Mengbo, Andy Warhol – Motion Pictures, Georg Baselitz – Paintings 1960-2008, Herbert Tobias, Decadence Now! Visions of Excess,

Photogallery

References

  1. ↑ "120 years of the Rudofinum concert hall". Radio Prague. 16 February 2005. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  2. 1 2 Prague City Tourism. "Galerie Rudolfinum". Retrieved 3 April 2017.

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