The Gallery

Leica Gallery Prague

Leica Gallery Prague is a non-profit organization functioning in the Czech Republic since 2002. The gallery has entered the subconscious of the public through presentations of many world-known photographers: Mary Ellen Mark, Elliott Erwitt, Anton Corbijn, and Helmut Newton. In the beginning, Leica Gallery Prague was located and operating in Prague Castle Supreme Burgrave. Later, the gallery travelled around the Czech Republic and Slovakia in specially-modified railway vehicles. In this way, LGP presented exhibitions by Sebastião Salgado, Antonín Kratochvíl, Wim and Donata Wenders.

LGP has been active on Školská street 28 in the centre of Prague since 2008. Here, it offers everything that belongs to the standard of good galleries: besides the exhibition space, there is a gallery café and a shop that offers books and periodicals predominantly devoted to photography.

The exhibition programme of Leica Gallery Prague for 2011 includes seven exhibitions in all. In dramaturgy, there were both renowned foreign photographer (Michel Comte - exhibition Not Only Women), and Czech authors in a wide thematic conception: conceptual creation of young authors  (FRAME 010), and documentary photography by Jiří Hanke (exhibition Kladno–the 80's in terms of project Eighty). Exhibitions such as Ivan Prokop´s Photopass, and Tereza of Davle´s Grandhotel were authors´projects created directly for Leica Gallery Prague. The cycle Ladies of Czech Photography will present one of the extraordinary female Czech authors Dagmar Hochová.

In 2011, LGP has arranged exhibitions not only on the physical premises of the gallery, but Jiří Turek´s cityLAB project addressed spectators in public spaces – billboard photographs  that captivated the atmosphere of several prestigious European cities were exhibited in those parts of Prague that are close to them by their character – e.g. in Kampa, pedestrians encountered photos of Venice or Rome, emotive photos of Paris and Krakow were exhibited in Old Town. The exceptionality of this project was to create new contexts and getting art photography closer to people who do not routinely visit galleries.

Leica Gallery Prague also offers an educational programme compiled from workshops, professional seminars, lectures and discussions, both for professional photographers and lay people.

The gallery represents a range of Czech photographers and presents them both at home and abroad. On many occasions, LGP has represented Czech authors at the largest European contemporary photography trade fair, Paris Photo.