About us

Leica Gallery Prague, o.p.s. - nonprofit organization Školská 28, Praha 1
Open daily from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Sunday and Monday closed
Photo exhibition’s
Photo-bookstore
Caffé
Thursday’s meetings with Photographers / 7 p.m.
Saturday’s brunch (reservatin necessary)

Conception of the gallery:
• to present the best international photographers in a dialogue with Czech
photographers • to present Czech artists internationally
• to organize workshops, seminars and lectures
• to organize exhibitions on relevant social issues (with educational programs for children and youth)
• to connect citizens with creativity
• to aid senior photographers
• to realize exhibitions in public spaces

LGP is a photography gallery with a broadly envisioned concept: Its exhibition program focuses on the best that the international photography scene has to offer. As a nonprofit organization, the gallery touches upon important social issues through its program and it helps people to orientate in the contemporary world through cultural experiences.

In a relatively short time the gallery has gained renown and respect at home and abroad. Its program has won a positive response among the professional as well as general public, and in 2003 the photography gallery LPG, o.p.s. was the most visited Czech gallery.

After presenting the exhibition “Exodus” in Prague’s Mánes Gallery, the Leica Gallery was granted a large space at Prague Castle. In the Burgrave’s Palace of Prague Castle, the gallery presented artists including Mary Ellen Mark, Elliott Erwitt, Anton Corbijn and Helmut Newton along with a range of Czech artists.

The gallery is always searching for new ways to present exhibitions so that their impact is most effective and that they address to the widest possible measure those at whom they are directed. After the loss of its space in Prague Castle, LGP enriched the cultural scene with unusually conceived exhibition presentations. People needn’t beat a path to art: Exhibitions installed in specially prepared train cars traveled to the people. The exhibition “Workers” by the eminent international photographer Sebastiao Salgado in 2005, installed in an extraordinary gallery, stopped at the train stations of 12 Czech and 11 Slovak cities. The project became the most visited exhibition of the year. It was followed by the exhibition “Portraits” by Antonín Kratochvíl in 2006, and the final Gallery on a Train traveled with an exhibition by Wim and Donáta Wenders in 2007. Altogether, more than 150,000 people visited the Gallery on a Train.

Leica Gallery is perceived as an independent nonprofit space with a special profile. After operating at Prague Castle, it set out to the people with its Gallery on a Train project, which visited 30 cities. The gallery thus became imprinted in the consciousness of viewers not only through the entire Czech Republic but also in Slovakia, and thanks to targeted travel to border areas, the gallery is also known in Austria, Germany and Poland.

Since May 5, 2008, LGP is again operating in a permanent space in central Prague, where it has renewed its regular offer of a top-notch program. The exhibition space offers everything an international standard demands. In addition to the area solely for exhibitions, there is also a literary café and a small shop that sells exhibition-related items (catalogues, books, posters). We are continuing with the tradition we established at Prague Castle whereby our shop also serves as a reading room for students and professors in the field of photography.

The gallery represents a number of Czech photographers and presents them internationally. LGP was the only Czech gallery to participate in the most important trade fair of contemporary photography, Paris Photo in the Louvre, where it presented exclusively Czech artists. In the future, the gallery plans further participation in international art fairs.

Art in public spaces is an important activity of our gallery. Following presentations of exhibitions at train stations, in September 2008 we are planning an exhibition in a tent by Vilém Kropp with the title “On Wenceslas Square About Wenceslas Square.” The exhibition will be accessible to viewers free of charge.

Aside from the exhibition program in our gallery on Školská Street, we plan to present one large project per year. In 2009 we are preparing a retrospective of Robert Vano titled “Platinum Collection” in Old Town Hall.