We are pleased to announce, that we will be open again – you can visit Leica Gallery Prague and see the new exhibition “My father Antonin Kratochvil” since May 11th, 2020. Looking forward to see you!
You can see the exhibition called “Paris, etc.” made by Michael W. Pospisil since May 11th in our café. It is a part of a wider project “Prague, Paris, etc…” presented at the same time in the French Institute Prague. The exhibition will be held up to September 7th, 2020.
To be seen until June 16, 2013.
Antonín Kratochvíl (born 12. 4. 1947 in Lovosice) is a portrait and war reportage photographer who gained international recognition with his black and white photography style that continues to inspire new generations of artists all around the world – a style based in contrasts, light and shadow play and decomposition. Amongst his other awards, he won the World Press Photo four times and is amongst the one hundred most influential figures of world photography according to the American Photo journal.
Antonín Kratochvíl emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1967 and first met his at the time of leaving unborn son Michael after nineteen long years. It is the journey towards mending a father-son relationship that is the backbone of Andrea Sedláčková’s feature documentary “My Father Antonín Kratochvíl”. Antonín and Michael, now also a photographer, independently captured their journey throughout the documentary shoot and they present the final work at a joint exhibition.
Milota Havránková is an exceptional Slovak photographer and an experimenter. Her exhibition in Leica Gallery Prague focuses on the crystallising period of the 1960s and 1970s when almost all the key features and symbols of her later hybrid artwork appeared.
You can see our current exhibitions: “Breakthrough and Conflicts” by Krzysztof Miller at the main exhibition space up to January 12th and “Yearning for Solitude” by M. A. Martin at Leica Gallery Café up to January 13th, 2020.
During the Christmas holidays and at the end of the year, the gallery and the café’s opening hours will be as follows: December 23, 2019 – open, December 24–26, 2019 – closed, December 27–30, 2019 – normal opening hours, December 31, 2019 – January 5, 2020 – closed.
The discussion with Polish photographer Kuba Kaminski about a photojournalists’ work will be held in Polish and interpreted into Czech. On Monday, December 2nd, 2019 at 7 PM
Beseda se koná v pondělí 2. prosince 2019 od 19 hodin. Prosíme o rezervaci míst na e-mailu post@lgp.cz
Vstup zdarma, tlumočení do češtiny zajištěno. Více informací ZDE
Spoluorganizátoři akce: Polský institut a Knihovna Václava Havla
We invite you to traditional Christmas Books Bazaar, where you can buy attractive photographic books for a reasonable price. It takes place in Leica Gallery Prague from Fri 29. 11. to Sun 1. 12. 2019.
We invite you to the launch, presentation and discussion about the new Daniel Sperl’s book “America”. It will take place on Monday, November 11th, 2019 at 7 p.m. at Leica Gallery Prague.
Free of charge; please make reservation on the email: post@lgp.cz The discussion will be held in Czech.
The new exhibition in Leica Gallery Prague is a selection from Josef Chuchma’s archive – it will show works taken during the seventies and eighties that were, with a few exceptions, never published. It started on September 12, 2019.
The works are from a time when Chuchma wandered through the streets of Prague with a focused aimlessness or when he repeatedly visited certain locations in his hometown that he tried to immortalize and chronicle. He frequented concerts and music festivals, he traveled to Poland and to the religious festivities in Tchenstochova, he made portraits. Normalization – the twenty years after the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968 – had its specific esthetic and social atmosphere. The way of living was slow and organized, anxious and with little delights. The author believes that his photographs carry normalization’s imprint.
Leica Gallery will be closed from 1 to 7 July. During the rest of the Summer we open every day from 11 am to 6 pm. Come visit the photo exhibitions and cool yourself down in our air-conditioned gallery and café.