The Gallery is here for you

About the project

The fine arts surround us on a daily basis even if we do not realise it. The fine arts are our faithful fellow traveller, with a history as long as humanity itself. Entire scientific branches explore the existence of humans consequently providing partial as well as coherent exact interpretations. Art is a different family however. It does not provide any scientific records regarding life but instead an always different, humanly participatory and emotional account. It is a means of visual communication. "It communicates by means of shapes and colours“ about love, happiness, fate or justice, the pains or dramas which accompany human life. The intangible magic of artistic effect can be encountered best when interacting with original works of art. The Gallery of Fine Arts Karlovy Vary has prepared an interactive virtual programme on the paintings and sculpture work in the permanent exhibition of Czech Art of the 20th and 21st centuries for both its permanent and potential friends and and future visitors. This digital project is not aimed at relating the history of Czech art, but instead presenting in a non-traditional manner a selected collection of sixty works by Czech artists. It is meant to be a stimulation to enjoyable art perception making it possible to understand to a greater extent artistic creative work, genres, various artistic streams and techniques. Gallery of Fine Arts Karlovy Vary is here for you. Welcome!


About the Gallery

The Gallery of Fine Arts Karlovy Vary aims at creating a friendly and pleasant gallery, that is a place where visitors want to come back and visit. It wants people's stay at the gallery to be a source of great experiences, enhancing the spiritual dialogue with art in the most appropriate space, that being the permanent exhibition of Czech Art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Its current look is the result of long years of efforts wherein the gallery acquired top works of Czech modern art, cared for them and arranged them into collections, exhibitions, educational programmes and publications. The gallery knows that paintings, sculptural work and drawings serve to create exceptional spiritual, aesthetic and material accounts of their creators and on the period of their emergence. The gallery actively displays this richness in a way which satisfies our desire for beauty and hope, and which also entails obtaining numerous interesting information and assisting in helping people find their way in the world around us. Although many regional galleries contains similar installations of Czech modern art, the unique character of each of these kinds of collections comes about from the unique composition of the work, from various representations of the work of Czech artists. Its originality also arises from the interpretative 'keys' which the gallery uses to open and present its permanent exhibition. Open up, unlock this programme: the gallery is here for you. We believe that you will also be led to the Gallery of Fine Arts Karlovy Vary in reality. We are looking forward to your visit!


A friendly gallery /or what goes on in a gallery

The Gallery of Fine Arts Karlovy Vary came into being on the 1st of January 1953. It is situated on the border of the busy, pulsating international spa life of the town and the quiet park zones behind Hotel Pupp, in an elongated white building which was built over the years 1911 - 1912 for originally trade purposes. An exhibition hall was situated in the central tract of the building from the very beginning where the permanent exhibition of Czech art of the 20th century was gradually installed from the collections of the gallery. The gallery funds (amounting to more than 11,000 collected items) include paintings, sculptural work and statues, drawings and illustrations, photography as well as contemporary alternative artistic expressions. Temporary exhibitions are housed in the adjoining halls of the first and ground floors introducing interesting developments in both Czech as well as world art as well as on the local regional art life.