Contemporary Lynx is a proud media partner of the Prague Art Week 24. The art festival will take place from 5–8 September in the Czech capital city.
PRAGUE ART WEEK is the largest event in which divers contemporary art entities in Prague collaborate. Founded in 2022 with by Artantiquesmedia publishing house and with the support of six main programme partners. Today the festival connects 40 partners and in cooperation with them presents over 100 events across the city each year.
The opening of Prague Art Week24 will take place on 5 September at 7:00 p.m. at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art together with the opening of Josef Bolf’s exhibition Melancholy of the Outer Limits. The dynamic four-day program will run from Thursday to Sunday, 5–8 September. The festival will kick off the autumn art season with a diverse program at a number of Prague’s most renowned art centers, galleries, museums, and project spaces and will present the local art scene as well as host artists and galleries from abroad. The program features such names as Jon Rafman and Antony Gormley, and international visitors may be interested in a retrospective of Lucia Moholy, exhibitions dedicated to Franz Kafka, or works by Damien Hirst and Fernand Léger. The program also includes several exhibitions of private collections; some of the better known among them are the collection of Vladimír Železný at Museum Kampa and that of Leon Tsoukernik at Magnus Art. Other private collections will be presented for the very first time, including HCAC (Holec Contemporary Art Collection) and the unique apartment space of art collector Tereza Porybná at 33 Ovenecká Street, where she explores unconventional forms and uses for her apartment for the purposes of artistic collaboration and residencies. Visitors will also have the opportunity to discover one new location during this year’s festival, which is the Savarin Palace, where ten promising young Czech artists will present their works in the exhibition Young Selection. The extensive festival program will expose visitors to highly diverse forms of contemporary art, where queer, ecological, and educational themes resonate alongside the old masters or new forms of Czech glass craftsmanship. The program is complemented by live events and educational workshops for a wide audience.
