Kampa Modern Art Museum Eastern Block in Prague
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Museum Kampa 2010 VR Art Gallery Gps Prague Czechia
U Sovových mlýnů, 118 00 Malá Strana, Czechia
The mission of Museum Kampa is to take care of a collection of art works by modern artists and to provide testimony of the difficult time in which this art was created and which should not be forgotten. The Museum also hosts a number of short-term exhibitions presenting Central European modern artists. Over the years the Museum has held exhibitions featuring artists such as Kamil Lhotak, Karel Malich, Toyen and Andy Warhol. Each show is accompanied by programs for schools and the general public.
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Museum Kampa is located in Sova’s Mill in Lesser Town in the center of Prague. Museum Kampa has in its care an artistic the collection of Jan and Meda Mládek, who during their stay in exile in the second half of the 20th century actively supported the then Czechoslovak non-conformist artists. The collection contains the largest collection of works by one of the founders of modern abstract painting, František Kupka and works by other important artists of the 20th century from the so-called Eastern Block
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Museum Kampa is a modern art gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, showing Central European, and in particular Czech work. The pieces are from the private collection of Meda Mládek, wife of Jan V. Mládek. The museum opened in 2003 and is housed in the Sova's Mills on the eastern bank of the Kampa Island on the River Vltava.
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- Art historian, collector, patron, founder of the Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation and Museum Kampa. -
Marie Sokolová spent part of World War Two abroad, and after the war had ended she studied economics in Switzerland. When the communists seized power in Czechoslovakia she remained abroad, refusing to return. In the 1950s she lived in Paris, where she studied art history and ran a Czech publishing company, Edition Sokolová, whose publications included the first monograph on the Czech painter Toyen
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The Museum Kampa collection mainly focuses on 20th-century art, but it also extends to the 19th and 21st centuries. Unlike most institutional collections it is not structured according to the material, but thematically, and so it also maps the history of the individual parts of the collection. One part of Jan and Meda Mládek’s original collection has been donated to Prague but is curated by the museum, while the other part comprises the collection of Museum Kampa – the Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation.
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Museum Kampa regularly lends works from its collections and the collections it curates for exhibitions in this country and abroad. By agreement these works can also be made available to researchers, especially art historians.
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And it is up to each visitor if they are drawn more toward the legacy of the Liberated Theatre and its main actors, the reminder of the unforgettable front pieces that have now come back into fashion, or the quiet, concentrated moments with the verse of the poet Vladimír Holan, or if they would prefer a theatre presentation or an evening of dance or listening to Ježek’s immortal songs.
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In the Programmes section you can find the offer of planned events and if any of them captures your interest, you can arrange for tickets in the Reservation section. We look forward to seeing you and we will be glad if you will help us bring this remarkable building back to life again.
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The content of the villa’s exhibit and live program is focused primarily on the life and work of the playwright, actor and author Jan Werich, though in a wider context it also presents the transformation of the cultural, social and political life in Czechoslovakia over the course of almost the entire 20th century. The exhibit also presents Werich’s life-long creative partner, Jiří Voskovec, as well as other personalities who lived in the villa in the 20th century (the poet Vladimír Holan, historian Zdeněk Wirth
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Welcome to Werich Villa, building number 501 on Kampa Island, in the heart of historic Prague. Few Prague buildings are enshrouded in such a mysterious history and conceal the fates of so many important personalities who have one thing in common: words.
There is a large sculpture of a chair by Magdalena Jetelová outside the museum, which is a prominent landmark visible from across the Vltava.
