About The Gallery
Municipal Gallery of Karlovy Vary, s.r.o., Stará Louka 26 (hereinafter as MGKV)
I. Purpose of the Gallery
a) MGKV is established in order to have a quality presentation particularly of local and regionl artistic culture through exhibitions and respective means of promotion – catalogues, prospectuses, posters, media etc.
b) MGKV through its specific exhibitional projects helps the promotion of the town and its cultural life particularly in these areas:
- development of the relations with the partner towns (eg. reciprocal exhibitions of artists from the partner towns)
- support of important cultural events and activities in the town ( eg. Spa Season Opening, International Film Festival, Tourfilm, etc.) - reflections of important persons of Karlovy Vary artistic and cultural life )
c) MGKV acts as an art centre and contact point for Karlovy Vary art associations.
II. Organizational Structure
The director of MGKV shall appoint an advisory committee consisted of the representatives of Karlovy Vary area of The Union of Artists, The Regional Art Association and a representative of profesional artists of Karlovy Vary Region acting out of these associations.
Advisory Committee
- participates in dramaturgy of exhibitions - considers and suggests the selection of exhibits
Members of the Advisory Committee:
Václav Balšán, member of The Regional Art Assoiation Ing.arch. Michal Karas, member of The Regional Art Association ac. Sculptor Jiří Kožíšek, member of Karlovy Vary area of The Union of Artists Eduard Milka, member of Karlovy Vary area of The Union of Artists ac. painter František Tumpach, independent
The other structure and statutory bodies of MGKV ( director, general meeting etc.) derive from the formo f establishment of this institution.
III. Financing of activities
For realization of the main objective stated under the counts A), B), C) MGKV raises its funds principally in two ways: 1) From sales of oroginal works of art, possibly from agency activities 2) from grants and subsidies, possibly from sponsorship ad 1) MGKV is not an organization of collections, it organizes and negotiates the sale of works of art as a profile selling gallery under the system of consignment sale on conditions set by contracts of mandate with individual authors. The Gallery can act as an agent between a prospective interested person and a common artist (eg. in the area of art completing of hotel and restaurant interiors, in the area of applied graphics etc.). ad 2) In case of particular exhibitional projects MGKV searches for possibilities of individual grant schemes for their performance and use. It also counts with financing of exhibitions by the art associations themselves, that have a possibility to use grants of municipality and region, however, in case of common projects with German associations to use eg. Czech-German Fond of Future or The Aim 3.
IV. Exhibitional Activity
Throughout the year the Gallery will be organizing 4-5 exhibitions on which it introduces particularly art work of regional artists. Author´s exhibitions will last 14 days and they will not follow each other immediately. There will be enough time and space between them to sell art works of the other common artists. Another area of the aim of exhibitional projects will be connected with a relationship of MGKV with Karlovy Vary art associations and their participation in common projects and workshops with foreign art associations.
V. Additional Program
1. promotional and advertising graphics
2. consultancy and agency of proposals to realize interiors ( eg. of hotels, guest houses, restaurants, shops, offices etc.) including their art design
3. Leasing service of art works for various occasions and above said interiors
Exhibitions
Present and future exhibitions:
Visual artists of Karlovy Vary 2024
Musical accompaniment: Barbora Bočková and Dominik Diviš.
Open daily 10 AM - 6 PM.
Archives of exhibitions:
František Tumpach - paintings, Jiří Kožíšek - porcelain
Vernissage: March 12, 2024 - 5 PM.
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End: March 26, 2024.
Open daily 10 AM - 6 PM.
Kunst aus Baden - Baden
End: October 31, 2023.
Open daily 10 AM - 6 PM.
Malerei
Vernissage: July 25, 2023 - 5 PM.
Vernissage: March 14, 2023 - 5 PM. (Photos of the vernissage available at Photogallery)
Open daily 10 AM - 6 PM.
Visual artists of Karlovy Vary 2023
Open daily 10 AM - 6 PM.
Jan Samec - three generations
Vernissage: March 14, 2023 - 5 PM. (Photos of the vernissage available at Photogallery)
End: March 28, 2023.
Open daily 10 AM - 6 PM.
MGKV organizes an exhibition of Karlovy Vary artists in Baden-Baden as part of the cooperation between the partner cities. The works of 4 authors will be presented in Altes Damfbad from November 6 to 20, 2022.
Artists: Tomáš Dolejš, Varvara Divišová, Jan Samec and Lenka Sárová Malíská.
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Lucie and Pavel Havelkovi | glass objects
Václac Sika | paintings
Vernissage: September 13, 2022 - 5 PM. (Photos of the vernissage available at Photogallery)
Open daily 10 AM - 6 PM.
Visual artists of Karlovy Vary
Open daily 10 AM - 6 PM.
Petr Doubek, Varvara Divišová
Open daily 10 AM - 6 PM.
Varvara Divišová, Lenka Sárová Malíská, Anna Schumacher, Jan Samec, Teodor Buzu, Vít Pavlík, Pavel Klíma
Vernissage: November 23, 2021 - 5 PM. (Photos of the vernissage available at Photogallery)
Andrea Baumgärtner - paintings
Václav Balšán - paintings
Šárka Schmelzerová - porcelain
Vernissage - 13th of June 2021, 5 PM. (Photos from the vernissage available at Photogallery)
End: 27th of June 2021.
Opening hours: TUE - SUN 10 AM - 6 PM
EXHIBITION HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Václav Balšán - paintings
Šárka Schmelzerová - porcelain
Vernissage - 20th of October 2020, 5 PM.
End: 3rd of November 2020.
Opening hours: TUE - SUN 10 AM - 6 PM
Vernissage - 8th of July 2020, 5 PM. (Photos from the vernissage available at Photogallery)
End: 22nd of July 2020.
Opening hours: TUE - SUN 11 AM - 6 PM
Due to the state of emergency declared by the Government of the Czech Republic on 12 March, the exhibition Petr Doubek, Varvara Divišová was canceled
Petr Doubek - glass
Varvara Divišová - paintings
Vernissage: March 24, 2020 - 17 PM
End: April 7, 2020.
Art from Baden-Baden
Art builds Bridges
Vernissage: October 15, 2019 - PM
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Musik: Trio Piacere
Artists:
- Geert Bordich
- Ingbert Maisch
- Stefan Mast
- Hannes Müller
- Siggi Riedel
- Natalia Simonenko
- Roswitha Vallendor
End: October 29, 2019.
EXHIBITION OF 5 ARTIST FROM KARLOVY VARY
In the COAL Gallery Carlsbad California
The town of Karlovy Vary Město Karlovy Vary holds a leading and interesting position in the Karlovy Vary region not only for its spa character. In the 19th century it became an artistic centre to which artists – musicians, poets, writers and sculptors arrived not only from the Czech lands but also from all over Europe. The situation was the same in the 20th century and in the present century as well. Moreover, local artists also worked in Karlovy Vary and they made the town famous in the artistic world. The authors who bring greetings through their works to the partner town Carlsbad indisputably belong to them.
A female painter Varvara Divišová (1954) and a painter Jan Samec (1955) are a sister and a brother. Their father Jan Samec srov. (1917 – 1988), an important artist in Karlovy Vary gave them not only a great creative background but mainly he aroused love to the nature and landscape in them.They both used this gift as well as they could: Varvara shows the nature in basic time changes of the year and particularly as a space welcoming our perception and feelings – we like to consider themselves identical with water surface, canopy of the heavens, a field but also with an ordinary fence at a small house which we can find in her pictures where we consider their elaborated colourful dynamics as well.
Her brother Jan moved the interpretation of landscape to the field of philosophical debates. He does not paint concrete the landscape in which he finds. On the canvas he masterfully captures a traditional variable cycle of the nature – difficult concurrence of processes of the birth, bloom and death. However, all this is headed by the order of existence! He sees such placing in depiction of a square, a clear geometrical shape which brings system and logic to his paintings.
The creativity of Lenka Sárová Malíská (1981) permanently surprises. She deals with original design of porcelain – drinking sets, porcelain jewellery, spa cups typical for drinking healing springs. Her painting full of beautiful and gentle colourful traces is also distinquished among all her activities. In the author´s pictures we can find figurative and also landscape subjects whose basis is a poetic paraphrase of the world around us.
A photographer Stanislav Kožený (1948) has admired landscape for ages. He has captured its uniqueness in black and white and colourful photographs for many times. In recent years he has dealt with a change of the Czech landscape whose integral part has been a technical machinery.Possibilities of computer processing of this photo documentation offered him its art transformation – the author´s talent was developed impressively in photographic composition of enlarged details of agricultural machines and their colourful transforming.
Zdeněk Halámek (1943) is the author of impressive black and white and colourful publications on Karlovy Vary. He introduced himself as a sensitive photograph of town scenery, especially Karlovy Vary historical architecture and parks in believable or romantic interpretation. Now he specializes in work with more than a hundred – year- old wooden camera. He exposes long single shots of artificially made compositions in which the subject sinks into the darkness to appear finally in the light. He changes the shots into contact black and white photo of the size of 9 x12 cm. He makes these works in honour of Josef Sudek, a great photographer of the 20th century. 
Božena Vachudová, a curator of The Art Gallery Karlovy Vary
End: June 18, 2019.
BEL MONDO
Andrea Kubínová / ceramics
Václav Svoboda / pictures
Vernissage: April 16, 2019 - 5 PM.
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End: April 30, 2019.
Ana Panova Vasič / pictures
Ivan Panov / ceramics
Vernissage: February 26, 2019 - 5 PM.
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End: March 12, 2019.
Jana Marešová porcelain
Jaroslav Svoboda paintings
Vernissage: November 6, 2018 - 5 PM.
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End: November 20, 2018.
Regional Association of Artist and Guests
Vernissage: 16th July 2018 at 17 p.m.
Zámecká věž (Castle Tower) Karlovy Vary
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The exhibition will last until 30th November 2018.
Exhibition Bädersprung (From the Spa to the Spa) in Baden - Baden
The City Gallery Karlovy Vary received invitation by artists from Baden- Baden, who exhibited in Karlovy Vary last year.
Artists from Karlovy Vary: Jan Samec, Lenka Sárová Malíská, Varvara Divišová and Renée Trnková exhibit together with artists from Baden – Baden: Andrej Knack, Olga David, Elke Emma Edinger, Jörg Jahnke, Marta Eklif and Andreas Ewert in the Altes Damfbad 14 - 26 Oktober 2018.
Articles from the press: Article 1, Article 2
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Exhibition of artists from our Partner Town of Carlsbad
Zámecká věž (Castle Tower) Karlovy Vary
Artists:
Rita Shulak
Alan Hayes
Ruth Parker
Janet Lee
Vernissage: 4th May 2018 at 16 p.m.
Zámecká věž Karlovy Vary
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Opening times:
May, June: TU – SU, 10:00 – 16:00
July: TU – SU, 12:00 – 18:00 hodin
The exhibition will last until 15th July 2018
THE EXHIBITION OF ARTIST FROM OUR PARTNER TOWN OF CARLSBAD
The Municipal Gallery of Karlovy Vary has prepared this exhibition in the rooms of the Castle Tower, where the artists from our sister city Carlsbad from California present their works on this show, they are members of their city art association which is called Carlsbad Oceanside Art Leage. The exhibition is a continuation of mutual cooperation which our Gallery started in 2015, when we organized exhibition of five Californian artists in the gallery Na ochozu (On the Gallery) in the Hot Spring Colonnade. In the following year we presented in turn works of five artists from Karlovy Vary in the Gallery of Oceanside Art Leage in Carlsbad.
At the current exhibition we get acquainted with works of three painters and one photographer from their Art League.
RITA SHULAK studied at several universities and at the Athens School of Art, as well as privately by various artists. In the years 2007 – 2013 she won first place in several art competitions. She dedicates not only to painting, but also to illustrations – she publishes them in various magazines. Rita uses different techniques for painting – acrylic, oil, painting with fingers, spatula or dry brush. At the show we see five of her canvases.
The second exhibitor is JANET LEE.She exhibits two drawings with colorful crayons and then three of her black and white graphics. Janet Lee studied visual communication at the University of Birmingham and then she went on to the Department of Graphics at the State University of San Diego. The main and the most popular medium of her work is engraving and etching with aquatint.
As the last painter I introduce you RUTH PARKER. Two of her watercolors are exposed here on the ground floor and the other three will be seen on the first floor. Ruth Parker became interested in art in adulthood in the 1970s. She enrolled in the painting course for adults, where she first formed acrylic and oil. Only later she discovered the watercolor that enchanted her so much that she remained faithful to him till today.
The author of the photos located on the ground floor is ALAN HAYNES. The series you can see here is called "Abandoned and Forgotten". Alan Haynes shot them in various deserted places, in places that once flourished and where vibrated life. With the series of photographs the author would like to excite the audience with emotion and interest. What were these places in their times of prosperity? Who were the people who lived here? Why did these places succumb to ruin after time?
I believe that your interest attracts not only the questions asked by the photographer, but that you will also be interested in other exhibited works.
Varvara Divišová
Karlovy Vary Artists
Městská galerie Karlovy Vary, Stará louka 26
Vernissage: 5th June 2018 at 17 p.m.
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Výstava potrvá do 19. června
The exhibition will last until 19th July 2018
Opening times: Daily 10:00 - 18:00
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LENKA SÁROVÁ MALÍSKÁ / PAINTINGS / PORCELAIN
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Artists Andrej Knack, Olga David, Elke Emma Edinger , Jörg Jahnke, Marta Eklif, Andreas Ewert and Renée Trnková from the artistic association ZeitKunst Baden-Baden exhibit in the City Gallery Karlovy Vary.
Vernissage: November 23, 2017 - 5 PM.
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Kamila Horáková
paintings
Kamila Horáková was born in 1973 in Pilsen, Czech Republic. She studied art culture and management in the University West Bohemia in Plzen. Her profession is painter and member of the Union of Artists in Czech Republic. Since 1999 so far, she teaches at the School of Art in Plzen. She won an award of a best teacher of art disciplines of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Her field focuses on: painting, drawing, graphics and collages. Her works are in collections Czech and in other countries.
Kamila Horakova creates her classical technique painting, oil painting. The basis of her work is nature, whether whole landscape, or of inspiring game selected. In particular, the natural impression of dynamic and variable phenomena, such as changing light and shadow, colour and smooth motion. She works in the impression that hides the first view and develop a very personal and poetic statement. Beside paint, she deals with powder techniques and work in layered pastel drawings on transparent paper.
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Jindra Husáriková
Šárka Mrázová Cagliero
mother and daughter
paintings
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Michal Špora - porcelán a obrazy
vernissage: 10th February 2016 at 5 p.m.
End: 24th February 2016
on Wednesday, 23rd September 2015 at 5 p.m.
End: 10th October 2015
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Local artists featured in Czech art show (San Diego Union Tribune):
Municipal Gallery of Karlovy Vary warmly invites you to a gallery „Na Ochozu“ of the Hot Spring Colonnade to the opening exhibition of artists from our Partner Town of Carlsbad
on Wednesday , 29th July 2015 at 5 p.m.
The exhibitors:
Lois Athearn
Ellie Havel Thomas
Diane O´Connell
David Schlegel
Rita Shulak
Sibylla Voll
The exhibition will last until 30th August 2015.
Open daily from 10.00 to 18.00.
Vernissage: February 11, 2015 - 5 PM
End: February 26, 2015
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Vernissage: November 26, 2014 - 5 PM
End: December 11, 2014
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Vernissage: October 15, 2014 - 5 PM
End: October 30, 2014
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VÝTVARNÁ SKUPINA DEVĚT+
Výtvarní pedagogové Střední uměleckoprůmyslové školy Bechyně a hosté
Artists - members of the group:
BENDA Jan
BOČANOVÁ Drahomíra
FÁBERA Luděk
HOŠEK Libor
KISSOVÁ Alena
NOVOTNÝ Jiří
OLIVA Miroslav
ŠTOJDL Petr
Artist - guests:
HODNÝ Ladislav
DYTRYCHOVÁ Věra
FÁBERA Josef
POLANSKÁ Lucie
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End: February 27, 2014
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Place: Na Ochozu Gallery - Vridelni kolonada - 1st floor
Vernissage: August 23, 2013 - 5 PM
End: September 20, 2013
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End: July 11, 2013
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Dalibor Nesnídal - glass, maps, drawings
Jan Samec - paintings, ceramics
Vernissage: February 6. - 22., 2013 - 6 PM
End: February 20, 2013
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Jiří Šik, Ladislav Švarc
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Vernissage: October 26, 2011 at 17:00 PM
End: November 12, 2011
Jiří ŠUHÁJEK - glass, plastics and paintings'
September 15. - 24. 2011
This commercial exhibition will support main author's presentation and exhibition in the Galerie umění.
