Daniel Pešta
The Czech visual artist Daniel Pešta absorbs his surroundings, both in his immediate vicinity and globally, with extraordinary sensitivity, transmuting them into works of art with a unique artistic language.
more ›The Czech visual artist Daniel Pešta absorbs his surroundings, both in his immediate vicinity and globally, with extraordinary sensitivity, transmuting them into works of art with a unique artistic language.
more ›On Thursday, March 7, the museum is closed due to already booked guided tours.
Czech TV filmed an interview with Professor of Neurosurgery Vladimír Beneš about medicine, bugs and life!
more ›We wish you a peaceful and Merry Christmas,
Yours MuMo
Artistic creativeness is not immune to burning or broken hearts, not least when it comes to female artists, sculptors or painters who have found their fixed and autonomous place in the world of art.
more ›We say goodbye to the most successful exhibition of recent years and look forward to meeting you in October together with twenty women artists who will talk about love.
We would be delighted to welcome you to our New Year’s meetings during the week of 4 January to 8 January 2023. Come and join us for Christmas cake, coffee, tea or a glass of wine if you want to celebrate 2023 with art.
The exhibition MYTHOS? will remain open for you until the end of May 2023.
(illustration: Alessandro Sicioldr, La Carezza, 2016)
The museum will be closed on the following days during the Christmas holidays:
24.12. Saturday
25.12. Sunday
26.12. Monday
31.12. Saturday
1.1. Sunday
Other days according to normal opening hours.
Merry Christmas and a peaceful entry into the New Year 2023. The team of Museum Montanelli.
Mythos through the eyes of twenty contemporary and classical artists.
more ›Dear friends of art,
the Montanelli Museum is preparing a New Year’s meetings for you in the week from 5th to 10th January 2022 with „vánočka“ (traditional Christmas cake), tea or coffee and a glass of wine. You can also visit our exhibition and celebrate the new year with Art.
Dear friends of Museum Montanelli,
as you might know, our current exhibition ” Professor Beneš’ Cabinet of Mysteries” has already been installed in September 2020 and is awaiting its visitors. In this exhibition the lifelong entomological collection of the world-renowned neurosurgeon, Professor Vladimír Beneš, awaits you in a dialogue with works of art from the Museum Montanelli collection.
more ›We will take you through several years of important projects and exhibitions which we have presented in the Czech Republic. In due course you can look forward to more videos of our activities abroad and especially to the currently installed exhibition “The Professor Beneš’ Cabinet of Mysteries“ which, for the time being, remains a great secret.
Dear friends of the Fine Arts,
We have prepared an exhibition for you under the title of The Mysterious Cabinet of Professor Beneš, which was to be ceremonially opened on 1st October 2020.
more ›The exhibition is more than a celebration and the expression of our admiration for the extraordinary person of the Czech neurosurgeon, Professor Vladimír Beneš. We aim to reveal this remarkable man’s passion for entomology and collecting.
more ›The Museum’s rooms will remain temporarily closed until September, but we are using our outdoor areas to present works from our collection.
We are currently working on organizing our depository, putting together the Museum Montanelli collection catalogue, and most importantly, preparing our next exhibition, one we have already announced.
more ›The catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition in Museum Montanelli.
more ›Museum Montanelli cordially invites you to the launch of the exhibition catalogue – Legenda in MeMoriam, Cornelia Renz & Belle Shafir January 29, 2020 at 6 p.m.
Part of the evening will be the dance performance on the theme of the exhibition by Belle Shafir. Both artists, Belle Shafir and Cornelia Renz, as well as the exhibition’s curators Dadja Altenburg-Kohl and Hagai Segev will be present.
Video from the current exhibition – interviews with artists and curators.
more ›One of the main themes of the Legenda in MeMoriam project is a study of the processing of collective as well as individual traumas through art.
more ›Petr Dejmek, Bedřich Dlouhý, Ludmila Jandová, Olga Karlíková, Miroslav Koval, Anežka Kovalová, Kryštof Krejča, Jakub Nepraš, Daniel Pešta, Anke Röhrscheid, Paulina Skavová, Richard Štipl, Kai Teichert, Rosemarie Trockel, Anna Zemánková
more ›Traditionally, the second Saturday in June belongs to museums and galleries in Prague. Come and visit MuMo during this magical night!
FREE admission and transport
You are cordially invited to the opening of East of Eden, the largest and most representative project of the artistic duo Richard Stipl and Josef Zlamal to date. Taking place at Museum Montanelli, the exhibition will feature their common work accompanied by other artists and objects from renowned collections.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the event!
Please allow us to invite you to a guided tour and a launch of the catalogue of the Mythos Europa exhibition.
more ›Traditionally, the second Saturday in June belongs to museums and
galleries in Prague. Come and visit MuMo during this magical night!
FREE admission and transport
The last weekend in April will be for those who are interested in the current Prague art scene and culture.
more ›This is what we have found in the museum. Come and have a look.
The Museum Montanelli’s team: Monika, Petra, Diana and Dadja.
We wish you a very happy Easter.
more ›The last chance to see the exhibition is on 18th February 2018.
more ›The collaboration at the East of Eden exhibition at Museum Montanelli connects three different sections and two artists. Brimming with light and contrast, the symbolism culminates in The Finale, a multimedia work presenting a brand-new form of artistic collaboration.
more ›Passion, enigmatic figures, fabled beasts and mysterious symbols from European mythology. You will see oil paintings, drawing and objects from the studio of the German painter ANTOINETTE who has been seeking the cultural identity of our continent for 30 years already.
more ›Upcoming Exhibition:
Between Heaven and Earth
Ludmila Jandová
Opening Fall 2017
We wish you all a nice and pleasant summer!
more ›Open every Tuesday by appointment only.
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more ›Vladimír Novák first emerged on the Czech art scene in the 1970s with emphatic and expressive paintings that represented a return to the figure. The exhibition at the Museum Montanelli aims to be a dialogue between Novák’s most recent and his oldest work.
more ›Guided tour of Vladimír Novak’s exhibition. We cordially invite you to the guided tour with the artist.
Wednesday, February 22, 5:00 p.m.
Artist talk with Pavel Roučka
The first Gallery Weekend Prague 2017 will take place in Prague with over two dozen Prague galleries!
more ›“I don’t want to just store art in a depositary where nobody will see it. Personal relationships with artists mean more to me – talking about art and sharing and creating thematic projects.”
more ›Come to visit us.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday the Museum is open.
Museum Montanelli wishes you a very Happy Easter.
Coming up: Year of Czech Classics – Pavel Roučka
Opening reception 30 Jan. 2017 at 6 pm
Exhibition open from 31 Jan. 2017
more ›The book presents the works of art that are to be found in the historical building of the National Theatre in Prague. In it you will find chapters dedicated to the history and restoration of the pictures hanging on the walls of the foyer of the theatre. The book contains a rich array of photographs and comes complete with a DVD containing conversations with the personalities involved in the restoration of the foyer.
more ›The newly discovered works by the painter Ludmila Jandová are timeless, topical, full of mysteries and installed in an extraordinary way.
more ›Pavel Roučka’s exhibition at the Museum Montanelli presents the established but constantly experimental work of a painter in his prime.
more ›“Hope is definitely not the same as optimism. It´s not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainity, that something makes sence, regardless of how it turns out.”
Václav Havel
more ›Museum Montanelli launches the new exhibition season on 13 September 2016 with an exhibition by Václav Bláha.
The exhibition is being organized on the occasion of what would have been the 80th birthday of former Czech president Václav Havel and will be held as part of the Václav Havel Library’s HAVEL@80 program.
more ›Desire, Passion, the Unconscious! Museum Montanelli presents erotic works of art full of mystery, sophisticated sensuality and organic delight. Artist Kai Teichert has also created several large-format murals for the museum.
more ›Happy Birthday …
more ›Free entry until the end of exhibition Substantia Nigra for all the love devotees of unlimited age.
We cordially invite you to guided tour of Substantia Nigra exhibition with curator Dadja Altenburg Kohl, 11 May 2016 at 5 pm.
more ›Dadja Altenburg Kohl and Daniel Pesta support exhibition of photographs by Alexandre Katsapov at Prague Photo 2016.
more ›Zveme vás na komentovanou prohlídku s kurátorkou výstavy prof. Dadjou Altenburg Kohl, MuMo, čtvrtek 11. 5. 2016 od 17.00 hodin.
more ›In this monographic exhibition, artist Kai Teichert explores his own inner strength. Following an imaginary beam of light, he sets out on a journey into his innermost self in an attempt at breaking free from rational perception.
The exhibition was supported by Czech-German Future Fund.
more ›During Christmas period,
museum will be closed the following days:
23. – 26. 12.
31. 12. 2017 – 1. 1. 2018
other days usual opening hours
We wish you a merry Christmas.
Guided tour to a Crossroads exhibition with Ivana Brádková and Terezie Zemánková.
Free entry.
“Crossroads,” the new joint project by ABCD and the Museum Montanelli, presents works by three contemporary international art brut artists who share a common theme: the city as a place that defines our lives.
more ›At the prestigious Personal Structures exhibition, the Czech Republic is represented by Daniel Pešta and his projects entitled Annunciation and Nocturnal Head Records.
more ›Try out being a filmmaker and bring to life seemingly inanimate objects. In animation, there are no limits to your fantasy!
more ›Did you know that films were never silent? Or that firefighters were among the first cinephiles? Come and find out at the Museum Montanelli located right in the center of Prague! We want to show you that film is not just what you see in the cinema.
more ›The new exhibition aims to reflect the broad range of Bedřich Dlouhý’s work, with a particular focus on recent works.
more ›23. – 27.12. closed
28.12. 14:00 – 18:00
29.12. 13:00 – 18:00
30.12. 13:00 – 18:00
31.12. closed
01.01. closed
Pavel Roučka is that rare artist whose work has long continued to increase in expressiveness and monumentality. Although he originally emerged from the New Figuration, he gradually broke free of diverse influences in order to achieve his own unmistakable form of expression.
more ›The Museum Montanelli has received the unique opportunity to present a loan of a unique collection of 52 drawings, engravings, and lithographs by that “visionary of modernity”, predecessor to expressionism and surrealism, Belgian painter and graphic artist James Ensor (1860-1949).
more ›Pavla Aubrechtová, Václav Bláha, Magdalena Bláhová, Hugo Demartini, Teresa Diehl, Bedřich Dlouhý, Galli, Vladimír Gebauer, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Katharina Gun Oehlert, Candida Höfer, Sopho Chkhikvadze, Jiří Kolář, Běla Kolářová, Radek Kratina, Sigalit Landau, Sigrún Ólafsdóttir, Daniel Pešta, Luboš Plný, Cornelia Renz, Paulina Skavova, Ulrike Rosenbach, Pavel Roučka, Volker Sieben, Adriena Šimotová, Kai Teichert, Jitká Válová, Květa Válová, Anna Zemánková
more ›An exhibition by multimedia artist Daniel Pešta, whose work was featured in the 2013 Venice Biennale, will now be exhibited comprehensively for the first time in the Czech Republic. The project, which is dominated by two large-format pieces of video art, is about the phenomenon of the Romani issue and individuals’ attitudes toward it.
more ›Výstava Umění uprostřed katastrofy (Kunst in der Katastrophe) představuje výsledek dlouholeté spolupráce Muzea Montanelli a Centra pronásledovaného umění při Muzeu umění Solingen. Různí autoři se svými díly snaží upozornit na situaci politicky a kulturně pronásledovaných umělců, vyzývají k empatii, žádají základní demokratické hodnoty a volají po toleranci vůči odlišnému smýšlení.
more ›Museum Montanelli in Prague presents a hitherto unseen collection of works by the Czech artist Daniel Pešta. The exhibition will include objects, videos, installations, hanging pictures, spatial images and drawings.
more ›The monographic exhibition of Bedřich Dlouhý /Self-portrait V., subtitled King of Art 1. reflects the artist’s works, which mostly come from the collection of the DrAK Foundation. Dlouhý´s steady artistic brushwork unifies the exhibition through the element of the aesthetics of strangeness, which became an integral part of Dlouhý´s works thanks to his activity in the art group Šmidrové (Lazy Eyes), and due to the difficult post-war period, during which Dlouhý´s artistic expression was profiled.
more ›Dürer’s portrayal of the Virgin Mary in a dialogue with contemporary art.
The “Maria Maria 1511/2011” exhibition is the result of a collaboration between the Montanelli Museum in Prague and the Felix Nussbaum House/Museum of Cultural History in Osnabrück, who will loan Prague their collection of graphic works by Albrecht Dürer which forms the core of the exhibition.
Between 17. 9. 2011 and 27. 11. 2011 the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus / Museum of Modern Art Osnabrück will be presenting an authorial exhibition by the Czech artist Daniel Pešta. His works will be displayed in the historical part of the museum as well as in the new premises opened this year, which were designed by the American architect Daniel Libeskind.
more ›The exhibition presents works by two already world-renowned Czech authors of art brut – Anna Zemánková (1908 – 1986) and Luboš Plný (*1961) in company with those of the newly discovered artist František Dymáček (1929 – 2003). The selection of works is aimed at the reflecting of corporeality in their artistic creations and at the formal or contentual parallels connecting the works of all these three authors.
more ›Both artists, Pavla Aubrechtová and Vladimír Gebauer, belong to the generation arriving on the scene in the oppressive atmosphere of the mid-1970s, when freedom of speech was limited in all artistic fields. It continues to explore the experimental trends of the 1960s.The exhibition in the Montanelli Museum offers an entirely new and exceptional glimpse at the life and work of both these authors.
more ›The interactive NaFilM (“National Film Museum”) exhibition project aims to introduce visitors to Czech film. Come to discover the mystery of the film image, sound and noise.
more ›The guest of the Montanelli Museum of Prague is the collection of paintings from the Museum of Persecuted Arts in Solingen.
more ›Katharina Gun Oehlert in the Museum Montanelli. On display will be her paintings and objects.
more ›The Anatomia Metamorphosis project is devoted to three Czech creators of art brut.
more ›“Forbidden Castle” presents a selection of work by Xu Zhen, one of the most radical and humorous artists working in China today.
more ›Two parallel exhibitions, which will receive their Prague premieres in MuMo, will acquaint the visitor with two opposing poles of Czech spontaneous art.
more ›Exhibition from the DrAK Foundation collection
M. Bláhová, V. Bláha, K. Heilmayer, K.G.Oehlert, D. Pešta, P. Roučka, P. Skavová, A. Šimotová, J. Zrzavý
more ›On the premises of the Sala del Camino in the former monastery of Saints Cosmas and Damian two videoarts will be presented under the title I WAS BORN IN YOUR BED, as well as the cycle of painted portraits of Roma children performing in the videoart entitled I AM A GYPSY, AND YOU?
more ›The third joint project of the Museum Montanelli and the ABCD Civic Association oriented towards spontaneously created art works is focused on contemporary Japanese art brut. The works of the artists who will be represented during the MuMo exhibition have been shown successfully in previous years in the Collection de l‘art brut museum in Lausanne in Switzerland and subsequently in Paris at the Halle Saint Pierre Museum.
more ›For the first time ever, leading Icelandic artist Sigrún Ólafsdóttir will present her work in the Czech Republic.
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