Galerie Rudolfinum

The Galerie Rudolfinum is an art gallery in Prague, Czech Republic. The gallery opened on January 1, 1994 and is a non-profit institution directed and financed by the Czech Ministry of Culture. It is located at the back of the Rudolfinum, a neo-Renaissance building completed in 1884.

Galerie Rudolfinum has no collection of its own, and runs on the Kunsthalle principle, hosting a series of temporary exhibitions. It has around 1500 square metres of exhibition space. The gallery director is Petr Nedoma.

The gallery's exhibitions focus mainly on contemporary art. Major exhibitions have included: František Drtikol – Photographer, Painter, Mystic (1998); Cindy Sherman: Retrospective (1998); Jürgen Klauke: Side Effect (1998); Czech Photography 1840–1950, (2004); Annelies Štrba (2005); Neo Rauch: Neue Rollen (2007); Uncertain States of America (2007–2008); and Gottfried Helnwein: Angels Sleeping (2008).

Propaganda for Happines, Josef Váchal, Louise Bourgeois – Locus of Memory, Jürgen Klauke, Along the Frontier, Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Angel, Angel - Legends of the Present, Kiki Smith: Sculptures, František Drtikol – Photographer, Painter, Mystic, Cindy Sherman – Retrospective, Nan Goldin – I’ll be your mirror, Nests of Games, Qiu Shihua - Landscapes, Jiří David - The Glow, Michael Biberstein – Towards Silence, Reality Check, Czechoslovak socialist realism 1948 - 1958, A Strange Heaven – current Chinese photography, Czech photography 1840-1950, Ivan Pinkava – Heroes, Skála in Rudolfinum, Alén Diviš, Annelies Štrba, Václav Jirásek - Industria, Rineke Dijkstra – Portraits, Shomei Tomatsu – Skin of the Nation, Neo Rauch: Neue Rollen, Uncertain States of America, Gregory Crewdson, Gottfried Helnwein, Chinese Painting - Zhang Xiaogang, Fang Lijun, Feng Mengbo, Andy Warhol – Motion Pictures, Georg Baselitz – Paintings 1960-2008, Herbert Tobias, Decadence Now! Visions of Excess,

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