The MIRO Gallery was founded in Berlin in 1987. In April 1994 it moved from Berlin to Hradčany, Prague, to the Church of St. Roch on the grounds of the Strahov Monastery, where its seat can be found until now.
It is interesting to mention that the famous Czech singer Karel Gott stood at the birth of the gallery. He helped out the founder of the gallery, Miro Smolák, with an interest-free loan worth one million crowns. Without this loan the conception of the gallery would not win the selective procedure.
Since that time, the MIRO Gallery had organised in Prague more than 150 exhibitions and tens of concerts. It also became famous for its humanitarian activity. According to the survey published by The Gallup Organization USA (MF Dnes, 21st June 2001), the MIRO Gallery is one of the “most popular commercial galleries in Prague”.
The leading programme of this gallery is mainly presentation of the world classic modernism. The MIRO Gallery in Prague exhibited on the area of 170 sqm among others these authors: Picasso, Derain, Braque, Tapies, Chagall, Miró, Dalí, Legér, Chamberlain, Rodin, Francis, Mařatka, Magritte, Dürer, Warhol, Sokol, Svolinský, Galanda, Tichý, Mucha, and many others. The galley also partly exhibits the art of contemporary Czech and foreign artists, such as: Jiří Anderle, Vanessa Hardi, Václav Jíra, Josef Wágner, Miroslav Poąvic, Jiří Kornatovský, Joachim Elzmann, Otto H. Hajek, Frank Ettenberg, Thuraya al Baqsami, Christo, Emanuel Ranný, Martin ©árovec, Karel Balcar, Barbora Bálková, Frantiąek Hodonský, Jakub ©paňhel, Michael Rittstein, Pavel ©míd and more.
Since 2000, the MIRO Gallery runs the humanitarian project MIRO Art Voucher. Also in the same year, the gallery initiated the Awarding of the European Trebbia Award for Support of Culture and Creative Activity. Together with the Trebbia European Award for Creative Activity the sum of 100.000,- CZK is endowed. In charge of the Trebbia Foundation, the Laureates of the Award are chosen from the nominated candidates by the International Nomination Committee. Members of the Committee are renowned personalities from several European countries.
The people of Prague also became aware of the MIRO Gallery thanks to the organisation of the contest Miroton – Running for Art. Co-host of Miroton is the Prague International Marathon.
The newest project of the MIRO Gallery for the capital city of Prague is the Palace of Art with the working title Dalineum. The architectonic plan was designed by the renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, author of the Freedom Tower, built in New York at the place where the “Twins”, destroyed by terrorists, used to stand. In the building seven storeys high, private galleries should be located as well as a surrealistic theatre, a restaurant and a permanent exposition of works by Salvador Dalí and Czech surrealists.
MIRO Gallery partners for year 2010
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