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Celebration of Life
Celebration of Life explores the complicated history of the Lidice Art Collection. For the first time, it examines the collection through the eyes of its founder. Bringing together works that have never been exhibited alongside the most famous pieces by artists such as Gerhard Richter, Mona Hatoumn, and Jitka Válová. Come and experience this excellent show directly in Lidice Gallery.
Marta Popivoda: What Lies Above Us in Shadow Like a Black Cloud
Experience the powerful testimony of Jaroslava Skleničková, the last surviving Lidice Woman, in this moving audiovisual installation by Marta Popivoda. A profound encounter with Holocaust memory and resistance poetry from Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Nina Jirsíková and Lidice Women: We Are Survivors on a Broken Rock
Discover authentic artworks created by Lidice Women and their fellow prisoners in the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, including drawings by Nina Jirsíková.
Opening of two exhibitions - Art as a form of resistance - 80 years since the return of the Lidice Women from Ravensbrück
Join us for the opening of two shows at Lidice Gallery on Thursday, 12 June 2025, at 5 pm. We are erecting these exhibitions as part of the 80th anniversary of the return of the surviving Lidice Women from the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. These exhibitions illuminate a previously little-known aspect of their imprisonment, highlighting their ability to preserve their human dignity and inner freedom through artistic expression.
Weaving Memory
Weaving Memory invites the public to reflect on the fragility of our ability to remember. We tend to think of memory as slippery and fragmented, a continuous act of reshaping, retelling, and half-forgetting. The exhibition explores the intricate nature of remembrance and the silences and gaps that emerge when it inevitably falters in the face of profound loss through Wirkkala's Memory Board and Klein's Omitted
Unwanted Art
Unwanted Art invites visitors to uncover forgotten and overlooked works—primarily by male artists—that have long remained hidden within the Lidice Art Collection. The exhibition sheds new light on international art that was once dismissed or unnoticed. The exhibition carries profound cultural and historical significance, offering a fresh perspective on what it means to be seen, valued, and remembered.
No Feeling is Final. Works on Paper from Skopje and Lidice Solidarity Art Collections
The international group exhibition titled No Feeling is Final. Works on Paper from Skopje and Lidice Solidarity Art Collections showcases artworks by nineteen artists from across the globe who responded to a call in the 1960s, donating their pieces to the newly established Solidarity Collections in Lidice and Skopje.
intimacy, commitment, passion
intimacy, commitment, passion, exhibition brings together artworks from Libuše Jarcovjáková, Běla Kolářová, Karel Malich, Zorka Ságlová, and Květa Válová. Through their distinct visual languages, the artists invite us into realms where vulnerability meets strength, where private becomes political.
Remember Lidice Revisited
Remember Lidice was inaugurated initially to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Lidice Art Collection. It presents a story of the Lidice Collection—a powerful testament to art's ability to commemorate tragedy and inspire hope.
Past
Exhibitions
Public programmes
From the Archives
May — November 1967
Artists for Lidice
3 October — 15 November 1967
Hommage a Lidice
West German and West Berlin avant-garde to Lidice
4 — 28 July 1968