About Vernon
In 2001 Vernon Gallery was founded by its director Monika Burian Jourdan. From the start Vernon’s objective was clear: to support quality contemporary art and present it to the public. Its vision is to place world and Czech art side by side as equal partners and look for links between artists who may never have met but are nonetheless united by something.
Vernon has its hand on several other interrelated projects:
Vernon Gallery
The exhibition space is located in lower Holešovice, an industrial neighbourhood in Prague that has undergone a profound transformation in recent years. The former industrial complex is now turning into a modern neighbourhood full of cafes, shops, and galleries.
The gallery is located at U Průhonu 22 on the fourth floor of a building that used to serve as a warehouse. It is open to the public from Wednesdays to Saturdays from 1 pm to 6:30 pm and admission is free.
Vernon Projekt – an atypical exhibition space for young artists
Vernon Projekt is an atypical exhibition space for young artists that is located in the display window of a former shop on the corner of Janovského and Heřmanovy Streets in the Letná neighbourhood of Prague. This unorthodox exhibition space allows passers-by to look inside the gallery at any time of day. Each year Vernon Projekt hosts between six and eight exhibitions by Czech and international artists.
Exhibitions of classical art and the great masters
Alongside supporting young artists and contemporary art, Vernon also organises large exhibitions of classical art and the great masters. The aim is to present the Czech public with themes and authors never before exhibited or still unknown in the Czech Republic.
Past projects include: An exhibition by Amedeo Modigliani at the Municipal House (9 December 2010 – 14 March 2011) presenting works by this outstanding artist in the Czech Republic for the first time. Similarly, the first photographic exhibition by the Swiss fashion photographer Michel Comte (18 February – 5 April 2011) was organised by Vernon in cooperation with Leica Gallery Prague. This year Vernon in cooperation with the Municipal House prepared the large exhibition Tauromaquia: Face to Face with the Bull (9 December 2011 – 29 April 2012), which presented the work of Pablo Picasso, Francisco Goya and Salvador Dalí in the same context as work by the Czech artists Emil Filla and Karel Čapek. The exhibition Francis Bacon & Bohumil Hrabal will give visitors the first opportunity in the history of the Czech Republic to see large-format drawings and paintings by the world-renowned figurative artist Francis Bacon. The exhibition will be held at GATE Gallery and Information Centre in the centre of Prague from 18 May to 22 June 2012.
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