This year’s final exhibition at the Petr Novotný Gallery is a commemorative one—it marks the gallery’s 150th exhibition and celebrates 30 years of the gallery’s activities.

The gallery’s history began in 1996, when the Velvet Gallery was established at the castle in Kuřim. At the time, it was merely an office with a storage facility, without its own exhibition space. The gallery managed to secure an exhibition space after the renovation of the castle stables, where—already under the name Galerie ad astra—exhibitions were held from 2002 to 2013, with a total of 67 exhibitions taking place there. The gallery then continued, now under the name Galerie Petr Novotný, in Prague starting in 2011. Another 83 exhibitions took place there, bringing the total to 150. A total of 75 artists exhibited, 15 of whom were from abroad.

The following artists exhibited at the gallery from 2002 to 2026:

Argišt Alaverdyan, Dávid Baffi, Andrea Bartošová, Petr Bařinka, Ondřej Basjuk, Josef Bolf, Fraser Brocklehurst, Tomáš Císařovský, Ivan Csudai, Michal Czinege, Filip Černý, Jiří David, Stanislav Diviš, Andrej Dúbravský, Jana Farmanová, Robert Gschwantner, David Hanvald, Vanesa Wallet Hardi, Pavel Hayek, Tomáš Hlavina, Bohdan Hostiňák, Jakub Hošek, Milan Houser, Marcel Hüppauff, Jakub Janovský, Mirek Kaufman, Krištof Kintera, Jan Knap, Richard Kočí, Vladimír Kokolia, Anežka Kovalová, Jiří Kovanda, Denisa Krausová, Patrik Kriššák, Silvia Krivošíková, Václav Krůček, Jiří Kubový, Petr Kuklík, Martin Kuriš, Petr Lysáček, Christian Macketanz, Petr Malina, Břetislav Malý, Jiří Matějů, František Matoušek, Jan Merta, Jitka Mikulicová, Juliana Mrvová, Anna Neborová, Petr Pastrňák, David Pešat, Jiří Petrbok, Petr Písařík, Viktor Pivovarov, Hana Puchová, Lukáš Rittstein, Eva Sakuma, Vladimír Skrepl, Oldřich Smutný, Vít Soukup, Václav Stratil, Antonín Střížek, Miloš Šejn, Erik Šille, Jakub Špaňhel, Adam Štech, Karel Štědrý, Benedikt Tolar, Jan Turner, UB 12, Jitka Válová, Květa Válová, Petr Veselý, Ivan Vosecký, Tomáš Žemla.

Due to space limitations, works by approximately half of the artists are on display at the exhibition.

The gallery’s activities do not end with the 150th exhibition; they will continue at the same location, albeit with a slightly modified exhibition format.