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tell me your night, I'll build it from the listingsJune 2026
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Mon Jun 1 · 7pm
When Monsters Dream presents the visual world of Střešovická Kramle, the Prague-based post-underground collective working across music, visual art, and performance. Curated by Tereza Špinková, the exhibition features works by Václav Girsa, Tomáš Hrůza, Tom Kotík, Ladislav Kouba, Michal Mariášek, Jan Ságl, and Daniel Vlček, creating a shifting environment of painting, sound, installation, photography, and video shaped by dystopian imagery and environmental unease.
listed by Czech Center New York
The Gardener's Year
Mon Jun 8 · 7pm
Inspired by true events and the literary spirit of Karel Čapek, Jiří Havelka's tragicomedy follows a gardener who quietly resists the pressure of wealth, authority, and bureaucracy. Blending understated humor, absurd situations, and emotional depth, The Gardener's Year is a moving portrait of resilience, dignity, and one man's fight for his home. Lead actor Oldřích Kaiser won the Czech Lion Award for his performance.
listed by Czech Center New York
From Monarchy to Modernity (Docent Tour)
Thu Jun 11 · 5pm · Poster House
Join the Poster House education team for a guided docent tour of From Monarchy to Modernity: Travel, Identity, & the Czechoslovak First Republic (1918–1938), offering deep insight into the exhibition's historical context and design techniques in an informative, casual setting. On view through November 1, this exhibition explores a rare collection of travel posters and reveals how design, tourism, and soft power shaped a modern national identity in the wake of empire.
listed by Czech Center New York
Three Empty Weeks in July (Exhibition Opening)
Fri Jun 12 · 6pm · Harkawik
Harkawik presents its first exhibition with Czech-born, New York-based artist Marie Tomanova. Created through a daily ritual of self-portraiture begun on January 1, 2022, Three Empty Weeks in July explores the constructed image, intimacy, and self-scrutiny through haunting double-exposed instant photographs. Using a Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6, Tomanova layers her body with landscapes, interiors, books, and shadows, creating images that feel immediate yet carefully staged, personal yet unknowable.
listed by Czech Center New York
Kaprálová
Tue Jun 16 · 7pm
An evening dedicated to Vítězslava Kaprálová, the Czech composer and conductor whose brief life left a lasting mark on 20th-century music. Petr Záruba's new documentary traces her final years through letters, archival materials, and contemporary interpretations of her work. Followed by a panel with Petr Záruba and Robinson McClellan, moderated by Brenda Vongova.
listed by Czech Center New York
A Girl on a Trampoline
Tue Jun 23 · 7pm
Presented by Švandovo divadlo, A Girl on a Trampoline is an intimate play inspired by Zdena Salivarová and Josef Škvorecký, their exile, and their fight to preserve Czech literature. The play highlights Salivarová's legacy and the couple's '68 Publishers, which brought banned Czech books to readers from Toronto. Presented in Czech with English supertitles as part of the annual Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival.
listed by Czech Center New York