About gallery
etc. gallery is a non-commercial gallery of contemporary art that presents the work of Czech and foreign visual artists through exhibitions, screenings and discussions. The exhibition programme deals mainly with the presentation of contemporary art of moving image film and video dealing with current socio-political issues. As part of various research projects, the gallery cooperates with a number of cultural and educational institutions, researchers and other experts.
etc. the gallery systematically supports the work of contemporary artists focusing on moving image, provides professional reflection on this medium and contributes to the improvement of its institutional background. Each year, the gallery hosts two solo exhibitions, simultaneously producing new audiovisual artworks. Similarly, it offers curated screening selections that are presented as online exhibitions on the gallery’s website after screening, where there are original thematic essays as well.
The gallery was established in 2004 as one of the first independent exhibition spaces in Prague. It was founded by the DRAWetc. studio headed by Vladimír Strejček and artists Jiří Franta and Jiří Skála. Three years later, Markéta Vinglerová joined the gallery’s curatorial team. In 2011, the founding members left the gallery and the artist Radim Langer and the curator Tereza Stejskalová began working there, replaced in 2013 by the artist Martin Prudil. In 2017, this space was taken over by curators Alžběta Bačíková and Anna Remešová, with whom another curatorial duo, Markéta Jonášová and Tomáš Kajánek, continued to collaborate. The current curators at etc. gallery are Nela Klajbanová and Sára Märc.
In 2019, the gallery created a media library as part of the research project Restless Image II: Limits of Motion, developed for etc. gallery by Matěj Strnad, Anna Remešová and Kryštof Pešek. The gallery’s media libraryis used for onsite studying of the audiovisual artworks that were part of the gallery’s exhibition programme in the past. Another output of the research was the Manual for Handling Moving Image, which formulates a set of principles for the gallery to follow when collaborating with artists and dealing with these audiovisual works.
etc. gallery follows the Code of a Feminist Institution.
The etc. gallery project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Prague 2 Municipal District, the Czech State Culture Fund, and in 2025 it is supported by a grant from the Capital City of Prague in the amount of CZK 150,000.
Annual Report of etc. gallery 2021
Annual Report of etc. gallery 2022
Annual Report of etc. gallery 2023
