PPF Art

  • Aktivity skupiny PPF v oblasti kultury a umění

    PPF Art
    PPF Group’s Activities in Culture and Art

  • PPF pomohla zachránit unikátní umělecké projekty a díla

    PPF Art
    PPF helps to save unique art projects and works of art

  • Rozsáhlá sbírka české a slovenské fotografie (1870 – 2018)

    PPF Art
    Extensive collection of Czech and Slovak photography (1870-2020)

    Photography Collection

Main activities

Josef Sudek

Josef Sudek
Studio

The work of this world-renowned Czech photographer has become the cornerstone of PPF Group’s photography collection. PPF Art also operates an art gallery bearing his name, the Josef Sudek Studio, located in Prague-Újezd, which PPF Art helped to restore.

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The Josef Sudek Studio site
Václav Špála

Václav Špála
Gallery

PPF art's exhibitions programme focuses on contemporary Czech artists’ professional artwork, placing a particular emphasis on mapping the various vectors of current painting, but also of photography and sculpture.

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The Václav Špála Gallery site
PPF Art

PPF Art
Photography Collection

One of the largest private art collection of Czech and Slovak photography; it currently comprises 2,250 works by 211 photographers, including Josef Sudek, František Drtikol, Jaromír Funke, Ivan Pinkava, Tono Stana and others.

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The Photography Collection site
PPF Art

PPF Art
Fine Art Collection

A collection of 333 works of fine art, mainly pictures and sculptures, including those of Alfons Mucha, Maxmilián Pirner, Jakub Schikaneder, Luděk Marold, Mikuláš Medek, August Piepenhagen, and contemporary artists Ivan Ouhel, Tomáš Císařovský, Petr Nikl, Jan Merta and others.

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The Fine Art Collection site
Art festival

Art festival
Art Week

Main galleries and art institutions are taking part in this festival, with a programme that explores various aspects of the art world and looks at different historical periods, themes and art forms. Prague’s Art Week is inspired by Vienna Art Week, and PPF Art is one of the festival’s partners.

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Art Week site
The Summer Shakespeare

The Summer Shakespeare
Festival

The Summer Shakespeare Festival is Europe’s oldest and biggest open-air theatre festival of William Shakespeare’s works. The festival runs on open-air stages in Prague, Brno, Ostrava and Bratislava from late June to early September.

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The Summer Shakespeare Festival site
The Jára Cimrman

The Jára Cimrman
Theatre in Žižkov

The idea to found the Jára Cimrman Theatre followed the enthusiastic response to “The Spider Wine Pub”, a radio sketch show. The show’s authors arranged the humour – a touch of mystification and pseudo-science – for the stage. In 2017, the theatre celebrated its golden jubilee.

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The Divadlo Járy Cimrmana site
The Prague Spring

The Prague Spring
Music Festival

Through its subsidiary, CETIN, PPF is the technology partner for the globally-acclaimed Prague Spring music festival.

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The Prague Spring site
Instruments for

Instruments for
the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Six rare stringed instruments, valued at a total of CZK 20 million, have enriched the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra’s sound thanks to PPF. The hands of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra’s experienced musicians play the violins, viola and cello

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The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra site
Exhibition

Exhibition
Sudek, Funke, Drtikol…

This exhibition at the Regional Gallery in Liberec will present 150 original photographs from 150 years of Czech and Slovak photography, and it will be the first opportunity for the public to see a comprehensive selection from the PPF collection. The exhibition will run in Liberec from 21 June to 30 September 2018.

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Oblastní galerie Liberec site


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PPF Group’s Art Collections

Fine Art Collection

A collection of 333 works of fine art, mainly pictures and sculptures, including those of Alfons Mucha, Maxmilián Pirner, Jakub Schikaneder, Luděk Marold, Mikuláš Medek, August Piepenhagen and contemporary artists Ivan Ouhel, Tomáš Císařovský, Petr Nikl, Jan Merta and others.

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2452Photographs in the art collection
333works of fine art, mainly pictures and sculptures
270photographers
333works of fine art, mainly pictures and sculptures
Czech and Slovak Photography Collection

Probably the largest private art collection of Czech and Slovak photography; it currently comprises 2452 works by 270 photographers (as of Apr 2021), from the 1870s to the present.

Go to the Photography Collection site