March Art Workshops at GHMP

Photo: GHMP website

In March 2026, the Education Centre of the Prague City Gallery (GHMP) will host a series of ten art workshops for adults, seniors, and families with children. The program combines artistic creation, inspiration from art, and intergenerational encounters.

Participants can take part in workshops inspired by traditional Ukrainian Petrykivka painting, contemporary art, and watercolour painting of natural motifs.

For more information, see the website of the GHMP.

Petrykivka painting (GHMP)

Dates:

• Thu 12 March 2026, 11:00–14:00
• Thu 12 March 2026, 15:00–18:00
• Fri 13 March 2026, 11:00–14:00
• Fri 13 March 2026, 15:00–18:00

Venue:
GHMP Education Centre

The art workshops will focus on the traditional Ukrainian technique of Petrykivka painting. This unique style of folk art is renowned for its colourful floral and animal motifs and delicate brushstrokes.

Participants will learn the basic principles of this technique through their own creative work. The program will be held in collaboration with Ukrainian artist Ksenia Zakharova.

Small Institutions, Gesture and Memory
(Free National Gallery. Description of a Struggle)

Dates:

• Thu 26 March 2026, 15:00–18:00
• Fri 27 March 2026, 11:00–14:00
• Fri 27 March 2026, 15:00–18:00

Venue:
GHMP Education Centre

The art workshop is conceived as a creative interaction with the exhibition and its documentary and artistic layers. Through working with boxes and folding paper forms, participants will seek ways to visually express their own attitudes and opinions.

The box is understood here as a temporary exhibition space, personal archive, or symbolic institution. Participants will work with objects, paper, text, drawing, painting, and collage. The workshop will also include working with ink as a means of expression to highlight, conceal, and suppress meaning. Emphasis will be placed on process, experimentation, and working with meaning.

Plants and Flowers in Watercolour
(GHMP Collection)

Dates:

• Thu 19 March 2026, 15:00–18:00
• Sun 22 March 2026, 11:00–14:00
• Sun 22 March 2026, 15:00–18:00

Venue:
GHMP Education Centre

The workshop will focus on natural motifs using the transparent painting technique of watercolour on paper. Inspiration will be drawn from works by artists in the GHMP collections, such as Josefa Burianová, Gerhard Färber, František Kobliha, Jan Konůpek, Michal Ranný, and Karel Svolinský.

During the art workshop, participants will try out various watercolour techniques, such as wet-on-wet and dry-on-dry painting.

These programs are implemented with the financial support of the UNHCR, the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, and the Prague City Hall.