Gallery 4 - Gallery of Photography
Gallery 4 - gallery of photography, semi-budgetary organization of Carlsbad region, Kamenná 2, 350 02 Cheb
Tel.: +420 354 422 838
Email: g4@galerie4.cz
Open: Thursday-Friday 10:00-18:00, Saturday 10:00-17:00
Gallery 4 - gallery of photography, semi-budgetary organisation of Carlsbad region was found by Regional culture center in 1985 at Kamenná street in historical center of Cheb. Today, the gallery is the eldest still running gallery of photography in Czech republic.
Four exhibition rooms were created by the reconstruction of a neglected contemporary ambulatory. Gallery offers 170 square meters of space altogether with small office and storage.
Gallery operates with installation system Nielsen and the lightning is provided by Lival slat lights. Articulation of the rooms creates specific atmosphere as the gallery is able to exhibit up to a hundred frames of 70×100 cm. The space offers a wide variety of themes and formats to display - currently having almost 500 different frames available.
At the present moment, Gallery 4 focuses mainly on four activities: exhibitions, non-exhibitions, acquiring collections and methodical activities.
Exhibitions doesn’t limit only for the given space of the gallery - many of the exhibitions are held in foreign as well as other Czech galleries.
Non-exhibitory activities include organising socio-cultural events for professionals as well as for the broad public, youth and children.
Acquiring collections is mainly for a study and documentary purpose. In latest years, the collection is focused on Czech and foreign authors after the 1950s.
Methodical activities run in two directions: towards the broad and professional public in theoretical level (publishing, library, archive, seminars, lectures) and practical (workshops, symposia).
Most successful projects:
1985 - 1991 „School of Seeing”
Workshop for artists and photographers
1988-1992 International workshop of documentary photography
(Aš, Luby, Mariánské Lázně, Františkovy Lázně, Cheb)
1993 - 1996 „Unclear Family” Crook (GB), Luby u Chebu, Amiens (F), Essen-Borbeck (G)
1993 - 1996 “Photodiagonal”
(Munich, Cheb, Edinburgh, Palermo)
2000 - 2001 „Now and Here” Czech-German project of documentary photography 2000 - 2005 „New Media” International presentation of computerart 2005 - „Street Eye” Project focused on „children of street”, organised in cooperation with social department of city council of Cheb and included in the criminality prevention program of Department of interior of Czech republic 2005 - 2011 Cheb’s niches Project’s goal was to fill the empty niches and cartouches in historical reservation of Cheb with works of contemporary artists. 2006 - 2007 „City, Village, Landscape, People” Czech-Russian project of Gallery 4 and arts faculty of National pedagogic institute of Nizhny Tagil 2010 - 2011 „End of the Earth… Finistere…” Third Czech-French project
1996 - present KontAKTfoto
2003 - present Backyards of Cheb