Women Artists 1300–1900 exhibition at the National Gallery Prague

Published November 21, 2025

The National Gallery Prague decided to present artworks the origins of which are linked to women and cover a lengthy period of six hundred years – from the fourteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.

Through this exhibition, the National Gallery Prague intends to fill a gap in terms of what may hitherto have been overlooked or is incomplete from the visitor’s point of view. Two of the gallery’s collection exhibitions, housed in the Schwarzenberg and Sternberg Palaces at Hradčany, are named Old Masters (I–II). But this very title linguistically excludes women from the creative process, or at least hides them beneath a generic masculine term.

This is also the reason why the stylised sketches of the floor plans of both palaces appear in the graphic presentation, in the architectural design of the exhibition, and on the cover of the exhibition catalogue, thereby drawing attention to the marginalised role of women in the aforementioned installations

The visual identity, exhibition graphics, printed matter and exhbition catalogue used Azeret and Azeret Mono family typeface by Displaay Type Foundry.

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