Current exhibitions

2026

"Life equals art"

A retrospective to mark the 100th birthday of Pravoslav Sovak in his native town of Vysoké Mýto

Date: April 09 - May 17, 2026

Location: Municipal Gallery

Městská gallery Vysoké Mýto | nám. Přemysla Otakara II. 96 | 566 32 Vysoké Mýto

2026

HOMESICK - Elsewhere.

Spaces, places, memories in the work of Pravoslav Sovak

An exhibition at the Nidwalden Museum, June 27 - October 4, 2026
Winkelriedhaus Pavilion, Engelbergstrasse 54A, 6370 Stans

Vernissage: 26.06.1926,18:30 Admission, 19:00
Welcome by Bettina Staub, Nidwaldner Museum and Ludovit Szabo, President of the Pravoslav Sovak Foundation Hergiswil.

Afterwards: Introduction to the exhibition by Martina Kral

Matinée on the 100th birthday of Pravoslav Sovak
30.08.2026, start 11:30 a.m.

More under: Nidwalden Museum

2026

Tokyo International Art Fair

Tokyo, Bellesalle Roppongi, November 27-28, 2026

Participation in the major art fair in Tokyo, stand B09
More under: www.tokyoartfair.com

Past exhibitions

2025

Pravoslav Sovak, portfolio "Indirect Messages"

Foyer Lucerne Theater
March 16 to May 4, 2025

• An exhibition accompanying the opera production "Requiem for a Prisoner" by Luigi Dallapiccola and Jan Dismas Zelenka
• The exhibition is open during all theater performances on the main stage

2024

Dialogue: Salvatore Emblema & Pravoslav Sovak

January 8 to May 31, 2024

• Rothschild & Co Bank AG, Zollikerstrasse 181, 8034 Zurich

2023

Pravoslav Sovak: Volume of silence

September 21 - January 7, 2024

• National Gallery Prague, Exhibition Palace Graphic Cabinet on the 2nd floor
• Street: Dukelskych hrdinu 47 in 170 00 Prague 7
• More info on the website of the National Gallery Prague >

2023

"Art is a process of the whole life" - The Graphic Worlds of Pravoslav Sovak

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland, November 2-17, 2023

• 745 Viscosistadt, Nylsuissesplatz 1 in 6020 Lucerne-Emmenbrücke

2018

SOVAK - Krajiny casu - Landscapes of time

Museum Kampa, Prague

2016

Sovak. Clear vision(s)

Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

2016

A retrospective

Kunsthaus Zug

2014

Themes and variations - Pravoslav Sovak

Gallery Moeller Fine Art, Berlin

2014

From Warhol to Richter. Graphics between photo and print

Museum Folkwang Essen

2008

• Versicherungskammer Bayern, Munich
• Sust, Stansstaad

2007

• Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren
• Art Forum East German Gallery, Regensburg
• State Russian Museum, St. Peterburg

2006

• Gallery CH 6052, Hergiswil NW

2005

• Lippische Society for Art e.V., Detmold

2002

• "Works on Paper - A Retrospective."
  Albertina Graphic Collection, Vienna

1999

• "Sovak - Walls and other works".
  Nidwalden Museum, Stans

1996

• "Works on paper in the Pavilion of Art".
  Les Musées de la Ville de Paris

1995

• Graphic Retrospective National Gallery Prague

1992

• Reutlingen Art Association

1991

• Retrospective of the graphic work Art Museum Stans

1989

• Drawings, gouaches and oil paintings Gallery Dube-Heyning, Munich

1988-1989

• Moeller Fine Art Gallery, New York

1987

• Gallery Pudelko, Bonn
• One Man Show at the Cologne Art Fair Gallery Pudelko Bonn

1986

• Dolan-Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia

1985

• Gallery Ditesheim, Neuchatel

1984

• Kunstverein Mannheim, Retrospective
• Lucerne, exhibition within the framework of the International Music Week
• Gallery Atelier Lambert, Paris
• Galerie Ditesheim, Neuchatel: One Man Show with drawings and oil paintings at the FIAC in Paris

1983

• One Man Show at the FIAC in Paris Gallery Ditesheim, Neuchatel

1982

• New York, Associated American Artists
• Philadelphia, Associated American Artists

1981

• Retrospective of works on paper Gallery Pudelko, Bonn

1980

• Participation in the exhibition "Printed Art - A View of two Decades". Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979

• One Man Show at the Art Basel Klett-Cotta publishing house, Stuttgart

1978

• Associated American Artists Print Club, Philadelphia
• Gallery Pudelko, Bonn

1977

• Staempfli Gallery, New York

1976

• Gallery Achim Moeller, London: drawings, watercolors and gouaches
• Gallery Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf

1975

• Schoeller Gallery, Düsseldorf: Graphic Retrospective
• Kornfeld Gallery, Zurich-Bern: One Man Show at Art Basel

1974

• Kölnischer Kunstverein: Retrospective of the graphic work
• Gallery Pudelko, Bonn: drawings, watercolors and gouaches

1973

• Gallery André, Berlin
• Apex, Göttingen
• Gallery Pudelko Bonn
• Grocer Hamburg

1972

• Institute for Modern Art, Nuremberg
• Mannheim Art Association
• Rhen Gallery, New York
• Participation in the 36th Venice Biennale

 

1971

• Retrospective of the graphic work Overbeck Society, Lübeck
• Participation in the exhibition "Art and Politics" in Basel, Frankfurt am Main and Karlsruhe
• One Man Show at the Art Basel Edition Bucher, Lucerne

1970

• Print Club, Philadelphia
• Gallery Verena Müller, Bern

1969

• Museum of Decorative Arts Zurich

1968

• Folkwang Museum, Essen

1967

• Gallery Hybler, Copenhagen
• GOverbeck Company, Lübeck
• Halsvorsens Art Trade, Oslo

 

1966

• Institute for Contemporary Art, London

• Art Museum Bochum

• Participation in the exhibition "Fourteen Graphic Artists from Prague
  Folkwang Museum, Essen and Stedilijk Museum, Amsterdam

1965

• Von-der-Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
• Municipal Museum, Vysoke Myto

1964

• Gallery of Czechoslovak Writers, Prague
• Gallery Lometsch, Kassel
• Flensburg Municipal Museum

1963

• Kassel Art Association

1960

• Semafor Theater, Prague

1959

• "Pictures, Drawings, Graphics 1945-1958"
  Gallery Spala, Prague
• Vienna, Klagenfurt

If someone uses the vocabulary 'art' and 'artist', I usually get very tense and suspicious... basically, I keep my work and everything related to it to myself, and I'm also not willing to subordinate these things to other demands -and the pictures should go their own way.

Sovak (Table Talk with W.G. Fischer) 1981, p.14.