The Langhans Gallery Prague

OPEN HOUSE AT THE LIBRARY OF LANGHANS GALLERY PRAGUE

30^th March – 25^th April 2010

Langhans Gallery Prague prepared an exceptional event for the month of April 2010, during the month the exhibition rooms will change into a large reading room of foreign contemporary photography books and magazines.

During the Open House, there will also be a complementary presentation of student books made by students of Czech photography schools.

The Langhans Library occupies a unique position as it is probably the only specialized library to be found in the Czech Republic focusing on photography books and magazines and similar forms of art that is open to the public, in particular it specializes in the latest developments in photography.

As a rule, visitors can borrow the books in the library reading room during exhibitions, i.e. after they pay the admission fee, or they have to present their subscription card.

In the course of this exceptional event, the books and magazines will be presented according to library sections on two gallery floors on 25 tables. This will turn the gallery into a large reading room presenting almost 500 publications, the visitors will be free to browse through and study the individual books. 

During the Open House Month, our visitors will be asked to complete a list of questions. The obtained information will help the gallery further focus the development of the library collection and visitors’ experience.

The ground floor of the Langhans Gallery Prague will change into a screening room presenting books by students of several photography schools. The following schools responded to our invitation: studios of photography at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the University of J.E.Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem and Tomas Bata University in Zlín.

Student books are often made out only in one or a few copies; this makes their presentation to the public very difficult. Very often, the books are not just models that might be, hypothetically, published in a standard way; they are original works of art. The books or objects will be presented in videos made by students, who have also accompanied some of the videos with their own commentary.

There is free admission during the OPEN HOUSE AT THE LIBRARY OF LANGHANS GALLERY PRAGUE.

There will be no vernissage.