CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY and SHOP
Exhibition space in the unique setting of the passage connecting streets Nerudova and Tržiště a few steps from Prague Castle. Ethera Gallery merges the historical atmosphere of its location with contemporary visual art. Our primary focus lies in minimalism and abstraction, while remaining open to a wide range of artistic approaches, styles and media.
Our goal is to showcase the works of both established and emerging artists from the Czech Republic and abroad and regularly organize open calls for artists and curators. In addition to exhibitions, we will offer concerts, workshops, and panel discussions that enrich the city's cultural life and provide visitors with deeper insights into the art world.
The gallery also includes an Artshop, featuring original artworks, limited edition prints, objects, and sketches in various price categories. Inspired by the democratization of art by movements such as pop-art, this concept allows a wider audience to discover and own contemporary art.
Visit Ethera Gallery to immerse yourself in the vibrant world of contemporary art!
Interference
Tomáš Polcar
22/09 2026 - 15/11 2026
Opening 22/09 at 6pm
Two systems are placed in relation. Where they meet, a third condition emerges — one that belongs to neither, and could not exist without both.
Interference presents the latest works by Tomáš Polcar, in which spatial and visual orders collide. Polcar’s practice develops in long-term cycles, treating motifs not as subjects to be represented, but as structures placed under pressure until their original identity begins to shift.
Geometry functions here not as a fixed boundary, but as a vector of tension. Direction becomes a formative principle: forms gather toward a point of compression before expanding outward again, as if space itself were passing through a moment of singularity. The work balances on the edge of macrocosmic order and material entropy.
What appears precise is permeated by instability. What seems abstract carries the memory of matter and time. Order does not precede the work — it is forged entirely from contact.
Tomáš Polcar (*1973, Prague) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague between 1991 and 1998 under Hugo Demartini, Aleš Veselý, and Milan Knížák. His practice frequently explores cyclical phenomena and the structural essence of matter. He lives and works in Slavětín nad Ohří.
Nearness, Elsewhere
Phila Primus
10/06 2026 - 02/08 2026
Opening 10/06 at 6pm
The exhibition Nearness, Elsewhere emerges from a line released from drawing that gradually assumes the role of structure. Layered forms assemble and reconnect without a fixed center, guided by their own internal logic. The whole takes shape as a continuous arrangement in which perception moves between the bodily and the image-based.
In Phila Primus's works, the body appears in outline, cross-section, layer, and empty space. The human figure alternates with organic forms reminiscent of maps, inner landscapes, or records of movement — traces of physical and mental experience in which the consciousness of the body becomes a point of departure for further exploration. Transparency, layering, and subtle colour accents shift the image between lightness and construction. Line here does not describe a finished form, but guides its transformation — separating, connecting, and disappearing again.
Phila Primus (*1991) is a multimedia artist and poet of Czech-German-American background. Her practice brings together painting, photography, and found materials — layered patterns on transparent foils combined with glass, paper, light, and sound. She has exhibited at galleries including Caesar, A (VOID), and HYB4, where she has held a studio since June 2026, and has participated in the festivals 4+4 Days in Motion and Re-Connect Art. This September, KANT publishing house will release a monograph featuring work from 2013 to the present.
ANATOMY OF TIME
Patrik Hábl
9/4 2026 - 31/05 2026
Opening 9/4 at 6pm
The exhibition Anatomy of Time presents a selection of works by Patrik Hábl in which time functions as an organizing principle of painting. The image does not emerge as a predetermined composition, but as the result of a gradual process—of layering, correction, and transformation of the material.
Hábl approaches the surface as a site of concentrated activity. Individual interventions accumulate and enter into mutual relationships, generating tension between density and light, between concealment and revelation. Each work is the outcome of continuous engagement, in which form stabilizes through time.
Painting is not an illustration of duration, but its concrete manifestation. The structure of the image carries traces of its own formation and organizes them into a visual whole that is both physical and condensed.
Anatomy of Time examines how time is inscribed into the very construction of the image—as an energy that shapes the material and determines its final form.