What's coming up in January at the Telegraph Gallery?
If you visit the Telegraph Gallery regularly, you will know that our programme goes beyond the gallery space. In addition to long-running exhibitions, there are pop-up exhibitions in the cinema and loft throughout the year, as well as residencies by Czech and international artists, always ending with an Open Studio in their studio. You can also look forward to lecture series focusing on the work of contemporary artists, the work of curators, and on the collecting of contemporary art with collectors, gallerists and curators.
We enter the new year with our current exhibition Behind the Counter, which will be on view until 19 2 2026.
20 11 2025 - 19 2 2026 Behind the Counter.cz/journal/adela-janska-artist-exhibitions-behind-the-counter"
Adéla Janská has long been concerned with female figures and themes of identity. The subjects for her nudes and portraits are porcelain dolls, whose features symbolize ideals of female beauty unattainable in real life. Paulina Olowska combines painting, collage and other media in her work, drawing on the history of 20th century art, design and visual culture. Her work borrows imagery from Eastern European and American pop culture and disrupts traditional notions of femininity in an international cultural context. Caroline Walker explores figurative painting of women in everyday and work situations and the relationship of the figure to space. She tells women's stories through sites ranging from luxury beauty salons, to portraits of asylum seekers, to scenes of anonymous working women against the backdrop of London architecture.
Loosely inspired by the television phenomenon Woman Behind the Counter, their collaborative exhibition focuses on diverse interpretations of femininity and traces the real and symbolic presence of women in public space. Through a historical lens, it looks at archetypal female figures of socialist modernism and the period of Czechoslovak normalization.
7 1 2026 / 18:00 Karolína Juřicová: On Collecting and Curating Exhibitions
The lecture series continues so that in the new year you can meet contemporary art collectors, curators or other professionals involved in the contemporary art scene.
This time the lecture will be given by Karolína Juřicová. She is an art and architecture historian, curator, gallerist and collector who gained curatorial experience during her studies in Olomouc and participated in the publication of a professional magazine. After moving to Prague, she has focused on contemporary art, artist representation and curatorial activities, including preparing exhibitions in the private sector and institutions and collaborating with a number of galleries in the Czech Republic. 
14 1 2026 / 18:00 Guided tour for TLG CLB members: Mira Macík, Erika Kovačičová
Are you a TLG CLB member? If not, now is the time to become one! The guided tour will offer you an informal meeting with the creators of the exhibition programme, who are the gallery's chief curator Mira Macík and producer Erika Kovačičová. Together they will explain the concept of the Behind the Counter exhibition, the whole process of its creation and share behind-the-scenes experiences.
We wish you the best of luck and health in 2026 and look forward to seeing you there!
