The Robert Runták Collection began with the purchase of its first work in 2007. In fact, however, its origin dates to the beginning of 2011, when the collection started to be developed systematically as the Collection in its own right. This marked the beginning of the construction of depositories, the development of a registration database, and, above all, the gradual shaping of the Collection itself across several conceptual and thematic platforms that remain active to this day.

A crucial moment came in 2013, when it was decided that the focus would no longer be limited solely to Czech and Slovak art, but would also extend to European—especially figurative—painting produced after 2000. Over time, this interest has become one of the key pillars of the entire collection. Apart from this now established sub-collection, the Collection is oriented towards Czech and Slovak art from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, with particular emphasis on works created after 1980. Painting is the predominant medium, but sculpture, large-scale installations, and several dozen works in the medium of moving image also play an important role.

At present, the Collection includes more than 450 artists, represented by 2,850 works. A substantial chapter is the ongoing work with the Collection and its public presentation. To date, four independent presentations of the Collection have been organised: This Is Not Poetry (Litomyšl, Czech Republic, 2016), Disrupted Imagination (Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2017), Disruptive Imagination (Ferenczy Museum, Szentendre, Hungary, 2017), and MEN (Aleš South Bohemian Gallery, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, 2022). In addition, the Telegraph Gallery in Olomouc regularly hosts exhibitions entitled Signal, each offering an authentic probe into this diverse organism of artworks. The Collection also considers extensive collaboration in the field of art loans to be essential. Over the fifteen years of its existence to date, works from the Collection have been loaned to two hundred exhibition projects not only within the Czech Republic but also to ten foreign countries.