About Us

The family-run Gallery Helen was opened in August 2020, and is located in the picturesque surroundings of South Bohemia, in close proximity to the tourist attractive Červená Lhota moated castle. The front garden of the gallery is enhanced with a sculpture of Paris by the Swedish sculptor Lars Widenfalk.

The gallery focuses on the presentation of works by leading Czech glass artists, painters, graphic artists, photographers and creators from other fields of art from all generations.
It organizes authorial and thematic exhibitions of a commercial and non-commercial nature, concerts, workshops, lectures, soirées of poetry and discussions with artists and other personalities from the cultural community.

The wish of the proprietors of the gallery is to facilitate beautiful and inspiring gatherings of art enthusiasts and thus become a timeless institution for higher principles, friendship, knowledge and aesthetic experiences.

A Look inside the Gallery

The intimate atmosphere of the cellar from the first half of the 17th century with its cross vaults and brick paving inspired us in the first half of 2020 to commence an extensive reconstruction to build a family-run gallery near the romantic castle and enrich this unique place with another cultural experience.

You can learn more about the history of House No. 2 here.

Events and Exhibitions

The 2024 exhibition season at Galerie Helen has started!

This season, we added and enriched our gallery with new works by Czech artists.

• Wire figurative sculptures by Zbyňek Fojtů, in which he expresses the personal feelings of a person and the psychological states of the soul. Currently, Zbyněk Fojtů is dedicated to designing coins and medals;

• A remarkable painter with a distinctive style, Petr Brátek; the Tábor artist, whose work has etched itself into the life of the city in an unforgettable way;

• Paintings by Milan Peterka, whose source of inspiration was South Bohemia;

• Color graphics from the Berešit cycle, with which Miloslav Moucha tried to interpret the first book from the Five Books of Moses On the Creation of the World;

• Remains of Sion, a painter with a distinctive expressive handwriting;

• The graphics of Jiří Brázda, very distinctive and unmistakable graphic artist whose dominant program is a woman;

• Four posters published by the Prague Museum of Applied Arts on the occasion of the exhibition “Photographer František Drtikol” /work from 1903 -1935/ December 1972 – February 1973;

• A collection of paintings and graphics by Antonín Hamsík, a restorer who returned to painting in 2015, when he also started creating shooting targets asnindividual works. He is inspired by various life situations, often also by literature of various genres;

• Paintings of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Jindřichov Hradec and a self-portrait of Bedřich Budil, a phenomenal painter and Jindřich Hradec patriot;

 

• Floral still lifes by Bohumír Dvorský, an important Czech painter whose work was mainly focused on landscape painting around Haná.

Graphics and collages by painter and graphic artist Josef Hampl, photographs by Bohumil Hrabal by Hana Hamplová, glass in the unmistakable style of glassmaker Tomáš Hlavicka, unique glass works by Jiří Pačinek, stained glass windows by Jitka Kantová, optimistically and poetically tuned paintings by Boris Eibl remain in our gallery.

Art
enjoys
motivates
inspires

All works are for sale.
Come visit us! We look forward to you!

Sales Offer

Motto of the Gallery Hellen: Art enjoys, motivates, inspires.

Shop with us and treat yourself and your loved ones with a beautiful gift of lasting artistic value from the Gallery Helen.

We believe that you will be interested in our sales offer in the form of our upcoming electronic catalogue with collections of works of art and decorative objects.

Please place your orders via the telephone number +420 602 277 056 or e-mail info@galeriehelen.com.

Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us, we are happy to help.

Partners and Sponsors

South Bohemia region

Nadační fond rozvoje města Jindřichův Hradec

FRUKO SCHULZ

Pension and restaurant Zlatovláska

Contact

ADDRESS

Galerie Helen

Červená Lhota 2

378 21 Pluhův Žďár

 

CONTACT

+420 606 912 779

+420 602 277 056

info@galeriehelen.com

www.galeriehelen.com

OPENING HOURS

Tuesdays to Sundays, Public Holidays

10am – 12pm, 1pm – 4:30pm

It is also possible to visit the gallery at other times by prior arrangement