Futura Gallery

The Futura Gallery focuses on all aspects of contemporary art, ranging from painting, photography and sculpture to video, installations and performance art. The gallery spaces, which include two floors of ‘white cube’ halls, a more intimate brick-vaulted cellar and a garden, host changing exhibitions by both Czech and international artists. The most notorious exhibit is in the garden, a permanent installation by David Černý. It consists of two huge, naked human figures, bent over at the waist with their heads buried in a blank wall. Ladders allow you to climb up and place your head – there’s really no polite way to say this – up each figure’s arse, where you can watch a video of Czech president Václav Klaus and the director of Prague’s National Gallery spooning mush into each other’s mouths. Richly metaphorical, to say the least.