Ahoj!
My name is Tereza and I’m so honoured to greet you as the Director of the Czech Centre London for the first time. I would like to thank my predecessor Přemysl Pela for all his work; we will build on it.
I’m glad to join the great Czech Centre London crew to continue to bring you a programme that will be inspiring, soothing and sometimes challenging. I’m looking forward to meet you in person and if you have any ideas to discuss, have no hesitation to contact me. I will be happy to hear from you.
My professional background is in journalism and communication. No surprise I like to tell stories. Like the one of the Czech entrepreneur and shoemaker Tomáš Baťa, whose 150th birth anniversary we will be commemorating this spring. His Zlín-based company built a factory in East Tilbury in the 1930s. His story has great ingredients, to name a few: spirit of enterprise, poetry of early advertising and architectural modernism.
We have already started to tell the story of Czech photography with our Pixels and Poetics exhibition. We will continue to focus on Czech-made photographs. We will hopefully surprise you in the best possible way. Czech us out. We have open doors.
Děkuji!
Tereza
Cover image: Josef Sudek, From the series Still Life on the Window of My Studio, 1944, 23 × 29 cm, from the PPF Art Collection
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Pixels and Poetics: Sudek, Funke, and the Influence of New Technologies on the Development of Photography
Till 13 March 2026 / Vitrinka Gallery, Bouda Gallery & Public space outside of the Czech Embassy, London
Don’t miss your last chance to see Pixels and Poetics! This March, the exhibition will be open for its final seven days, exploring the work of interwar masters Josef Sudek and Jaromír Funke alongside contemporary AI-shaped photography. Open Tue–Fri 10am–5pm. More info
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Pixels and Poetics: Sudek, Funke, and the Influence of New Technologies on the Development of Photography, Vitrínka Gallery, Bouda Gallery, Czech Centre, exhibition view, photo: Jan Pavelka
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World Between Us
Thursday 12 March 2026, 7pm / Czech Centre at the Czech Embassy Cinema, London W8
World Between Us follows photographer Marie Tomanová’s journey from a Czech small town to New York, exploring ambition, identity and belonging. Directed by Marie Dvořáková, this award-winning documentary traces artistic growth, creative partnership and the fragile search for home between two worlds. More info
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Image: Marie Tomanová and her partner Thomas Beachdel, still from World Between Us
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Wolves, Folklore, and Family: Reading and Discussion with Zuzana Říhová
Thursday 5 March 2026, 7pm / Czech Centre at the Czech Embassy Cinema, London W8
Acclaimed Czech writer Zuzana Říhová joins Kathryn Murphy for readings and discussion of her novel Playing Wolf, exploring folklore, myths, and the quiet tensions shaping family life in a remote Czech village. More info
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Susanna Roth Translators Award 2026 – Call for Entries
Closing date for translations: 31 March 2026 / Results announcement: 31 May 2026
Winners' visit to the Czech Republic: July 2026
The Czech Centres and the Czech Literary Centre, a section of the Moravian Library, announce the 12th year of the International Competition for Young Translators – The Susanna Roth Award. The task is to translate an extract from Všechno bude super by Eli Beneš (Argo, 2025). More info
Image: Eli Beneš, photo: Václav Mašinda
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Franz + Q&A with director Agnieszka Holland and actor Josef Trojan
Tuesday 3 March 2026, 5.30pm / BFI IMAX, London SE1 / LAST FEW TICKETS
Agnieszka Holland’s striking portrait of Franz Kafka traces the writer’s inner conflicts and creative drive. Poland’s Oscar submission, the film explores how lived experience shaped Kafka’s unsettling literary vision, with Josef Trojan vividly bringing Kafka’s alter ego to life. More info
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Klára Hosnedlová: Echo
Till 29 March 2026 / White Cube Bermondsey, London SE1
White Cube Bermondsey presents Klára Hosnedlová’s debut solo exhibition, running until 29 March 2026. Featuring immersive, site-specific installations, the show combines sculpture, architecture, and textiles to explore how past visions of the future continue to shape our world. More info
Photo: Klára Hosnedlová: Echo, White Cube Bermondsey, photo: Rebeka Jurčacková, Czech Centre London
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Tereza Stehlikova @ absolute now II
14 March – 18 April 2026 / DANIELLE ARNAUD, London SE11
Five artists come together for a new group exhibition exploring how we experience time today — what stays constant and what keeps changing. New video works, including one by Tereza Stehlikova, reflect on identity, memory, and living in an ever-shifting digital world. More info
Image: Tereza Stehlíková: 4 Generations of Women (2012–)
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Come with us! - Democratic Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989
Till 30 April 2026 / 12 Star Gallery, Europe House, London SW1P
Reopening after its debut last December, Come with us! returns to 12 Star Gallery to reflect on the transformative year 1990, when democratic change and newly regained freedoms reshaped Central and Eastern Europe. Featuring iconic political posters from twelve countries, it revisits a pivotal moment that continues to resonate today. More info
Images: Václav Ševčík: Free Election 1989, Poster of the Civic Forum, Colour offset, Moravian Gallery Brno, Czech Republic / Come with us! exhibition poster / Krysztof Ducki: Prague’ 68, 1989 Poster, Silkscreen Design: Interart Studio Hungarian National Museum
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Pavel Haas Quartet – Concert of Czech Masterworks
Sunday 1 March 2026, 7.30pm / Wigmore Hall, London
The renowned Pavel Haas Quartet returns to Wigmore Hall with Czech masterworks: Suk’s Meditation, Janáček’s Intimate Letters, and Dvořák’s Op. 97 String Quintet, blending Bohemian folk elements with influences from Native American and African-American music. More info
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Dvořákathon
Sunday 1 March 2026 / Turner Sims, University of Southampton SO17
Join University of Southampton alumni Craig Lawton and Paul Ingram for Dvořákathon! Experience all nine symphonies by Antonín Dvořák across four concerts, celebrating his beautiful music, while raising funds for the University of Southampton's Centre for Cancer Immunology. More info
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Wihan Quartet: England Tour
21 – 25 March 2026 / Sevenoakes, Lumsdale, Colchester, Maidenhead
The acclaimed Wihan Quartet tours the UK in March, performing Czech masterworks by Dvořák and Smetana, alongside Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. With a distinguished forty-year career, the quartet brings their renowned interpretation of classical and Romantic repertoire to UK audiences. More info
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Long Live the Republic! on Blu-ray
Release day: 16 March 2026 / Second Run
On 16 March, Second Run releases on Blu-ray Karel Kachyňa’s landmark 1965 film Long Live the Republic! (Ať žije republika). Lyrical and visually striking, the film explores the murky moralities of war through a child’s-eye view of liberation and loss. More info
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The Spy Whom We Love
Thursday 19 March 2026, 7pm / Embassy of the Czech Republic in London
Join Dr Martin Brown for The Spy Whom We Love, a talk on James Bond and his Cold War legacy. Discover how the world’s most famous spy shaped global culture across novels, films, comics and games, reflecting politics, gender and the transnational impact of a true cultural icon. More info
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Million Moments for Democracy (2025) + Q&A
Wednesday 25 March 2026, 5.30pm / The Masaryk Room, UCL, SSEES, London, WC1H
This film screening presents Million Moments for Democracy (2025), Amalia Kovářová’s documentary following the founders of the 2019 Czech protest movement, with an in-person Q&A with the director and an online discussion with Mikuláš Minář. More info
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