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From 11 to 14 September, the 12th edition of the Czech Design Week festival of design and art will take place in Prague, which will also occupy two main exhibition locations this year — the Mánes Gallery and the Clam-Gallas Palace. While Mánes will offer current creation through exhibition installations by designers, brands, studios and students alike, the Clam-Gallas Palace will present the New Generation exhibition and several solo artist exhibitions around the palace courtyard. Design installations of young creators will also be offered by the Slavia cafe and a dozen design shops and showrooms. This year's festival offers visitors a unique design route for discovering new creations in the center of Prague.
Mánes Gallery, an icon of functionalism and the Prague art scene, is the main location of the Czech Design Week festival for the fourth time. Also this year, about a hundred designers, brands, studios, students and new discoveries will present their work here. Visitors will see a broad spectrum of contemporary design — from glass, porcelain, jewellery and fashion to product and interior design to technological innovation and new approaches to sustainability.
Among the exhibitors there will be talented students from Czech and Slovak schools, for example from the studios Metal and Jewel or Furniture and Interior Design of the Pilsen FDULS, the Department of Design of the Technical University of Liberec or from the Studio Sklo Bratislava of the VŠVU. The new faces of the design will be complemented by established authors, brands and studios, such as the Květná 1794 glassworks, the Italian brand Artemide, the technology giant Xiaomi, which will present its novelties together with the glass artist František Jungvirt, or the Japanese brand SONY, which has recently established a collaboration with designer Tomáš Kucera.
Clam-Gallas Palace: New Generation and accompanying exhibitions
The Clam-Gallas Palace will offer the third edition of the New Generation exhibition, which will feature nearly three dozen of the youngest artists and designers. This year, Anna Pulkertová, curator and founder of the private Art Part Club, and Lukáš Pipek, curator of the Czech Design Week festival and director of the Czech Design Award, took the curatorial selection for the artistic line of the exhibition. The exhibition, prepared in collaboration with the Prague Museum, shows authors who move between design and free art and are already shaping the form of the next generation. Photographer Marie Tomanová, painter Matyáš Maláč, sculptor Magdalena Roztochilová and designers Karolína Kučerová and Sebastian Komáček and more than two dozen other authors will present their collections here.
During the festival, the Baroque Palace will also host solo exhibitions by multi-disciplinary artist Pavlína Šváchová, glass artist František Jungvirt and artists Jiří Bartoš, as well as a curated selection of students and graduates of AVU (Martin Kolář, Mikuláš Juráček, Pavel Petřík, Cyril Jakubička). The partners of the accompanying exhibitions are the Xiaomi and the insurance company Direct CZ. A design installation in collaboration with the Alpine car brand will also be created in the courtyard of the palace.
“We entered the Clam-Gallas Palace last year with the New Generation exhibition, and the connection between the historic interiors and the contemporary handwriting of young authors was extraordinary. That is why this year we have decided to expand the exhibitions of the young generation of Czech design and art to other areas of the palace and offer visitors a unique experience in discovering current works,” says Lukáš Pipek oh behalf of the organizers.
Accompanying locations of the festival
The festival traditionally connects the main stages with other venues in the centre of Prague. Among them this year is Café Slavia on the National Avenue, where a special installation by František Jungvirt will be created in cooperation with the flower shop Provoní. On the occasion of the festival, the café will also prepare a design menu including the reincarnation of a historical dessert from the 1930s. The newly opened Forbína bar, part of Slavia Café, will become an evening meeting place for designers, artists and festival guests.
A total of ten partner design stores and showrooms will offer their own program — for example, the concept store The Design with the Pulse of Samsara exhibition by Miroslava Klesalová, Blanka Němcová and Lukáš Šmejkal, the Glassimo gallery with UMPRUM glass studio graduates Vilém Smejkal, Kamila Dvořák and Anna Martinková, or the Artisème in Malá Strana, Prim Manufacture 1949, Bang & Olufsen on Angel or the freshly opened first Czech official Xiaomi Store.
Czech Design Award: Ploom Edition
The end of the festival will be held at the Czech Design Award: Ploom Edition. The special competition edition, whose theme is “Tradition”, gave space to designers from the Czech Republic and Slovakia to transform cultural and craft heritage into contemporary design. An expert jury composed of designers, theorists and representatives of the media and commercial sphere selected the four most creative design proposals that have progressed to realization and will be presented to the public for the first time during Czech Design Week.
During the award ceremony during the closing of the Czech Design Week festival on Sunday 14 September at Mánes Gallery, the winners will receive a financial reward from the competition partner, the Ploom brand, and the opportunity to exhibit at the next edition of the festival. The prizes take the form of an iconic vase designed by František Jungvirt and realized in the glass factory AJETO. The Ploom brand will also present itself in the Mánes Gallery in a conceptual installation designed by designer Filip Hrubý.
Partnering with We're Next
The festival follows a long-standing collaboration with the fashion show We're Next, the largest Czech fashion show focused on the emerging generation of designers. The 10th anniversary of the show will take place on 12-13 September in the Roztyly Prague space, which will be complemented by a design installation by selected authors during Czech Design Week. Visitors to both events can take advantage of discounted shared admission via the GoOut portal, and selected fashion models will also be able to meet during the opening ceremony of Czech Design Week, the accompanying program of which is being prepared with We're Next.
The visual and identity of the festival
The visual of this year's edition, dubbed Viky, was prepared by the studio Personaal. Thanks to the use of AI, Viky works as a virtual presenter of the festival and communicates all the latest information about Czech Design Week 2025 through social networks.
Information for visitors
The Czech Design Week 2025 festival runs from 11 to 14 September. The opening will take place on Wednesday 10 September in the evening at Galerie Mánes. The full programme including a list of exhibitors and accompanying exhibitions is available on the website: www.czechdesignweek.com. The general partner of the festival is the Xiaomi brand, the safety of young design this year is ensured by the insurance company Direct as a partner.
