Where to find us
PLATO is a municipal contemporary art gallery in Ostrava. We operate in the city centre in two locations less than 70 m apart. Our main exhibitions can be found in the PLATO building, a reconstructed, heritage-listed municipal slaughterhouse from the late 19th century. We use the other space, PLATO Bauhaus, a former hobby market with nearly 5,000 m2 of space, for educational and community programmes.
To understand the world
We offer space to everyone who wants to understand the present-day world in a broader context. In PLATO, we reflect on the world’s complexity and richness through art, in an international context and at the highest possible level. We trust artists and support them.
Broader context
Besides exhibitions, you can come and enjoy programmes for families and a wide range of educational activities. We curate our own concert and film series and run the Octopus Press publishing house. We place special emphasis on issues of feminism, ecology, and social justice.
Library or lettuce
You will find cafés in both of our buildings. In PLATO, the former slaughterhouse, we also run a hydroponic farm where you can buy fresh lettuce—we have turned animal “production” into plant production! In PLATO Bauhaus we have a freely accessible library with a reading room, a material library, a bookshop, a garden, and a cinema.
Are you looking for a space?
We create a practical background for all kinds of artistic and non-artistic communities and collaborate with them. We offer the former Bauhaus Hobby Market to organisers of cultural and other events, thus supporting the local scene.
With support of Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National recovery plan, Moravian-Silesian Region, Erasmus+
Main media partner: A2 cultural biweekly
Media partners: Artalk, Deník Alarm, kudyznudy.cz
Partners: Národní filmový archiv, Ponrepo, Goethe-Institut Prag
PLATO Ostrava is a city-funded organisation of the City of Ostrava.
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Archive
PLATO Ostrava website 01/2014–01/2018
Preserved by Webarchiv of National Library of the Czech Republic.
Contact details of the data protection officer:
Moore Advisory CZ s.r.o., seated at Karolínská 661/4, Karlín, 186 00 Praha 8; represented by jednatel Ing. Radovan Hauk. Contact person Petr Štětka, tel. 734 647 701, e-mail: gdpr@moore-czech.cz.