Our Projects

Dalineum

The story of the Dalineum Palace of Art for the capital city of Prague is true. In 2004, Prague’s MIRO Gallery approached the world-famous American architect Daniel Libeskind, author of the Freedom Tower, which stands on the site of the terrorist-destroyed “twin” skyscrapers in New York (Ground Zero), to design an art palace under the working title Dalineum on a selected plot in Prague. The architect accepted the offer and developed an architectural study and a three-dimensional model. The financial costs and the architect’s fee were covered by the Brno sponsor, which MIRO Gallery had acquired for the project and which was to be the investor of the entire project. In 2011, the project failed when the sponsor refused to give 20,000,000 CZK as a “bribe”, which was requested in an extremely sophisticated way by a certain agency.

Trebbia

Trebbia is an international award born in the Prague Church of St. Roch as a natural historical intersection of nearly a thousand years of spiritual development at this site and positive relationships between patrons and creators of cultural values. The French Saint named Roch lived at the turn of 13th and 14th century. He helped in every place of raging plague epidemic. His help seemed like a miracle. In the end, he himself fell ill with the plague and withdrew to a cave on the bank of the Italian river Trebbia. According to the legend an angel appeared and gave him encouragement. The Saint was found by a dog of a noblemen Gothard from Sarmat, the dog brought him a loaf of bread every day. It cured him and he could return to help the suffering people. He died in 1327. Parts of his relics are deposited in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. As an act of thanksgiving for the fact that the plague epidemic evaded Prague, in 1599 Emperor Rudolf II and the Strahov Abbot Jan Lohel initiated the building of a church on the Strahov Monastery grounds, which was dedicated to St. Roch.

Since 1994, this unique space has accommodated the international MIRO Gallery. In 2000, the Gallery established the European award as an expression of thanks to entrepreneurs, patrons and artists, and named it after the river Trebbia. This award is nowadays presented by the TREBBIA Foundation.

Trebbia Foundation mission is:

• Supporting cultural and artistic activities of legal and natural persons at the national and international level
• Support of artistic projects
• Independent support of charitable activities and support of charitable activities through other entities
• Support of non-profit sector entities in the charitable and cultural field
• Awarding creative scholarships upon approval of the NF Trebbia Board of Directors
• Support of personalities from the field of art and culture in retirement age

Miroton – Running for Art

MIROTON is a recessive running race that was created in 2000, in cooperation with the Prague International Marathon.
The name MIROTON is derived from the word Marathon and the name of the founder of this running race, director and owner of the MIRO Gallery, Mr. Miro Smolák.
From 2000 until the outbreak of the Covid crisis, 17th editions of MIROTON were held. The route is slightly hilly and runs between Strahov and Petřín. The start is in front of the Church of St. Roch on the Strahov Courtyard, continues along Strahov Street around Petřín and then back to the Strahov Courtyard from the south side. Previous editions have been started by prominent figures such as Carlo Capalbo, Gabriela Beňačková, Juraj Jakubisko, Karel Gott, Yvetta Blanarovičová, Helena Vondráčková, the first post-revolutionary Minister of Culture Pavel Dostál and many others.
The winners of the MIROTON race in the male and female categories will receive graphic works by contemporary Czech and foreign artists.

They said about MIROTON: “When I think of all the Marathons around the world, MIROTON probably has the most attractive place.” – Roman Šmucler, dentist, entrepreneur and presenter

“It’s a very nice event. I participate in many runs, but this is the only one that has a direct connection to supporting art, and that’s a very useful thing.” – Jaromír Schling, politician, former Minister of Transport and Communications of the Czech Republic

“I have a close connection to the MIRO Gallery and anything that can support good visual art, I’ll do everything for it.” – Karel Gott, singer