CSThe MIRO Gallery was founded in 1987 in Berlin. In 1994, it moved to the Church of St. Roch on the grounds of the Strahov Monastery in Prague. Since its founding, the MIRO Gallery has hosted hundreds of exhibitions of world-class modern art and cutting-edge contemporary art. Among the exhibiting artists are: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Auguste Rodin, Josef Mařatka, Andy Warhol, Francesco Goya, Mikuláš Galanda, John Chamberlain, Alfons Mucha, Henk Helmantel, Ludovít Fulla, Sam Francis, Antoni Tápies, Jiří Anderle, René Magritte, André Masson, Frank Stella, Jiří Kornatovský, George Rickey, Jurij Gorbachev, René Wirts, Joachim Elzmann, Tal R, Victor Vasarely, Francesco Clemente, Bořek Šípek, Martin Šárovec, Jiří G. Dokoupil, Otto Herbert Hajek and many others.
Based on a public survey by The Gallup Organization, the MIRO Gallery was already declared the “most popular commercial gallery in Prague” in 2001.
Since 2020, the MIRO Gallery has been located in the Strahov Courtyard in a house from 1677 in the immediate vicinity of the Church of St. Roch. This house was built by the Italian architect and builder Giovanni Domenico Orsi (author of the Kolowrat Palace, the Theological Hall of the Strahov Library and many other buildings). The initiator of the construction of the house for the “secular gatekeeper” was the then abbot of the Strahov Monastery, professor of philosophy and theology Jeroným Hirnheim. Since the mid-20th century, theater director Otto Haas, director Miroslav Macháček and actress Kateřina Macháčková have lived in this house. Since 2012, the legendary Czech singer Karel Gott has painted his paintings here, who in 1993 became the first patron of the MIRO Gallery and was thus at its birth. In 2021, the house became the headquarters of the MIRO Gallery and the International TREBBIA Award www.trebbia.eu
The MIRO Gallery annually organizes the International TREBBIA Award for the support of culture and creative activity. On behalf of the TREBBIA Foundation, an international nomination jury selects the award laureates from the proposed candidates. So far, 133 laureates from 34 countries have won the International TREBBIA Award.
The MIRO Gallery has become known to the Prague public, among other things, by organizing the MIROTON – Running for Art running race. The winners of the Running for Art are rewarded with graphic works by leading Czech artists.