Bohemian Artist · Curator · Publisher

Old fables, told in

a new light.

A gallery, a magazine and a lifetime of stories, the Czech imagination, carried to Australia and back again.

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November in Melbourne
"There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth."
Václav Havel
"To long for something is a sufficient reason to live,"
Jaroslav Vrchlický
"India ink is the blood's first sister and song is just as final as life and death and equally without allegory, without transcendence and without fuss."
Miroslav Holub
"The great artist of tomorrow will go underground,"
Marcel Duchamp
"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
Franz Kafka
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
Milan Kundera
"Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message."
Alphonse Mucha
"The great artists of the past were aware that human life is full of chaos and suffering. But they had a remedy for this. And the name of that remedy was 'beauty'."
Karel Čapek

Selected works

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The Gallery

This November · Melbourne

Golden Horse

A Czech Legend

A major solo exhibition celebrating Petra’s beloved Czech landscape, woven with legend and folklore, its old stories retold through her lens, in the heart of Melbourne.

when

November 2026

Where

Melbourne, VIC

Tickets

Coming soon

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One artist, three worlds

Where the Stories Live

i.

The Gallery

Original artwork, fine-art prints and photography for collectors, drawn from a Bohemian eye and an Australian heart.

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ii.

Yarns

A quarterly magazine and podcast of curated stories, unusual people and places, told with sensitivity and love.

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iii.

Workshops

Intimate sessions in storytelling, photography and the art of seeing. Bookings open soon.

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the artist

Petra Jungmanova

A Czech artist with over 25 years as a fine artist, now living in Australia, carrying a fairy-tale cultural heritage into every project, infused with a love for Australia’s characters, places and incredible light.

Whether working one-on-one or capturing the essence of a place, I look for the magic, and a way to tell the story with sensitivity and love.

Petra xo

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"I wanted to create spaces where people don't just look at art on a wall, but feel it through music, storytelling, and shared experiences. It's a continuous Bohemian love story between two cultures."

after the Bohemian spirit · Petra Jungmanova