<Dům umění v Brně> wants to raise more money for renovation at auction

Brno - Through an auction of works of art donated by affiliated artists, the Brno House of Arts aims to raise additional funds for the renovation of its headquarters on Malinovského náměstí. The nearly 45 million Czech crowns allocated by the city council for the reconstruction will not be enough for the necessary adjustments to the art club and café.
"We consider the club to be a necessary and important part of the House of Arts," said director Rostislav Koryčánek to ČTK today.
The auction will take place on March 3, with viewing of the auctioned works available to the public starting February 21 at the House of Lords from Kunštát. Currently, staff from the House of Arts are negotiating with artists and sourcing works for the auction, stated Jitka Vitásková, head of the exhibition department. They already know that among the represented artists will be painter Milan Kunc, who recently exhibited at the House of Arts, and sculptor Čestmír Suška.
According to Koryčánek, the House of Arts does not have a set target amount for the auction. The renovation of the club could cost up to four million crowns, although part of the funding is expected to come from the future operator of the café, and part is intended to be raised by the museum's management through renting scaffolding as advertising space. The last charity auction held at the House of Arts raised about 280,000 crowns for the parish in Brno-Zábrdovice.
The building of the House of Arts on Malinovského náměstí is already closed, and the overall renovation financed by the city council has yet to start due to the ongoing selection of a contractor. The reconstruction is expected to be completed within a year, after which the House of Arts will ceremoniously reopen with an exhibition of Austrian art. Until then, exhibitions of the House of Arts will take place in the second building - the House of Lords from Kunštát.
The main building of the House of Arts on Malinovského náměstí was constructed in 1910 in the style of Viennese Secession according to a design by Heinrich Ried, and it originally bore the name of Emperor Franz Joseph. It served the German-speaking minority in Brno as an exhibition hall. After World War II, the house was taken over by the city, and architect Bohuslav Fuchs renovated it in the spirit of "Brno functionalism." For many years, the building housed the Na provázku Theater, now known as Husa na provázku.