Kunsthalle Praha opened its inaugural exhibition Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art on February 22, 2022, in a converted Zenger electrical substation in Prague. Conceived by Peter Weibel with co-curator Christelle Havranek, the exhibition used the building's former industrial function as its organizing premise. It traced artistic uses of electricity from early motorized movement and artificial light through kinetic, cybernetic, computational, and digital art, presenting more than ninety works and including figures such as Zdenek Pesanek, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Duchamp, Mary Ellen Bute, Julio Le Parc, William Kentridge, Refik Anadol, Olafur Eliasson, Shilpa Gupta, and teamLab. The launch framed the new institution as an international temporary-exhibition platform rather than a traditional permanent-collection museum.
The opening positioned Kunsthalle Praha as a major Central European venue for modern and contemporary art across technology, media, and exhibition research.
