Abstract
In 1934, the Czechoslovak government officially recognized the existence of the Soviet Union and proper diplomatic relations were established. The then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edvard Beneš, proclaimed the importance of deepening cultural relations.
Thus, the planning of the so-called reciprocal exhibitions between this states began, which was to present the development and current situation of Soviet art in Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak art scene in the Soviet Union. The organization of these exhibitions could first be described as associational, but eventually it became a political matter.
The aim of the paper is to reconstruct, on the basis of archive material (political reports, minutes of meetings, periodicals and correspondence), especially the planning of these exhibitions, their realization / non-realization, censorship problems on both sides. And acceptance of the exhibition of Czechoslovak art in the USSR not only by the cultural but also by the general public.