"One can speak directly about the era of Makrokoulí or Makráč, as we said in confidence, and when the history of non-conformist art in the Czech Republic of the 80s is written, our dear Makráč will have a very honorable place there." He wrote this sentence in the article Zakazné úmení 1. published in the mid-nineties in Jaromír Zemina's Art Gallery.The gallery in the corridor of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic has become - as Zemina predicted - not only a legendary exhibition space, but also a place where exhibitions are continuously held to this day.

The exhibition activities of the Makráč gallery (or Makrokoule) were started in 1971 on the initiative of Prof. Miroslava Raab and Ing. Eva Knižáková. Since its opening, exhibitions have been held in the gallery, which is an integral part of the Prague exhibition scene, continuously to this day. Initially, the dramaturgy of the exhibitions was quite varied, gradually as a result of the freer atmosphere of the academic ground, the Makráč gallery allowed even professionals who were forbidden to exhibit on the official scene. Personalities such as Olga Karlíková, Karel Nepraš, Adriena Šimotová, Alena Kučerová, Stanislav Judl, Jan Ságl, Pravoslav Kotík, Daisy Mrázková, Viktor Pivovarov, Václav Boštík, Milan Knížák, Václav Stratil, Ivan Kafka, Věra Janoušková, Marie Blabolilová and next.

After 1989, Kurt Gebauer took over the dramaturgy of the gallery, thanks to which VŠUP students got the opportunity to present their works here. From 2001 to 2020, Dagmar Šubrtová was the curator of the Makráč Gallery, which presented mainly contemporary artists, thematic connections with scientific fields and art, and retrospective exhibitions. see exhibition archive. From 2021, in order to preserve the gallery's tradition, it handed over to the artistic association Umělecká Beseda.