Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Szepmuveszeti Muzeum) – förlag

The presentation of Péter Vay’s fascinating life and activities is brought to completion by the integral connection between this volume and the exhibition of his collection at the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts.

The retrospective exhibition of Lajos Gulácsy, one of the most unique figures of twentieth-century Hungarian art, shows over two hundred works, including eighty-four paintings, which reveals the diversity of Gulácsy’s profound art by highlighting new contexts.

Exhibition catalogue for the Csontváry 170 memorial exhibition from the Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery and the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs.

Celebrating the centenary of Judit Reigl’s birth, the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest presents the last series of drawings by one of the most original artists to emerge in European art after World War II.

This focuses on different meanings of the tree motif, exploring humanity's relationship with nature and the limits of mimetic depiction through the works of Alexandre Hollan, a sensitive observer of the latent inner forces of trees.

The works featured in the exhibition emphasise the inspirational influence of the media and IT as well as visual, pop and DJ culture, while also touching upon the issues arising in the public discourse on art.

In cooperation with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, we are organizing an exhibition of works by photographers of Hungarian origin who emigrated to the United States.This large-scale exhibition, featuring nearly thirty artists,aims to showcase the extremely rich Hungarian-American photographic heritage, including works by Andre Kertesz,Cornell Capa, Gyorgy Kepes, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkacsi. The unique concept of the exhibition is to take a comprehensive look at the work of Hungarian-origin photographers who have become known in the United States, juxtaposing the work of world-famous photographers with that of lesser-known artists.

A large-scale exhibition planned for the Hungarian National Gallery will present the culture of the first decades of thenineteenth century, taking a pan-artistic approach and focusing mainly on Hungarian and Austrian paintings, sculptures, furniture,clothing, and other utility items. For the first time since the exhibition of paintings held in the M?csarnok (Kunsthalle) in 1938,the public will be given a comprehensive overview of the art of the Hungarian Reform Era, a period synonymous with the name Biedermeier. Divided into thematic sections, based on aspects of the social sciences and exploring the main stages and situations of human existence, the exhibition will present visitors with the Biedermeier zeitgeist as it appeared in every area of life.

In Renoir's first monographic exhibition in Hungary presenting almost seventy works, we explore an oeuvre spanning six decades, from the beginnings through the major impressionist works to the last masterpiece, The Bathers, completed shortly before his death. Portraits, genre paintings, and nudes illustrate the artist's unflagging, profound, and sincere curiosity in human life, the body, and the face. His models (friends, patrons, and members of his family) are part of a joyful, colourful, sensual world. The exhibition explores the master's entire oeuvre: the virtuoso portraitist of the artistic and literary circles in the paris of the 1860s-1870s; his detailed observation of contemporary life, with its dance and countryside scenes, and fetes galantes in montmartre; the painter of intimate family life and childhood; and, of course, the master of the nude, who, at the beginning of the twentieth century was still one of the greatest painters of his day. By means of this selection of works, the exhibition also explores the painter's life and models. The way in which renoir observed and recreated the features and physiognomies of the men and - above all - women who sat for him, sketched them in balls and bathing, in the cafe and playing the piano, breast feeding or pampering their children, embodied an artistic ideal and an ideal of life, imbued with softness and light, individual happiness and social harmony. Renoir - The Painter and his Models, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 22 September 2023 - 7 January 2024

As part of the series showcasing prominent figures of Hungarian art Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest is organizing a large-scale retrospective exhibition of one of the most important Hungarian painters of the twentieth century, Margit ANNA (1913 1991), a distinguished member of the art group Europai Iskola (European School).Margit Anna's painting is both sensual and ruthlessly clear-sighted. She combines elegant decorativeness with a search for the soul. Her childlike figures, painted within the European School, spoke for her and displayed suffering beyond human comprehension. In her later art, folk art and folklore appear,mourning and comedy are intertwined, and in her late paintings her puppets evoke scenes from the Old Testament with the sadness and irony of remembrance.The art group Europai Iskola (European School) aimed to connect to progressive Western European art. Their choice of name referring to Ecole de Paris indicates their French orientation. As part of their activities, the group organized a French-Hungarian exhibition in Budapest, exhibiting well-known French masters ranging from Bonnard to Picasso.