Events Calendar

This exhibit shows the finest Art Nouveau pieces from the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts. In addition to Hungarian, British, Austrian and French styles of Art Nouveau are also presented. Visitors will get a glimpse into typical bourgeois Hungarian homes of the turn of the century that often featured Zsolnay ceramics, glass works by Tiffany, and jewellery by Lalique.

Celebrating the Bauhaus school's centenary, this show explores how the utopian visions of Bauhaus have shaped 20th century and contemporary art. This exhibit isn't an introduction about the Bauhaus, rather, it traces the school's enduring influence through works of contemporary artists.

A selection of 300 photos sourced from the massive archive of Fortepan, a digitalized photo platform. Local Hungarians captured these images, which show memorable moments over Hungary's 20th century from their own perspective.

This is a major exhibit about the Hungarian surrealist movement, featuring works by seminal Hungarian painters including Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Lajos Gulácsy, and Endre Rozsda. The museum is located in Szentendre, a charming town just outside Budapest, offering plenty of fun activities. 

As part of the permanent exhibit of the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art are displayed each of the six finalist works of the Leopold Bloom award, which is designed to support the career of young Hungarian artists. 2019 finalists are Zsolt Asztalos, Sári Ember (winner), Krisztina Erdei, Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó, Zsolt Molnár, and Kata Tranker.

Father of Frida Kahlo, Guillermo Kahlo was an important German Mexican photographer, documenting Mexico in the beginning of the 20th century. He specialized in architectural landmarks and churches, but of the 56 works in total there are also a couple of photos on display showing his famous daughter, Frida.

Photographic works of three young Hungarian artists: Adél Koleszár, Liza Szabó, Boglárka Éva Zellei. The images cover a range of themes, including violence in Mexico, the odd rituals of new-age Christian communities, and a visual representation of classic idioms.

The exhibit shows almost 50 images made by Robert Capa, the legendary Hungarian-born war photographer. The works include a photo capturing a speech of Trotsky that Capa made on one of his first assignments, and plenty of images from war zones around the world.

Based on the collection of Centre Pompidou, this large-scale temporary exhibition in the Hungarian National Gallery documents the main trends of the Surrealist movement through the works of its central figures, including Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso and Francis Picabia. Surrealist photography is represented by Man Ray and Brassaï.

One of Budapest's leading galleries presents the works of five of their artists: Levente Bálványos, Dóra Juhász, Péter Kiss, Benjámin Nagy, and Andrea Werner. There are installations, paintings, and photography. The curator of the show highlights the parallels between these contemporary objects and famous early-modernist artworks.

Tamás Király (1952–2013) was a visionary Hungarian fashion designer who came of age in the early 1980s, within Budapest's underground art circles. His clothes were at once costumes, mobile sculptures, and futuristic transformations. Fashion, in his view, was at the intersection of film, theater, performance, and art.