Category: Museums

Modern Hungarian Lithography: National Gallery

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The exhibition named Modern Hungarian Lithography can be seen in the Hungarian National Gallery between April 5th and June 30, 2010. Here the visitor can see the how this has been used in modern Hungary. What is lithography? According to Wikipedia it is “a method for printing  using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface. Invented in 1796 by Bavarian author Alois Senefelder as a low-cost method of publishing theatrical works, lithography can be used to print text or artwork onto paper or another suitable material.”

Modern Hungarian Lithography
Hungarian National Gallery
April 5 – June 30

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Art Fanatics in Art Hall

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An exhibition called Art Fanatics can be seen in the Art Hall at the Heroes Square in Budapest between April 3rd and May 23rd. It shows the private collection of several Hungarians. Not to much of a thrill to foreigners maybe, but if you still visit the Heroes Square and need to use the toilet in the basement of the Art Hall, then maybe you could check out the exhibition as well, while there.

Art Fanatics
Art Hall Budapest
April 3 – May 23

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Visual Poetry, Concrete Texts: Museum of Fine Arts

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This might not be the hottest exhibition of the year in the Museum of Fine Arts, but if you are interested feel free to visit while at the Heroes Square. The description below is the official description of the exhibition.

Visual Poetry – Concrete Texts
Museum of Fine Arts
January 13 – May 9

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More information on the temporary exhibition:
The various forms of visual poetry – or experimental poetry as it is also known- came into existence along the fringes of traditional forms of literature, the visuals arts and music. Their role in modern art was always that of reconnecting branches of art that had taken different directions according to new points of view as well as the opening up of the possibilities hidden within already existing materials of expression.

The Open Structures Art Society’s (OSAS) new, international exhibition brings together original works, copies and details of works dating from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Several characteristic periods and areas meet within the bounds of the exhibition: Western type, coarse, typographical concrete poetry; visual poetry, which had been influenced by Concept Art and Structuralism; visual poetry’s own characteristic Hungarian form, represented by picture poems by Hungarian writers; and contemporary Japanese visual literature from the representative collection of Austrian artist Josef Linschinger. Several historical film and contemporary phonetic works of poetry compliment the visual materials on display.

Mirror to the World: Museum of Applied Arts

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The exhibition named Mirror to the World is an interesting exhibition arranged in the Museum of Applied Arts in the center of Budapest. This exhibition shows how our habits of spending, using and throwing away has a destructive effect on our surroundings and the earth. This is an exhibition that has something to say, and it might in fact be worth visiting this one!

Mirror to the World
Museum of Applied Arts
April 15 – May 16

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Art in Exile: Holocaust Museum

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A new exhibition can now be seen in the Holocaust Museum in the ninth district of Budapest. The exhibition is called  “Belated Homecoming: Art in Exile.” The exhibition presents the work of significant artists and scientists of the 20th century Hungary who worked outside the country. Many of them had to leave the country due to their origin starting in the 1920s and 1930s.

Some of them became important figures of the Hungarian cultural and public life, however, some notable artists and their works are still unknown, waiting to be discovered. In its « Art in Exile » exhibition series the Holocaust Memorial Center is venturing to introduce these artists to the public thus differentiating the, often schematic, picture of the holocaust and providing a more personal view of the era.

Art in Exile
Holocaust Museum
April 17 – August 15

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Kalevala: Museum of Ethnography

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Kalevala
Kalevala

A new exhibition has come to the Museum of Etnhography, and it is entitled: The Kalevala through the Eyes of Hungarian Artists. This exhibition can be seen between February 27 and May 9th, 2010.

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About Kalevala: (source: Wikipedia)
The Kalevala is a book and epic poem which Elias Lönnrot compiled from Finnish and Karelian folklore  in the nineteenth century. It is held to be the national epic of Finland and is traditionally thought of as one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. Karelian citizens and other Balto-Finnic speakers also value the work. The Kalevala is credited with some of the inspiration for the national awakening that ultimately led to Finland’s independence from Russia in 1917.

The name can be interpreted as the “lands of Kaleva”. The epic consists of 22,795 verses, divided into fifty cantos or “chapters” (Finnish runo).

Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition: National Museum

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If you would like to see the best press photos made in Hungary, you better visit the Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition in the Hungarian National Museum. This exhibition will be opened March 19 and it will be available until April 24th.

Ticket prices:
Adults: 1000 HUF
Students/ Seniors: 500 HUF

Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition
Hungarian National Museum
March 19 – April 24

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More information about the exhibition:
Recall the most exciting moments of the past year, the wonders of nature, the dramatic, happy, funny situations, the exceptional artistic and sports achievements.

Hundred and hundreds of photographs that are worth seeing. Within the framework of the Budapest Spring Festival the Federation of Hungarian Journalists (MUOSZ) is to present the 28th Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition and its accompanying exhibition entitled The World of Fashion in Pictures Yesterday and Today at the Hungarian National Museum between 19 March and 25 April 2010.

At the exhibition of the best press photos of the year shocking and thought-provoking pictures can be seen from the venues of the Roma assassinations and of the mourning families, the everyday life at the Havadtő orphanage, Formula-1 driver Felipe Massa’s serious accident, the fight between extremist groups and the police, the court verdict in the case of the lynching at Olaszliszka, the change at the helm of government, moments from then lives of the civilians and the international military forces stationed in Afghanistan.

The exhibited works also depict the outstanding personalities of contemporary Hungarian literature, the most characteristic moments of the Balaton Sound, the back-stage secrets of body-builders, the 125 year old Budapest Opera House, the 120 year old Budapest Circus, the animals of urban life or the colorful ice-birds.

The exhibition to be on show for over a month is an adventure and a time capsule depicting the events of the previous year, 2009 that still influence our lives.

The accompanying exhibition entitled The World of Fashion in Pictures Yesterday and Today is a selection of works by Hungarian photographers who have become masters of their profession both in Hungary and abroad from the last century to the present.

The exhibition includes pictures by such well known masters of photography as Angelo, Rudolf Balogh, Károly Gink, Tibor Inkey, György Lajos, János Kublin, Márton Munkácsy, József Pécsi, Dénes Rónai and Dezső Sziklai. A point of special interest will be the works by Tamás Farkas and János Fenyő, as well as the pictures by such members of the young photographer generation as Csaba Aknay,Tamás Dobos, András Hajdu, István, Zoltán Krasznai, Lábady, Márton Perlaki, Zoltán Sárosi or Zoltán Tombor whose works are considered both domestically and internationally to be equal in quality to that of their well known predecessors.

Faces Concealed in Gold: Museum of Ethnography

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A new temporary exhibition is about to open in the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest. The Gold Masks from Asia, the so called The Zelnik Collection, will be available to visitors in the museum from March 12 to June 20, 2010.

Faces Concealed in Gold – The Gold Masks from Asia
Museum of Ethnography
March 12 – June 20

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Poetic Abstract Art – Duna Palota

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In the period between March 4th and March 27 visitors to the Danube Palace in Zrinyi Utca 5 can enjoy the exhibition called “Poetic Abstract Art by Zsuzsa Szikra”.

Poetic Abstract Art by Zsuzsa Szikra
March 4 – March 27
Danube Palace, Zrinyi Utca 5

The exhibition is connected to the Budapest Spring Festival

About the exhibition:
The relationship between the parts, the squares, is a most important part of the work of Zsuzsa Szikra, made in the abstract tradition. For example see the work ‘the battle of the colors’ in which we encounter a contrast but also a balance of green, purple and blue.The style of the painter is established and therefore she has her own place in contemporary art. The balance and contrast of the colors relates to mathematical formulas; a world in balance but also vivid and exciting. An example is ‘Saint Patrick’s Blue’ showing yellow, red and blue, differently placed but always close together. The exhibition gives an overview of watercolors, mixed techniques and prints.

Zsuzsa Szikra was born in Hungary and was schooled at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest. She studied under Jeno Barcsay who created the famous ‘Anatomy for Artists’ . Barcsay made important constructivist, geometrical art and strongly influenced the work of his pupil, Zsuzsa Szikra. See for example his painting; ‘Courtyard of a Church’ (1945). Momentarily Zsuzsa Szikra works in Budapest, Paris and London.

From Degas to Picasso: Museum of Fine Arts

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If you would like to see masterpieces from French painters painted between the middle of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century, you better head towards the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest between January 28 and April 25. During that period there will be a temporary exhibition there presenting more than 50 paintings from the given period. All the paintings are borrowed from the Puskin Museum in Moscow for this exhibition.

Among the paintings you can see masterpieces made by Courbet, Corot, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso.

From Degas to Picsso
Museum of Fine Arts
January 28 – April 25, 2010

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