Curator: Péter Baki
The exhibition Focus – Masterpieces from the Collection of the Hungarian Museum of Photography presents the most precious works of the Hungarian Museum of Photography in thematic groupings, now displayed at Budapest’s new exhibition venue, the Neo Contemporary Art Space in the City Park. There were several considerations when selecting the exhibition material: based on complex criteria, the most important pictures from the museum’s holdings were compiled to allow visitors to learn about the history of photography in Hungary, while demonstrating changes in artistic trends in the various genres from the nineteenth century to the present through seven thematic groups. In the sections titled Movement, Faces of the City, Faces, Landscape, Trompe-l’œil, The Faces of Violence and Fates, the photographs are arranged into genres well established in the visual arts, while highlighting creative approaches that pertain to photography, such as social documentary photography, documentarianism and reflections on the medium itself. Visitors to the exhibition can view the most important works of André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy, Brassaï, Martin Munkácsi and Robert Capa.
copyright MAGYAR FOTOGRÁFIAI MÚZEUM Kertész André Víz alatt úszó Esztergom a Mala uszodában 1917 augusztus 31
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The exhibition Focus – Masterpieces from the Collection of the Hungarian Museum of Photography presents the most precious works of the Hungarian Museum of Photography in thematic groupings, now displayed at Budapest’s new exhibition venue, the Neo Contemporary Art Space in the City Park.
Guided tour for groups discovering: the building of the House of Music, Hungary the building of the House of the Hungarian Millennium the building of the Museom of Ethnography the history and future of Városliget
Deemed by the international profession as one of the most anticipated buildings of the world in 2021, the multiple-award-winning House of Music Hungary welcomes visitors with a lot of surprises and interesting details.
The impressive building of the Museum of Ethnography is strewn with beautiful and unique details. The guided tour reveals all of these while you are shown around the most important spaces of the building, including the visual depository holding ceramics from all over the world as well as the main attraction of the Visitor Centre, namely the Golden Age of Budapest and the Liget Project mock-ups.
During the walk visitors are guided through the history and renewal of the Kunsthalle for Exhibitions, built in 1885, with special attention devoted to the Zsolnay decorative elements as well as the present of the House of the Hungarian Millennium.
One of the Városliget's most beautiful buildings, the former Olof Palme House, has been renovated. Among the oldest structures in the park and formerly a venue for the "Hungarian millennium" exhibition, the building was opened to the public in October, 2019 thanks to the Liget Budapest Project. The house has been restored with a focus on tradition but in accordance with the standards of the 21st century, opening with a temporary exhibition showcasing the golden age of the Városliget. It will later hark back to the most successful period in Hungary's modern history with a permanent, interactive display focusing on turn-of-the-century Budapest.
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