Current exhibitions

Thanks to the decorative modelling, the subjects of human interest, the mythological and biblical stories, the Kovács Margit Ceramics Museum welcomes visitors with a loveable, familiar world. With a playful spirit, individual outlook and superficial decorativeness, Margit Kovács’s ceramic works breathe new life into the squat, coarse forms of Romanesque churches, the slender, delicate shapes […]

The parallel careers pointed to by the exhibition, Magic Circle, outline Czóbel’s social and intellectual milieu, and his role as a catalyst in early 20th-century Hungarian modernism. They indicate the enduring timeliness of a painting that was bold and provocative, and whose point of departure was the foundations of reality, while it never headed for […]

Jenő Barcsay (1900–1988) was a seminal figure of 20th-century Hungarian visual art, an ‘old-fashioned avant-garde’ with an individual voice, whose oeuvre is characterized by a delicate balance he established between the classical sensibility of form and a modern approach to composition. Over a career of six decades, Barcsay produced a body of work that is […]

The third exhibition of our series, ‘Phantom Thread – Artist Wives,’ looks at the life of Olga Fialka, a key figure of the Ferenczy Family. Olga Fialka, the wife of Károly Ferenczy and the mother of Valér, Noémi and Béni Ferenczy, was herself an artist, but after her children were born, she subordinated her ambitions […]

With over two million items, the collection of the Ferenczy Museum Centre is both timeless and teeming with stories that keep changing. Rather than close this vast material, this exhibition seeks to open it up, offering a subjective yet representative snapshot through which it is possible to trace the complex, colourful 130 years of art […]