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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This new, thematic exhibition of the Vajda Museum takes a broader perspective and considers the influence of Vajda’s art and ethos on the second half of the 20th century through the praxes of diverse (neo-) avant-garde, postmodern and contemporary artists. As it offers a chronological overview of Vajda’s work, the exhibition introduces contemporary artists, one […]

This extensive exhibition looks back over the 100-year history of Szentendre’s Old Artist Colony, with both works well known and emblematic and ones less frequently seen or recently discovered. Archival materials, photographs and models round out the display of over two hundred artworks to illustrate the social, sociological and cultural-political background of the artist colony, […]