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 […]
Our exhibition is occasioned by the centenary of the establishment of Szentendre’s Old Artist Colony, yet our focus is on not so much the colony itself as its context, i.e. the town and the society that constituted Szentendre in the 1920s. We consequently address the shaping of the town’s image, apropos of the extension of […]
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, […]