The year begins with an exhibition at the Korean Cultural Center: "Echoes of Korea in Hungarian Handicrafts" shows how the spirit of traditional Korean art meets the creativity of Hungarian artists. The exhibition is not just a presentation of a distant culture, but rather the story of a living, evolving community where students become masters […]
On the Hungarian Culture, the Janus Pannonius Museum (JPM) launched Vasarely 2026 to mark the 120th anniversary of the world renowned Hungarian fine artist Victor Vasarely's birth and the 50th anniversary of the opening of the museum in Pécs that exhibits his works, the museum informed MTI on Thursday. The institution, which performs public collection […]
The Museum of Fine Arts bid farewell to the highly successful exhibition Heaven and Hell: William Blake and His Contemporaries with an extraordinary event: on the evening of January 10, it brought Blake's visions to life with a silent disco closing program. This unique event offered visitors a special experience at the intersection of fine […]
The 45th Hungarian Film Festival, held from February 2 to 8, will feature 220 films screened at Budapest's Corvin Cinema and the Inga Cultural Cafe, organizers said on Thursday. Festival director András Muhi said that over 450 submissions have been received, adding that the event would "present the broadest spectrum of Hungarian films produced last […]
The year begins with an exhibition at the Korean Cultural Center in Budapest: the exhibition entitled 'Echoes of Korea in Hungarian Handicrafts' shows how the spirit of traditional Korean art meets the creativity of Hungarian artists. The exhibition is not just a presentation of a distant culture, but rather the story of a living, evolving […]
Béla Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker, died on Tuesday at the age of 70, Bence Fliegauf, a fellow film director, announced on behalf of the family. Born in Pécs in 1955, Tarr began his career as an amateur filmmaker at the age of 16. He later worked at the Béla Balázs Studio, the hub of […]
Named after German poet and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Goethe-Institute is a nonprofit German cultural organization operational worldwide with more than 150 cultural centers across 99 countries. One of those is Hungary where the Institute has been present since 1988. Its goal is to promote the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural […]
Hungarian movie director Ildikó Enyedi on Sunday received the Femme de Cinema Sisley - Les Arcs award at the Les Arcs film festival in France, founded in 2013, to highlight the work of outstanding female filmmakers. The award ceremony was followed by the screening of Silent Friend, Enyedi's latest work starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Enzo […]
The László Bíró Award, named after the the Hungarian-born inventor of the first commercially successful ballpoint pen, has been awarded this year to Lídia Demján. The award recognizes people who have made a substantive and key contribution to promoting relations between Hungary and Argentina in the field of culture. At the award ceremony held this […]
Hungarian painter József Rippl-Rónai's portrait of Lajos Kunffy sold for HUF 65 million, while among his contemporaries, Ilona Keserü's painting Landscape fetched the highest price, HUF 40 million, at the Virág Judit Gallery winter auction. According to the gallery's announcement on Tuesday, nearly 200 items went under the hammer at Monday evening's auction, including masterpieces […]
An invited audience of well-known figures from the film industry celebrated Ildikó Enyedi's career at Origo Film Studio this Thursday. The film director, who recently celebrated her 70th birthday, received the Hungarian Hollywood Council's Adolph Zukor Award in a ceremony, the Council says in a statement. The highest honor of the civil organization, founded in […]
The Budapest Music Center (BMC) is organizing a festival between February 15 and 28, 2026 and a year-round series of events to mark the 100th anniversary of Hungarian composer György Kurtág's birth, with "international stars and prominent Hungarian contemporary performers playing a cross-section of the composer's oeuvre at the most important classical music venues of […]
A series of programs will be held in 2026 in thesouthern hungarian city of Pécs, the seat of Baranya County, to mark the 120th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian-born painter Victor Vasarely and the 50th anniversary of the opening of the museum in Pécs that exhibits his works, Pécs Mayor Attila Péterffy told MTI […]
Hungary’s first and unique higher music education institution opened its doors 150 years ago, on November 14, 1875, under the name National Royal Hungarian Academy of Music, with Ferenc Liszt as President and Ferenc Erkel as Director. The institution soon became an internationally renowned citadel of Hungary’s music education, and has maintained its high standards […]
Hungarian film director Ildikó Enyedi will receive the lifetime achievement award of the The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) at the 46th Cairo Film Festival, the federation said on its website on Thursday. The award will be handed over to Ildikó Enyedi before the screening of her latest film, 'Csendes barát' (Silent Friend), on […]
