2022: Bosch, Matisse, El Greco Exhibitions in Budapest

The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest will soon present its "strongest ever line-up" featuring exhibitions by Bosch, Matisse and El Greco in 2022, the museum's director said on Thursday.

The comprehensive revamp project of the museum building will be completed this year, the director, László Baán told a press conference. The Bosch exhibition opening on April 8 will present 90 works, including eleven signed by Bosch, and it will be among the world's most significant shows of the artist in the past decade, he added.

This exhibition will be one of the most important Bosch exhibitions in the world, and will include paintings and drawings by Hieronymus Bosch, works related to the history of his oeuvre, as well as the most characteristic masterpieces of his workshop and his followers, he said.

In July, the first representative exhibition of Henri Matisse in Hungary will open at the Fine Arts in Hungary. A selection of key works from the Pompidou Centre in Paris will be complemented by pieces from other European public collections; the exhibition of more than 100 works will present Matisse's oeuvre in eight sections.

For the first time in Hungary, the Museum of Fine Arts is dedicating a major exhibition to El Greco, the director general said, adding that the institution, which has the largest collection of El Greco works in Europe outside Spain, is also paying off an old debt. The exhibition, which will open in October, will feature major works from all over the world, such as Laocoón, the only painting by the Greco-Spanish master with a mythological theme.