Organized by the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA) and the Hall of Art (Műcsarnok), an outdoor panel exhibition opened on Monday in front of the public institution’s headquarters on Bajza Street to mark the 130th anniversary of the opening of the Műcsarnok.
In its Monday announcement, the MMA noted that the building, designed by Albert Schickedanz, was completed in 1896 for the Millennium, at the same time as Heroes’ Square and the Museum of Fine Arts.
In their summary, they quoted visual artist József Szurcsik, head of the Visual Arts Department of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, who emphasized: the Műcsarnok has been part of the Hungarian Academy of Arts’ family of institutions since 2014, and since then it has welcomed and continues to welcome visitors with a new concept compared to the past.
The national salons, held every five years by genre, “summarize the latest achievements in contemporary architecture, photography, fine arts, applied arts, and folk art, noted Szurcsik, adding that the exhibitions in the Frissen series are true canon-shaping events in which curators present a single artist’s entire body of work in a single room, thus bringing the studio scale closer to the audience.
In the year of its 130th anniversary, the Hungarian Academy of Arts and the Műcsarnok commemorate the past with the current panel exhibition and the fall anniversary exhibition, while also offering visitors a series of the freshest works of our time and visions that explore the future,” said the visual artist.
The exhibition looking back on the Műcsarnok’s 130-year history will be on view until November 22, according to the summary.
Via MTI; Featured image: Műcsarnok – Kunsthalle Budapest Facebook
