​28th February 2013 – 30th April 2013
The Goldmark Festival, which runs from 18th February to 20th May, commemorates a monumental 20th-century civic initiative. Exhibitions, concerts, literary evenings and cabaret shows evoke the approximately 700 cultural events in which the creme of Hungarian artists – literateurs, actors, musicians and graphic artists – performed between 1939 and 1944. To be precise, those who were ordered off stage by the laws of the time from Alfonzo to Imre Zsoldos. A number of popular artists will performa t the festival, including János Gálvölgyi, Lajos, Balázsovits, Ferenc Fegya Jávori, Balázs Lévai, Tamás Ungvári, and the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra.
The curator of the events: Dr. Beatrix Basics

30th November 2012 – 15th February 2013
Tamás Féner has been building his series of landscapes like a diary for years. Most of the pictures were taken around Pákozd, his second home. The texts assigned to them attempt to show that there is a kind of personal recapitulation behind the primary spectacle, the realization that, although the end of the road may already be visible,it can still be spoken about reasonably. The visiting observer thus gets closer to the works, led by the artist himself. The series of ladscapes is interrupted by portraits. Since the 1970s, Tamás Féner has dedicated all his exhibitions to the realization of some kind of a project. Here the project shows a group of inhabitants of the country presented by the landscapes, in an atmospheric unity with the sense of life radiated by the landscapes.
Curators: Tamás Féner and Anna Gábor

13th August 2012 – 13th November 2012
We presented the careers of athletes and sports patrons and show them as mementos to Hungarian and foreign visitors, who, through their sporting successes (some also due to other activities) became icons of their age: Alfréd Hajós, Lili Kronberger, Viktor Barna, József ’Csibi’ Braun, Alfréd Brüll, Árpád Weisz, Attila Petschauer, Endre Kabos, Ilona Elek, Éva Székely and Ágnes Keleti. These fourteen people are children of the Hungarian historical age (the era began at approximately the foundation of the MTK in 1888 and lasted until the Melbourne Olympics in 1956) when sport became one of the terrains of assimilation that liberated huge positive energies, and then, especially after the First World War, became a scene of increasingly overt political and everyday anti-Semitism.
Curator: Vera Faragó

31st January 2012 -13th March 2012

He was born in Budapest in 1896 under the name Lajos Engel, which he and his brother changed to Ékes in 1914. He had already signed his early works this way. He adopted the praedicatum Csabai to make distinction from his brother, Árpád, easier. He studied at the College of Fine Arts for a year as the student of István Réti, then at the Royal Hungarian College of Applied Arts Imre Simay and Ferenc Helbing were his teachers. With his brother, Árpád, who was also a graphic artist, he led a free school of applied arts in 39. Katona József street. Before World War I, he was on a study trip in Venice, Padua, Florence, Bologna, Rome. From 1922 to 1927 in Germany. He appeared in several group exhibitions: Leipzig (1927), Cologne (1928), Zurich and Genoa (1929), Milan (1933). He dealt with applied graphics, designed book covers, posters, postcards, book-plates. He was a member of the László Pál Society, the New Society of Fine Artists.As a student, he participated in ethnographic collecting trips, and the Ethnographic Museum preserves his works of the sort.They also appear on the sill-lives of folk objects. Lajos Csabai Ékes was significant as a graphic artist.In particular, he was able to unfold in the pastel technique.He die din a concentration camp in 1944.His studio legacy got to the Hungarian Jewish Museum.
Curator: Anna Gábor

​12th December 2011 – 26th February 2012
On the occasion of the independent exhibition of Dan Reisinger, Israeli artist and honorary professor at the Moholy-Nagy Univerity of Art and Design, we presented the artist’s Hungarian roots, stages of his life and work. At the exhibition visitors could meet a rarity of applied arts.They could see the artist’s logo and packaging designs, ordered by a number of companies also present in Hungary, which have not been disclosed to the public so far. Colours play a big role in his works, and the interesting thing in the exhibition is that not only the walls were included in the spectacle,but also his spatial works were present.

​1st August 2011 – 27th September 2011
Tibor Jankay was born in Békéscsaba in 1899 and emigrated to America in 1948. He left his works, his tribal art collection, library, Los Angeles house and all his possessions to his hometown of Békéscsaba. From this the Tibor Jankay Art Foundation was established, with which the Hungarian Jewish Museum jointly created a memorial exhibition.In addition to Jankay’s painting-graphic work, we also presented some pieces of his ethnographic collection, as these also had a significant impact on his art.In the 1980s, his painting was characterized by large-scale, dynamic structure of colours and lines. It is in these late works that the rites of ancient cultures from West Africa and Oceania, the influence of the objects preserving their beliefs, and in some works the influence of North-American Indians and Mayan art can be discovered.From the 1960s, he also worked in sculpture, mainly making small and medium-sized sculptures from ceramics, but also using metal. The influence of African and Oceanian sculptures and masks can be discovered on his sculptures. His graphics, made in the 1920s, show similarities with the works of his friend Ferenc Bolmányi and Lajos Csabai Ékes. From the beginning of his career he liked to draw and paint the rural environment, people, farmers and gypsies.
Curator: Anna Gábor

​26th May 2011 – 26th August 2011
Imre Kinszki, who came from a Jewish bourgeois intellectual family, was a prominent figure and organizer of amateur photography between the two world wars. Besides science and philosophy,photography has been the focus of his interest from the mid-1920s. While his writings and photos are regularly published in domestic and international newspapers, he is a founding member of the Modern Hungarian Photographers Group and one of the organizers of the successful Centennial Daguerre exhibition, he is constantly corresponding on the family’s emigration request.Organized on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of his birth, the exhibition showed his photographic oeuvre, that was left in torso due to the Holocaust,in thematic units, with the determinative documents of his life implemented.
Curator: Lívia Páldi 

17th March 2011 – 16th May 2011
Lajtai belongs to the first generation of digital imaging, so it is normal that he uses the new tools, that the era offers for the arts, freely. Digital technology is like that. However, there is a difference between the early classics of the genre and the works of Lajtai.The former were more attached to photograph, while Lajtai is more attached to painting. In his case, the image is made up of countless superimposed layers like lasure, where the world appears simultaneously a huge whole and a tiny part, intact and ravaged, visible both from the outside and from the inside. Lajtai believes in this diversity of viewpoints.In an interview, he said about the content of his pictures: A man wants to dream and he dreams. These are often nightmares, biased,combative, excluding and destructive.How is a dream born, which part of it becomes real, what trauma does awakening bring,and what to do with our dreams, which already dried into history, with our conscience burdened by our responsibility? (Judit Mosoni-Fried)
Curator: Peter Lajtai