Robert Capa: Report on Hungary, 1948
Opening on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 6 pm
On view:
April 9 – August23, 2026
Robert Capa wrote several entertaining reports on European tourist paradises for the imagined readers of the full-color monthly travel and luxury life magazine launched after World War II. “Conversation in Budapest,” however, is an exception among the photojournalist’s light-hearted pieces written for the wealthy, as it touches on the homeland Capa left behind in the 1930s and the impossibility of ever returning.
The exhibition presents this impossible mission, placing the former Endre Friedmann back into the ruined setting of his youth.
Robert Capa: A Glimpse of History – Screening of significant images from the Hungarian collection
On view:
May 21 – August 23, 2026
The screening is a transitional presentation of the Hungarian Capa collection, revealing the rhythm, detours, repetitions, and unexpected silences of an entire oeuvre. Although this is a temporary form, it offers an important occasion: while the permanent exhibition is being renewed, visitors can continue to encounter Capa’s images and the vision that made the history of the twentieth century visible through human closeness.
Magnum Photos: Early Color
On view:
May 21 – August 23, 2026
Founded in 1947, Magnum Photos responded to this shift by granting its photographers unprecedented creative freedom and the opportunity to experiment with emerging color formats. The use of materials that were more expensive and technically demanding than black-and-white film encouraged a slower, more deliberate working process, bringing a visual approach attentive to atmosphere and detail into the world of photographic essays.
André Kertész – The Sentimentalist
Opening on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 6 pm
André Kertész, who was born in Budapest, is one of the most important figures in the history of photography. In a career spanning more than seventy years and threecountries (Hungary, France and the United States), Kertész created a visual language ofmodernist photography that has been a point of reference and a source of inspiration forgenerations. Our new permanent exhibition presents a selection of these images and thestories behind them.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. Spaces and gestures from a dictatorship
On view: June 4 – August 30, 2026
This exhibition evokes the world of prisons in the Rákosi and early Kádár eras, as well as keylocales and the modus operandi of the communist dictatorship. The exhibited photographs, the installation, the documentary films and the artefacts of detention highlight and reflect on the former internment camps, prisons, interrogation rooms and trial spaces, which are linked to personal lives, human tragedies and survival stories.
ANDRÁS ZOLTAI – QURNAWI – Hemző Prize 2025
On view: June 12 – September 20, 2026
The exhibition follows the lives of the Qurnawi people, their decades-long relationship with the Hungarian Archaeological Mission in Thebes, and the unique connection between a community and a place that remains home long after it has been left behind.
