Klimt and the beginning of Viennese secession - exhibition (30.09.2008. - 04.01.2009.)
Museum of Fine Arts 
During the time of the ‘Holy Spring’ (Heilige Frühling), members of the two groups of the Secession - the realists and the symbolists -grouping around Gustav Klimt (Hoffmann, Moll, Kolo, Moser and Otto Wagner) took a united stand against the ruling art norms and ideas of the period.
The exhibition arriving from the Viennese Albertina at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts wishes to introduce the art of these few years. This period not only marks the birth of modern arts and the roots of Viennese Secession but it is also the time when European artists established connections with between themselves, mutually influencing each other’s art.
In this early phase following the establishment the drawings and reproduced graphics were given an influential role. In the drawings and graphics of the exhibition it is splendidly and clearly illustrated how the school worked with decorative, smeared surfaces creating a flat effect. In addition, the Museum of Fine Arts supplements the graphic material with significant paintings, creating an a new context for the Budapest audience to be introduced to the works of Austrian artists who are much admired in Hungary.
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Neo-renaissance architecture in Budapest - Exhibition (15.09.2008. - 31.12.2008.)
Budapest City Archives (3-5. Teve u., Budapest, H-1139)
Budapest City Archives introduces the representative trend of style of the late 19th century with an exhibition of the largest architectural heritage of the Country, the neo-renaissance plans of Miklós Ybl. These include the collection of plans of the Fővámház (Main Customs House), Opera House, and the buildings of the palace-quarter, behind the Hungarian National Museum: the Festetics-palace and the Károlyi Alajos palace.
Apart from the plans, the period photographs of the buildings (for example the pictures of György Klösz) are also on display, together with maps and works by other architects and planners, such as Alajos Hauszmann and Imre Steindl that make the exhibition material more descriptive. The exhibition is accompanied by other events and an architectural history conference. Exhibition tour guides are available at request.
For further information please click here . FERDINAND HODLER: A SYMBOLIST VISION (09.09.2008. - 14.12.2008.)
Museum of Fine Arts 
The representative and monographic exhibitions of the Museum of Fine Arts provide an opportunity for Hungarian viewers to become acquainted with the greats characters of European art. Following Van Gogh, in 2008 the life’s work of Ferdinand Hodler will be presented. The last time a similar exhibition of Hodlers’s works was held was in Switzerland in 1983. Such a complete display of works by a foreign artist has, until now, never been held in Hungary.
Details: www.szepmuveszeti.hu
Legendary creatures, magical flowers. The Popular Renaissance - Exhibition
(14.11.2008. - 27.09.2009.)
Museum of Ethnography The exhibition uses the beautiful 18th and 19th century artefacts of the Museum of Ethnography to show the way the popular renaissance motifs – dragons, unicorns, jumping deer and colourful flowers – reached everyday culture. Since the use of renaissance elements is extremely striking and varied, earlier studies had liked to put an emphasis on how the Hungarian and Italian renaissance has carried on in the Hungarian and old Transylvanian folk art. The results of the predecessors can be wide-ranging and added to in many different art forms.
Visitors of the exhibition can see dragons, unicorns, jumping deer, lions, pomegranates and flower bouquets arranged in Italian vases pictured on beautiful pieces of art from the 18-19 centuries. Painted ceilings and ceiling panels, glazed earthenware, tin pots, folk weave and embroidery as well as special objects and drawings from the collection of the Museum of Ethnography are presented alongside each other. Some of these have never been on display before, therefore are unknown for both ordinary visitors and trade experts, making it possible for seeing the pieces under new lights and giving new explanations.
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Th
omas Ruff: A retrospective (13 December 2008 - 15 February 2009) Art Hall
With the solo exhibition of Thomas Ruff, Art Hall brings another prominent figure of the contemporary art scene to the Hungarian public. An outstanding member of the generation that started to work in the 1970s, Tomas Ruff started to work in the company of with Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Candida Höffer and Axel Hütte, the so-called Dusseldorf School. It was the first generation to learn photography at an academy of art.Thomas Ruff’s work is an encyclopaedic encapsulation of today’s photography. His subjects extend from portraits to galaxies, from the micro- to the macrocosm. His approach is simultaneously scientific and political, while he is also sensitive to shifts in the approaches of contemporary visual culture. The techniques he has employed represent all major steps in the development of photography, including digital image making. His monumental enlargements are expressive lessons in the method, or what he calls the grammar, of photography.
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Opera
Fill your night with the magic of Opera or enjoy a unique ballett performance in one of the most beautiful Opera House of Europe. You can check the exact dates of performances on the following link or contact our concierge department on +36 1 4622185 : Opera Program
Concerts in Budapest
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Palace of Arts
The renewed culture center of Budapest has the basic conception of bringing together different branches of the arts under one roof, the building will have permanent residents: the Ludwig Museum, the National Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus and Music Library and the National Dance Theatre. For Palace of Arts program please click... or contact our concierge department on +36 1 4622185