• Coronavirus in Hungary
  • coronavirus
  • Budapest
  • Covid immunity certificate in Hungary
  • Covid immunity certificate/vaccine passport
  • Hungary border control
  • HelloMagyar
Budapest Photo Festival until end of AprilBudapest Photo Festival until end of AprilBudapest Photo Festival until end of AprilBudapest Photo Festival until end of April
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Society
  • Sport
  • Culture
  • Special Hungary
  • News To Go
  • World
  • Contact Us
  • About us
  • About us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
✕
Support us
Daily News Daily News · 04/04/2017
· Culture

Budapest Photo Festival until end of April

art Budapest event exhibition photography

People are watching the exhibited photos from the series of TransX – Bali Transgender community/ András Polgár (Random Photography Group) in an exhibition at ArtBázis

 

The Budapest Photo Festival is an annual city-wide exhibition series what represents the contemporary and classical values of the photography by the presence of the Hungarian and international art scene. The aim of the Festival is to create Budapest to be the „City of Photography” in the spring of 2017 with the 1st edition.

The festival has two highlighted exhibitions as a frame: the opening show what is the famous MAGNUM photographer, Alex Webb’s „Suffering from Light” at Kunstahale (Műcsarnok) and a Hungarian contemporary overview „SUBJECTUM” at Castle Garden Bazaar. The emphasis, – next to the two highlighted exhibitions – , is on the presentation of the international contemporary scene, by the program of the International Cultural Institutes and the guest festival, beside the exhibitions of the biggest galleries, museums and art schools of the Hungarian Capital. The Festival involves many public programs also: lectures, workshops, photomarathon, museum educational events, portfolio review and photobook show, what will place at the Festivalcenter at the Budapest Project Gallery.

In the starting year our international partners are the Institut Francais Budapest, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Yunus Emre Enstitüsü, Turkish Cultural Center, Cervantes Institute, Photometria – International Photography Festival (Gr), Museum partners are the Műcsarnok (Kunstahale), Várkert Bazár (The Castle Garden Bazaar), Hungarian National Museum / Fence Exhibition, Hungarian Olympic and Sports Museum, Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism, Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute, Szabó Ervin Central Library, Kisgaléria and the biggest galleries: Artphoto Gallery, ArtBázis, D17 Gallery, Deák Erika Gallery, Faur Zsófi Gallery, FISE Gallery, FUGA – Budapest Center of Architecture, Gregersen Art Point, Horizont Gallery, K.A.S. Gallery, Molnár Ani Gallery, TOBE Gallery, PHOTON Gallery (Ljubljana), Várfok projekt Room and Viltin Gallery. To represent the younger generation the Festival exhibits the show of the Secondary School of Visual Arts and the Moholy-Nagy Art University.

The Festival is under the patronage of Szalay-Bobrovniczky Alexandra, Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Budapest, supported by the Municipality of Budapest and a member of the Photo European Network (PHEN).

Button

The Team:
Szilvia Mucsy Photographer, Director of the Festival
Rita Somosi Art Historian, Curator of the Festival
Klára Szarka Photo Historian, Curator of the Festival
Kornél Kocsány Photographer, Project Coordinator
Dóra Mitrik Assistant

Founded by:
Szilvia Mucsy & Rita Somosi

Photo: facebook.com/BudapestPhotoFestival/

Source: Budapest Photo Fstival – press release

art Budapest event exhibition photography
Share
Daily News
Daily News

Related posts

tusványos bálványos
05/07/2022

Tusványos to be held again after two years, Orbán to attend


Read more
John Malkovich, Hungary, Debrecen
05/07/2022

John Malkovich performs again in Budapest


Read more
Fine Arts Museum
30/06/2022

Fine Arts Museum to open Matisse show on Thursday


Read more

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

SUPPORT US

Subscribe to our newsletter

Sign up to receive daily updates, news & stories about Hungary!

Select your location below or enter your country so we can deliver our morning newsletters to you in time.


Thank you!

You have successfully joined our subscriber list.


.


Latest news
  • Hungarian Justice Minister: families in focus of consumer protection policy
  • Trade union: shops should close on Sunday afternoons in Hungary
  • Foreign minister Szijjártó hails post-Brexit Hungary-UK cooperation
  • 5 unmissable destinations in Hungary for this summer! – PHOTOS

About us

Contact us

© 2022 DailyNewsHungary. All rights reserved!
Posting....