Each year the university’s Library, Archive and Art Collection contributes to presenting the University’s educational activity by displaying an exhibition of the collection or a representative exhibition of the institution’s history.

The current exhibition showcases the relationship between the university and its collection through the display of the ever-growing Art Collection, and it also aims to show the source of the collection’s growth. Over the past eight years, the collection has received a number of significant donations. The body of the exhibition consists of three notable bequests: pages of the The Vác Workshop, a selection from the portfolios of The Makó Graphic Artists’ Colony, and a collection of artworks from the university’s own, recently deceased, master, Róbert König. In addition to these, the exhibition also displays our collection’s hidden gems, be that a single page, like Jenő Barcsay’s etching gifted by the Mission Art Gallery; or a posthumous print based on Viktor Olgyai’s etching plate, a gift acquired owing to collaboration between Ágnes Király, Ilona Décsi and Imre Kéri.

The exhibition shows the tremendous importance of our university’s lecturers in the growth of the collection. Professor Frigyes Kőnig’s perpetual acquisitions, as well as donations made by our lecturer Imre Kocsis of works made in The Makó Graphic Artists’ Colony are all crucial pieces of the collection. Then again, our other instructors have also contributed to the growing of the collection, and through it to the documentation of the University’s educational activity.

Opening: 3 December 2019 6:00 PM

Welcome speeches by: Eszter Radák, rector of the University, and Péter Stefanovits, Munkácsy-prize winner graphic artist, Merited Artist, chairman of The Foundation for Hungarian Graphic Art

Exhibition opening by: Eszter Földi art historian, director of the Hungarian National Gallery’s graphic collection

Curated by: Emese Révész and József Szurcsik

Location: HUFA, Barcsay Hall, 1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 69.

On view: 04 December 2019 – 24 January 2020 Monday to Friday 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Attention: exhibition closed 23 December 2019 - 05 January 2020)

Many thanks for the donoators and the donation brokers: • Association of Hungarian Graphic Artists • The Foundtation for Hungarian Graphic Art • Mission Art Galery • Mária Ambrus • Dezsőné Bóka • András Butak • András Csanády • Antal Csipes • Ilona Decsi • Alajos Eszik • Erzsébet Ék • Eszter Földi • László Jurecskó • Imre Kéri • Ágnes Király• Imre Kocsis • Imréné Kocsis • Frigyes Kőnig • András Lengyel • Gábor Pásztor • Emese Révész • Zsófia Georgina Simák • Péter Stefanovits • Veronika Szalai • József Szurcsik • Sándor Tóth • Lea Varga • Imre Veszprémi • Ferenc Zsákovics

Contributed to the preparation and creation of the exhibition:

• Edina Istvánné Antal • Anikó Bojtos • Balázs Takács Horváth and the staff of HUFA Library, Archive and Art Collection • Éva Kozma • Frigyes Kőnig • István Madácsy • Ágnes Rozmann (typography) • István Győri and the students (exhibition building) • Júlia Menyhért and Zoltán Kósa (photography) • Géza Nyíry (web) • Eszter Tóth (communication)

Pricing: 600 Ft, concession (senior or student): 300 Ft. Free admissions for members of professional organisations (MAOE, MKISZ, AICA, MKE – Association of Hungarian Librarians), students and teachers of art collages and high schools, educators, members of the press, individuals over 70, disabled, or with large families.