Sculptures of Jens Galschiøt on Baltazár Dezső Square
8 July – 27 July 2010
In the frame of 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts and ReFoMix Public Benefit Ltd. in collaboration with Projekt UDENFOR opened the exhibition from the 13 sculptures, portraying homeless people, by Jens Galschiøt, Danish artist.
Judit Reigl retrospective exhibition
17 June - 19 September 2010
The retrospective exhibition of Judit Reigl has been opened on the 17th of June in MODEM. The almost 100 artworks, that covers the whole oeuvre of the 87 years old artist from the early surrealistic works up until today, can be seen in the 1300 sq meters exhibition hall until the 19th of September.
international intermedia exhibition
6 - 30 May 2010
The exhibition presents a wide range of contemporary artistic positions in numerous exciting formats – from video projection through spatial installations to displays of infrared light art.
The exhibition of Zsolt Berszán
11 March – 20 June 2010
Zsolt Berszán’s (1974, Marosvásárhely) exhibition entitled Genesis-project presents wall artworks and installation art created by using industrial base materials (concrete, tar, aluminum, polyurethane foam, silicone). The artist has painted the works of art almost fully black. The reduction to black, first applied by Malevich, expresses a painterly gesture that wishes to grasp the world by focusing on the transience of matter and the absence of light.
Muse of Ödön Márffy
25 February – 20 June 2010
“I do not know why, how long / can I thus remain for you / but I hold your lovely hand / and I guard your lovely eyes.” – everyone knows the lines written by Endre Ady to his wife, the Csinszka-poems are part of the school curriculum. However, it is less known that Csinszka, after the death of Ady, lived with the painter, Ödön Márffy for almost one and a half decades and several masterpieces were born from this relationship.
Retrospective exhibition of János Aknay
30 January - 3 April 2010
Cityscapes and angels - two grand topics that defines the diverse work of János Aknay, that spreads on the scale of clearly abstract, emblematic and figurative visualization. The exhibition, opening in MODEM, presents the latest works of the life-work of outstanding significance, as well as works reflecting novel viewpoints.
Western man and the idea of redemption in modern and contemporary visual art
2009. August 13. - 2009. December 31.
A unique exhibition from the works of Picasso, Dalí, Bacon, Redon, Kokoschka, Andy Warhol and of other world famous artists.
Polish expressive art of the 80'ies
From the 19th of November 2009 to the 31st of January 2010
During the times of the communist oppression many found arts the only acceptable form of existence, or fought by the means of arts against the stereotypes consolidated by the historians. Banana Republic introduces those artistic groups that operated in the 80s Poland.
Masterpieces from the Antal-Lusztig Collection
5 November 2009 - 7 February 2010
The most beautiful works of the modern Hungarian fine arts, evolving from the middle of the 19th Century, were selected by Péter Antal, art collector, who created new quality and perspective in the sphere of inland art collection in the last few years with his huge, international-standard collection.
Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts
One of the largest and most up-to-date modern and contemporary art centre of the country and its greater region opened its gates in the autumn of 2006. MODEM possesses the geopolitical position, size and architectural capabilities to be the centre for modern and contemporary international art life in Central Europe.
