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Photo collage and photomontage in Hungarian art
5 November – 12 December

The techniques of photomontage and photocollage have developed at one of the most important schools of the 20th century, the Bauhaus, which includes a considerable number of Hungarian artists and architects. Later, these methods were borrowed by another multidisciplinary artistic movement, the surrealism, which greatly influenced the Hungarian artists of the European school in the 1940’s.

The exhibition offers a selection of pieces realised by some of the artist-pioneers of the Hungarian artistic scene, who revolutionised the construction of image such as Lajos Kassák, Endre Bálint, Dezső Korniss and Lajos Vajda.

The curator of the exhibition is Krisztina Passuth, art historian, university professor, author of several art history books, like Kurt Schwitters (1978), Moholy-Nagy (1982), Les avant-gardes de l’Europe Centrale (1988) or Étienne Béothy (2010).