Exhibitions

Since its establishment 25 years ago, Kempinski Hotel Corvinus has been a keystone of Budapest life, and true to its eponym, is more than a hotel. It has always been committed to supporting culture, and now boasts a collection with hundreds of works by contemporary Hungarian artists. In September 2017, in cooperation with the Kovács Gábor Art Foundation, Kempinski will offer a taste of this rich collection with a selection presented at KOGART’s gallery in Tihany.

The Kovács Gábor Art Foundation, in conjunction with the Debrecen Reformed Theological University, commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in an ambitious series of exhibitions. The exhibitions present works inspired by the Bible and which help us through crucial issues in life. The exhibition opening on 10 August 2017, hosted by the The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca deals with the themes of Creation, Covenant, Grace, Temptation and Promise in the graphic works of Lajos Szalay.

The cooperation of the Kovács Gábor Art Foundation and the Liu Haisu Art Museum, which looks back on a history of several years, has reached a new stage with the retrospective exhibition of Tibor Csernus, which opens in the newly opened building of the Shanghai museum of contemporary art in August 2017. The exhibition presents the Hungarian artist’s oeuvre in an international context, focusing on the major themes and genres that interested this seminal 20th-century Hungarian artist.

Realized with the cooperation of the Kovács Gábor Art Foundation and the Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, the large-scale exhibition of Miklós Borsos (1906–1990) presents key works of a seminal 20th-century Hungarian sculptor who used the most diverse material and was active in a wide range of genres. 

Continuously expanded, the Kovács Gábor Collection is one of the most prestigious private collections in Hungary. Following a number of exhibitions in Hungary and abroad, the collection is now introduced in Hajós with a special selection that guides the viewer through one of the most exciting periods in the history of Hungarian painting, the rise of realist painting, through the work of Mihály Munkácsy, László Paál, László Mednyánszky, Géza Mészöly, Sándor Bihari and others.

József Egry, the painter of Lake Balaton: this is how most people know one of the most distinctive modern Hungarian painters. He found fame with those views of Lake Balaton that vibrate with a riot of colours and lights, and which are on view at KOGART’s Tihany gallery for two months from 30 June, 2017.