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The Kovács Gábor Art Foundation and the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts present the first exhibition in Hungary that looks at the influence of Japanese culture on Hungarian art, with a selection of artworks from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Museum of Applied Arts – Hungarian National Gallery and the Museum of Applied Arts are cooperating partners of the exhibition.

In December 2016, a new exhibition signals the extension of the cooperation between the Kovács Gábor Art Foundation and the Shanghai Liu Haisu Art Museum. Following Two Faces of Shanghai, held at KOGART Exhibitions Tihany in November 2015, the two institutions now open a joint display in the Palace of Guards at the Castle Garden Bazaar. The exhibition centres around traditional Chinese theatre, better known as “Chinese opera.”

The Kovács Gábor Art Foundation hosts an exhibition of the collected works of Béla Kondor in the János Tornyai Museum in Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary, between 27 November 2016 and 12 February 2017.

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 four exhibitions present works inspired by the Bible and which help us through crucial issues in life. Hosted by the MODEM in Debrecen and opening on 27 November 2016, the first show in the series deals with the themes of Creation, Covenant, Grace, Temptation and Promise in the graphic works of Lajos Szalay.

Between 21 October, 2016 and 22 January, 2017, the Kovács Gábor Art Foundation presents an impressive exhibition in one of Europe’s most prestigious museums, the National Museum of Krakow. With no similar displays held in Krakow for the past quarter of a century, this comprehensive show is realized in cooperation with the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery.

Since its foundation in 2004, the Kovács Gábor Art Foundation has organized more than a hundred displays of art. Sometimes is it worth pausing for a moment and looking back on the road we have travelled, so that we can make use of the lessons of our experiences for development in the future. This moment has come for the Foundation, and we now invite our audience to turn the pages of an imaginary album and relive the highlights of our shared past.

The exhibition is on view from 19 August presents the ouvre of Lajos Szalay (1909 - 1995), the outstanding Hungarian draughtsman, and Koloman Sokol (1902-2003), an enigmatic figure of Slovakian graphic art. Their creative stance was defined not only by similar paths in life, but by Pablo Picasso's influence as well.

From the 22th July the Kovács Gábor Art Foundation offers an exquisite selection at this exhibition, to reveal a more intimate facet of Lajos Gulácsy’s (1882-1932) art. This compact exhibition focuses on such characteristic themes and motifs in his oeuvre as the gardens, medieval, renaissance and rococo scenes, women’s portraits, roleplaying self-portraits, and the fairy-tale world of Na’Conxypan. The exhibition is open until 9 October 2016.

The new exhibition of the KOGART House awaits its visitors from 6 June 2016, the emphasis now shifts towards contemporary works of the Kovács Gábor Art Foundation

Opening on 13 May 2016, the Gábor Kovács Art Foundation’s show presents the history of art exhibitions in Hungary in some 120 paintings. A first of its kind, the exhibition opens on 13 May 2016.

KOGART hosts a new exhibition in Kazakhstan, which opens on 17 March 2015. The show organised in Almaty earlier this year travels to Astana, the capital city of the Asian country, affording art-loving audiences an insight into the colourful world of contemporary Hungarian graphic art. The selection includes 14 Hungarian artists, including Miklós Borsos, Béla Kondor and Zsuzsa Péreli. The show will feature a chamber exhibition, presenting the works of one of the most important Hungarian painters of the second of half of the 20th century, Tibor Csernus.

Everybody knows the immortal Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheri who was the incarnation of mediaeval world-view and the first lyric poet of the Italian Renaissance. Dante’s visionary, great work was translated into practically every language in the world, including the language of art – as did János Bencsik, Miklós Borsos and Dezső Fáy. The material of the latest exhibition of Kovács Gábor Art Foundation has been selected from the artworks of these three artists and can be seen between 5 February and 24 April in Kogart Exhibitions Tihany.

The work of Lajos Szalay (1909–1995), an outstanding artist in the field of Hungarian drawing, and Koloman Sokol (1902–2003), an enigmatic figure of Slovak graphic art, hailed from the same geographical and intellectual environment. The life stories of Szalay and Szokol have some striking parallels. They spent the majority of their lives on the American continent, created the backbone of their work in the United States, while preserving and cherishing their Central European identities. Opening on 21 January 2016, the Szalay – Sokol – Picasso exhibition at the Pálffy Palace in Bratislava is the result of a cooperation between the Kovács Gábor Art Foundation (KOGART) and the the Bratislava City Gallery (BCG).