Exhibitions

Sean Scully: Passenger – A Retrospective

The exhibition is temporarily closed

We Belong Together. Hungary before Trianon in drawings

The exhibition is temporarily closed

Forsaken World. The Art of István Farkas (1887-1944)

13 December 2019 – 1 March 2020

Tuned In – The coming together of the Hungarian National Gallery and the 70-year-old Budapest Puppet Theatre

3 March – 18 October 2020

Shoah

13 December 2019 – 1 March 2020

Living Collection

17 October 2019. - 26 January 2020.

„I am an Artist of the World…” Philip de László (1869-1937)

27 September 2019 – 5 January 2020

Bacon, Freud and the Painting of the School of London

9 October 2018 - 13 January 2019

The Surrealist Movement from Dalí to Magritte – Crisis and Rebirth in 1929

28 June – 20 October 2019

Camera Lucida

22 June 2019 – 29 September

Conditio Inhumana

12 January 2019 - 3 February 2019

From The Clearest Springs. Tradition and Abstraction in the Art of Dezső Korniss (1908-1984)

19 December 2018 - 7 April 2019

Bauhaus100. Abstract Revue – Selected Works from the Estate of Andor Weininger

29 March 2019 - 28 July 2019

Rivers, Lakes, Seas – Vitalizing Water. Water Motifs in 19th Century European and Hungarian Paintings

15 June – 17 November 2019

Floating Infinity. Žilvinas Kempinas – Attila Csörgő – Miklós Erdély

13 December 2018 - 19 May 2019

The Phantom of the Self-Portrait. Rembrandt 350

7 June 2019 - 22 September

Every Past Is My Past #twentiethcentury #photography #Fortepan

16 April 2019 - 29 September

Venetian Vedute from the Intesa Sanpaolo Art Collection

18 September 2018 - 14 October 2018

Frida Kahlo. Masterpieces from the Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City

7 July 2018 - 4 November 2018

Julian Rosefeldt: Manifesto

30 May 2018 - 12 August 2018

Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures

13 September 2018 - 14 October 2018

Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures

17 May 2018 - 1 July 2018

Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures

12 April 2018 - 13 May 2018

“You’re like the spirit that you understand” – Sandor Liezen-Mayer’s illustrations for Faust

23 March 2018 - 5 August 2018

Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures

8 March 2018 - 8 April 2018

Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures

14 December 2017 - 11 February 2018

Within Frames – The art of the sixties in Hungary (1958–1968)

17 November 2017 - 18 February 2018

Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures

16 November 2017 - 10 December 2017

“The creative mastermind” – The history of a cult image

19 October 2017 - 18 February 2018

Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures

5 October 2017 - 12 November 2017

Péter Korniss – Continuing memories

29 September 2017 - 11 February 2018

Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures

14 September 2017 - 8 October 2017

Passion and Irony – Peter Meller and the Graphic Imagination

22 June 2017 - 3 September 2017

Baselitz – Preview with review

1 April 2017 - 2 July 2017

Shadow on stone – The art of Lili Ország (1926–1978)

17 December 2016 - 1 May 2017

From Rippl-Rónai to Vajda – Modern Hungarian drawings from the Collection of the art historian György Gombosi (1900–1945)

4 December 2016 - 16 April 2017

Modigliani

29 June 2016 - 2 October 2016

Hungarian artists and the computer

24 June 2016 - 18 September 2016

Perspectives – Art and Ethnography

22 April 2016 - 1 October 2016

Picasso – Transfigurations, 1895-1972

22 April 2016 - 28 August 2016

A Revolution in Art – Russian Avant-Garde in the 1910s and 1920s

29 January 2016 - 1 May 2016

The Survivor’s Shadow – The life and works of El Kazovsky

6 November 2015 - 14 February 2016

Destiny And Symbol – Hungarian Art in Transylvania 1920-1990

24 April 2015 - 23 August 2015

Fascination of Nature – Paintings by Qi Baishi from the Collection of the Beijing Fine Art Academy

24 April 2015 - 28 June 2015

Rippl-Rónai and Maillol – The story of a friendship

17 December 2014 - 17 May 2015

Poet, General and Statesman – Miklós Zrínyi (1620-1664)

15 November 2014 - 8 February 2015

Rainer 85 – Homage to Arnulf Rainer

15 October 2014 - 4 January 2015

(Film) Experiments brought to life – The first cinema of the Avant-Garde

9 July 2014 - 5 October 2014

Dada and surrealism – Magritte, Duchamp, Man Ray, Miró, Dalí

9 July 2014 - 19 October 2014

Rearranged Reality – Creative strategies in Hungarian Art under the spell of Dada and Surrealism

9 July 2014 - 19 October 2014

Masterpieces returning home – Hungarian posters from the Julius Paul Collection

20 June 2014 - 21 September 2014

Derkovits – The artist and his times

3 April 2014 - 27 July 2014

The eighth temple – The art of Endre Bálint

1 February 2014 - 11 May 2014

Gifts and their Donors – New acquisitions of the Hungarian National Gallery – Pictures by János Vaszary

4 December 2013 - 2 February 2014

Endre Rozsda – Time regained. Retrospective to mark the Centenary of the artist’s birth

19 November 2013 - 2 March 2014

Chagall – Between war and peace

13 September 2013 - 5 January 2014

Monet, Gauguin, Szinyei Merse, Rippl-Rónai

28 June 2013 - 24 November 2013

Impressions on paper 1820-1920

28 June 2013 - 13 October 2013

Hungarian Art Photography in the New Millennium

11 May 2013 - 28 July 2013

János Thorma, the painter of the Hungarian Barbizon

8 February 2013 - 5 May 2013

World models – Studio experiments and documents from Kondor to the present day

30 November 2012 - 30 June 2013

Re-painted reality – An unusual exhibition in the spirit of diversity

14 October 2012 - 9 December 2012

The way we are – Cartoons and prints of József Faragó (1866-1906)

12 October 2012 - 23 June 2013

Faster, higher, stronger!

19 July 2012 - 4 November 2012

Heroes, Kings, Saints – Images and documents from the history of Hungary

3 January 2012 - 2 January 2013

The retrospective exhibition of Károly Ferenczy (1862-1917)

30 November 2011 - 17 June 2012

Rippl-Rónai – Pieces of art from the hands of old collectors

26 October 2011 - 7 October 2012

Speaks for Itself – The annual exhibition of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association

16 July 2011 - 4 September 2011

Károly Markó and his circle – from myth to image

6 May 2011 - 1 November 2011

Without borders – Contemporary sculpture in Croatia – Hungarian reflections

6 April 2011 - 3 July 2011

Private labyrinths – Joint exhibition of creators living with autism and contemporary fine artists

3 June 2011 - 18 September 2011

Munkácsy – the Christ Trilogy

23 November 2010 - 16 October 2011

XIX. Art and Nation: Image and self-image

5 November 2010 - 3 April 2011

Ropsodies Hongroises – Félicien Rops master of Belgian symbolism

1 October 2010 - 9 January 2011

György Kovásznai (1934-1983) – A retrospective show

5 June 2010 - 26 September 2010

Depero, the futurist and the impact of futurism on Avant-garde Art

4 June 2010 - 22 August 2010

Earthly paradises – Modern masterpieces from the Kasser-Mochary Collection

6 February 2010 - 2 May 2010

Late Baroque impressions – Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-1796) And Josef Winterhalder (1743-1807)

20 November 2009 - 28 November 2010

Hungarian Artists in Munich, 1850–1914

1 October 2009 – 10 January 2010

After 100 Years – The Exhibition of Tamás Lossonczy at the Hungarian National Gallery

12 August 2009 - 13 September, 2009

József Borsos – Painter and Photographer (1821-1883)

18 June 2009 - 25 October 2009

The “Művészház” 1909-1914. Modern Exhibitions in Budapest

27 March 2009 - 26 July 2009

Dialogue in Black and White. Polish and Hungarian prints 1918-1939

13 March 2009 - 28 June 2009

The retrospective of Lajos Vajda (1908–1941)

13 December 2008 – 22 February 2009

The new refutation of time – Works from the Irokéz Collection, 1988-2008

31 October 2008 - 1 February 2009

Art from Within: Art Brut in Austria and Hungary

18 September 2008 - 9 November 2008

Technical detours – The early Moholy-Nagy reconsidered (1916-1923)

25 April 2008- 24 August 2008

The Legacy of King Matthias – Late Renaissance Art in Hungary

29 March 2008 - 27 July 2008