Exhibitions, 2019

January

Ady “The Sadness of Resurrection”

Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Death Anniversary of Endre Ady
The news of Endre Ady’s death on 27 January 1919 spread like wildfire in Budapest. Friends, journalists, artists commemorated the sad event. Móricz wrote down how he saw his friend and colleague, Lajos Szőnyi photographed, Béni Ferenczy made drawings, Fülöp Ö. Beck and Márk Vedres shaped death masks. On that very day, the government declared the poet “grieved by the nation” and made the decision to arrange a state funeral. A school holiday for secondary schools was announced for the funeral day.

Petőfi Literary Museum
January 25, 2019 to January 5, 2020
April

CSÁTH – The Magician’s Death

An Exhibition Marking the Centenary of Géza Csáth’s Death
“It is impossible to talk about motifs, melodies or rhythms, about these so-called musical shapes or forms. We must open our ears and hearts, and adjust our spiritual reflective system such that with their help we can first observe the impressions, then secondly ourselves at the moment of artistic enjoyment, and thirdly our contemplating self. Thus nothing else will interest us but who Richard Strauss is, who we ourselves are and whether what we feel is pleasing or unpleasant during that time.”

Petőfi Literary Museum
April 30, 2019 to October 31, 2020
June

Furniture as Legacy

Writer’s furniture in the collection of the Petőfi Literary Museum
The Collection of Relics in the Petőfi Literary Museum holds personal objects of Hungarian writers and poets, including more than three hundred pieces of furniture. Alongside authors’ bequests, the collecting incorporates furnishings of editorial offices and sometimes furniture having belonged to writers’ family members or muses.

Petőfi Literary Museum
June 21, 2019 to March 1, 2020
July

The Poet of the Camera

Photographs by André Kertész (1894–1985) in the Collections of PLM
The 125th anniversary of André Kertész’s birth provides the opportunity for the Petőfi Literary Museum and its affiliates, the Kassák Museum and the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute, to exhibit their precious treasures, including known and unknown photographs by Kertész held in their collections. Seventy-three not so well-known original vintage photos from the three institutes are being presented.

Petőfi Literary Museum
July 3, 2019 to October 6, 2019
October

The Vagrant Comet

Variants of the Petőfi Cult
The exhibition seeks to address the issue of how the figure of Sándor Petőfi, “the poet” preserved in the national memory, has developed and changed over the past 170 years.

The exhibition title is from the self-characterisation of his poem The Apostle: “... below the sombre brow / two smouldering eyes flicker / like two vagrant comets / which fear no one / but are feared by all. His gaze / soars always farther, always higher.”

October 29, 2019 to September 30, 2020