Thursday, 14 December 2017, from 6 pm to 10 pm

Programme:

Guided Tour In English

6.30 pm – 7.15 pm The Rebirth of Light: The Story of Christmas in Paintings

Guided tour in the „Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest” in the exhibition Church Adornments – Gothic Art in the Hungarian Kingdom, 1300–1500 by Ágnes Mertus
Meeting point: Building ’C’, 2nd floor

Music

6.00 pm – 9.30 pm Boggie Christmas Acoustics

Boglárka Csemer, alias Boggie songwriter and performer, is characterized by a unique musical world that highlights her in the Hungarian music palette. An artistic, sophisticated songwriter who masterfully combines classical music, pop, French sanzon and world music elements. Her first album, featuring the song Parfüm, made it to the American Billboard list, and she received a Phonogram award for her second album. She represented Hungary at the 60th Vienna Eurovision Festival with the song "Wars for Nothing". At the concert in the museum, she will perform well-known Christmas songs for the occasion in jazz-acoustic arrangements.

Venue: 1st floor Dome Hall

Living Collection no.4

6.00 pm– 6.30 pm

The idea for this exhibition project was prompted by the fact that just a few hundred of the works in the Hungarian National Gallery’s rich collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sculpture (out of a total of almost 5000 items) are presented to the public in permanent or temporary exhibitions. Our aim is to breathe new life into some of these museum sculptures, and to make them more visible with the help of some contemporary sculptors. Inspired by the selected works from our collection, new works of art were born. The contemporary works and the “source” sculptures from the collection will be presented as “guerrilla exhibitions”, each lasting a month, and each held in a different area of the gallery.

The fourth sculpture pair is Flóra (1860) by Ferenc Dinnert and the contemporary work of Gábor Fülöp. The contemporary sculpture can first be seen by the Museum+ audience!

Venue: 1st floor Dome Hall

Workshop

6 pm – 9.30 pm "Christmas bells and soft snow"

During the workshop you can make a door knocker and various Christmas decorations.

Venue: 2nd floor

Mulled Wine & Scone by Big Ben Tea house

We reserve the right to change the programme without prior notice.

Image and video recordings may occur during the event and visitors accept that they may appear on any such recording. Any visitor to the event henceforth consents to such recordings and therefore they may not stake any claim whatsoever against the Gallery, event organisers, the producers of the recordings or the rightful users of such recordings.

Tickets:

Full price: HUF 2,800

Reduced price: HUF 2,000 (for all kinds of concessions except 10% and Budapest Card)

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