Budapest Photo Festival @ Műcsarnok

  • 18 Feb 2020 11:34 AM
Budapest Photo Festival @ Műcsarnok
Seen until 20 April. The Budapest Photo Festival is an annual city-wide exhibition series what represents the contemporary and classical values of the photography by the presence of the Hungarian and international art scene. The aim of the Festival is to create Budapest to be the „City of Photography”.

The biggest photography event in Hungary opens its’ fourth year with an unique exhibition on the border of Fine Art and Photography, imagination and reality. As every year, the Festival guides the audience to a new sequence of visuality with its’ opening exhibition on 28 February at Műcsarnok.

The festival has two highlighted exhibitions as a frame: the opening international show and a Hungarian contemporary overview. The emphasis, – next to the two highlighted exhibitions – , is on the presentation of the international contemporary scene, by the program of the International Cultural Institutes, beside the exhibitions of the biggest galleries, museums and art schools of the Hungarian Capital.

The Festival involves many public programs also: lectures, workshops, photomarathon, museum educational events, portfolio review and photobook show, what will place at the Festival center Budapest Project Gallery.

You can find the detailed programme here.

Venue:
Műcsarnok 
1146 Budapest, Dózsa György út 37.

More: 
budapestphotofestival.hu

Photo courtesy of the organisers

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