Continuity and renewal: 92 works by 73 artists are featured at the Debrecen Spring Exhibition

The Ministry of Culture and Innovation Award was also presented at the opening ceremony in the Bényi Gallery.

For a few days, everything was and is about fine arts in Debrecen: this year’s Art Week offered a very concentrated series of spectacular programmes.

The exhibition and alternative spaces of the city centre suddenly filled with life and excitement, and in addition to the small and large exhibitions that opened one after another, interested parties were also able to enter larger exhibitions. Those who visited the spaces full of artworks on these days could also visit the 34th Debrecen Spring Art Exhibition, which opened in the Bényi Gallery in the Kölcsey Centre. The Debrecen Spring Art Exhibition is a forum for local or expatriate artists who cultivate fine, photographic and applied arts professionally. In the series, plastic art is presented yearly; painting and graphics/photography alternate every two years, with painting being the focus in 2025.

As Deputy Mayor István Puskás summarised in his welcoming speech, “A multi-day event was dreamed up in Debrecen that waves the city centre like a net, giving the community that is shown and introduced here, like an essence, the opportunity to expand itself a little.”

As Managing Director of Főnix Event Organizer Public Nonprofit Ltd., Zita Dobos said more than 200 works were submitted for the review, of which 92 works by 73 artists were placed in the Bényi Gallery.

In his speech, Director of the University’s Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies Gergely Fazekas, who opened the exhibition, highlighted that continuity and renewal are the keywords of this exhibition, which also has an important element of tradition and its preservation.

Sculptor Tibor Csernok received the Ministry of Culture and Innovation Award, the highest recognition of the Spring Exhibition, at the opening. His sculpture, “Sown is Beautiful,” depicts the cycle of life and its close connection to Mother Nature; the wheat stalks symbolise life itself, and the work, complete with the trough, draws attention to this cyclical nature of life.

The exhibition can be visited until 6 July during the Kölcsey Centre’s opening hours: daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and until 7 p.m. during evening events.

Source and photo credit: debrecen.hu