The exhibition of József Csoma titled “Footprints of My Footsteps” opened on the 22nd of September in the Kálvin Gallery of the Great Church.  József Csoma started his artistic career from afar. In 1976 he graduated as a toolmaker at the 109th Vocational Training Institute in Debrecen. He started to work as an apprentice and then as a technical designer in Téglás. Later, he graduated in pedagogy and fine arts, then in drawing at Eger Teacher Training College. He graduated from the University of Debrecen in 2007 with a diploma in pedagogy-teacher training, and in 2010 from the Technical University of Budapest with a diploma in public education management. He was guided into an artistic career by painter Zoltán Valkovits. The most important influence on his artistic conception was the Medgyessy-circle in Debrecen and its leader Lajos Bíró. His first solo exhibition was in Rakamaz in 1990. Since then, his still lifes, landscapes and portraits have been shown in more than 30 solo exhibitions in Hungary and Poland.   Date: from 22 September Location: Kálvin Gallery of the Great Church.  Source:dehir.hu

The exhibition “Institutional Fictions – The Possibility of an Art Faculty in Debrecen” with the main focus idea of a possible art faculty in Debrecen takes visitors on a utopian journey and functions as a sort of thinking experiment. Giving young artists from Debrecen and abroad a platform to exhibit their work is one of MODEM Project Space's primary goals, but it's also crucial to make room for multidisciplinary art projects that address the city as a cultural organism. In September 2023, in cooperation between MODEM and the Department of Architecture of the University of Debrecen, Master of Architecture students took a course on the question of which area of the city and in which form the building of the Faculty of Arts could be built. One of the starting points for the project was the realisation that Hungary is a capital city-centric country in terms of cultural history. This is why it is worth paying more attention to the potential of rural art faculties and art institutions, and to develop them in order to create a more diverse system of contemporary art institutions in Hungary. The establishment of a Debrecen art faculty would definitely strengthen the city's social and […]

The opening of Gabriella Nagy's exhibition “Romanticism in Order" will be held at the Bényi Gallery on Thursday the 26th of September at 6:00 p.m.  Gabriella Nagy was born in Debrecen in 1968. She has a constantly renewed, yet consistently building, characterful painting practice, marked by significant solo exhibitions, public collection acquisitions and professional awards. Her paintings are characterised by masterly brushwork, open vision and perception, and reflected visuality. She explores reality through surreal elements and classical realist representation, incorporating existential theories and personal observation. Her works create sensual spectacles, evoking private stories and exploring new forms within the traditional landscape genre. The artist studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts from 1991 to 1996 and has since mastered traditional oil on canvas painting techniques. She won the Strabag Painting Prize and received a Lisbon scholarship from the Budapest Gallery. Her works are in collections of Strabag, Hungarian National Gallery, Déri Museum, and private collectors. She received the Munkácsy Award in 2004. The exhibition will be opened by art historian Lilla Szoboszlai, with Áron Pető on accordion.  Until the 24th of  October 2024, the exhibition is open free of charge at the Kölcsey Centre from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 […]