In mid-September, Sofia’s vibrant cultural life kicked off: the 5th International Glass Biennale opened with nearly 200 works from 50 countries, including pieces by talented Hungarian artists. On the very same day, DA Fest 10 also began, featuring an exhibition of freshly graduated MOME students. The Sofia Music Weeks commemorated the 80th anniversary of Béla Bartók’s death, while the Haskovo Music Festival offered a special experience for jazz lovers with Hungarian and international performers. Literature enthusiasts were welcomed by the 14th Night of Literature, which showcased 22 books and invited participants into unique reading corners across the city.

From August to early October 2025, numerous outstanding Hungarian cultural events took place in Russia, organized by the Liszt Institute Moscow. The program offered audiences experiences in the fields of art, science, music, and language learning.

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Béla Bartók. On this occasion, the Liszt Institute Paris launched a program series entitled Bartók Autumn, featuring a wide range of cultural and academic events. The opening event, an international conference, took place on September 26.

On September 18, 2025, the Hungarian Academy in Rome held its season-opening ceremony amidst outstanding public interest, with Italian, Hungarian, and international public figures in attendance. At this special event, combined with a reception, three new exhibitions were inaugurated, where the visual arts met high-quality musical performance. During the vernissage, the welcome speeches were accompanied by opera arias performed by the students of Kvintesszencia, the music school founded by world-renowned soprano Erika Miklósa.

The Hungarian National Museum’s highly successful temporary exhibition has opened its first foreign pop-up edition, which can be seen from September 17 to October 14 at the Liszt Institute Zagreb. The large-scale exhibition was on display for eight months at the Hungarian National Museum.

For the first time, the Liszt Institute in Brussels held a Hungarian Cultural Day in Eeklo, a town in northern Belgium’s Flanders region, commemorating the history of the so-called children’s trains that carried needy war orphans – the Institute’s director, Zsófia Kovács, reported on Monday.

On September 4th, the exhibition New Dimensions of Blue Dyeing opened, realized through the initiative of the Paris Liszt Institute on the occasion of Paris Design Week. The exhibition draws from the shared cultural roots of the two nations, with a focus on the centuries-old tradition of blue dyeing. The young Hungarian textile artist Rozália Tóvaj’s project undertakes a contemporary reinterpretation of Hungarian blue dyeing: she transfers the visual world of traditional pattern systems onto soft materials using 3D printing. The exhibition is open until October 18th at the Czech Center in Paris.

On August 27, 2025, the exhibition Femininology 2025 opened at the Liszt Institute Zagreb, which through the works of 10 Hungarian and 10 Croatian artists evokes women who, with their lives, set an example and left a lasting mark on Hungarian and Croatian culture and history. The exhibition was realized with the contribution of the Liszt Institute Zagreb, and through the collaboration of the Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists and the Croatian Association of Visual Artists and Art Critics. From October 2, it can also be seen in Budapest, at the gallery of the Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists.