A wide range of exhibitions await visitors at the Collegium Hungaricum in Rome

The Collegium Hungaricum in Rome will host a diverse range of exhibitions until March 2024. A rich series of exhibitions awaits visitors arriving at the Collegium Hungaricum in Rome until March 2024. The exhibitions held in the Falconieri Palace showcase contemporary art from Nagybánya, the life and oeuvre of Sándor Petőfi, the works of János Kass, and, after the Robert Capa exhibition, the art of another world star, Vera Molnár.

In a joint collaboration between the Romanian Academy in Rome and the Collegium Hungaricum, contemporary fine art from Nagybánya was presented in both institutions from February 2 to February 28, 2024. The exhibition, curated by Laura Teodora Ghinea, director of the Nagybánya Contemporary Art Center, was titled "Landscape vs. Cultural Space." The first opening took place on February 2 at the Falconieri Palace, while the exhibition installed at the Romanian Academy in Rome opened on February 5. The joint project in its second edition this year brings together Hungarian and Romanian-Transylvanian contemporary artists to Rome.

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Sándor Petőfi and the related commemorative year, the Collegium Hungaricum in Rome has supported and organised several events throughout the year. This series of events included the initiative to exhibit the fourteen rollups of Sándor Petőfi's life and work, illustrated with dynamic graphic and visual elements, at the Hungarian cultural institute in Rome, in addition to several Liszt Institutes and Hungarian embassies and consulates around the world. The exhibition, which will remain open until March 31, 2024, has already been visited by over two thousand people.

Thanks to the patronage and collaboration of the Collegium Hungaricum in Rome, Vera Molnár's exhibition titled 'ICÔNE' opened at the Venice Biennale in 2022, curated by Francesca Franco, who also agreed to present the exhibition at the Hungarian cultural institute in Rome. The current exhibition provides insights into the pioneering work of Molnár Vera, a Hungarian-born French artist known for her computer art, through forty-three selected works. The exhibited works of Molnár Vera (1924-2023) were sourced from various museums and private collectors and were displayed at the Falconieri Palace. The exhibition will be on display until March 3. As an accompanying event, the Hungarian cultural institute organized a two-day conference at the La Sapienza University in Rome in December 2023."

The Bluebeard's Castle is an one-act opera by Béla Bartók, with a libretto written by Béla Balázs. Bartók's masterpiece has captivated Károly Kass since the 1960s. At the request of the Helikon Publishing House, Kass produced the first graphic version of the drama as an illustration for the volume. Over the past decades, Kass has drawn variations on this theme in many different versions, including a film script. The exhibition at the Collegium Hungaricum in Rome, open until March 3, has already attracted nearly three thousand visitors.