Barcsay Hall
Hungarian University of Fine Arts 
(1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 69–71.)

Lobby Area
Hungarian University of Fine Arts
(1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 69–71.)

Barcsay Hall
Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem
(1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 69–71.)

Parthenon-Frieze Hall
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Mulberry Garden
(1063 Budapest, Kmety György utca 26-28.)

The Hungarian University of Fine Arts closes this academic year with a Best of Diploma exhibition. The exhibition, which has become a tradition and will be held for the 18th time this year, will showcase the best of this year’s diploma works from the various fields of visual art: painting, graphic arts, sculpture, intermedia and stage design. The Best of Diploma exhibition is the culmination of the graduating students’ university years, where the public and the profession can view the work of the best graduates from different disciplines, and a first step towards the world of galleries and international exposure.

Students’ diploma works are assessed by a jury of university lecturers and external experts. The aim of the exhibition is to showcase the achievements of art education at the university through the best works of the jurors invited to the juries. This year, nearly 20 of the 177 graduates’ works were selected as the most exciting.

Dr. István Erős, Rector of MKE, said about this year’s theses: “The feelings and challenges that Generation Z can embrace are concentrated in the daily lives of our art students graduating in 2024: they face global problems such as the climate crisis, the looming threat of war, rapid and unpredictable technological changes, and the sometimes distressing experience of seeing each other’s activities and sharing the smallest events of their lives. At the same time, it is the “True Generation” that is turning with deep faith and idealism towards a better and less threatening world, and perhaps one of the means of doing so is art, which transforms these inner experiences into something beautiful, something valuable.”

One of the novelties of this year’s exhibition is that for the first time, it features works by graduates of the visual arts course, which was founded two years ago. The Visual Arts Department was created to provide an interdisciplinary alternative for talented students who are not yet committed to any one genre.

This year, for the first time, a summer programme of events will be based on the Best of Diploma exhibition. There will be concerts, a theatre evening, a subjective guided tour and a museum education session for children. More details on the accompanying events will be available soon on the university’s website and Facebook page.

The exhibition takes place in the Barcsay Hall and Lobby Area in the main building on Andrássy Avenue, which has a centuries-old exhibition tradition, and in the Parthenon-Frieze Hall in the Mulberry Garden.

Painter

Zsófia Fébert, Kíra Kovács

Intermedia Artist

Málna Mozsolits, Regina Sárvári

Stage Designer BA

Mira Ágfay, Sára Mirjam Nagy

Stage Designer MA

Panna Kárpáti

Scluptor

Vanda Burján, Panna Farkas, Lisa Arnika Glauser, Anna Boglárka Tóth

Graphic Designer

Árpád Dezső, Angelina Sved

Theory of Fine Art BA

Luca Fábián, Benedek Farkas, Virág Fehér, Léna Hajdú, Kinga Kovács

Theory of Fine Art MA

Kata Ancsin, Szonja Deák, Rebeka Kovács, Viola Dóra Lenkey, Boglárka Tóth