Essentia Artis, a series of art exhibitions and programmes by the Hungarian Academy of Arts fellows, was held for the first time in March 2023. Launched in 2018, each year the MMA provides monthly grants to one hundred artists and art theorists under the age of fifty for three years to pursue an artistic or art theoretical objective defined in their application. The 2023 Essentia Artis event will feature fellows who completed their fellowship in 2022.
Both the MMA Art Scholarship Programme and the Essentia Artis event are an artistic endeavour. Architecture, film and photography, literature, industrial and design art, visual arts, folk arts, theatre arts, music and art theory are the main strands of the Art Scholarship Programme and are interwoven in the exhibition and the programmes. In addition to the exhibition, visitors can choose from a wide range of performances, theatre productions, round-table discussions, a classical music festive concert and children’s programmes.
The programmes will be organised around thematic days, featuring our scholars, academics and other invited guests. The thematic days “From a pure source”, “Preserve, use, create”, “The power of community” and “Culture and innovation” will take place on the Sinkovits Imre Chamber Stage, in the Makovecz Hall and the Hall of Honour of the Pesti Vigadó, as well as in the exhibition halls on the 6th floor.
The artists on scholarship participating in the exhibition: Zsolt Alexa, Szilvia Bába, Tibor Babiczky, Emese Bács, Róbert László Bácsi, Györgyi Bakonyi Tímea Bakonyi, Zoltán Balla, Áron Baráth, István Bátori, Ági Hajas, Katalin Benedekffy, András István Berecz, Gyula Bezzeg, Dóra Bizják, Csilla Bondor, Hilda Boór Bernadett, Péter Borkovics, Réka Bucsi, András Csáki, Réka Csikné Bardon, Márton Csuzi, Dóra Dergez-Rippl, Zoltán Dévity, Ildikó Dragony Tímea, Balázs Falvai, Zsuzsanna Félegyházi, S. Apor, Gálboryné Manninger Zsuzsanna, Góra Orsolya, Grela Alexandra, Hajdú D. András, Héjja János, Hernád Géza, Horváth Nóra, Jávorkai Ádám, Jávorkai Sándor, Jókainé Gombosi Beatrix Ágnes, Juhász Ádám, Kern Orsolya, Kolozsi Orsolya, Kontor Enikő, Kovács Emese, Kovács Emőke, Krász Kíra Dorottya, László Dániel, Liu Miranda Rachel, Mátyássy Szabolcs, Nagy Viktória, Németh Marcell Dániel, Orosz Klára, Csóka Attila Róbert, Molnár Szabolcs, Smiló Dávid, Pattantyús Gergely Gábor, Péter Alpár, Prell Norbert, Rékasy Bálint, Ricz Ármin, Sajó Borbála, Sánta Beatrix, Sántha Emőke, Sikentáncz Szilveszter, Simon Péter Bence, Sipos Balázs, Spischák Dávid Áron, Strohner Márton, Szanyi Borbála, Szenkovics Enikő, j. Béla Szerényi, Zoltán Tolvaj, Tamás Yvan Topolánszky, Orsolya Tóth, Levente Ágoston Turóczi, Melinda Vargyasi, Balázs T. Vörös, Balázs Zágoni, Károly Zentai, Zenóbia Zorkóczy, Dorottya Zurbó