The Hungarian Painters’ Association, celebrating its 30th anniversary, is marking this milestone with a representative exhibition featuring one work by each of its 208 artists. Over the past thirty years, more than 300 artists have joined the founders. The Society is organizing a diverse and varied exhibition representing the coexistence of different styles for this occasion in the Vigadó Gallery on the sixth floor. Without any genre restrictions, the exhibition features works that are characteristic of the individual artists’ styles. The exhibition covers almost the entire palette of contemporary Hungarian painting. Among others, well-known, significant artists who have received awards and recognition are presenting their works at the exhibition. As the title of the exhibition is Summary-Assessment, works created in previous years—perhaps even in the years of the Society’s founding—stand out alongside the most recent paintings, completed just a few months ago. This is a fitting commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the largest group of contemporary Hungarian painters.
The Hungarian Painters’ Association was founded by 33 painters in the summer of 1995. With a current membership of 329, it is the largest professional organization of Hungarian painters with nationwide jurisdiction. The founding president of the organization was painter and writer Gábor Karátson, followed by painter and art writer Albert Kováts, who led the Society for 25 years. The current president of the MFT is painter István Sinkó, and the vice presidents are painters Ákos Révész and István Vankó.
As a member of the Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Arts Societies, the Hungarian Painters’ Society aims to provide professional support to the Hungarian painting community. It achieves this goal primarily by organizing exhibitions, both thematic and professional group exhibitions, and by providing professional support for individual exhibitions. At the same time, the society aims to promote contemporary Hungarian fine arts as widely as possible and to popularize modern and contemporary fine arts by organizing exhibitions and publishing publications.
The Society does not favor any particular artistic movement or style; on the contrary, it considers it important to cultivate the diversity of Hungarian painting and to support individual endeavors. The association continuously documents its activities on its website, where a list of all exhibitions to date and online versions of all published catalogs can be viewed.