Culture

  • Sára Pataki
    Kati Zsigone with two of her decorated eggs

    "I was the poorest of the poor, and today I am asked for autographs on the street" – Interview with Kati Zsigóné, the "Queen of Egg Decorating"

    Her third major work, the Egg of Our World, has recently been completed, portraying famous people, world-famous buildings, and universal symbols. Newton, Gagarin, Mother...
  • Tamás Velkei
    Balázs Major

    Discovering the largest crusader mural cycle in the Holy Land – Hungarian archeologists are at least as good as their Western colleagues

    By fulfilling his childhood dream, he not only gave his life a purpose, but his work resulted in a university course and institute, too...
  • Ágnes Jónás
    Amrita Shér-Gil in an archive photo

    India’s national treasure was half-Hungarian and lived only 28 years – Indian-Hungarian painter Amrita Shér-Gil was born 110 years ago

    In just six years of her adult life, Hungarian-Indian-born painter Amrita Sher-Gil has created an impressive oeuvre of paintings that is now a national...
  • Sára Pataki
    A group of students of Hungarian origin from South America

    "It’s a bit of a miracle that these communities have kept the language, the culture" – the advent trip of young people of Hungarian origin from South America

    Camila's parents are Hungarian, but she grew up in Argentina. David's mother is Hungarian and his father is Colombian, and while they live not...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Ferenc Rófusz in front of the Oscar Statue

    ”Someone from above writes into my script” – Oscar-winner Ferenc Rófusz sent a message with The Fly: we'll get hit on if we buzz too much

    Ferenc Rófusz, the animation filmmaker and creator of the first Oscar-winning Hungarian animation film (The Fly, 1981), recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award at...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Robert Capa with his camera

    Robert Capa, the world's best-known war photographer had a passionate desire for peace

    "It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian", said Robert Capa, the greatest war reporter in the history of photography...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Karolina Sávolt

    "For me, painting comes naturally" – Karolina Sávolt amazes with her magical realism at the age of 12

    Twelve-year-old Karolina Sávolt started painting self-taught two and a half years ago and this year she has already had her own exhibition in Budapest...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    A descendant of the Esterházy Family

    The communists couldn’t wipe out the past for good – Family members from as far as Chicago and London came to the World Meeting of the Esterházys

    "Respect the past to understand the present and to be able to work for the future." - this is the motto of the World...
  • Médea Wilcsek
    Cynthia Berényi with her book

    ”From revolution to pandemic - writing can heal multigenerational traumas,” states Cynthia Berenyi, the Canadian-Hungarian writer

    ”I didn’t even know who I was anymore, but I knew that was what I needed to find out. I was ready. I was...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    Miranda Liu playing the violin

    ”Hungarian artists are taken seriously abroad, too” – Miranda Liu, one of the world's youngest concertmasters 

    Miranda Liu is no ordinary person. As well as becoming Concerto Budapest's concertmaster in 2016 at the age of 19, she is a violinist...
  • Ágnes Jónás
    Attila Lólé

    “Life is much harder than prison”

    The film Rescuer, directed by Gergely Hajnal, immediately captures the viewer's attention. Not because it is half a prison story, but because it shows...
  • Anikó Wéber
    The Hungarian ceremonial dress, the Díszmagyar

    A glimpse into the wardrobes of the Hungarian nobility! – We present the most beautiful Hungarian ceremonial dresses

    For centuries, politics and prevailing ideals have influenced what a nobleman wore to family and official functions. We pin tricolored cockades on our clothes...
  • Kata Molnár-Bánffy
    Open Air Museum Szentendre

    Transylvania comes to life in Szentendre – we visited the new exhibition of the Hungarian Open Air Museum

    You need to have a playful heart to dream up, build and manage a human-scale landscape tableau, a toy city built from real elements...
  • Domokos Zováthi
    Placido Domingo

    Plácido Domingo: "The Hungarian Opera House is a jewel!"

    Plácido Domingo was a frequent guest in Hungary this spring. In March he was conducting at the Reopening Gala of the Hungarian State Opera...
  • Henrietta Vadas
    Dyed easter eggs

    "Painting eggs was love at first sight" –Ildikó Fekete decorates eggs under the spell of angles and symmetries

    Ildikó Fekete was captivated by the art of wax-dyed eggs from a very young age: she has been making them since she was 16...
  • Zsuzsanna Bagdán
    Boriska Silbiger

    Budapest's best-known fortune teller, who consulted in cafes – the story of Boriska Silbiger

    In the early 2000s, the director of a cultural institution said to a prominent radio journalist, " Only Silbiger Boriska can give you some...
  • Jámbor-Miniska Zsejke
    Dániel Váczi

    Hungarian inventor wins! – We asked Dániel Váczi about the international competition for musical instrument inventors

    With his first place and People’s Choice, the Hungarian contestant was the absolute winner of the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition for instrument inventors in...