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Art

Hungarian Art & Business: 1 Year On

Growing its collection of significant Hungarian artists, acquiring work by heavyweight international names, and being visited by a growing number...

Awards

Top Three Winners Announced in 1st Hungarian Visa Top Shop Competition for SME Stores

The awards for the first Hungarian Visa Top Shop competition have been presented. The evaluation criteria included the store’s design,...

Awards

Chresten Bruun Wins Expat CEO of the Year Award 2024

Chresten Bruun, general manager & senior vice president, EMEA Manufacturing in the Lego Group, won the Expat CEO of the...

Art

Rippl-Rónai Work, Unseen for Decades, Featured at Art and Antique Fair

A masterpiece by József Rippl-Rónai (1867-1927), unseen for almost 80 years, was the centerpiece of this year’s sixth Art and...

Awards

Hungarian Set Decorator Takes Oscar

Hungarian set decoration expert Zsuzsa Mihalek has won the 2024 Academy Award for Production Design, state news wire MTI reports....

Art

Buildings Tell Tales: Budapest’s Hidden Architectural Heritage

An “underground” pub exhibition highlights a Swiss-Hungarian photographer’s passion for Budapest’s classical housing blocks....

Art

Hungarian Computer Art Pioneer Vera Molnár Honored at Müpa

Hungarian-born artist Vera Molnár, a pioneer of computer and algorithmic visual art, passed away in December 2023 aged 99. She...

Awards

ÁKK Acknowledges Best Gov’t Securities Dealers

The Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) has acknowledged the best government securities dealers of 2023 at a ceremony, according to...

Awards

Corvinus Beats Leading U.S. University at Business Competition

Corvinus University students beat the University of California, Berkeley team to take bronze at an international business competition in Los...

Awards

Investors of the Year in Limelight at Hipa’s Award Ceremony

Top achieving foreign and local players were recognized in nine categories at Hipa’s annual "Investors of the Year Awards" to...

Awards

Shortlist for Expat CEO of the Year 2024 Unveiled

The official shortlist of nominees for the Budapest Business Journal's Expat CEO of the Year Award 2024 is finally here....

Art

Van Gogh’s World Reimagined in Immersive Exhibition

The BOK Sportshall is hosting a groundbreaking exhibition, “Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience,” marking an innovative approach to art presentation....

Art

GZÏ Art Gallery Bringing Splash of Color and French Elegance to Budapest

Open for a year, Benjamin Dréan-Guénaïzia’s GZÏ Art Gallery in District VI is livening up the Budapest art scene with...

Art

Urban Verbunk Blending AI, Folk Dance in New Production

Urban Verbunk’s latest production entitled "Don't Lie to the Planet" is a performance based on an innovative performing arts concept...

Art

Rock Opera to Launch Margaret Island Theater Season

The Margitszigeti Színház (Margaret Island Theater) will open its 2024 season with a day-long family program on Sunday, May 19,...

Culture

Hungarian Jazz Great Gábor Szabó Honored at Magyar Zene Háza

With the opening of a pop-up exhibition at Budapest’s switched-on Magyar Zene Háza, the 90th anniversary of Gábor Szabó’s birthday...

Culture

The People of DSB: Growing Through Encounters

What makes a school special? Its buildings, facilities, and academic program certainly matter. But ultimately, a school is shaped by...

Culture

How Hope Became Hip in Hungary

Minister of Health Zsolt Hegedűs’ election victory dance has won him a New York Times accolade of being one of...

Culture

Hungary’s St. Stephen’s Day Celebrations to Feature Fireworks, Audiovisual Show

Celebrations marking Hungary’s Aug. 20 national holiday will run for three days and feature fireworks and an audiovisual show, government...

Culture

‘Old Warhorse’ Antonia Burrows Faces Uncertain Budapest Future Among Library Books

For someone liable to be subject to a deportation order in a few weeks, Antonia Burrows spends a lot of...

Hungarian Jazz Great Gábor Szabó Honored at Magyar Zene Háza

With the opening of a pop-up exhibition at Budapest’s switched-on Magyar Zene Háza, the 90th anniversary of Gábor Szabó’s birthday...

Wizz Air Ranks Second Among Central European Airlines at Skytrax Awards

Wizz Air has been named the second-best airline in Central Europe at the 2026 Skytrax World Airline Awards, based on...

The People of DSB: Growing Through Encounters

What makes a school special? Its buildings, facilities, and academic program certainly matter. But ultimately, a school is shaped by...

Budapest’s House of Terror Museum Reopens With Free Admission as Review Continues

Budapest’s House of Terror Museum has reopened while a review of its exhibition continues, Culture and Social Relations Minister Zoltán...

Why More Families Choose the DSB Preparatory Class

A successful start to school begins with the right foundation. At the Deutsche Schule Budapest (DSB), children can join the...

House of Terror Museum to Close Temporarily as Tarr Dismisses Director Mária Schmidt

Budapest’s House of Terror Museum will close temporarily for a clarification of rights issues, Culture and Social Relations Minister Zoltán...

Westend Wins Green Investment Award for EUR 10 mln Sustainability Upgrade

Westend Shopping Center has won the Green Investment of the Year award at this year’s Green Awards, for a EUR...

Hungary Selects Ildikó Enyedi’s ‘Silent Friend’ as Oscar Entry

Ildikó Enyedi’s “Silent Friend,” starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, will represent Hungary in the int'l feature film category at the 99th...

Rural Entrepreneurs Awards Return as SMEs Outside Budapest Employ Nearly 1 mln

Nearly 300,000 MSMEs outside Budapest employ almost 1 mln people and generated HUF 38.9 tln in net revenue in 2025,...

How Hope Became Hip in Hungary

Minister of Health Zsolt Hegedűs’ election victory dance has won him a New York Times accolade of being one of...

United States Named Guest of Honor at Hungary’s 40th Festival of Folk Arts

The United States will serve as guest of honor at Hungary’s 40th annual Festival of Folk Arts, to be held...

Hungary’s St. Stephen’s Day Celebrations to Feature Fireworks, Audiovisual Show

Celebrations marking Hungary’s Aug. 20 national holiday will run for three days and feature fireworks and an audiovisual show, government...

‘Old Warhorse’ Antonia Burrows Faces Uncertain Budapest Future Among Library Books

For someone liable to be subject to a deportation order in a few weeks, Antonia Burrows spends a lot of...

Hungary’s Presidential Sándor Palace to Reopen to Visitors

The presidential Sándor Palace in Budapest will reopen to visitors from Aug. 1-8, the speaker of parliament, who is exercising...

From Piquet’s Powerslide to Norris’ Triumph: 40 Years of Formula One in Hungary

Formula One’s arrival in Hungary in 1986 was remarkable long before the cars reached the starting grid. At the height...