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Photography heart in Budapest
Interior of the Capa Center |
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| Established | 2013 |
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| Location | Budapest, Hungary |
| Type | images museum |
| Website | capacenter.hu |
The Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center is a visible arts institute and exhibition area in Budapest, Hungary. The Center organises nationwide and worldwide images exhibitions and workshops,[1][2] and awards the annual Robert Capa Photography Grand Prize for Hungarian photographers.[3][4] It was named after the Hungarian-American photographer, Robert Capa, and opened in 2013, on the centennial anniversary of his delivery.[1][5]
Collection and exhibitions
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The Center’s assortment consists of greater than 900 prints of Capa’s pictures and 48 classic prints,[6] spanning his whole profession. The prints have been chosen from the negatives by his brother, Cornell Capa, and the creator Richard Whelan. Three units have been made; the others are housed on the International Center of Photography in New York and on the Fuji Art Museum in Hachiōji, Tokyo.[7][8] The Center’s everlasting exhibition, Robert Capa, the Photojournalist, presents a choice of 140 prints.[9][10] In 2024, among the pictures have been utilized in an anti-war media marketing campaign launched by the Center and proven all through Europe.[11][12]
Temporary exhibitions hosted by the Center embody Euphoria? Stories of a System Change from Hungary (2019–20), Crossing Lines. Politics of Images (2023) and Eastern European Beauty – Contemporary Fashion Photography & the Eastern European Aesthetic (2024).[13][14] Its latest exhibitions have included European Kinship – Eastern European Perspective, a collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, presenting works coping with trendy European identification by artists from Poland and Hungary.[15][16][17]
After the Hungarian State bought Robert Capa’s legacy in 2008 and introduced it again to Hungary, establishing an establishment devoted to Hungarian images turned a precedence. A choice of roughly 30 photographs from the acquired assortment was first exhibited on the Hungarian National Museum from March 6 to fifteen, 2009.[18] Later that 12 months, the gathering was additionally introduced on the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest.[19]
On July 12, 2013, the Hungarian State established the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center[20][21] and the Center was opened on December 3, 2013.[22][23]
The Center is in an Art Nouveau home in-built 1912, designed by architect Gyula Fodor,[24] which has a big stained glass window within the staircase made by artist Miksa Róth, based mostly on the designs of painter József Rippl-Rónai, and stone benches designed by the architect Ödön Lechner. The constructing was commissioned by artwork collector and patron of the humanities Lajos Ernst. It was the primary five-story constructing in Budapest, and, amongst different capabilities, housed a museum exhibiting Ernst’s non-public assortment and internet hosting non permanent exhibitions.[25][26]
After Ernst’s demise in 1937, the cultural establishment within the constructing continued to function below steadily altering names.[27] Later it functioned as a department of the Kunsthalle for many years, internet hosting exhibitions and artwork occasions. Until August 2013, it housed the Ernst Museum.[25][26]
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