Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center

Photography heart in Budapest

Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center

Interior of the Capa Center
Established	2013
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]

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]