The large-scale retrospective to mark the 120th anniversary of the birth of Victor Vasarely offers an exhaustive overview of an oeuvre that set in motion one of the most far-reaching revolutions in twentieth-century visual thinking. The work of Victor Vasarely played a defining role in the emergence of geometrical abstraction and Op art following the Second World War, and continues to inform attitudes to visual culture to this day.
In the spring of 2026, the House of Music Hungary and World of Freddie will present, for the first time, the personal story of Freddie Mercury as you have never seen it before!
The exhibition titled VASARELY DON’T GO HOME! explores questions of illusion, construction and seriality through the neo-avant-garde art of the 1960s and 1970s, providing a new take on the parallel endeavours of Victor Vasarely and his contemporaries. The focal points are the concepts of ‘construction’, ‘illusion’ and the ‘grid’, which define the questions of the era that extend beyond the genre of painting. The photo-based works and experimental films included in the exhibition explore how these phenomena emerge at the limits of the perception and interpretation of reality.
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The House of Music Hungary’s new temporary exhibition, opening on 1 May, pays tribute to Freddie Mercury. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of the world-famous artist, while forty years have passed since the legendary stadium concert that he and Queen performed in Hungary: it was the first major rock event by a Western superstar band behind the Iron Curtain. This double anniversary lends particular significance to the exhibition jointly organised by the House of Music Hungary and World of Freddie, the organisation dedicated to preserving the memory of the global icon. Visitors can discover a lesser-known, deeply human side of Freddie Mercury through hundreds of original personal objects, stories and immersive installations.
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