Hungarian pavilion
The Hungarian pavilion houses Hungary's national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals.
Organization and building
Hungary has been a participant of the Venice Biennial right from its beginnings in 1895. After the Italian and the Belgian, the Hungarian national pavilion was the third to be built at the Giardini. Designed by, 1909. The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art took over the Venice selection process from 2015.The Hungarian pavilion was designed in 1906 by artist-architect Géza Rintel Maróti and built through 1909. The building is influenced by Hungarian architecture and art traditions. It was twice restored: in 1958 by Ágost Benkhard, who added a courtyard and a flat roof, and in 1991–2000 by Gyorgy Csete. Only the entrance and some decoration are retained from Maróti's original building. The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art took over the Venice selection process from 2015.
Representation by year
Art
- 1958 — Béla Czóbel, Gyula Derkovits, Noémi Ferenczy, Bertalan Pór, Margit Kovács, Ferenc Medgyessy and others
- 1960 — Gyula Derkovits, Lajos Szentiványi, Jenő Kerényi, Sándor Mikus
- 1962 — János Kmetty, Aurél Bernáth, István Gádor, Ferenc Martyn
- 1964 — Jenő Barcsay, Kálmán Csohány, György Segesdy
- 1966 — Miklós Borsos, Gyula Feledy
- 1968 — Ignác Kokas, Béla Kondor, Tibor Vilt
- 1970 — Gyula Hincz, József Somogyi
- 1972 — Endre Domanovszky, András Kiss Nagy
- 1980 — Jenő Barcsay, Endre Bálint, Dezső Korniss, Ferenc Martyn, Menyhért Tóth, Béla Kondor, Pál Deim, János Fajó, Árpád Szabados, Gábor Zrínyifalvi, Imre Bukta, László Fehér, Erzsébet Schaár, Tibor Vilt
- 1982 — Erzsébet Schaár
- 1984 — Imre Varga, György Vadász
- 1986 — Imre Bak, Ákos Birkás, Károly Kelemen, István Nádler
- 1988 — Imre Bukta, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Géza Samu
- 1990 — László Fehér
- 1993 — Joseph Kosuth, Viktor Lois
- 1995 — György Jovánovics
- 1997 — Róza El-Hassan, Judit Herskó, Éva Köves
- 1999 — Imre Bukta, Emese Benczúr, Attila Csörgö, Gábor Erdélyi, Mariann Imre
- 2001 — Antal Lakner, Tamás Komoróczky
- 2003 — Little Warsaw
- 2005 — Balázs Kicsiny
- 2007 — Andreas Fogarasi
- 2009 — Péter Forgács
- 2011 — Hajnal Németh
- 2013 — Zsolt Asztalos
- 2015 — Szilárd Cseke
- 2017 — Gyula Várnai
- 2019 — Tamás Waliczky
- 2022 — Zsófia Keresztes
- 2026 — Endre Koronczi