This extensive exhibition presents Hungarian women artists of the first half of the 20th century, showing the works in thematic groupings in a chronological arrangement. Some of the subjects – such as nudes, portraits, landscapes, mother-and-child scenes and cityscapes – underline those aspects of women artists’ stances that distinguish them from men. While Hungarian women artists’ oeuvres have attracted heightened attention in recent years, never before has an exhibition of their art been so comprehensive, illustrative, multi-faceted and theoretically well founded. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, modern art fundamentally questioned the bourgeois view of art. The break with academism marked a radical turning point; decisively and noisily, the avant-garde distanced itself from previous artistic achievements. While the clash between modernists and conservatives shaped the discourse on art, few noticed another phenomenon, one that was at least as fundamental, but which initially received little support and was therefore barely visible at the time: the emergence of female artists with a sense of vocation. Some of these artists persevered despite the constant belittlement and obstruction, but many careers were derailed by the limited opportunities, and numerous oeuvres sank into oblivion or remained incomplete. This exhibition tells the story of those women who, emerging from almost complete obscurity, were able to forge artistic careers that they could own and that were commensurate with those of men. Featured alongside well-recognized names – Margit Anna, Valéria Dénes, Noémi Ferenczy, Margit Gráber, Erzsébet Korb, Anna Lesznai, Piroska Szántó and Júlia Vajda – are some fifty lesser-known artists, such as the ‘Women’s Eight’ art collective. The selection also includes works by those now internationally renowned artists who sought success abroad but also had to contend with the disadvantage of being female: Anna Beöthy-Steiner, Jolán Gross-Bettelheim, Anton Prinner and Judit Reigl. The exhibition is on view between 21 October 2026 and 14 February 2027.