On 16 September, the PVSK-Panthers men's basketball team, competing in the NB I. B league, unveiled this season's kit at a special venue: the JPM Vasarely Museum in Pécs, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
A joint programme by the JPM Vasarely Museum and the Drukker Printing Workshop puts the spotlight on works Vasarely created using reproductive printmaking techniques.
What makes a shape into a pattern? How does repetition create rhythm, and how can colour set a static surface in motion? And how does a motif change when it moves from drawing to textile or woven surface? Eszter Söptei's subjective guided tour at DesignPécs.
At the finissage on 15 October, we will also hear a talk by aesthetician Katalin Getto, curator of the exhibition, on the interplay between the art of Claire and Victor Vasarely.
Renault Group Hungary, the Facebook community that brings together lovers of the brand, has now been around for fifteen years — and this round anniversary is intertwined this year with two further jubilees in a special way: the 50th anniversary of the founding of the JPM Vasarely Museum and the 120th anniversary of Victor Vasarely's birth. The three milestones come together on 22 August at Széchenyi Square in Pécs.
Marking the end of summer, but still before the new school year begins, the Vasarely 120 Cycling Criterium Memorial Race will be held on 29 August. Alongside promoting youth cycling, the event also pays tribute to the 120th birthday of Pécs-born, world-famous painter Victor Vasarely.
The Janus Pannonius Museum's adventure at the Ördögkatlan Festival has come to an end – a festival held under the banner of the 2026 Vasarely season. From 5 to 8 August, the Vasarely Island set up at the Kovács Manor House in Kisharsány welcomed festival-goers with optical illusions, exhibitions and collaborative art-making.
The JPM Vasarely Museum is stepping outside its walls to set up a special relaxation island at the Kovács Manor House in Kisharsány for the audience of the Ördögkatlan Festival.
The Zsolnay Light Festival in 2026 will be more than a celebration of light — it will also be a tribute to a genius from Pécs who envisioned the future of visual culture decades ahead of his time.
Pierre Vasarely is coming to Pécs, bringing with him the second, expanded edition of Vasarely, a Saga through the Century. Copies will be available to purchase and have signed.
On 13 June 2026 at 7:00 PM, the Kodály Centre will host the premiere of Vasarely – A Symphony of Geometry, a new musical work by Áron Sebestyén, recipient of the Artisjus and Fonogram Awards.
The Visual Arts Centre at the m21 Gallery in Zsolnay Quarter presents contemporary fine art works that reflect on Vasarely's legacy and 21st-century visual culture through a reinterpretation of op-art. Alongside the contemporary works, the exhibition also features rarely seen and lesser-known pieces by Victor Vasarely.
Claire Vasarely, the French artist of Hungarian origin, is being presented for the first time in Hungary in a solo exhibition dedicated to her oeuvre. The exhibition opening on 6 June at the JPM Museum Gallery in Pécs enters into a unique dialogue with the permanent display of the nearby JPM Vasarely Museum: the art of the couple, Victor and Claire Vasarely, can be discovered within a few hundred metres of each other, in a complementary way – even with a discounted joint ticket.
As part of the renewed JPM Vasarely Museum’s anniversary season, Pierre Vasarely — the grandson of Victor Vasarely and patron of the 2026 jubilee year — will hold a special English-language guided tour through the museum’s newly reimagined exhibition spaces.
The 50-year-old JPM Vasarely Museum is undergoing renovations, and during this time, until March 22, 2026, Victor Vasarely’s works can be viewed approximately 200 meters from the exhibition venue, in the large temporary exhibition hall of the JPM Modern Hungarian Art Gallery, presented in a new concept and featuring numerous works from the collection of hundreds of pieces that were not previously included in the permanent exhibition.
At the initiative of the Janus Pannonius Museum, the cultural programs for 2026 will be organized as a unified city-wide season under the title “Vasarely 2026 – Pécs.”
On the day of Hungarian Culture, Pécs launched the Vasarely 2026 – Pécs anniversary season. In 2026, the city will celebrate a double anniversary: it will mark 50 years since the opening of the JPM Vasarely Museum, which remains one of the most important collections of Hungarian and international Op Art to this day, as well as the 120th anniversary of the birth in Pécs of Victor Vasarely, one of the most influential figures in modern visual art.
