Vasarely: Future Echoes

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2026. April. 13

The newly reimagined JPM Vasarely Museum has barely opened its doors, and the next exciting stop of the jubilee season is already here.

At the Vasarely: Future Echoes exhibition, students of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Pécs demonstrate how Vasarely’s legacy resonates in the present — through fresh, young eyes and contemporary responses.

A special highlight of the exhibition is that, for the first time, the public can also discover the full material of the Vasarely 2026 – Pécs visual identity design competition.

Opening and award ceremony: 16 April 2026 (Thursday) 6:00 PM
Venue: Nádor Gallery: Nádor Gallery (15 Széchenyi Square, Pécs)

The exhibition will be opened by: Diána Bóbics DLA, painter.

Everyone is warmly welcome!

The exhibition is open until 30 April 2026, Monday to Friday from 2:00 to 6:00 PM.
Admission is free.

Background

In 2026, Pécs marks a double anniversary: the 120th birth anniversary of Victor Vasarely and the 50th anniversary of the JPM Vasarely Museum. The Vasarely: Future Echoes exhibition is connected to these anniversaries. Organised in collaboration between the Janus Pannonius Museum and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Pécs, the exhibition presents works by the Faculty’s students reflecting on Vasarely’s legacy, as well as the design concepts created for the jubilee season’s logo competition.The works by students of painting, sculpture, intermedia, fashion and tapestry were created as part of a two-semester interdisciplinary university course, during which students developed contemporary artistic responses to Vasarely’s visual legacy, with particular focus on the formal and perceptual questions of op-art and geometric abstraction.The other key element of the exhibition is the material of the Vasarely 2026 – Pécs visual identity design competition, now made visible to the public for the first time. The competition entries were created by graphic design students of the Faculty of Arts as part of a university course. The 2026 jubilee Vasarely year visual identity competition was won by Luca Kovács, a second-year graphic design student at the Faculty of Arts. The award-winning visual identity was presented on 4 March 2026 at the JPM Modern Hungarian Gallery.

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