Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

Alumni

Student Services and Alumni Office

Address

1121 Budapest, Zugligeti street 9-25.
MASTER building

Floor, door

M_011 office

E-mail

alumni@mome.hu

Student Services and Alumni Office home page

https://mome.hu/en/student-services-and-alumni

Dear MOME Alumni,

We are proud of our constantly growing community of current and former students producing outstanding artworks and innovative solutions. We believe our success stems from our human relationships, and the key to this success lies in our professional and supportive community.

To continue building these relationships, we offer professional programmes, exclusive offers, and valuable resources to support our Alumni members throughout their entire journey.

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Who can be a member of the MOME alumni community?

MOME Alumni includes all former students who have graduated with a bachelor's, master's, postgraduate, or doctoral degree from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design or its predecessor institutions (Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts, later the Hungarian University of Applied Arts). If you are a MOME Alumni, join the MOME Alumni community!

Alumni benefits and services

Alumni Mentor Programme

The MOME Alumni Mentor Programme includes the following Master's programmes: the Art and Design Management MA, Architecture MA, Fashion and Textile Design MA and Graphic Design MA. The career-focused Mentoring Program connects former and current students of the programmes with the aim of enabling graduates to support our students’ professional development through personalized, professional mentoring.

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Alumni Career Day

The aim of the MOME Alumni Career Day is to showcase successful and inspiring alumni career paths, as well as to create opportunities for identifying points of professional development. The event features workshops, panel discussions, consultations, and lectures, realized with the active participation of MOME graduates and professional partners. All programs are open to students, alumni, and external visitors.

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Alumni Marks

If you're a MOME graduate, share your professional achievements, milestones, projects, and ventures with us, and we'll help ensure your success is recognised within the MOME community.

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Fresh graduates career newsletter

The Student Services and Alumni Office regularly sends a career newsletter to our fresh graduates, featuring job opportunities, calls for applications, and other professional offers in Hungary and abroad.

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Consultation Opportunities

Unsure about how to craft your CV? Struggling with time management or identifying your strengths? At the regular individual consultation sessions for fresh graduates, MOME’s Student Services and Alumni Office experts are available to guide you through key career challenges.

Alumni Garden Party

It has become a tradition that at the end of every academic year, MOME staff and alumni come together to welcome summer at the MOME Campus, where they can meet informally over a cooking competition and outdoor stew-making. To view the photo gallery of the MOME Alumni Garden Party, scroll to the bottom of the website!

Next MOME Alumni Garden Party date: 26 June 2026

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Class reunion

Class reunions offer the perfect opportunity to reconnect with old university friends, relive memories from your student days, and share updates from your personal and professional life. The MOME Student Services and Alumni Office is more than happy to help with organising class reunions, and below you’ll find all the essential details you need.

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Academic documents

For official academic documents such as copies of certificates or diploma supplements, please contact the MOME Student Affairs and Registrar's Office at tanulm@mome.hu.

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Graduate Career Tracking

The Graduate Career Tracking System is designed to help Hungarian higher education institutions better understand the job market situation of their graduates. Coordinated by the Education Authority, the survey is sent annually by the MOME Student Services and Alumni Office to the relevant graduating years.

Gallery

Alumni Mentor Programme Christmas event

09.12.2025.

MOME Alumni Career Day 2025

21.11.2025

Career Support / Consultation Days during Course Week

14 and 16.10.2025

Alumni Mentor Programme opening event 2025/26

01.10.2025

Alumni Garden Party 2025

27.06.2025.

2024/25 Alumni Mentor Programme closing event

18.06.2025.

Alumni Counselling Day '25 spring

21.05.2025.

Alumni Mentor Programme roundtable 2024/25

18.02.2025.

Alumni Mentor Programme Christmas event

19.12.2024.

Alumni Career Day x MA Open Day 2024

22.11.2024.

Alumni Mentor Programme opening event 2024/25

15.10.2024.

Alumni Garden Party 2024

28.06.2024.

ADM Alumni Mentor Programme x Manage It Yourself

23.05.2024.

Manage It Yourself x Alumni Mentor Programme opening event

05.10.2023.

Contact

Tekla Bodnár

Student Services and Alumni Office leader, doctoral candidate, external lecturer

bodnar.tekla@mome.hu

Ábel Djogni

sports and design manager

djogni.abel@mome.hu

Márton Horváth

support manager

horvath.marton@mome.hu

Veronika Prok

Student Services and Alumni Office coordinator

prok.veronika@mome.hu

In Focus

Anniversary alumni portraits of the Art and Design Management MA course

Art and Design Management alumna Kinga Hamvai

Art and Design Management is all about practice-based training, with internships in each semester. In 2026, the MOME Management programme celebrates a double anniversary!

Art and Design Management alumna Kinga Hamvai

Kinga Hamvai, Head of the MNB Art Collection, shared with us what she is working on and why she chose to study at MOME at the Hungarian-language Art and Design Management programme.

Art and Design Management alumna Adrienn Bátor

Art and Design Management is not only about network, it is about theory and vision too! If you are curious about what we do, check out our interview with ADM alumna, Adrienn Bátor.

Art and Design Management alumna Adrienn Bátor

Ever wondered what a design manager actually does? We sat down with our alumna, Adrienn Bátor to talk about her career path and to hear firsthand about her experiences during her studies.

News

Once again, a MOME diploma film debuts at the Berlinale

Another Hungarian animation is heading to Berlin: Janka Feiner’s diploma film, Fire in My Pocket, has been selected for the Generation Kplus competition programme at the Berlin International Film Festival. The nearly 10-minute film was created on the Animation MA programme of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, with the support of the National Film Institute Hungary. Set in a magical mushroom realm it opens a window onto children’s inner emotional lives, impressing the Berlinale selection committee with its blend of stop-motion with digital drawing animation.

Hogyan lesz egy ötletből partnerség? – Alumni-karriernap a MOME Business Community szemszögéből

Mi történik, amikor a fiatal alkotók kreatív ötletei találkoznak egy nemzetközi márka jövőképével? A 2025-ös alumni-karriernapon többek között erre kerestük a választ: a MOME Business Community (BC) kerekasztal-beszélgetéssel és projektbemutatóval mutatta meg, hogy mit kezdhet egymással a kreativitás és az üzlet a MOME ökoszisztémáján belül.

Genovéva Petrovits wins the Marché du Film Producers Network Award

At this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Mihály Schwechtje’s upcoming feature Hairpin Turn Driving School was presented in the Eastern Promises section. The programme, which spotlights Central European co-productions, awarded the Marché du Film Producers Network Special Prize to the project’s producer, MOME Art and Design Management alumna Genovéva Petrovits. The award comes with an invitation to attend next year’s Cannes Film Festival as an official guest.

From Dreams to Degrees – MOME’s 2025 Graduation Ceremony

This year’s graduation ceremony celebrated the present and future of the university, the true MOME identity and the power of dreams. 320 students received their diplomas, and the day also saw the launch of new traditions that added depth to MOME’s most cherished event. Held at the RaM-ArT Theatre, the ceremony honoured recipients of the Rector’s Special Awards, alumni with milestone anniversaries, and the winners of the Wartha Award and the Award for Ethical Behaviour in Architecture.

2024 graduation films at the Fresh Meat (Friss Hús) Festival

Three MOME graduation films are competing at the Fresh Meat International Short Film Festival in Budapest: Wish You Were Ear by Mirjana Balogh, The Last Drop by Anna Tőkés, and Glasshouse by Kata Sárdi. Fresh Meat is the first festival in Hungary to be Oscar-qualifying, meaning winners in certain categories automatically gain eligibility for the prestigious award.

Hungarian animation in the spotlight: MOME film at Annecy

Elite sport, ambition, tension, and extreme mental and physical strain – these are the central themes explored in The Last Drop, a gripping animated short by Anna Tőkés. The film has been shortlisted for the graduation film category at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, one of the most prestigious showcases for animation worldwide. This year, the festival is paying tribute to Hungarian animation, shining the light on the country’s vibrant film industry, artists, studios, and schools.

MOME alumni among the winners of the 8th ArtHungry Award

The winners of the eighth ArtHungry Award in the Product Design category include several former MOME students, such as Máté Guthy, Róbert Kristóffy, and Nóra Szilágyi for their ‘At Least’ home workout bench, and Márk Dávid for his ‘Puritaan – 03’ collection. The main prize in this category went to MAIII COLLECTIVE for its Fragments collection, which debuted at this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair. In the Graphic Design category, Nóra Kaszanyi also received a main prize for her album and exhibition design ‘Biedermeier Lifestyles. Art and the Rise of the Middle Classes in 19th-Century Hungary (1815–1867)’. The awards were presented on 6 March at a ceremony held at Deák Palace in Budapest, which also marked the opening of a pop-up exhibition featuring the finalist projects.

Another international triumph: Balogh Mirjana's Wish You Were Ear takes home the Crystal Bear

In a remarkable achievement, Wish You Were Ear, an animated diploma film from MOME’s Animation department, has won the prestigious Crystal Bear for Best Short Film at this year’s Berlinale. Sponsored by the National Film Institute (NFI), the film was lauded by the Berlinale Generation 14+ jury for its poignant reminder of how communication, mutual respect, and understanding are essential to human existence, no matter how varied our individual experiences may be. The award was presented on Friday evening at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival to Balogh, a MOME graduate from the class of 2024.

The MAIII Collective makes its debut in Stockholm

Every object carries a story, but do minimalist contemporary furniture pieces also tell a story, and if so, what is it? This question is explored by the Fragments collection making its debut at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, one of the largest furniture exhibitions in the world. The artists behind this collection are the members of the MAIII Collective, a group of recent graduates from the MOME Product Design master's programme. Their narrative objects will be featured in the Greenhouse section, which provides a platform for emerging designers to showcase their work.

Another triumph: MOME diploma film competes at the Berlinale!

Another triumph: MOME diploma film competes at the Berlinale! Mirjána Balogh’s animation Wish You Were Ear will represent Hungary at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals, which begins on 13 February. Created in 2024 as a diploma film at the Animation programme of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME), with support from the National Film Institute (NFI), the film will make its international debut in the Generation 14+ programme. Selected from thousands of entries, this thought-provoking animation explores how romantic relationships leave lasting impressions on our sense of self.

Sport meets art in the works of the Ezüstgerely Award winners

The winners of the 2024 Ezüstgerely Art Competition included several MOME alumni. Graphic Design alumna Beáta Bencsik shared first place in the Graphic Art category, while Media Design alumna Violetta Vigh took the top prize in the Installation category. Organised by the National Sports Agency, this long-standing award dating back decades celebrates the intersection of sport and art, offering significant cash prizes.

A beam of light transformed into a trophy: MOME alumni shine at the Highlights of Hungary

“A piece from which its owner can draw strength" – this is how designer Bálint Szalai described the new Highlights of Hungary award trophy, co-designed with fellow designer Adrienn Király as the prestigious event marks the beginning of its second decade this year. This year’s recipients were the first to hold the new trophy, while the Kreatív Magazine special award was presented to MOME senior lecturer and designer of the Your Nature collection Apol Temesi. All three designers are proud MOME alumni who remain closely connected to their alma mater.

MOME diploma projects on the Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2024 shortlist

Arts Thread, the leading digital platform for emerging designers and artists, is organising the 5th Global Creative Graduate Showcase, which lists the most exciting diploma projects of art and design graduates from all over the world. This year over 5000 students uploaded their diploma projects. The independent expert panel of Arts Thread created the shortlist, and it is now the audience’s turn to vote. The 2024 shortlist includes 11 fresh MOME graduates!

MOME alumni among the best designers on the EDIDA shortlist

Elle magazine is organising the third ELLE Decoration International Design Awards Hungary (EDIDA) event to celebrate outstanding Hungarian designers. This year there are many MOME alumni on the shortlist once again, in the ‘Young Designer of the Year’, ‘Product of the Year’, ‘Brand of the Year’ and ‘Sustainable Initiative of the Year’ categories.

BEST OF MOME – CHALLENGING FUTURE - MOME diploma exhibition at the London Design Week

How can design respond to the complex challenges of our time? What methods can be used to preserve traditional knowledge while embracing cutting-edge technological advancements? The Challenging Future exhibition in London, showcasing the most outstanding diploma projects from MOME, seeks to answer these fundamental questions and reflects the university’s mission to address the most pressing issues of the 21st century through a synthesis of design-based education, research, and practical expertise.

Q&Alumni

Anna Rubi, MOME Media Design alumna

The next episode of our Q&Alumni series has arrived! – This time, we sat down with Anna Rubi, MOME Media Design alumna. Anna is one of Hungary’s leading media artists, whose outstanding work has earned her numerous recognitions throughout her career – including the MOME Best of Media Design Award this June, granted by the department in acknowledgement of her exceptional artistic achievements. In our conversation, she shared her experiences from her university years, reflected on what MOME has given her, and talked about her award-winning documentary ‘Life Without You’. Anna also discussed why she considers creative block to be a kind of “luxury.”

Boldizsár Mátyás and Mátyás Czél, MOME Media Design alumni

In the newest instalment of our Q&Alumni series, you can get to know Boldizsár Mátyás and Mátyás Czél, media designers who are working in Budapest with their own design studios. They both graduated from MOME and after several successful collaborations, they founded POV Budapest, the first international design and visual arts conference in Hungary. Now the conference is much bigger and more ambitious, and Boldi and Matyi are both running their own design studios. They talked to us about their time at MOME, the beggining of their partnership and also what the future entails.

Anita Korn, MOME ADM alumna

Every dress has a story, just like every MOME alumni has theirs – in this episode of the Q&Alumni series, we talked with Anita Korn about her journey! Anita arrived in MOME with a background in television and graduated in 2017 with an Art and Design Management MA degree. She told us about how a new world had opened to her coming to the university and what impacted her views here. And of course we spoke about what inspired her famous web-series, Ruhastory.

Ádám Tóth designer, MOME Product Designer alumnus

In the next instalment of our Q&Alumni series, we spoke with Ádám Tóth, who graduated from MOME in 2018 as a product designer. After his active university years, Ádám founded Malom Projekt, a design studio focusing on product development and interior design, experimenting with the reuse of plastics and natural materials, while also running creative workshops. He has collaborated with MOME on several projects, including the Művészetek Völgye Pavilion, completed last year, which will once again welcome visitors this year in Kapolcs at the MOME × Harcsa Veronika courtyard. Ádám told us about this project – and many others – in our conversation.

Nóra Demeczky, Designer, MOME Graphic Design alumna

Nóra Demeczky is a familiar name in the design world – not just to the MOME community, but far beyond. Since graduating with a degree in Graphic Design in 2015, she has gone on to co-found the acclaimed design agency DE_FORM. Their work pops up time and again, spanning institutions and events from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to the Inota Festival, and the Light Art Museum. Her hand is clearly visible at MOME too, where she’s taught courses, contributed to several communications projects, and still returns regularly for talks and community events. In this interview, she shares stories from her university years, the connections that shaped her life, her dream collaborators, and what DE_FORM is working on right now.

Jewellery designer, Patrícia Harsány MOME Jewellery and Metal Design MA alumna

In the first written feature of our Q&Alumni series, we spoke with jewellery designer Patrícia Harsány, a 2021 graduate of the MOME Jewellery and Metal Design MA programme. She shared her reflections on student life – from the vibrancy of life in the halls of residence and the warmth of university communities to collaborative projects that still influence her practice today. Since graduating, Patrícia has remained an active contributor to both her field and the life of the university, with projects spanning from Milan to Zugligeti Road. We caught up with her to hear more about those adventures – and what continues to inspire her.

Anna Tőkés, animation director

The first guest of the Q&Alumniof series is Anna Tőkés, MOME Animation alumna, who has recently participated in the Annecy International Animation Film Festival with her diploma film titled “The Last Drop.” In this episode, you can learn more about Anna’s experience at our university, her favourite memories of her time spent on campus, and even about her secret talents.

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MOME Diploma

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