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With the application period for the position of rector at MOME now closed, two Hungarian and one Dutch professional have submitted valid applications to the maintainer for the university’s top leadership role.

Under the title Unreal Estate, this year’s Krakow Photo Month explores the political, social, and historical entanglements of Central Europe, with particular focus on the relationship between Poland and Germany, as well as the spatial and mnemonic fault lines and questions of identity that continue to shape the region’s history. As a guest of MOME, curator Krzysztof Pijarski will give a talk on how this year’s festival concept came together.

Graduation can feel like a drop after the initial high: You’re left with a strong project, maybe an award-winning diploma work or a bold research idea, but the studios, the mentoring, and the inspiration that comes with being part of a creative community are gone. MOME Incubation picks up right here. At its closing event, LEVEL UP! art & design, fifteen projects were brought into the spotlight.

The fourth Work in Context international photography symposium explores the visual worlds of the post-socialist bloc, this time under the subtitle Peripheral Priorities:!. Organised by the Photography Programme of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME), the event also marks two major anniversaries: forty years of photography higher education in Hungary, and two hundred years since the emergence of photography as an art form. Together, these milestones open up a broader frame for rethinking the medium’s artistic and technological evolution, as well as the ways it operates within society. Taking place in Budapest on 28–29 January 2026, the symposium is open to all interested in the theory and practice of photography.

This year’s participants of the Tomorrow Belongs to You scholarship programme have successfully completed the PreMOME preparatory course. They are heading into admissions ready and confident, with many naming Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) as their first choice.

The Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design is included in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 for Art & Design for the first time, placed in the 101–150 band. The result both reinforces the progress made in recent years and signals the start of a new phase, with MOME set to consolidate its international reputation, visibility, and position with greater intent.

With profound sorrow, we say goodbye to Chief of Cabinet to the Rector Nikoletta Lakatos, who passed away at the age of barely 40 after a sudden and aggressive illness. Her career was cut tragically short, yet its impact far exceeded the time she had, and it is hard to accept that someone who brought such warmth and vitality is no longer here with us.

What do you do with furniture that’s no longer needed but still in good condition? Can cooking become a shared experience without relying on recipes? And how can emerging fashion designers make their work more visible and valued? These are just some of the questions MOME Incubation mentees are seeking to answer with their projects, which they will present on 2 April, along with how each one moved from idea to realisation, from initial spark to the next milestone. Held at Dugattyús, the Demo Day brings together fifteen young designers, makers, and theorists, with presentations followed by discussions, an audience vote, and a closing celebration.

As a poet, university professor, linguist, literary translator and publicist, Ádám Nádasdy was described as a sensitive seismograph and a shaping presence in Hungary’s intellectual and social life, when receiving the Moholy-Nagy Award, one of our university’s most important accolades. An inspiring thinker and speaker, an outstanding poet and a translator of lasting significance, he died at the age of 79. Alongside his works, one of his most enduring legacies lies in showing that teaching may be practiced with humour and elegance, and that life and science are not separate, but part of the same world.

The Fresh Rooster Film Days spot by MOME Anim will compete at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival alongside music videos by global stars.

A new voice from the next generation of Hungarian animation is set to compete at the world’s leading animation showcase. The diploma film Bonefuzz by Márk László, a 2025 graduate of MOME’s Animation MA programme, has been selected for the graduation film competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, taking place between 21–27 June 2026. Produced by MOME Anim with support from the National Film Institute, László’s 2025 diploma film marks another chapter in a long-running success story – for nearly a decade, MOME diploma films have regularly featured in this prestigious international programme.

MOME Healthy Campus – the university’s holistic workplace sport and lifestyle programme – has received the Diamond Award at the 2026 Sportmarketing Awards in the newly established category “Workplace Sport Promotion and Internal Sports Marketing.” MOME is the first organisation to receive the award in this category, in an exceptionally strong field.