Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

Pogány Frigyes Terrace

Project overview

The statue of Frigyes Pogány is one of those artworks that had served as important links between the past and the present even before the development of the campus started.

The bust of one of the University’s influential rectors used to stand on the first landing of the staircase in Building A (now MASTER), on a cast stone pedestal reminiscent of an Ionic capital. As part of the Heritage of the Future programme, the bust has been moved to a prominent spot in harmony with its surroundings on the terrace behind the listed neoclassical building of the Gond-űző Villa, which has been renamed Frigyes Pogány Terrace on the occasion of the unveiling.

Later down the line, the sculpture could be the starting point for a digital database of background information to be created, which could be opened with a key or marker and offer a wide range of MOME-related content and knowledge.

Designer: Bálint Józsa
Munkácsy Mihály Prize-winning sculptor and university professor