5 years

On occasion of the jubilee year, the Palace of Arts launched a photo competition under the well known title Experience! In all Respects. The aim of the competition was that participants capture the experience of artistic creation and reception with the instruments of photography, sharing it with the viewers of the photographs. The competition entries submitted between January 20 and February 17, 2010, covered a wide scale of photographic genres, according to the following categories:

1 The Experience Evoked (the experience of artistic creation and reception)
2 Creative (a still life, an abstract picture or a picture of atmosphere depicting the instruments or circumstances of artistic creation)
3 The Building of the Palace of Arts (its inner and outer, closer and farther environment)

The competition surpassed all previous expectations: there were 675 competitors submitting 1851 competition materials, so in the three categories there were 3388 photographs entered altogether.
The end results of the competition are as follows:

In the category The Experience Evoked:
1st Prize Gergely Kömöz: Sony World Photography Award
2nd Prize Gyula Czimbal: In the Atelier of Painter Ignác Kokas
3rd Prize Márta Szabó: Fly High!

In the category Creative:
1st Prize Sándor Dobos: Gibellina’s Statue Plans
2nd Prize Leo Pinter: On the Way to Mupa…
3rd Prize Bence Járdány: Only after me!

In the category The Building of the Palace of Arts:
1st Prize Dániel Dömölky: Pictures of a Concert
2nd Prize Szabolcs Dienes: A Building Depicted
3rd Prize Hunor Holló: Turning Point

The best photos selected by the jury were available to view at an exhibition for one month and the audience, too, had the chance to vote for their favourite work.
The audience’s award went to Nikolett Bóta for her work “Rails” (Rács).

The experience game of the five year old Palace of Arts began on the 14th of January with the performance of „Sangre Flamenca” by the New Spanish Ballett and it finished on the 16th of June at the last evening of the Budapest Wagner Days.

The aim of participants was to collect as many stars as possible in their experience collector coupon booklet. According to the rules of the game stickers of five different colour stars had to be placed in the the lines marked with five different colours. The players had to fill in the back of the booklet with their data and drop the full booklets into the box opposite the main entrance of the Palace of Arts. Naturally it was possible to apply several booklets at the same time, because the more booklets one could fill up with five different colour stars, the better chance one had to win the drawing.

Photo albums, Mupa Cards, season tickets for autumn and gift tokens were among the valuable prizes of the game

The Winners

Mupa Experience Card
1. Patkós Katalin, Pilisborosjenő
2. Dr. Csernákné Póth-Vecsei Mária, Budapest
3. Dr. Németh Anna Mária, Budapest
4. Almási Zsófia, Remeteszőlős
5. Pákh György, Budapest

Palace of Arts season’s ticket for Autumn 2010
1. Lukács János, Budapest
2. Óhegyi Erzsébet, Budapest
3. Regős Paulina, Budapest
4. Keleti Éva, Budapest
5. Zöld András, Budapest

Palace of Arts gift token, each in the value of 5000 HUF
1. Papp Károlyné, Budapest
2. Papp Károly Ferencné, Budapest
3. Gyóllai Dániel, Budapest
4. Dr. Csernátony Éva, Budapest
5. Horacek Zsuzsa, Budapest
6. Kóbor Mária, Budapest
7. Láng Béla, Budapest
8. Lukács János, Budapest
9. Károly József, Budapest
10. Tóth Cecília Tünde, Budapest

Palace of Arts photo album
1. Szentesi Ferenc, Budapest
2. Feith Adrien, Budapest
3. Némethy Éva, Budapest
4. Dr. Boga Marianna, Budapest
5. Dr. Liptay Aladárné, Budapest
6. Kiss Renáta, Balatonalmádi
7. Szepesi András, Budapest
8. Dr. Sal István, Kistarcsa
9. Dr. Hamar János, Budapest
10. Almási Márk Benedek, Remeteszőlős
11. Bedő János, Budapest
12. Dr. Kovácsné Hajdu Zsuzsanna, Budapest
13. Dr. Csernátony Éva, Budapest
14. Németh Attila, Budapest
15. Némethy Éva, Budapest

After refurbishing the information desk and expanding the ticket office for the new season, the five-year-old Palace of Arts has opened a new chapter by installing ticket machines to make purchasing tickets more convenient than ever.
The first ticket machines to be installed in a cultural venue in Hungary began operation in January 2010. The system, which has already been successfully introduced internationally, means visitors to the Palace of Arts no longer need to stand in line for tickets purchased online. Ticket holders can now take a printed receipt to one of the machines, which then reads the bar code and automatically prints out the tickets. The touchscreen enabled, easy-to-use machines not only print out tickets for the given day, they also allow several tickets to be collected at a time based on the code printed on the voucher.

To mark the five-year anniversary of the Palace of Arts, the venue is introducing a members club as of 14 March 2010. The Élmény and Ínyenc Card entitles members to exclusive information, pre-purchased and discounted tickets, exclusive services and many more ways to enjoy the myriad experiences of the Palace of Arts.

Click the following link for further details: Müpa Card

The Palace of Arts has published an album of photographs entitled Experience in Images. The book is a collection of images and guestbook entries compiled to provide a taste of the wide variety of fantastic events that have established the Palace of Arts as a world-class venue over the past five years.
In this time, the Müpa has grown in stature not only as one of Europe’s newest and acoustically most accomplished concert halls, but also as a stage for many of the world’s top composers, performers, orchestras and bands. A simple list would not do justice to all the stars that have delighted audiences here over the past five years.
Instead, we have picked some visual highlights from this rich patchwork for this anniversary album – a small taste of the diversity and quality of performances that have lit up at the Palace of Arts since its inauguration five years ago.

The special birthday edition of the Müpa Magazine features some of the leading lights in Hungarian culture recounting their memories of the Palace of Arts and describing how this unique building has touched them in special ways. We have also compiled a collection of the best of the many hundreds of reviews that have been published in the Hungarian and international media. Finally, a colourful round-up sums up the building in numbers, including facts and figures on everything from performances to visitor records and ticket sales.