FISE Membership Application 2026

FISE 2026 Membership Application Date: Thursday, July 2nd, 2:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Anyone interested in applied arts or art theory can apply. A diploma is not a requirement, but if you are an art student, wait a little longer...

Apply for membership using the form below: https://forms.gle/46eVNnr5cMsJUZsT6
Book an appointment for membership https://fise-tagfelvetel.reservio.com/order?what=time

(Please provide your name as personal data.)

We ask applicants to bring with them to the 10-15 minute conversation:
- a biography on an A4 sheet with contact information (degree, postal address, e-mail address, phone number)
- a portfolio on a pendrive
- some original (not large) works of art, drawings, which can be taken away immediately
- three thousand forints, for a processing fee, - which, in case of admission, is also this year's membership fee.

For further information and clarification: iroda@fise.hu, and at www.facebook.com/FISE.art.craft.design.”

A few words about the Association:
The independent professional organization FISE has been supporting the careers of applied artists for 44 years: by providing exhibition opportunities, continuous information, and advocacy.
The membership is divided into 10 departments according to professions, and the association is managed by an elected management. FISE operates an office, 4 studios, and a gallery in the heart of Budapest, next to the Mátranováki Creative House, on Kálmán Imre Street. Here we organize exhibitions every three weeks, where members can introduce themselves to the professional and wider public. We occasionally accept foreign invitations and organize study tours. We help our members achieve their artistic goals, so there are more and more people who started out as FISE members and have now become internationally recognized creators of Hungarian culture and art.

You can learn more about our work here, on our website: www.fise.hu

Texture & Form - Exhibition by textile artist Berta Ujváry and ceramic artist József Kovács

Opening: Tuesday, June 23, 2026 at 6 p.m.

The exhibition will be opened by: Boglárka Jakabfi-Kovács, architect

Interviewed by: Ádám Krasz, sound artist

On view until July 10, 2026, Monday-Friday between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.

In the exhibition Texture & Form, the artist duo explores the meeting points of textiles and ceramics: the soft, tactile world of handmade rugs and cushions enters into a dialogue with the forms of 3D printed ceramic objects. In their works, traditional use of materials and digital object creation are connected. The exhibited objects simultaneously carry gestures of functionality and experimentation.

“Narrow way, big wide way" - Exhibition by Dorina Ágoston, ceramic artist and Réka Simon, jewelry designer

Opening: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 6 p.m.

The exhibition will be opened by: Fanni Vékony, goldsmith, jewelry designer
Contributors: Tüske és Csipesz, Wirág

On view until June 18, 2026, Monday-Friday between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.

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Matter is the manifestation of all our thoughts (our consciousness), and form is the symbol of the feelings imbued within it.
What messages lie hidden in the depths of fairy-tale worlds? How does this relate to the forms hidden within matter?
All matter carries information. But what is it that creates it?

“Narrow way,
big wide way,
between them a well like cave.
When you peek in take good care:
hundred holes and cracks are there.
If you're looking very long
you might find me until dawn.
Small walnut,
big walnut,
between them a hazelnut.
Here was built a fancy house,
hundred rooms and hundred spires.
If you're walking long enough
you might find me in twelve months.”
- Sándor Weöres -

On the Table is the exhibition of the Criminal Craft creative community (Nagy-Szél Boglárka, Gabriella Farkas, Ágnes Nagy-György, Róbert Szél, Bernadett Furó, Albert Bél Tamás).

Opening on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 5 p.m.

The exhibition will be opened by: Tünde Ruzicska, ceramic artist

On view until May 29, 2026, Monday-Friday between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.

The Criminal Craft creative community was formed in 2020 from the friendship of 6 then-freshly graduated ceramicists. The exhibition entitled “On the Table” presents the individual approaches of the creators, which reflect an imprint of their thoughts and feelings. Their works are both personal and collective imprints, the members show their own perspectives while stepping outside the usual role of functional ceramics. In addition, motifs that symbolize community functioning, belonging, acceptance, and shared thinking appear. The “common table” is also a document of a process: the visual imprint of time spent together, joint work, and organization into a community. The objects here are not independent units, but elements of a common space, where individual gestures create meaning by connecting with each other.

Solve et Coagula - Exhibition by Judit Simon, plant painter and clothing designer, and Márton Závorszky-Simon, visual artist

Opening on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 at 6 p.m.
The exhibition will be opened by: Márton Závorszky-Simon, visual artist
Participating: Réka Tóth Bernát (Sefardito band)

On view until April 17, 2026, Monday-Friday between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.

The exhibition by visual artist Márton Závorszky-Simon and fashion designer Judit Simon focuses on questions of self-awareness, which they seek to answer through their artistic practices with the help of archetypes.
Judit Simon's clothes are inspired by goddesses endowed with ancient personality traits from Greek and Roman mythology, while Závorszky dissects himself in his visual artworks, depicting male archetypes – both artists use plant dyeing and ecoprint techniques to achieve this.

HAMU – Gentle Memory - a solo exhibition of ceramic artist Tünde Ruzicska

Exhibition opened by: Enikő Kontor, ceramic artist
Opening: April 21, 2026 (Tuesday) 6:00 PM

“What was body
returns to material.

What was material
lingers as memory.

Ash, clay, heat -
not tools, but states of being.

Objects do not come into being,
they settle into stillness.

The space does not arrange,
it lets things be.

A shifting.
A passing.

What is seen
has already moved beyond itself.

What remains is not the form -
but its trace,
held in the present.”

Double Morphology - Exhibition by applied artist Yu Horváth and visual artist Péter Lendvai

Opening on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 7 p.m.
The exhibition will be opened by: Róbert Mascher DLA, president of FISE
Contributors: Grace Yu vocals, Andris Iker guitar

On view until March 27, 2026, Monday-Friday between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.

An exhibition titled Double Morphology will open in the gallery of the Young Artists Studio Association, where Péter Lendvai's glass sculptures and Krisztin Yu's illustrations meet in a common, fairy-tale world.

Strange characters and imaginary creatures appear in the works of both artists: the figures taking shape in the glass and the figures coming to life in the drawings reflect on each other and create a playful, story-filled universe. Double Morphology is a dialogue between two different creative languages – where the same fantasy becomes visible in different materials and forms.
különböző alkotói nyelv párbeszéde – ahol ugyanaz a fantázia más anyagban és formában válik láthatóvá.

Fresh FIShEs XVIII. - the introductory exhibition of the new members of FISE admitted in 2025

Guests welcomed by: Róbert Mascher, President of FISE
The exhibition will be opened by: Ildikó Fazekas, Design and Art Manager, Member of the FISE Board
On view until February 13, 2026, Monday-Friday between 2-6 p.m.

18th FRESH FISHES
This year, the season starts again with the debut group exhibition of the newly admitted members in the FISE Gallery. The artists who were admitted during last year's admission process will present themselves to the association's community and the wider public at their first joint exhibition.
The compilation in this case is exciting, as the works of artists from many fields and in many different situations are placed side by side, forming a collaboration open to new dialogue in the gallery space.
Our exhibitors: Rebeka BODA, Zsuzsanna G. SZABÓ, Emese HORVÁTH, Zsófia HUTTER, Dorina KANÁSZ, Veró LÁZÁR, Katalin SIMÓ, VIktor VARGA

Exhibiting artists: Marianna Balázs, Szidónia Csiki, Annamária Csizmadia, Barbara Dénes, Maczák, Gabriella, Boglárka Mázsi, András Miklósi, Balázs Pasztorniczky

Opening on Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 6 p.m.
The exhibition will be opened by psychologist Dorottya Cseh
On view until March 6, 2026, from Monday to Friday from 2 to 6 p.m.
Finish: 03.06.2026. Friday 18:00RESTLESS – contemporary jewelry exhibition

RESTLESS – contemporary jewelry exhibition

Eight artists, whose paths rarely cross, are connected by a shared experience: the state of being RESTLESS.

The exhibition examines the ongoing dynamics of imbalance and realignment. External pressure condenses into inner tension, then transforms — where energy and exhaustion are not opposite, but different states of the same process. The jewelry offers no answers, only traces captured in material, form, and thought.
Artists recognized in both international and Hungarian design circles bring divergent perspectives together, creating unexpected harmony while leaving room for interpretation.

Finishing event: 03.06.2026. Friday 18:00

Balázs Marianna - mariannabalazs.blogspot.com
Csiki Szidónia - https://www.instagram.com/szifiannajewelry/
Csizmadia Annamária - https://www.instagram.com/maj.mcka/
Dénes Barbara - www.instagram.com/plantethics
Maczák Gabriella - https://www.instagram.com/maczak_design/
Mázsi Boglárka - https://obaiko.art/
Miklósi András - http://mutyur.hu/
Pasztorniczky Balázs - https://www.instagram.com/bargentumjewellery/

@fisedesign @maczak_design @boglarkamazsi @plantethics @mariannabalazsjewellery @szifiannajewelry @maj.mcka @bargentumjewellery

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1217248523936851