MOME Photography MA Diploma 2025: FUTURE IN PRESENT: Friendly and dangerous, 2.
Opening on the 8th of October, Wednesday, 6 pm
Welcome words by Anna Fabricius
Opening speech by Zsófia Somogyi
Exhibiting artists: Laura CZIRJÁK, Levente NÉMETH, Tamara SÜLE, Laura Virág SZEKERES, Lilla SZEPSI SZŰCS, Kamilla TAKÁCS, Adi TUDOSE
Organisers: ERDEI Krisztina, Anna FABRICIUS, GELLÉR Judit, KUDÁSZ Gábor Arion, BALLAGÓ Márton
Venue: Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
1065 Budapest, Nagymező utca 8.
On view:
9–31 October, 2025
Tuesday–Friday: 1 pm – 6 pm
Saturday–Sunday: 10 am – 6 pm
Closed on Mondays and public holidays.
The Photography MA aims to be more than just a programme at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. It is a creative hub where young people of different nationalities work together. The 200-year history of the photographic medium and the interaction with related arts inspire new projects, while we also actively examine the relationship between photography and society. Our goal is for our students that their graduation projects are their first step towards their international careers and for our foreign alumni to put the knowledge acquired here to good use upon returning to their home countries. This is a place where we relentlessly search for contemporary reincarnations of those Hungarian photographers who became famous and successful in the 20th century.
The diploma exhibition is the culmination of two years of work. Every year it is a challenge to choose a fitting title, as a common theme does not link the works. The cohesion of the exhibition comes from the fact that the artists graduated in the same year. In 2025, we assigned two buzzwords, dangerous and friendly, to the exhibition. These two concepts gained paramount importance not only in everyday life but also in technology, politics, climate change, and social relations, becoming broader and more nuanced in our day. Dangerous and friendly as opposites, serve a compass for navigating the world: helping us decide what we consider threatening or supportive. People, communities, and countries can be “friendly” or “dangerous” in each other’s eyes – often based on stereotypes, personal experiences, or even propaganda. In scientific thinking, “friendly” refers to human-centeredness, transparency, and ethical responsibility, while “dangerous” marks potential risks, moral dilemmas, and the perils of uncontrolled development.
The photographs often depict seemingly friendly, harmless situations: quiet urban landscapes, family idylls amid the challenges of everyday life, young women embracing their femininity, montages reinterpreting personal memories, love spanning generations, volunteers helping in conflict zones, laboratory scenes, or foggy, ambiguous symbols. Yet, as the viewer delves deeper into these visual worlds, the underlying tensions slowly emerge to the surface. Behind our comfortable, user-friendly, and even harmless everyday lives lie unpredictable traps and conflicts that we must work to resolve – otherwise, they can easily become real threats.