Little America instead of Little Hungary in the Borsod countryside: a strong community created by Hungarian emigrants who returned home from the U.S. flourished near Nemesbikk for almost half a century.

‘As András Szöllősi-Nagy emphatically states, their task and goal is nothing less than “to justify the existing cultural continuity in Europe, which the terrible dictatorships of the last century could not break by any kind of prohibition or eradication. What drives us is to prove, through art, that this region, Central Europe, has always been part of European culture, and vice versa.”’

‘We are moving towards the so-called “Hothouse Earth” at an extraordinary pace. There is only one explanation for this: the operation of global industrial civilization has thrown the Earth’s climate systems out of balance. In short, it is not that we are facing processes and consequences the likes of which the Earth has never seen, but that weather events are becoming more extreme…with potentially very serious consequences for our daily lives.’

‘To put it simply, we don’t need an educational system with pressure, rewards, and punishments from above, but children themselves need to start to understand and feel that it’s not good to make fun of someone, for example, because the tables can turn quickly, and that the person with the most likes on Instagram may not be the most valuable in the real world.’

The new buildings came into being following the lobbying of the members of the National Art Society of Hungary, who, until then, in the absence of a permanent exhibition facility, had been presenting their works in private apartments and in temporary and unsuitable locations, only dreaming of permanent annual exhibitions as in the salons of Paris.