The exhibition took place in the framework of the Hungarian Days 2015 - Western Diaspora Days. The first issue of the literary, critical and art magazine Hungarian Workshop/Magyar Műhely was published in Paris in May 1962. The journal was founded by young artists forced to go to the West after 1956 in the service of universal Hungarian culture.
From the very beginning the founding editors - Pál Nagy and Tibor Papp - believed that the centre of gravity of Hungarian literature was in Hungary, but that our literature was united regardless of borders, so the first volume also included writers living in Hungary. Their aim was to correct the range of meanings of contemporary Hungarian literature: they embraced authors who had been marginalised in Hungary or in neighbouring countries for reasons of literary politics. In their most difficult years the journal published articles on Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Gyula Hernádi, János Pilinszky, Iván Mándy, Miklós Mészöly, etc. It also published special issues in honour of Sándor Weöres, Lajos Kassák, Milán Füst, Miklós Szentkuthy, Miklós Erdély, James Joyce, Jacques Derrida and thematic issues (e.g. on French modern literature).
The editors considered three tasks important: in addition to the journal the Hungarian Workshop/Magyar Műhely also functioned as a publishing house and organised meetings every year or two. The publishing house mainly served the most modern Hungarian literature (Sándor Weöres, Miklós Erdély, etc.), publishing the first volumes of modern Hungarian authors living in the West (László Baránszky, József Bakucz, György Vitéz, László Géfin Kemenes, etc.). From 1972 onwards participants from the motherland, neighbouring countries and the West discussed current artistic topics at literary meetings held every two years in France or Austria. These meetings marked the first real contact between the Hungarian literary community at home and abroad.
In 1971 the editors of the Hungarian Workshop/Magyar Műhely Miklós Schöffer and Lajos Kassák founded the Kassák Prize, which has been awarded to 30 avant-garde artists. In 1972 a magazine was published in French under the title d'Atelier, which has gained a significant place in French literary life through the authors associated with it (Jacques Roubaud, Michel Deguy, Bernard Heidsieck, Bruno Montels, etc.). In 1989 the three original editors (Alpár Bujdosó, Pál Nagy, Tibor Papp) repatriated the journal, which was published from 1990 onwards under the Paris-Bécs-Budapest banner and from 1996 exclusively in Budapest. The relocation was accompanied by the restructuring and expansion of the editorial staff. In addition to the three founding editors-in-chief others also took part in its publishing: Lóránt Hegyi, József R. Juhász, Zsolt Kovács, András Petőcz, László L. Simon, Gyula Somogyi, Zsolt Sőrés, Ákos Székely, Bálint Szombathy and Gábor Tóth. From December 1996 Zsolt Kovács, László L. Simon and Zsolt Sőrés took over the magazine and became the publishing managers.
The exhibition presents a selection of material from the 2012 Hungarian Workshop/Magyar Műhely exhibition at the Petőfi Literary Museum. Exhibiting artists: Alpár Bujdosó, Pál Nagy, Tibor Papp.
The exhibition was opened by Endre Mányoki, poet and university professor.
