Once there was an art gallery in Ráday Street. Later it was moved to Bartók Béla Street changing to become an vivid cultural center at the time. This is why Zsófi Faur Gallery opened at 25 Bartók Béla Street bringing along a definite attitude and commitment to promote Hungarian contemporary art. The gallery is a nicely refurbished clean line area often used to exhibit contemporary photography. Zsófi Faur Gallery has an ambition to promote Hungarian contemporary art internationally, participating in fairs abroad to contact and enter into partnership with foreign galleries, too. Facilitating books on history of contemporary art, multi-language monographs and artistic publications is also within their scope of activities.

Recently there are more and more galleries in Bartók Béla Street and this is for a reason. The local government of Újbuda made a firm commitment to support contemporary artists and establish a versatile cultural center in the area. Accordingly, Project Cultural City Center was launched and recognized galleries opened in the empty premises of the street. Besides Zsófi Faur Gallery Próféta Gallery and Godot Gallery play an important role, as well as Attila Glázer set up his studio in the street. They often make a great contribution to the Bartók Béla Boulevard Spring Alive and Autumn Alive events with special programs.

Zsófi Faur’s ambition goes far beyond running a contemporary gallery. She is the president of KULT11 Association, a cooperation of local businesses and individuals to define the new identity of “the Bartók”. Their project is aimed to create a place that people happily visit for recreation and entertainment.

An interesting detail about the building at 25 Bartók Béla Street that the late pop composer Tamás Cseh lived on the first floor for many years.