Nearly twenty thousand visitors, fully booked show tours, 1500 sold albums – Dr Máriás' jubilee exhibition at the Godot Institute is soon to close.
The jubilee exhibition titled drMáriás – Long Live the Dictatorship! closes on 14 June at the Godot Kortárs Művészeti Intézet.
Since the February opening the exhibition is nearly. sixteen thousand attracted visitors, the artist's personal exhibitions were held in rotation with a full house They played, and up to now about from the eponymous album. 1500 copy found a home
The exhibition offers one of the most comprehensive presentations of drMáriás’s visual, literary and musical oeuvre. Through paintings, graphics, texts and documents it showcases the distinctive visual universe in which humour, the absurd, historical memory, politics and pop culture coexist.
Visitors were not merely observers but became active participants in the experience. Many came back repeatedly, joined the guided tours, bought albums, started conversations, debated, laughed, and re‑interpreted the questions raised by the images.
The exhibition has achieved outstanding results not only in visitor numbers but also in public response. Over the past months, nationwide Dozens of press outlets, cultural magazines, television reports and online media covered the gallery. which thus far surpassed the traditional exhibition framework, and also stimulated wider social interest.
For the Godot Institute, the drMáriás exhibition is yet another proof that contemporary visual art can reach a wide audience. In recent years, the institution has carried out several large-scale projects that attracted tens of thousands of visitors, including the Imre Bukta exhibition, a Banksy exhibition also Endre Koronczi, please howl, Mr Széchenyi.the exhibition titled “!” which is also professionally significant.
The success of the drMáriás exhibition shows that interest in contemporary art is far greater than many people assume. If the works can pose questions, evoke emotions and start a conversation, the audience finds their way to them.
– Laczkovich Borbála art historian, artistic director of Godot Institute
On the exhibition’s closing day, 14 June, a festive finish awaits visitors.The organisers are not only preparing to conclude a successful exhibition, but also to celebrate the community that has formed around the exhibition in recent months.
The Godot Institute will continue its large-scale exhibition programme in the future. The institution is currently preparing the next Godot Art Expo, and is also developing a new exhibition aimed at families and children, with a museum‑pedagogical focus.
Yet even now the square is still drMáriás's.
Those who have not yet seen the exhibition titled “Éljen a diktatúra!” can do so at the Godot Contemporary Art Institute until 14 June.
Visitor Information
ExhibitiondrMáriás – Long live the dictatorship!
Location: Godot Contemporary Art Institute,
21 Fényes Adolf Street, 1036 Budapest
Open: until 14 June 2026
Opening hours: Thursday to Sunday, 14:00–19:00
Closing event: Finisszázs Joy Celebration – 14 June