Image: Károly Ferenczy, Október, 1903, oil on canvas. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

In this illustrated talk, BRAHM Curator of Exhibitions & Collections Ian Gabriel Wilson-Rhodes introduces the cultural idea of Mitteleuropa—a region shaped less by fixed borders than by rivers and empires. Central Europe is often overlooked in the story of European art. Yet it is one of its great engines, precisely because it is a region shaped by movement, overlap, and contested ground.

Drawing on his academic research and time spent studying and living in Hungary, Wilson-Rhodes places Budapest at the heart of this story, exploring how artists and architects across the former Austro-Hungarian world turned to landscape and the built environment to articulate identity during moments of change. Rather than a formal lecture, the presentation offers a narrative way of seeing the region as a connected cultural terrain—one best understood in motion, from the Danube outward into the land itself.

This talk will be hosted on Zoom. Please click the botton below to go to the Zoom Meeting on February 19, 2026. Thank you.