The Dorottya Gallery is located in the centre of Budapest, 80 metres from Vörösmarty Square and the famous Gerbeaud Café, on the ground floor of a house designed by István Medgyaszay. The gallery with glass display window stretching its entire length has been a site for presenting contemporary art for close to one hundred years. Since the year 2000, the gallery is under the direction of the Ernst Museum and is operated as a public interest company. Exhibitions are organised primarily for Hungarian contemporary fine and applied artists, but there are opportunities for foreign artists to be presented once or twice annually.

The presentation of works of the middle generation of Hungarian contemporary artists is considered the chief task of the gallery. The volumes of the Dorottya book series, closely related to the exhibition programme, render the oeuvres of these artists more widely known.

The inclusion of younger, talented artists who manifest an original voice and a coherent artistic oeuvre, alongside the artist generation with an already significant past, colours more vividly the exhibition programme.

In accordance with the economic profile of the Dorottya Gallery, the exhibited works may also be purchased.