Birkás Ákos, one of the emblematic figures of contemporary Hungarian art was born in 1941. A significant change occurred in his oeuvre that sheds a different light on his past works. The large-scale exhibition of the museum shows the earlier works in this sense.

After the expressive portraits he painted in the 60's, Birkás Ákos began to paint hyperrealist pictures in the 70's. he did researches with the help of photography from the relation of artwork and environment and artwork and recipient. He dealt with picture as object and role while he made series of photo portraits too. In the 80's he began to paint and in 1985 he began his head series that turned into a large-scale one. The only motif in the pictures is the symbolic form of the ellpsys enclosed in a square.

After painting an uncountable number of the 'heads', he began painting large portraits in 2000. Their realistic style and lightness, as well as their light colors and way of painting are in contrast with his early abstract works. At the same time, the principle and questions, the architecture of the picture and the universal topic of head and face in the works of Birkás Ákos remained the same.