Statues by 26 European artists will float on the City Park lake in Budapest as one of the cultural projects taking place during Hungary's ongoing EU presidency, the organisers said on Thursday.

Six exhibitions of contemporary art, two thematic displays and a jazz concert will be the main focus of the next Collectors' Night programme on 10 March.

Attila Csörgő's exhibition is open until 15 May.

An exhibition of photographs by Hungary's Peter Gyukics about bridges spanning the Danube will open at Klosterneuburg Abbey near Vienna next Tuesday to mark Hungary's EU presidency, Marton Mehes, director of the Viennese cultural centre Collegium Hungaricum, told MTI on Saturday.

Peter Lakatos, a photographer contracted with the Hungarian News Agency (MTI), has won 1st prize in the spot news singles category of the 2010 World Press Photo contest.

The Roma and their place in society are the main themes of an exhibition of four Hungarian Roma women painters that opened in the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Tuesday evening.

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