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The exhibition CROSSROADS explores the borderlands of contemporary photography and related arts. The selection focuses on works that use photography not only as an image, but also as a conceptual and formal tool in the context of fine arts, graphics, painting, film, installation and collage art. The exhibition seeks to answer how the role of photography is changing in a visually hybrid age: how photography becomes a material, a structure, a reflection – while creating new artistic meanings by engaging in dialogue with other media. The works selected through the competition explore the possibilities of interoperability and the power of dialogue between media through various techniques of photography. CROSSROADS is both a professional reflection and a sensitive imprint of how contemporary artists today think with the medium of photography – beyond the usual framework. The exhibition is held in the section of the Budapest Photo Festival’s self-organized exhibitions. The exhibition is part of the Budapest Photo Festival’s in-house exhibition section.
Kiállítók / Exhibitors:
Bartus Ferenc, Diósi Máté, Éles Balázs, Fekete Máté, Gálos László, Grúz Ágnes, Herendi Péter, Kenesei János, Kopasz Éva, Kovalovszki Rita, Kovács Melinda, Martinkó Márk, Pátkai Rozina, Rédling Hanna, Rózsa Tamás, Simon Gellért, Szaladják István, Szamos Iván, Száraz Katalin, Vachter János, Vincze-Bába Gabriella
Kurátor / Curator: MUCSY Szilvia
A well-chosen watchword becomes an act,” says Miklós Erdély in an interview. In this sense, the exhibition does no more than present—like a watchword or a statement—the most monumental piece among Erdély’s installations constructed from sheets of glass: the environment Delicate Balance (Danger), originally shown in Kraków in 1981. Beyond this, and through this very gesture, it seeks to dislodge the oeuvre of this epoch-making figure of the Hungarian and East-Central European neo-avant-garde from the position weighing upon it, a position that renders it untouchable and thus invisible. At the same time, by presenting contemporary works that reflect on Miklós Erdély’s intellectual and artistic legacy, it also examines the ways in which his spiritual legacy continues to live on.
Kiállítók / Exhibitors:
Erdély Miklós
Borsos Lőrinc, Brückner János, Czene Márta, Csörgő Attila, Fridvalszki Márk, Andreas Fogarasi, Gróf Ferenc & Gyenes Zsófia, Horváth Gideon, Lőrincz Réka, Martin Piaček, Monhor Viktória, Pacsika Rudolf, Pátkai Rozina, Regős Benedek, Société Réaliste (Gróf Ferenc & Jean-Baptiste Naudy), Sugár János, Vándor Csaba, Várnagy Tibor
Kurátor: Szalai Borbála
Bow Arts’ renowned biennial showcase of moving image, digital and performance art returns to the Nunnery Gallery.
Programme 1 featuring:
Julian Alexander, Nicholas Blaidd, Johanna Bolton,
Greig Burgoyne, Jemima Burrill, Karen Byrne, Adam Cole,
Colette Copeland, Rosemary Jane Cronin,
Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, Annie Edwards,
Iuliia Fedorova, Beth Fox, Rosie Gibbens, Eleanor Green,
Mirabelle Haddon, Tallulah Haddon, Katie Houston,
Katy Howe, Bryan Konefsky, Chuting Lee,
Alina Maldonado, Kit Marshall, Laura Dee Milnes,
Richie Moment, Seona Myerscough, Joana Nastari,
Daniel Oliver, Claudia Palazzo, Savvas Papasavva,
Rozina Pátkai, Alex Pearl, Gregor Petrikovič,
Blue Phoenix, Alicia Radage, Nik Ramage,
Tammy Reynolds, Emily Sarten, Dre Spisto,
Korallia Stergides, Alexis Zelda Stevens, Xinyue Tao,
Julieta Tetelbaum, Jennet Thomas, Mariia Timoshenko,
Mariya Vasilyeva, Ivy Vo, Frances Willoughby, Jake Wood,
Iris Lingyu Zhang and Yanzi Zou
"The moment you articulate something in a formed way that no one else has - you’ve already done something."
(András Szirtes, Filmvilág interview, 1990/04)
The Szirtes András Experimental Film Festival - a new initiative launching this year - offers a communal forum, meeting point, and space for inspiration for all those who push the boundaries of the moving image, experimenting with new forms, gestures, and sensitivities. It is for those who see film not merely as a tool, but as an autonomous form of thought. The festival evokes the spirit of András Szirtes (1951–2023), Balázs Béla Prize-winning filmmaker: playful radicalism, a rejection of conventions, the freedom of creation, eternal searching, and constant reinterpretation. July 4–6, 2025, Kettőspont Theatre
The Others is a revolutionary project, born with the aim of intercepting the language of the new generations and promoting emerging realities.
It is an experimental show that presents the most innovative national and international artistic expressions.
The Others is an exhibition platform that fosters a more direct and immediate dialogue between artistic proposals and a young and varied public, presenting itself as a meeting place, a place for exchanging experiences, contacts and projects, where everyone can find a welcoming, sophisticated and unconventional cultural proposal.
The Others is an independent fair, the short-circuit of a self-referential art system, a proper “Factory” of small emerging realities, a privileged meeting place for the newest voices and the most bursting artistic trends.
The Others is a curatorial fair: the artistic direction is entrusted to a team of young curators in order to better interpret the languages and decipher the codes of the artistic expressions of the new generations and propose an avant-garde observatory on the global community of creative people.
The Others is a choice, a combative and perhaps a little surly, but constructive, provocative, eccentric alternative that is nourished by hope, determination and energy.
The Highbrow Institute opens the doors for the exhibition EcoLab: Crafting Chanche Together
In a world where climate change and ecological degradation are reshaping our planet, this exhibition serves as a living laboratory - an active space where ideas are born, tested and shared.
At the heart of EcoLab is the belief that change is not a lonely endeavor. It is a collective pro- cess driven by dialogue, experimentation and a shared sense of responsibility. Artists, inno- vators and thinkers from different disciplines come together to highlight the urgency of acting together. In this space, creativity becomes a tool for activism and collaboration is the way forward.
Group exhibition
Bettina Bakos, Attila Doboviczki, Emil Schulteisz, Endre Somogyi, Enikő Dörfler, Bianka Faddi, Emese Pálovics, Dénes Hizsnyik, Márton Kelemen, Martha Kicsiny, Judit Komlódi, Ferenc Kósa, Erzsébet Horváth, Orsi Orbán, Panni Gyulai, Rozina Pátkai, Stefka Benisheva, Mátyás Vágner, Rita Varga.
Ferenc Martyn Múzeum, Pécs, Hungary
4 – 7 July 2024
Guided tour held by / Tárlatvezetés: Orosz Márton
8pm, 5th July 2024
FÜR... das Tanzen auf der Straße
This exhibition is an expression of transnational solidarity with the courageous women* in Iran. Moreover, it extends solidarity to all women* in other countries and regions around the world who stand up for their rights and freedoms. More than 40 artists and activists, mostly living in Austria, highlight what is worth fighting for. With each work in the exhibition, the list of "FOR" expands. In this way, it connects to Iranian protest songs, which also inspired the exhibition title: For... dancing in the street.
Protestarchiv: Negin Rezaie
Mit Beiträgen von:
Masimba Hwati • Mirjana Mustra • Rozina Pátkai • Maryam Shahidifar • Johannes Wiener • Colombian community in Vienna
In this current era of a digital economy and the ensuing meta-crisis, our social values have been significantly impacted. Within this context, BINALÉ, a sovereign and decentralized initiative, operates in the culturally polarized and politically charged environment of Eastern Europe. The exhibition marks the 150th anniversary of Budapest and serves as a call for reflection on our collective values in the age of persuasive technologies. The curated selection of digital art is diverse, ranging from video, computer, generative, and robotic to post-internet and augmented reality art. Artists from five continents have contributed their works to the exhibition, reimagining democratic norms in light of posthumanist ideas and non-Western codes that view intelligence, consciousness, and interdependence as more inclusive and dynamic principles.
Protestarchiv und Gesprächsraum
Gastgeberinnen: Negin Rezaie / Maryam Shahidifar
Installationen: Johannes Wiener, Rozina Pátkai, Masimba Hwati und Negin Rezaie
Experimental photography explores unusual materials and processes, creating unique surfaces, visual effects, and new meanings. By questioning traditional roles, it has become the most diverse area in the field. This exhibition showcases the evolution of experimental photography, from early 20th-century avant-garde works, like those of László Moholy-Nagy, to modern image manipulation and alternative visual experiments, highlighting its ongoing relevance and creative potential today.
Group exhibition at Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem, Budapest // Hungarian Fine Art University, Budapest, Hungary
2021. 12. 15. – 2022. 01. 29.
Kiscelli Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary
2020.04.03. – 05.31. – meghosszabbítva: 10.25.-ig
The annual national salon, devoted to a different branch of art each year, is the celebration of an entire profession at the Műcsarnok. When organising the 2nd National Salon of Photography, it was our express aim, in the spirit of solidarity, to reach out to and call upon every artist who made significant works in any area of photographic art in the last five years to participate in the exhibition. Most of them, 208 photographers, were glad to accept our invitation. We requested each artist to submit one work or series and we stressed in our letter of invitation that we expected works which the given artist personally felt as being the most important one from among his or her photographs of the last five years.
What do classical art genres mean to contemporary photographers nowadays? How present are known precedents in the creative processes? To what extent can the centuries-old artistic and one-and-a-half-century-old photographic traditions and oeuvres be detected in artistic attitudes and reflections? These considerations were the starting points of an exhibition series aimed at examining the contemporary presence of classical genres in photography. Perhaps the most exciting endeavor is to uncover and display the parallels, connections, and deep currents in Hungarian photography: how contemporary creators, by reflecting on classical genres, continue historical traditions, or, by turning against them, seek entirely new answers. In both contemporary gestures—whether continuation or transcendence—the vibrant or hidden deep currents can be detected.
Among the selected works, there is room for the visual analysis and depiction of the 21st-century existence of natural and human landscapes, and the increasingly problematic relationship between landscape and humans. Additionally, the exhibition includes works that evoke both external (physical) and internal (spiritual) landscapes, transforming what does not realistically exist into a deeply personal visual reality.
Exhibitors: Balázs Zsolt, Balogh Viktória, Bán András, Bartis Attila, Bátorfi Andrea, Bognár Ádám, Csillag Zsuzsanna, Csortos Szabó Sándor, Darab Zsuzsa, Deim Balázs, Dora Kontha, Fuchs Lehel, Fuska Nikoletta, Gál András, Gáti György, Gombai Gellért, Gyökér Sarolta, Haid Attila, Hupján Attila, Kállai Márton, Kolozsi Bea, Liszkay Lilla-Fejér János, London Katalin, Lukács Gabi, Luzsica Fanni, Mandur László, Mészáros László, Molnár Zoltán, Mónus Márton, Nagy Izabella, Pátkai Rozina, Polgár András, Riskó Gáspár, Rizmayer Péter, Rubi Anna, Sivák Zsófi, Szabadi Flóra, Szalai Eszter, Szatmári Zsuzsanna, Szilágyi Lenke, Vachter János, Varga Tamás, Vasali Katalin, Vedres Ági, Zsila Sándor.