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2019

The Birth of Culture from the Spirit of Revolution
The Birth of Culture from the Spirit of Revolution
Vasyl Cherepanyn in conversation with Kinga Lendeczki The Kyiv Biennial1 was established by the Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC)2 amid turbulent political changes in 2015. While the Maidan revolution gave impetus to important political, social, ...
The Geometry of Woe | Scully and Words
The Geometry of Woe | Scully and Words
Sean Scully: Passenger – A retrospective Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest1 14 October 2020 – 30 May 2021 Since according to common agreement there is nothing outside and separate in existence ...
I have been a Passenger all my Life
I have been a Passenger all my Life
Conversation width Sean Scully Passenger is the title of the retrospective exhibition1 of world-famous abstract painter Sean Scully, which opened on the 14th of October at the Hungarian National Gallery. The large-scale show, organized and ...
“This is the future, it is now”
“This is the future, it is now”
Interview with Janka Vukmir, curator of the 90s: Scars exhibition 90s: Scars MMSU, Rijeka 27 June – 27 September 20211 János Áfra: What injuries do the “scars” in the title of the exhibition refer to? ...
Doubt and Oneness | On the new works of Katalin Káldi
Doubt and Oneness | On the new works of Katalin Káldi
Katalin Káldi: The Perfect Six Budapest Gallery
6 December 2019 – 19 January 2020 (Doubt) The starting point of every thought is doubt – a kind of indecision and uncertainty. If there was no doubt, ...
Among and Between
Among and Between
Among and Between* | Zsuzsa Magyari, Tünde Mézes, Ádám Takács, Ádám Varga Budapest Gallery, Budapest 17 July – 25 August 2019 Curator: Mónika Zsikla What does it mean to exist in between? Invariably this question ...
Curating-thinking new media: a double interlaced process
Curating-thinking new media: a double interlaced process
“Memento Vastum” (2012) by Julien Boily (detail) A Conversation with Nathalie Bachand* | Part 1 Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák: In your lecture given at the Ludwig Museum you began by stating that media art is ever more ...
Curating-thinking new media: a double interlaced process
Curating-thinking new media: a double interlaced process
Julie Tremble: BPM 37093, 2014. Still from digital animation. (detail) A Conversation with Nathalie Bachand | Part 2 ZsSz-M: It is often said that curating new media art poses several new problems, such as the ...
Manual Computation – Algorithmic tendencies in the art of Péter Türk
Manual Computation – Algorithmic tendencies in the art of Péter Türk
Introduction The contemporary media landscape is fragmented in many ways, audiovisual communication is oversaturating our everyday lives through surveillance, data analysis and statistics, software based interfaces and daily routines. In this myriad of networked artificial ...
Destiny in the hands of the others
Destiny in the hands of the others
Szilárd Cseke: Fall by the Roadside Curator: Kinga German Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
8 December 2017 – 5 February 2018 Kunsthalle LAB is one of several exhibition spaces of Kunsthalle Bratislava, devoted primarily to the most ...
László László Révész is both an illusionist and a realist
László László Révész is both an illusionist and a realist
When the works of László László Révész are compared to the works of artists like Magritte and Dali (which they often are), familiar devices of illusion can be recognized: objects are questioned, context is sculpted, ...
<em>One Moment!</em> Observations on the exhibition of works by Gábor Palotai
One Moment! Observations on the exhibition of works by Gábor Palotai
Gábor Palotai: Works 1977–1980 Neon Gallery, Budapest
20 October – 14 November 2017 One moment – we hear the waiter say, and in a good case scenario our order is swiftly brought out. One moment ...
Disciplined Activity, Intensive Vision
Disciplined Activity, Intensive Vision
A Conversation with Joseph Sassoon Semah Joseph Sassoon Semah: Before we begin, there is something important I would like to mention. You see that I have changed my name to Joseph Sassoon Semah.* Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák: ...
A More Personal View: A Conversation with Diana Marincu
A More Personal View: A Conversation with Diana Marincu
Art Encounters | Contemporary Art Biennale* Curators: Ami Barak, Diana Marincu Timișoara 30 September – 5 November 2017 In the late days of September 2017, while the streets of Timișoara were bustling with exhibition goers, ...
With the Eyes of Others: Hungarian Artists of the Sixties and Seventies
With the Eyes of Others: Hungarian Artists of the Sixties and Seventies
With the Eyes of Others: Hungarian Artists of the Sixties and Seventies* Curated by András Szántó Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York 2 May – 11 August 2017 Harlem is not what it used to be ...
Vera Molnar | Gizella Rákóczy  | Kamilla Szíj
Vera Molnar | Gizella Rákóczy | Kamilla Szíj
Vera Molnar | Gizella Rákóczy | Kamilla Szíj Vintage Gallery, Budapest
31 May – 16 June 2017 The exhibition of the Vintage Galéria allows a glimpse into various segments of three artistic oeuvres shaped along ...
Bodies are immaterial*
Bodies are immaterial*
IMMATERIAL | Exhibition of Anna Fabricius and Janek Tomza Curator: Tomasz Piars Platan Gallery, Budapest
17 May – 22 June 2017 There is a very famous, and one might say, really fascinating anecdote in the ...
Ádám Albert | Melancholy of the Disconstructed Meaning | Dream of a Barn Owl
Ádám Albert | Melancholy of the Disconstructed Meaning | Dream of a Barn Owl
Melancholy of the Disconstructed Meaning Art Gallery Paks
3 February – 2 April 2017 In his exhibition titled the Melancholy of the Disconstructed Meaning, Ádám Albert created an ensemble where he models the way in ...