Art news from ‘Hungary’

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest: Openness and Integration

Openness and Integration – Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition 10 August 2012 – 9 September 2012 In summer 2012 the Museum of Fine Arts will turn its attention East to provide an insight into the contemporary art of the most dynamically developing country in Asia, namely China. The exhibition to showcase the most diverse techniques and [...]

MODEM, Debrecen: Games, fishes, birds

Games, fishes, birds Exhibition of István Soltész 15 July – 7 Ocotber 2012 From 15 July István Soltész photographer’s artworks are exhibited entitled Games, fishes, birds in the MODEM exhibition room specially reconstructed for his photographs. István Soltész is one of those photographers who can counterbalance the relatively narrow horizon of his motifs to suggestive [...]

MODEM, Debrecen: Foreign Matter

Margit Anna: The Reaper, 1962 Foreign Matter “Surrealism” in the Attraction of Reality 16 June – 31 December 2012 Foreign Matter. “Surrealism” in the Attraction of Reality. Selection from the Antal-Lusztig Collection Surrealism has always been handled with reservations, before World War II and also in the “reconstruction” period. It could not achieve to be [...]

Knoll Garléria Budapest: Russian Renaissance 2.0

Polina Kanis: Eggs, video-installáció, 2010 Russian Renaissance 2.0 14 June – 28. July 2012. Participating artists: Alexander Brener-Barbara Schurz, Ivan Gorshkov, Polina Kanis, Viktoria Lomasko, PG-Group, Victor Ribas Curators: Vasilina Verdi – Hans Knoll According to the eminent literary critic Dmitry Likhachev, the Russian Renaissance “was only prepared, but for some reasons weren't materialized in [...]

Varfok Gallery, Project Room 1012, Budapest: Mermaid Tea Party

ZITA NAGY: Mermaid Tea Party July 13 – July 28, 2012 Opening: VARFOK GALLERY | PROJECT ROOM1012  Budapest, Varfok St. 14. Thursday, July 12, 2012 |18.30 – 20.30  p.m. The exhibition will be opened by the artist herself. The exhibition is open: from 13.07 to 28.07.2012,  between Tuesday and Saturday 11 a.m. an 6 p.m. [...]

Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest: Summer Selection

Summer Selection mixed exhibition Exhibition runs from 18th June 2012 to 19th August 2012. In many different ways, but everyone is waiting for the summer. Someone wants to go to Lake Balaton, others would like to travel abroad, maybe to the French Riviera or to the adventurous Amazonas river, and others again just want to [...]

INDA Galéria, Budapest: Playground

Playground 13. june 2012. – 20. july 2012. Artists: Ágnes Hardi  sculptor Rita Kiss sculptor István Máriás aka Pista Horror artist Ottó Szabó sculptor Márton Emil Tóth sculptor   "The contemporary artist is like today's DJ," says Nicolas Bourriaud, French art critic, "'re-uses', mixes found effects, places them in new contexts, and gives new meaning, [...]

acb Gallery, Budapest: FAQ

Péter Szarka: FAQ 08.06-29.06.2012 Péter Szarka graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1989, and completed his postgraduate studies at the same institution in 1992. From 1989 until its dissolution in 1995, he was member of the Újlak Group, which operated as one of the defining, progressive art groups on the contemporary art [...]

Várfok Gallery, Budapest: WALDORF

SZABÓ András: WALDORF Varfok Project Room 1012 Budapest, Varfok St.  14. Opening: Thursday June 21,  2012 | between 6 and 8 p.m. The  exhibition is open:From 22.06.2012 to 07.07.2012, between Tuesday and Saturday 11 a.m. and 6  p.m. text: Varfok Gallery On June 21 2012, Varfok Project Room will  present once again a guest artist [...]

Molnár Ani Gallery, Budapest: UNTOUCHABLE MATTERS

UNTOUCHABLE MATTERS Artists: BENCZÚR Emese, CSEKE Szilárd, JAKATICS-SZABÓ Veronika, MAYER Éva, Mihael MILUNOVIC, Sergiu TOMA Opening: Thursday, 28 June, at 6 p.m. Opening speech by: SEREGI Tamás, aesthete Address: MOLNÁR ANI GALÉRIA, 1088 Budapest, Bródy S. u. 22. 1. floor The exhibition is open until 7 September 2012 from Tuesday to Friday from 12 a.m. [...]

Park Gallery, Budapest: Illusion of progress

Illusion of progress – exhibition of Szilárd Cseke in Park Gallery Opening: 7 June 2012, 6.30 pm    The exhibition is opened by: József Mélyi art historian    Location:Park Gallery MOM Park, 1st floor, entrance from Fórum Square, 1123 Budapest, Alkotás utca 53. The project Park Gallery is an unconventional cooperation between a contemporary art [...]

MODEM, Debrecen: Very Special Joys

Very Special Joys Retrospective exhibition of Endre Tót 1971-2011 2 June – 9 September 2012 The retrospective exhibition of the 75 years old Kossuth-Prize awarded Endre Tót, living in Germany since 1978, is on show in MODEM from the beginning of June. The large-scale exhibition presents his early conceptual “ideas”, the Fluxus-connected photographs, artist-books, mail-art, [...]

Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest: EIKE – Private View

EIKE, Observation 3, 2012, print PVC, 300×290 cm EIKE Private View May 11. – Jun 16.,2012 The  Erika Deak Gallery is proud to presents its next exhibition,  videoinstallations and prints by German born video artist, Eike. The common starting point of the exhibited works is an exceptional, personal point of view, which appears on different [...]

Várfok Gallery, Budapest: MEMENTO PORTÁL

MEMENTO PORTÁL VÁRFOK PROJECT ROOM The exhibition is open: from 01.06.2012 to 16.06.2012, between Tuesday and Saturday 11 a.m. an 6 p.m. Várfok Project Room will welcome this time a quite unusual 'exhibition', playing upon the freedom its name allows. The project-exhibition titled Memento Portál commemorates Portál Gallery between June 1st and June 16th 2012. [...]

acb Gallery, Budapest: Porticus

Erik Mátrai: Porticus 10.05. – 01.06. 2012 Erik Mátrai, though graduated as a painter from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2004, from early on has continued to experiment with different media, even his diplome work was a video installation. Most of his works are videos, photos, objects, audiovisual and light installations, though sometimes [...]

Varfok Gallery, Budapest: On the Essence and Appearance of the World

MARTIN C. HERBST (A) –and SEBASTIAN WEISSENBACHER (A) On the Essence and Appearance of the World Opening: VÁRFOK GALLERY H-1012 Budapest, Várfok St. 11 Thursday May 31, 2012 | between 7 and 9 p.m. The exhibition will be introduced by Dr. Elisabeth Kornfeind, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum, Budapest. The exhibition is open: from [...]

Molnár Ani Galéria, Budapest: No word

Gálhidy Péter – Se szó / No word Opening: 10 May 2012, at 6 p.m. The exhibition is opened by: Szalontai Ábel, photographer On show: until 22 June 2012, from Tuesday to friday from 12 a.m. to 6 p.m. Address: MOLNÁR ANI GALÉRIA, 1088 Budapest, Bródy Sándor u. 22. 1. emelet / 1.floor www.molnaranigaleria.hu The [...]

Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest: Parallel events

Tibor iski Kocsis, Gas contra Pace, 2008, mixed technics on paper, 150 x 95 cm TIBOR ISKI KOCSIS Parallel events Open: 2012.04.06 – 05.05. The Erika Deak Gallery is proud to announce its next exhibition, new works by conceptual painter Tibor iski Kocsis. iski Kocsis now continues his research on the relationship of visuality and [...]

INDA Galéria, Budapest: Microsolutions

Microsolutions To Mega Problems, 2012 Microsolutions – exhibition of András Nagy and András Ravasz 11 april 2012 – 18 may 2012 The two artists, who have known each other for long, exhibits their carefully selected photographs and photo-manipulations. The artists worked together on the idea and concept of the exhibition, resulting in two units of [...]

VARFOK GALLERY, Budapest: Interieur

LASZLO feLUGOSSY – JaNOS SZIRTES World  of Small Steps | Pastose  Autoportrait László feLugossy & János Szirtes Interieur VARFOK GALLERY Exhibition Program – April 20th – May 19th  2012, from Tuesday to  Saturday, 11 a.m. / 6 p.m. Opening: VARFOK GALLERY 1012 Budapest, Varfok St. 11. THURSDAY April 19th 2012 between 6.30 – 8.30 p.m. [...]