… a space for presenting avantgarde art experiments. Now, in 2023, it serves as a venue for several exhibitions and events, organised within the framework of the VEB2023 EKF project entitled Unexpected Culture, in commemoration of the most successful year of its operation in 1973, as well as the fiftieth anniversary of its permanent shutdown by the authorities. As part of the program, visual artist Hajnal Németh will create a performative installation in the former Chapel Studio for a …
… Kass, Béla Kondor, György Konecsni, Gyula Konfár, József Péri, Endre Szász The exhibition and book project introduces completely forgotten yet exceptional works of art exhibited at the first Hungarian exhibition in Auschwitz in 1960 as well as a monumental fine arts collection commissioned for the 1965 permanent exhibition at the same venue. With the addition of the earliest Hungarian artworks dealing with the Roma Holocaust, the current exhibition highlights the absence of …
… the period from 1945 to the present: - Revisiting socialist art: state-supported institutions, exhibitions, and global networks. - Interconnectedness and mobility: artists' networks, circulation, transference, and exchange. - Social art history in a socialist context: Marxism, anti-politics and artistic labor. - Critical art history today: race, gender and decoloniality in Eastern Europe. - Curating and other forms of collective art historical engagement. If you are …
Exhibition The chamber exhibition commemorating the events of the Chapel Studio in Balatonboglar (1970-1973) 50 years ago, introduces the ambiguous and fundamental otherness of the key participants. Documents, images and texts, sounds and videos, presented as installations, inform from the past to the present with general and most personal perspectives on artistic and non-artistic existential …
… of research-based work. Following the participants will jointly create an imaginary project (exhibition, event, research) based on their research interests.