Exhibition by Ferenc Török in Pesti Vigadó Text: György Szegő The exhibition hall strictly follows the experience of sacredness one may have in experience Santo Stefano Rotondo church in Rome: that is the tension of centrality and guided space. The heart of the rectangular horizontal plan of the exhibition space in Vigadó has been turned […]
Exhibition of Budapest University of Technology, Department of Public Building Design Kunsthalle, 24. 09. – 22. 10. 2016 The Department of Public Building Design of the Budapest University of Technology celebrates the 70th anniversary of its foundation. The celebration is accompanied by a variety of events: in the first six months of the year two […]
Architektur im Ringturm, Vienna, 27. 06. – 23. 09. 2016 Prague Castle is one of the world’s largest preserved castle complexes, and is a symbol of the Czech Republic’s sense of national pride. To accompany this year’s artistic covering of the Ringturm designed by Czech artist Ivan Exner, the Architektur im Ringturm series will focus […]
Medal for Hungarian Architecture The photo exhibition of Andrea Häider in the headquarters of the Association of Hungarian Architects focusses on the oeuvre of the architectural photographer receiving the Medal for Hungarian Architecture at the opening ceremony on 3rd October, 2016. The opening ceremony had a major part of the event series connecting to the […]
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 24. 09. – 20. 11. 2016 „The objective of the Hungarian Design Award announced by the Minister for National Economy is to showcase the achievements of Hungarian design and to promote the competitiveness of Hungarian products.” The Hungarian Design Award is announced by the Hungarian Design Council on behalf of […]
The International Participation Text: György Szegő Photos: Hanna Szegő In our previous issue (2015/3) we have already presented the Hungarian exhibition at the recently opened –Venice Biennale. As we wrote there and then, the national pavilions do not follow the central slogan or they focus on it in an indirect way, which is yet another […]
Ai Weiwei exhibition, 21er Haus, Vienna, 14 July – 20 November 2016 Photos: Andrea Fábián “Everything is art. Everything is politics”, says Ai Weiwei (born in 1957), one of the world’s most famous contemporary artists. As a conceptual artist, documentarian and activist, his works deal not only critically with the history, culture and politics of […]
MAK, Vienna, 14 July – 2 October 2016 The current interest in the multifaceted oeuvre of the Austrian- American architect, artist, designer, set designer, and theoretician Frederick Kiesler applies most of all to his holistic philosophy—the negation of the traditional boundaries drawn between disciplines—and the importance he ascribed to the productivefusion of artistic and empirical […]
Kunsthalle, Budapest, 26 July – 11 September 2016 Interlinking generations, the co-operation of fathers and their children in the arts and disciplines make for inexhaustible, exciting and enlightening stories. An exhibition of father and son is proof positive that renewal need not begin by sweeping away the past, but often quite the contrary. The concept […]
The Hungarian Exhibition of the Biennual in Venice Venice Biennal, Giardini, 28 Junue – 27 November 2016 Curators: Gábor Fábián, Dénes Fajcsák Text: György Szegő Photos: József Rosta / Ludwig Múzeum Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, the chief curator of the 15th Biennial of Architecture in Venice used a national example to explain the „new viewpoint”. […]
Jewish Cultural Centre, Szombathely Curator: Krisztina Kelbert Design: Ferenc Kassai “It is impossible but necessary, and therefore possible in spite of all (that is, incompletely).” Georges Didi-Huberman wrote this in his book on whether the Holocaust can be explained, written about and understood. This paradoxical aphorism condenses the ‘inexpressible yet expressible’ horrors of the Holocaust. […]
Two exhibitions in Vienna Klimt, Kupka, Picasso and Others – Form Art Belvedere, 10 March – 19 June 2016 In the late nineteenth century, art based on form took on specific significance in the Danube Monarchy. Subsuming almost an entire cultural region, “form art” was the expression of a special insight and of a collective […]