Budapest Contemporary 2024 - VIP Programme

10.00 - 11.30 - Curatorial visit at Ani Molnár Gallery and at am projects

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Tiffany Farkas, one of the curators of the exhibition, will guide us through the current exhibition at Ani Molnár Gallery. The group exhibition ABSTRACT HORIZONS presents a special selection of contemporary abstract trends in the works of seven Hungarian and foreign, young and middle-aged, emerging and established artists. During the guided tour, visitors can find out how the trends of the last century are returning in the visual language of contemporary artists, and what current issues and phenomena are being explored.

am projects
Half a year ago, the gallery inaugurated its newest exhibition space, am projects, which this year is dedicated exclusively to the work of young, up-and-coming female artists. The current solo exhibition of Mónika Üveges: Skeletal Scenes, the project space and the exhibition's curator, Fülöp Tímea, will guide visitors through the exhibition. In his glass works, painting and sculpture merge into objects whose form is reminiscent of both designer objects and post-human aesthetics.

11:00 -12:30 - Studio visit - Márton Nemes

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Márton Nemes is a multi-media artist working in painting, sculpture, installation and sound based in New York and Budapest. He received his MFA from Chelsea College of Arts, London in 2018. Initially inspired by the architecture of Budapest, a city where he has lived most of his life, Nemes' practice is rooted in the colourful abstraction of buildings. Since this early work, and after moving to London, Nemes has been heavily influenced by techno subcultures, continuing to create colourful abstract works while attempting to duplicate the atmosphere and experience of rave culture, creating a disintegration and rearrangement of the pictorial state. Using a variety of materials, Nemes' artworks are eager to expand and bend, referencing the escapist counter-cultures associated with rave scenes, creating multi-sensory, diverse experiences.

Nemes represented Hungary at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2024, curated by Róna Kopeczky.

 

11.00 - 12.30 - BERTALAN VARGA: PLEASE MIND THE DOORS
Neon Gallery, Budapest

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The structure and formal development of Bertalan Varga's paintings are inspired by something truly ordinary. The doors and windows of the M3 metro line in Budapest, with their rubber-framed with their rubber-framed glass panes, neatly rounded at the corners.
The term to be used here is not inspiration, but rather the feeling when something familiar is to the point of being utterly boring and unremarkable, suddenly fills you with awe.
The experience is that static forms do not exist as such, so whenever you see something, it means that you are. Whenever you see something, it means that you are travelling.

 

14:30 - 15:30 Guided tour of the exhibition Atlantis by sculptor Dániel Kiss
Faur Zsófi Gallery

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The exhibition is not primarily about Atlantis as a geographical location, idealised as the cradle of civilisation - although the exhibition is also about the influence of different civilisations on each other, the transmission and formation of layers of meaning - but rather about an inner core, beyond appearance, to which we seek to connect.
In the Neoplatonist interpretation, the soul shapes individual objects in matter according to the ideas of divine reason, and Aristotle also saw form as the union of soul and matter. The sculptures in the exhibition are also formed as imprints of our innermost soul, our ancestral images, and act as a bridge between past cultures and the declining civilisation of our present.
The tour will be led by the artist Dániel Kiss.

15:00 - 16:30 - Sándor Kecskeméti Atelier Visit

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As part of the BCT’s VIP program there will be an opportunity to visit Sándor Kecskeméti's studio at the famous Gellért Hill studio house. Sándor Kecskeméti (born 1947, ceramicist, sculptor) is a prominent figure in Hungarian and international ceramic and sculptural art and a recipient of the Munkácsy Prize. Kecskeméti's public sculptures can be found in 42 locations worldwide (France, Germany, Japan, Hungary). His works are featured in numerous public collections, such as the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, the Ariana Museum in Geneva, the Sammlung Tiemann in Hamburg, the Museum of Modern Art in Seoul, and the Museum of Modern Art in Wakayama.

16:00 - 17:00 - Lilla Szász: GOOD MORNING BRO - INDA GALLERY

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Opening in early July, Lilla Szász's exhibition will showcase works that are parts of her emblematic projects but are rarely seen or have not yet been shown in Hungary. Related thematically, the four projects span twenty-five years. Children of Perestroika is from 1998, the first years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Desires and the Daughters projects took place in Hungary in 2005, and 700 meters in Cuba in 2023.

 

16.00 -17.00 Kis Judit and Alma Vetlényi Project - Andrássy út 46.

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To celebrate their new collaboration, fashion designer Alma Vetlényi and artist Judit Kis invite you to their pop-up venue. Their creative journey began in New York in 2022 with the shooting of an editorial, which will be presented for the first time on this occasion. Alma combines traditions and
innovative zero waste technologies to create harmony between the values of the past and the future. Alma's hand-painted artistic pieces with Judit's conceptual practice and socially engaged projects will reflect each other in this pop-up exhibition and showroom event to bring to light their personal stories.

18.30 - 20.00 - Private collection visit - Lajos Kuknyó - Renowned Art Collector, Founder Architect of Architema

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Further details and directions are provided after registration.