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When the artwork becomes a tool in the creation process: Zsolt Asztalos’ My Art series

Zsolt Asztalos focuses on his own works, he processes his oeuvre in his My Art series. Beyond the intellectual power of the artwork, he is interested in its physical nature. He builds installations from artworks which he then documents on photographs. The artworks become a kind of tool in the creation of...

There should be no sacred cows in arts – interview with choreographer Roy Assaf

I like the English description of the dance performance Girls, especially the alliteration part where it states that the girls are on this stage to please, to protest, to pacify. I still wonder, however, how could "to protest" completely disappear in the Hungarian translation and be replaced with “to be...

Medical student in Pécs: Classical Chill Out enhances our student experience fundamentally

Not so long ago, going to university was a privilege of a small percentage of the population. Same applied to listening to such music we call "classical" today - fun fact: in Hungarian, it is widely referred to as "serious music". But is it really that serious? Nowadays, public universities...

Müpa Winter Open Air: Family fun from advent-eco-concert to nativity masquerade

Although most shops and streets have Christmas lighting nowadays, life is still too fast and the best thing we can do to embrace festivity spirit is to spend time with our beloved ones. The Müpa Winter Open Air (tickets here) is expecting families from the 30th of November for children’s...

Silence in the place of sound – but what in the place of silence? Remembering Dezső Tandori

A tribute evening, dedicated to Hungarian author Dezső Tandori who died this February, will be held in the Müpa tonight. It won’t be a mere event about him, but also with him, as not only actors and actresses will recite his poems but also he himself will be evoked through...

Some Favourites of the Erdődy Orchestra – interview with Zsolt Szefcsik

The Erdődy Chamber Orchestra has an innovative spirit in many ways, says violinist, concert master and artistic leader Zsolt Szefcsik, who is also a founder of the group. Their goal is to have a repertoire of 18th century Hungarian pieces that are usually not played in Hungary. Later, contemporary composers...

Minyo Szert brings form to life at the margins of the figural

On the centenary of the Bauhaus School, the AnzenbergerGallery presents an exhibition by Minyo Szert, an Hungarian contemporary artist whose works build on geometric elements and textures, movement, and construction. Drawing from Suprematism, abstraction, and analogue photography, Minyo’s unique interpretation brings form to life at the margins of the figural, inviting...

Can physical theatre and circus visualize totalitarian dictatorship? – Alexander Vantournhout and the Red-Haired Men

Sometimes I think dark humour was the only way for people to survive the Stalinist regime. How else would have it been possible to enrich our culture with a Master and Margarita, or with The Witness, an iconic Hungarian film depicting an antihero’s struggle through a show trial? But I...

Music that shows you how deep can silence be – interview with James Wood

Klang der Stille - RIAS Kammerchor & Amadinda Percussion Group, Müpa, 20 October 2019, 7:30 PM Silence, calmness, spirituality, mystical experience of the divine - music from the 20th and 21st century evokes an experience which is with us since the very beginning of humankind. This is the joint project...

Electra is a murderer in my view – says choreographer János Feledi

Two choreographies by János Feledi, winner of scholarship at the Hungarian Academy of Arts, will be performed on the stage of the Müpa on the 19th of October. One is Orpheus, a play premiered last year, and the other is a new piece called Revenge (Electra). We were talking to...

Create your inner images – on the basis of sounds! – interview with drummer Julian Sartorius

Myousic, Trafó, 11 & 12 October 2019, 8 pm There were some popular quotes from the works of Tamás Vekerdy, famous Hungarian child psychologist who passed away the day before yesterday. If a child listens to a tale, their own world will be created and turn to reality for them,...

Angels fly to Budapest – Péter Eötvös’ opera for the first time in Hungary

“A gay fantasia on national themes” This is the subtitle of Pulitzer-awarded play Angels in America. Still actual in today’s Hungary, the way majority society treats gay people, or otherness in general, no matter that Tony Kushner’s original play on “the state of American nation” in context of racial, religious,...

In John Cage’s piece, the singer feels naked on stage – interview with opera singer Katalin Károlyi

On Hungary’s most prominent arts festival featuring all kinds of arts, on the 28th CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival, Katalin Károlyi mezzosoprano will give the concerts Human Voice 2.1 and Human Voice 2.2 on the 7th and 8th October. The repertoire consists of three contemporary pieces of different kinds. In...

If it is worth showing the audience, I never hesitate – interview with Gábor Hollerung

“We believe that with some help, people can grow closer to music of our age” Gábor Hollerung, conductor of the Ernő Dohnányi Symphonic Orchestra in Budafok, believes that neither romantic nor emotional music can go out of fashion. Characteristics of old music are also feasible in contemporary musical environment, and...

Did the Nazis put their hand on our arm forever? – director Oliver Zahn on the art history of the outstreched arm

SITUATION WITH OUTSTRECHED ARM, Trafó, 28.09.2019, 8 pm A Hungarian state secretary posted a photo on Facebook some days ago. It was taken at the opening ceremony of the new academic year at the National University of Public Service. There were four students there, representing each faculty (one in a...

Pope Francis receives a print by Lajos Vajda from the Ferenczy Museum Center

This year's Art Capital was a huge success, and right now it is followed by three spectacular programmes in Rome. Organizer Ferenczy Museum Center (FMC) comes to prestigious places like the Hungarian chapel of Saint Peter's Basilica and the Palazzo Falconieri, a.k.a. the Hungarian Academy Rome, but they also spend...

The mirror me ~ By Anna Danuhy

The mirror me by Anna Danuhy They say in distanceHearts grow apartBut ours were never joined.So I was just as surprised as youTo learn that 200 kms broughts as closerthan those years we spent together.Now that you are not hereWe can talk face to faceThe words that I want to...

Troubled history through the eyes of two artists from ex-Yugoslavian states

DATES, a collaborative project by Roman Uranjek and Radenko Milak began in 2014, after realizing that both of them tied their artistic work to the domain of cultural and political activism. Each of the two artists was born and raised in Tito’s Yugoslavia and lived through its political collapse, the...

Sári Ember wins the Leopold Bloom Art Award

Ani Molnár Gallery is happy and proud to announce that Sári Ember, the gallery's artist is the winner of Leopold Bloom Art Award 2019. The Leopold Bloom Art Award is aimed at supporting contemporary visual artists in Hungary and their presence in the international art scene. The founders of the...

Great things are coming to the reconstructed Trafó next year – interview with director Beáta Barda

Now it is a system closed from its upper side, with new people entering it each year, so the only way to finance newcomers might often be to take money from the older ones – says Beáta Barda, executive director of the Trafó whom we asked about the current situation...

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