Check in Budapest, Tijana Stepanovic , Marketta Seppälä, Bernd Milla, Sandra Terdjman, Rita Kálmán
ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange was established in January 2006 with the goal of expanding the network and facilitating efficient and continuous professional exchange among actors of the contemporary art scene in Hungary and abroad. ACAX’s major scope of operation are: residency programs, visitor programs, study trips, organization of exhibitions and projects in collaboration with international contemporary art institutions and the preparation and provision for Hungarian participation in international biennials and other significant shows.
Result of the curatorial residency program for a Spain-based curator in Budapest
Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art and ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange, in collaboration with SEACEX (Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior) announced an open call for application for a one month curatorial residency program for a Spain-based curator.
From the 16 applications SEACEX preselected the following candidates: Javier Duero, Iván López Munuera, Inma Prieto and Manuel Segade.
In a second round, upon the decision of Ludwig Museum / ACAX, Iván López Munuera was selected, who will participate in the curatorial residency program at Ludwig Museum / ACAX in Budapest during March 2010.
As hosting institutions, Ludwig Museum / ACAX will cover the travel, accommodation and living costs of the curator and will assist him in his curatorial research.
The program is organised and financed by Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art / ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange.
CHECK IN BUDAPEST 15.
a series of curatorial research programs, public presentations & round tablesorganized by ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange
The next editions of Check in Budapest will focus on contemporary photography.
ACAX cordially invites you tothe lecture of
Katherine Bussard(Associate Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago) and Andreas Müller-Pohle(artist and publisher – editor of European Photography magazine)
Date: 11 February 2010 (Thursday), 7 p.m.
Location: Nessim Galéria
(1061, Budapest, Paulay Ede utca 10.)
The lecture will be held in English. All are welcome!
MONEY FOR NOTHING artist-presentation of Jacek Niegoda
Date: 2 February 2010 (Tuesday), 6 p.m. Location: Platan Gallery – Polish Institute (1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 32.)
The presentation will be held in Polish. Hungarian translation provided.
Jacek Niegoda (1972) lives and works in Gdansk. Selected individual exhibitions:
Europe-Poland, Towards Security and Cooperation - Room for Northeast Reading, Hamburg (2007); Amateurs of the Avantgarde - Gallery Kordegarda, Warsaw (2005); The Crane Ballat II. - Gdansk Shipyard, Gdansk, Poland (2003). He received the grant (Honourable Mention) of the WRO 05 - 11th International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw (2005). In 1995, together with Robert Jurkowski, Piotr Wyrzykowski, he founded the art group CUKT - Central Office of Technical Culture. He was co-author of the Wiktoria Cukt’s presidential campaign in 2001, when a virtual candidate was nominated for the presidental election in Poland. The project is now on view at the exhibition Gender Check at MUMOK, Vienna. Since 2000 he has been working with artist Julita Wójcik.
Jacek Niegoda is participating in the international artist exchange program Opening the Closed Shops, as a fellow of the József Attila Kör and ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange.
The program is supported by the Allianz Kulturstiftung and the Ministry of Education and Culture in Hungary. | Collaborating partner: Polish Institute
...on the eastern front video art from central and eastern europe 1989–2009
...on the eastern front video art from central and eastern europe 1989–2009
Gordana Andjelić-Galić, Apsolutno, Azorro, Yael Bartana, Pavel Braila, Egon Bunne, Chto Delat, Kaspars Goba, Gusztáv Hámos, Ana Hušman, Kai Kaljo, Šejla Kamerić, Szabolcs KissPál, Damir Nikšić, Adrian Paci, Radek Community + Dmitry Gutov, Józef Robakowski, Anri Sala, András Sólyom, Milica Tomić, Artur Żmijewski
Within the framework of ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange and ISCP collaboration one artist will spend a 3 months' residency at ISCP in New York between 1st of February 2010 and 30th of April 2010.
Book Launch: Transitland – Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009
The Ludwig Museum—Museum of Contemporary Art /
ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange
cordially invites you to the presentation of the reader
Transitland – Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009
Date: Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 6 p.m.
Location: Ludwig Museum, Auditorium (1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.)
The reader will be introduced by:
Edit András, editor and author of the publication, senior research fellow of Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest,
followed by the brief lectures of two authors:
Zoran Erić, curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Miklós Peternák, founding head of the Intermedia Department at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, director of C3 Foundation
Moderators of the event: Rita Kálmán and Tijana Stepanovic, curators of ACAX
The event, taking place at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (CHB), celebrates the launch of the publication "Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009" and the video archive, making it accessible to the public and contextualising the work with a programme of complementary discussions, performances and screenings taking place over the course of three days.
