| CHECK IN BUDAPEST 15a series of curatorial research programs, public presentations & round tables organized by ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange The next editions of Check in Budapest will focus on contemporary photography. ACAX cordially invites you to the 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! In her lecture Bussard will discuss the series of contemporary photography exhibitions that she has initiated and curated at the Art Institute since 2005, On the Scene. Occurring every other year, the most recent On the Scene was installed in the new Renzo Piano Modern Wing, and was the occasion for two specially-commissioned installations by Jason Lazarus (b. 1975) and Zoe Strauss (b. 1970). Andreas Müller-Pohle will present his recent projects and video works in a panel discussion. Together with Lajos Adamik (translator) and Gábor Pfisztner (art critic) he will also examine the international visibility of the Hungarian photography scene. +++++++++++++ Katherine Bussard (Indiana, 1976) is Associate Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago and author of the exhibition catalogue So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan. Bussard recently completed her doctoral dissertation on street photography at the City University of New York, and contributed a related essay to the exhibition catalogue Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now. She is currently co-curating a traveling exhibition on the history of American color photography. links: Andreas Müller-Pohle (Brunswick, 1951) is artist and publisher. He is the editor of European Photography magazine (Göttingen and Berlin) since 1980. Between 1985–94 he was consultant for the European Photography Award. Müller-Pohle was publisher of Vilém Flusser's Die Schrift – Hat Schreiben Zukunft? (Scripture – The Future of Writing) as an electronic book on diskette (1986). He is the founder of Edition Flusser (1996), and of Eye-Mind (2005) – the workshop for contemporary photography and new media. Between 1997–2004 he was engaged as visiting professor at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium. His works were shown at numerous solo and group exhibitions among others in Berlin, Stockholm, Rotterdam, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Philadelphia, Houston, Shanghai and Kyoto. Müller-Pohle is recipient of the Reind M. De Vries European Photography Prize (2001). links: This event was organized in cooperation between ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange, Nessim Gallery, Goethe Institute Hungary and LUMEN Photography Foundation.
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