Review

20 • 02 • 03 György Cséka

“Life is a crime”

Szabolcs Barakonyi’s series, Thin Air, can be seen at two venues at the same time, at B24 Gallery in Debrecen, and at Deák Erika Gallery in Budapest. As the subtitle…
20 • 02 • 02 György Cséka

Exercises in Self-portrait

With Passport, Gáspár Riskó has created a remarkable photo book. Published in 500 copies by the Swiss Innen, the book comprises 114 pages of images, without any written explanation.
20 • 01 • 28 Bea Istvánkó

Dis/assembling Art

Péter Puklus is known to think in series that are not unlike novels or epics—they are long, extensive, and often take years to complete. The final form these series usually…
20 • 01 • 20 Ferenc Margl

Full-Stack Photography

This exhibition at Studio Gallery, the venue of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association (FKSE), would not seem out of place in a similarly specced space in Prague, Vienna or…
19 • 09 • 14 Kata Balázs

Remembrance and cognition

Last autumn the Hungarian National Gallery held its first contemporary pop-up exhibition, linked to the temporary exhibitions. This summer saw the opening of the third part of the thematic series,…
19 • 09 • 10 Bea Istvánkó

How to Make a Manual?

Depicting the different stages of various actions, the photos are taken out of context by Ruth van Beek, and grouped according to her own subjective aspects, mainly along the lines…
19 • 08 • 22 György Cséka

Faith, Language, Violence

The show Furnishing the Meaning presented seemingly quite a different series of photographs by three young artists in one space.
19 • 08 • 09 Bea Istvánkó

Image archaeology and treasure hunting

Kessels is considered a real superstar in the field of found photography; in the past years, he has had shows at the most important exhibition venues and art festivals in…
19 • 07 • 01 György Cséka

Art Lying Down

On 1 May 2019 (Labour Day), Zsombor Pólya lay in the sun for a full hour at an art camp. In itself, this was a private deed rather than a…
19 • 06 • 05 Ágnes Bihari

A Great Novel at the Hungarian National Gallery

Fortepan was the name of a type of negative film manufactured by a state-owned enterprise that came into being through the nationalisation of the former Kodak factory in Vác. It…
19 • 05 • 31 György Cséka

Man with Razors

Gábor Gerhes is like the Bibliographic Institute of Brussels: he adds to the (epistemological) chaos, as there is nothing else he can do, he sees no way out, not even…