Press

Official press release of the exhibition Sustainable Identities. For details about the exhibition's concept and the contributors please download below.

A short introduction to the exhibition and some quotes from the catalogue.

Exhibition review by Zara Olsson, visual artist, Willem de Kooning University (Rotterdam).

Award won by Szilard Cseke and Kinga German.

(born in Pápa, Hungary) lives and works in Budapest. Having finished his Master’s degree in painting, Cseke graduated from the University of Pécs in 1995. He began to create mobile objects in the mid-90s. His works demonstrate social and economic processes, with particular emphasis on the themes of migration and the search for identity. He has garnered an array of awards, including the Munkácsy Prize in 2014 and the Derkovits Scholarship in 1997.

Cseke has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the most prestigious Hungarian institutions, such as the Kiscell Museum, the Kunsthalle and the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. He is also taking part in the Armory Show in New York in 2015. His works have been exhibited in several galleries, museums and international art fairs abroad, and they can also be found in well-known private and public collections. Szilárd Cseke is represented by the Ani Molnár Gallery. See more info here. (Foto by Attila Glázer)

(born in Cluj, Romania) is an art historian who has studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Karlsruhe. Living in Germany for 14 years, she was a contributing editor in one of the daily bulletins, where she wrote critiques about contemporary art. In 2011, she received her PhD from Stuttgart University and completed her studies in cultural management at Fernuniversität Hagen. Since 2008, she has been working at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, and as of 2015 as an associate professor.

Kinga German founded the only Hungarian ’Museum Management’ postgraduate program of study, where she is in charge of the major. She is also head of the Cultural Management Studies. German regularly organizes exhibitions and always involves perspectives pertaining to the mediation of art in her concepts. In Hungary she organizes collaborative projects with art universities abroad, takes part in conferences, and leads exchange programs. (Foto by Gábor Arion Kudász)

(Tatabánya, Hungary): dramaturge, director; graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest; member of the National Theatre and the Madács Theatre; director of several plays in Budapest and in theatres outside the capital; author of  books and articles; editor of the Magyar Thália book series.

From 2010 to 2013, served as adviser to the deputy prime minister in the fields of public relations and cultural policy; also as organizer and creative head of state ceremonies; head of programmes during the Hungarian presidency of the EU; head and strategic director of several governmental programmes and campaigns.

Served in 2013 as Minister of State for Public Diplomacy and Relations and in 2014 as Minister of State for Cultural Diplomacy; as of 1 November 2014 has served as national commissioner of the Hungarian exhibition at the 56. International Art Exhibition- la Biennale di Venezia. (Foto by Attila Béres)