ExhibitionsUntil the fourth of May, you can be part of a time travel through brilliant photographs - you just need to pay a visit to Czabán György's exhibition about how the A38 Ship was built, brought to Budapest and the steps in which it has developed since.
Another option is Marc Riboud: Into The Orient 1955 - 1958 at Mai Manó the Hungarian House Of Photography: a seventy-images-long documentation of the photographer's journeys in Turkey, India, Nepal, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and China, showcasing his life and work between 1955 and 1958.
In Riboud's pictures, emotions always appear in rigorous compositions, allowing us to see how the exceptional intertwining of form and meaning means that there is no aesthetics without ethics.
If you'd prefer something more contemporary, we can only encourage you to visit Trafó Gallery's actual exhibition, BOOGIE WOOGIE. The group exhibition presents new abstract positionsin various genres and media of contemporary art, from painting to installation, through photography and graffiti; it also attempts to show the works of emerging artists who have consistently worked with an abstract program – and who mainly exhibited their works isolated from each other – in one space and in one thematic framework. Thus the exhibition provides a concentrated effort in interpreting and presenting the new artistic language of this Central-Eastern European generation. The exhibitors approachgeometric abstraction (which was previously banished and musealised to categories of art history) in an instinctive, non-referential way in order to use it as the basis of an entirely new, personal and a pure visual language.
The upcoming exhibition
in the
shows the
newest works , entitled Cognition, of
Bence Bakonyi , the young photographer, who recently joined the circle of artists of the Gallery.
Bence Bakonyi spent
one year in Asia , with a scholarship of five month in China on Photography major at Normal University, Shanghai. Bakonyi was continuously researching the mentality and hardly reachable,
closed world of the Chinese people , of which, his experiments are centred in the
Cognition series .
Viewing the pictures we are witnessing the complete détente of the individual,
controllability in the psychics of a crowd , as well as the
unlimited expansions of developed civilisations , which embraces the so fare seemingly
endless deserts
as well. However, there is a twist, since everybody looks happy, statisfied - like it is normal, to live in such a surreal way.
Higgs Field's group show, titled Pensive Pictures, Goodbye!
thematizes what we would call geopolitical fantasies sprang into existence by artistic projects primarily from the CEE region, bringing under close scrutiny the historical relation of natural space and communities (society). The clandestine or explicitly expressive moral, ideological and political agenda of the territorial references settled on the view or terrain by power structures is problematized by the works exhibited. Thus revealing "the black side of the landscape", the "hard facts" behind the once aesthetically or ideally concieved image of the living space.
Concerts
One of the hottest and most interesting things to happen in the Budapestian nightlife is Mykki Blanco's concert at A38. The all-encompassing metropolitan artiste —multi-faceted, multi-talented (poet, rapper, actor and author are just some of her varying vocations), and multi-gendered (Mykki is the womanly side of 24-year-old Michael David Quattlebaum Jr.) the enthusiastic entertainer is armed with an aggressive and impressive flow, a sharp fashion sense, and a rare blend of confidence and humility. This will be his (or her?) first show in Budapest, and we can assure you, that it will be a night you'll never forget!
Funky afropop jams from an Icelandic big bang? Blitzkrieg-jazz?
The craziest, hottest and simply best Skandinavian jazz-funk big band, Samúel Jón Samúelsson Big Band has already set fire in the hearts of the Budapest audience now returns for a second smash! Imagine an Icelandic Sun Ra Arkestra, but with joy instead of cosmic vibes. The supporting act is Nat Osborn Band - so, to sum things up, this is a night for jazz-rockers, funky souls and happy people!
Cleveland post-punk quartet Pleasure Leftists borrow more than a few gloomy moves from late 1970s Britain, but they've got the finesse to stake their own ground. Fronted by the grayly expressive Haley Morris, a powerful singer who claims equal influence from Factory Records and 1950s French balladeer Édith Piaf, the band breathes speed and energy into a formula that could otherwise be written off as mere posturing. They come to Budapest thanks to Defekt Dudes, who thought that it would be cool to invite two smashing Hungarian post-punk band to open for Pleasure Leftists: Padkarosda and ODDDS!Clubbing
Although arguably still best known for his label (Future Times, which focuses on music from the likes of Protect-U and Slava, as well as Dunbar and his group, Beautiful Swimmers), Maxmillion Dunbar has quietly developed into one of American house music’s most interesting and entertaining artists. This full-bearded, big-hearted guy makes so bohemian, idiosyncratic house and techno jams, that will surely make you dance - even if you are not that kind. A real tropic thunder!
If there was a list compiled of the who’s who of deep house in 2013, Purple Disco Machine would grace that shortlist. Designing some of the funkiest deep this past year, they have become a powerhouse for Off Recordings - and now they are here to show the Budapestian club scene, how a "deep funk party" is done correctly! You can expect an all-night long disco lesson with dancefloor bangers like
Street Machine.
Known as one of the most forward-thinking individuals in techno Perc (aka London based Ali Wells) fuses current sounds with his extensive knowledge of electronic music’s past to create something new & unique. A regular artist on such scene-leading labels as CLR, Kompakt, Drumcode, Stroboscopic Artefacts and Ovum as well as his own world-reknown Perc Trax imprint, Perc is as uncompromising as he is unique. As a DJ, Alex Bau plays "gringotechno" (to quote his own words) - a powerful and unique mix of minimal and straight techno that surely won't let you rest. The next Technokunst will surely blow your mind!FilmsBUDOKU - Budapest Documentary Film Festival is organized by a bunch of documentary maniacs for the fans of the genre. The festival will take place between 6th and 11th May 2014 in Toldi Film Theatre and other locations. Details about the festival including a selection of international documentary films, a Hungarian competition programme, workshops, numerous side events, various music events can be found at the event's website. Maybe this will your only chance to watch films like 20,000 Days On Earth so don't miss it!Theatre/Contemporary Dance
Csaba Molnár started his studies at the Budapest Contemporary Dance School and continued his studies in P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels) graduating in 2008. He has worked as a performer with Adrienn Hód, Eszter Gál, Wally Cardona amongst others. Csaba worked for two years with Florence-based Compania Virgilio Sieni Danza. He is a founding member of BLOOM! dance company and he has interest as a choreographer independently as well as with the collective.
In his newest piece Csaba Molnár investigates his own intuitive, visual and audio images and compares them to the sensual and structural worlds of Boccaccio’s Decameron.
In the Perfect Garden series by Liquid Loft with the fine artist Michel Blazy the motif of the garden is the expression of human striving for the control of things in the inexorable flow of transience but also an image of growth and proliferation that constantly leads to the development of something new.
In their work, Liquid Loft interconnect contemporary dance directly with other forms of contemporary art, in order to create a cohesive all-embracing piece of art. Their idiosyncratic visual and formal language, their distinctive acoustic stage-sets and professional dance production have earned Liquid Loft international recognition and many awards.
For booty Looting Wim Vandekeybus has composed a group of six performers, one musician and one photographer. Music, movement, spoken word and photography are on an equal footing with each other. Every medium adds something or erases something.
The title booty Looting is intended to point to this process of distorting the memory. booty Looting refers to a double form of plundering: the plundering of what has already been plundered, stealing what was already stolen, looting the booty. Wim Vandekeybus: “booty Looting is a highly individual piece. The audience will have to get involved and will have to imagine things. And who knows, it may itself occasionally feel it has been robbed.”
