Film Festival: The Intruder - Frank van Mechelen
01-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
02-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
Tom Vansant, a 40-year old doctor in Brussels, is desperately searching for traces of his daughter Louise who disappeared 18 months ago. In his search, he comes across another 16-year-old runaway who left her hometown in the Ardennes at about the same time as Louise disappeared. Although the girl refuses to talk about her past, Tom is convinced that she knows more about his daughter. He follows the girl to the Ardennes and lands in an unknown and dangerous environment where things are not what they seem and where hostile villagers don’t really care for strangers.
Film Festival: Khadak - Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
01-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, Khadak tells the epic story of Bagi, a young nomad confronted with his destiny to become a shaman. A plague strikes the animals and the nomads are forcibly relocated to desolate mining towns. Bagi saves the life of a beautiful coal thief, Zolzaya, and together they reveal the plague was a lie fabricated to eradicate nomadism. A sublime revolution ensues.
The Night of the Unexpected
Edwin van der Heide, Evan Parker & Joel Ryan, Terrie Ex & Han Bennink, Tomoko Mukaiyama, Xavier van Wersch & Tigrics
01-03-2008 / 19:00
Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts
Night of the Unexpected is a one-night festival, an experience, an evening full of surprises ranging across styles and genres, from experimental techno to composed music. It departs from our expectations and playfully questions existing habits; it surrounds the audience with concerts, performances and sound installations from today's most innovative composers and musicians.
LOW Power Party
Cyborg Templar (Deck Attack), Infra Gandhi (Deck Attack), Kraak end Smaak live (NL), Negro (Deep), Sanyi (Cinetrip), Turntable Dubbers Sound System (FL), Waxman (Tilos)
01-03-2008 / 22:00
Merlin
After the CVJ2008 awards ceremony, the Low Festival, Cinetrip organisers and the 5-year-old Deck Attack series unite their forces to spice up the Budapest night with a mix of productions by Dutch, Flemish and Hungarian musicians and VJs – who will be either delirious with joy or spurred on by disappointment.
Dutch-Flemish Film Festival
01-03-2008 - 12-03-2008
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
01-03-2008 - 12-03-2008
Merlin
From absurd comedy to historical parable, from thrillers to drama, the programme of the Dutch–Flemish Film Festival offers a variety of genres and topics. The latest films of the two regions will be shown: seven Dutch and six Flemish feature films, plus five documentaries. The opening film will be the Dutch–Flemish production Waiter (Ober), screened on 29 February 2008 at the Uránia Film Theatre. The rest of the festival will be hosted by the Örökmozgó Film Museum from 1–12 March 2008.
Annemiek de Beer and Maurice van Tellingen
Annemiek de Beer, Maurice van Tellingen
29-02-2008 - 29-03-2008
Deák Erika Gallery
Opening: 28 February, 2008, 18.00-20.00
Interiors make for one of the core themes of the work of Maurice van Tellingen, interiors that usually manifest themselves in the form of a small looking box. Van Tellingen refers to these items as spatial paintings, and the comparison with seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting is obvious—it places him in a long tradition of artists that have represented interior scenes in the Netherlands.
De Beer follows a unique path in regards to colour and structure as well, using withdrawn, fixed schemes that nevertheless have a fresh, silky character. Gradually becoming visible in her work is an interest in the traditions of Japanese painting, with its linear and structural clarity and, above all, its elegant simplicity.
Cinetrip VJ Tournament
AlexEtJeremy (NL), Buscemi (FL), Crimson, Fine Cut Bodies live, Nid and Sancy live (FL), Olga Mink (NL), Palotai (Tilos), Soulrise (Mustbeat)
25-02-2008 - 01-03-2008 / 10:00 - 23:00
Merlin
Cinetrip announces its third biannual international VJ-Tournament, to be held in February 2008. In previous years, audiences enjoyed live and pre-produced work from over a 100 contestants from 11 countries. It is our hope that the intense experience of international trends in contemporary visual culture and electronic music during the days of the competition will inspire spectators and local artists alike.
Two Dutch Photographers
Bertien van Manen: Give me your image, Hans van der Meer: European Fields: The Landscape of Lower League Football
22-02-2008 - 06-04-2008
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art
Hans van der Meer and Bertien van Manen are both in the vanguard of contemporary Dutch photography. The exhibition in the Ludwig Museum presents their work in one space, thus offering wider opportunities comparison of two independent artists in the light of one another.
Trains with Children - An Exhibition of Documents
22-02-2008 - 14-03-2008
Central Library of the Municipal Szabó Ervin Library, Small Gallery
Opening: 22 February, 3 p.m.
After World War I, trains carried over 50,000 weak and hungry children from Hungary to the Netherlands and Belgium. Responding to the call of the churches, thousands of Dutch and Flemish families temporarily accepted into their homes young girls or boys orphaned or destitute in war-ravaged Hungary. Children normally spent four or five months with their foster parents, but a two or three-year stay was not uncommon, and a number of them were eventually adopted. The decades to come showed the children to be better than the diplomats at maintaining these international contacts.
Visibility Works workshop
Inga Zimprich, Katarina Zdjelar, Marjolijn Dijkman, Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden, Gon Zifroni, Vinca Kruk)
21-02-2008 - 13-03-2008
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Barcsay Hall
Opening: 20 February, 19.00
The aim of the program 'Visibility Works', hosted by the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, is to encourage students, professors and the general public to think aloud and work together. The exhibition and workshop series will be held in the exhibition space of the university, which will be transformed into a meeting point, a classroom, a professors' study, a studio and an office for the occasion.
Biking Around the World (My City: Amsterdam)
Herb van Drongelen
19-02-2008 - 16-03-2008
Millenáris red and black Gallery
Opening: 18 February, 17.30
My City Amsterdam, one half of a cultural exchange program between Budapest and Amsterdam. During the three-day event, Amsterdam will present itself to the city of Budapest with a musical program, photo exhibitions, readings and lectures.
Herb van Drongelen, who in six years cycled 110,000 kilometers through 69 countries on 6 continents will exhibit the photos of his journey on Millenáris and speak about his experiences on the A38 Ship.
Wim Delvoye
16-02-2008 - 23-03-2008
Ernst Museum
Love it or hate it: Wim Delvoye, enfant terrible of the contemporary scene, makes art that demands notice. His provocative works, which make emphatic use of antagonisms, flout conventions and dogmas. His raw honesty and grotesque humour will make you laugh and wonder.
Pages - a new generation of photobooks from the Netherlands
13-02-2008 - 08-03-2008
Dorottya Gallery, Lumen Gallery
Finissage: 8 March, 6 p.m. Dorottya Gallery, 8 p.m. Lumen Gallery
The goal of the Pages exhibition is to provide a unique picture of the wide range of Dutch photo books and journals published in the past five years, and to give an idea of the relationship of young Dutch photographers to the book as a medium.
Silence
Andrea Rádai
01-02-2008 - 01-03-2008
acb Contemporary Art Gallery
Finnisage: 1 March, 19.00
“Talking about painting is like talking about dreams.
All these images, happenings that are obvious and follow one another in an absolutely logical way, become shallow, even fake or simply incomprehensible once I start talking about them.”
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