Film Festival: Forever - Heddy Honigmann
02-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
07-03-2008 / 15:00
Merlin
Père-Lachaise - one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Some - such as Piaf, Proust, Jim Morrison and Chopin - are worshipped to this day. Others have fallen into oblivion, or are visited occasionally by a single admirer. In Forever we see the mysterious, calming and consoling beauty of this unique cemetery through the eyes of people of flesh and blood. Many come for their ‘own’ beloved: husbands, wives, family and friends. Others honour ‘their’ artist by leaving behind a personal message or a flower.
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.
First Steps - Dutch and Flemish Plays; rehearsed readings
24-02-2008 / 19:00
Merlin
02-03-2008 / 19:00
Merlin
09-03-2008 / 19:00
Merlin
The LOW Festival series of public readings aims to get the building of the piers underway. Those who visit the Merlin Theatre at the end of February and the beginning of March will assuredly hear dramas that – although written in a different context – speak to and about us as well.
Capilla Flamenca
02-03-2008 / 19:30
Palace of Arts, Festival Theatre
The vocal and instrumental consort Capilla Flamenca takes its name from the choir of the court chapel of Emperor Charles V. When Charles left the Low Countries in 1517, he took his best musicians with him to accompany him as a ‘living polyphony’ to Spain. Today’s Capilla Flamenca recruits its specialized musicians from Flanders so as to bring to life the unique timbre of this brilliant 15th-16th music in its full authenticity.
Film Festival: Waiter - Alex van Warmerdam
02-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
03-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
A crummy job at a run-down restaurant. A wife who is chronically ill. The anti-social neighbours. An extramarital affair that offers little more than sexual gratification. Fictitious fifty-year-old waiter Edgar (played by Alex van Warmerdam) has had enough of his miserable existence… He wants out of the relationship with his wife, he wants a new girlfriend, he wants new neighbours and he is fed up with being treated like a doormat by his customers But Edgar's about to find out the hard way that his life is truly stranger than fiction…
Film festival: Contact - Hanro Smitsman
02-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
The Netherlands, 2007, 10 min
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.
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.
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