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: Forgotten Fools - Frans van Erkel
07-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
08-03-2008 / 15:00
Merlin
Radomir smokes yet another cigarette right down to the filter. On the fortieth day of the fourteenth year he has awoken once again in a wilderness, Rohypnol and Leponex are on the menu and beyond this nothing, except more boredom. Since 1992 Radomir and twenty other Bosnians - most of them psychiatric patients - have been locked up behind bars in a Hungarian refugee camp. How did they end up here?
'Holland from the Hungarians viewpoint' - a book by Maria Bogyay
07-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
What kind of country is Holland? Is there a typical Dutch behavior that we have to take into account when dealing with Dutch people? How can we explain that soft drugs are forbidden in this country, yet are available in so many places? How is it possible that this small kingdom is more democratic than so many republics? How could it happen that in this moderate country a pleasant-mannered homosexual politician became so popular that he could have been elected prime minister?
Film Festival: The Alzheimer Case - Jan Verheyen Gilles, Erik Van Looy
07-03-2008 / 20:00
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
When a key civil servant is murdered, the Antwerp police force puts its top crime investigators on the case: Vincke and Verstuyft. The trail leads to hitman Angelo Ledda. Showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, Ledda finds it increasingly difficult to carry out assignments. When he realizes that he is being used in a political power game, he decides to bite the hand that feeds. Vincke and Verstuyft have a hard time trying to disentangle the web of intrigues to prevent further killings. Subsequently, the three men find themselves working together to eliminate Antwerp's 'underground network.'
Ziggi, Irie Maffia, Dj Atlas
Dj Atlas, Irie Maffia, Ziggi
07-03-2008 / 22:00
A38 Ship
African and American street culture exerts a clear, strong influence on Dutch youth, and youth culture all over Europe. This will be on display on March 7: the urban music of the Hungarian Irie Maffia and the Dutch Ziggie join power on board the A38 Ship. After the concert the Dutch DJ Atlas will play the newest sounds from the Dutch Urban scene.
EUROPA VOSTRA
Etablissement d'en Face
07-03-2008 - 13-04-2008
Trafo Gallery
Opening: 7 March, 6 p.m.
EUROPA VOSTRA, literally Your Europe, is the working title of a project that Etablissement d'en Face initiated in Brussels one year ago. The idea behind it is to critically examine the tendencies that characterise today’s Europe, and to expand upon them.
Searching routes - in Dutch, Flemish and Hungarian cultural policies
07-03-2008 - 08-03-2008 / 10:00 - 17:00
Central European University
The main features of national strategies and a few selected areas – the position of flagship institutions, policies at the city level, the relations between national and European goals, and financing – will be presented by specialists from the Netherlands, Flanders and Hungary and discussed with the participants.
While We Were Holding It Together
Ivana Müller
06-03-2008 - 07-03-2008 / 20:00
MU Theater
Onstage everything comes to a standstill, to such an extent that one begins to sympathise with the five performers who must hold their poses until the point of collapse. The only movements they are permitted are those necessary for speaking lines and making facial gestures.
Precisely that!
Han Schuil, Jurriaan Molenaar
06-03-2008 - 12-04-2008
acb Contemporary Art Gallery
Opening: 6th of March, 19.00
Molenaar paints relatively plain architecture in striking perspectives. His quiet canvases show a balanced interaction between openness and closeness. Most characteristic is his sober use of colors; the buildings always find themselves in a veil of filtered light, turning the paintings into carefully wrapped sensations of mental space.
UtopiaTransfer
Aernout Mik, Atelier van Lieshout, Bik van der Pol, Falke Pisano, Krijn de Koning, Société Réaliste
05-03-2008 - 06-04-2008
Budapest Historical Museum Municipal Picture Gallery / Museum Kiscell
Opening: 4 March, 6 p.m.
The term ‘utopia’ comes from Thomas More’s famous work, Utopia. More used it to mean both an ideal society and a society that does not yet exist.
UtopiaTransfer is a group show intended to represent different artistic approaches to the notion of ‘utopia’, using the sources and methods of utopian thought and reflecting the consequences of either the continuation or the rejection of this intellectual tradition.
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.
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.
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.
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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