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?
Dutch-Flemish Children Programme
De Stilte
08-03-2008 / 10:00 - 17:00
Millenáris Theater
In Dutch, Madcap, or Speelvogels means “playing children”. A splendid word for a splendid activity: children at play. For a child, playing alone, and especially playing with others, puts a face to reality. In Madcap three dancers enter the stage to take their place in a game, to share their imagination and to confirm their friendship. Children effortlessly become a part of this dance.
Le Bal Moderne
08-03-2008 / 17:00
Millenáris Inn
Created in 1993 by Michel Reilhac, former director of the Forum des Images in Paris, the Flemish Le Bal Moderne has proved an unprecedented success.
Film Festival: Les ballets de ci de là - Alain Platel
08-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
In this full-length documentary, Alain Platel celebrates the essence of the peculiar human characteristics which have been fuelling the work of Les Ballets C. de la B. for the past twenty years. Who are the dancers of Les Ballets C. de la B.? Where do they come from? And how do they transcend the world on stage? A film filled with impressions, focusing on a unique company in the world of live dance. An emotional voyage which allows us to share the artistic and human adventure of Les Ballets C. de la B.
Lolly Jane Blue, Roosbeef, Péterfy Bori & Love Band
Bori Péterfy & Love Band, Lolly Jane Blue, Roosbeef
08-03-2008 / 21:00
A38 Ship
Tonight it’s Ladies Night: together with the Hungarian Bori Péterfy, two young Dutch artists, Roosbeef and Lolly Jane Blue take the stage. They might best be described as “singer/songwriters”, a genre that all too infrequently crosses national borders.
Cinetrip Sparty - Flying Dutchman
Amira, CJ Bolland (FL), Funckarma (NL), Grasshop b2b Marvin, Haze, Kaszi and Jácint, Mango, Negro (Deep), Palotai (Tilos), Sanyi (Cinetrip), Superman, Waxman (Tilos)
08-03-2008 / 21:00
Rudas Bath
To bring the panorama full circle - sounds and moving images on lowland-high in the air and in deep water within the framework of Low Festival - Cinetrip Sparty–Journeys by Djuice provides the ambience for bathing and cleansing with the works of Dutch and Flemish audio and visual artists.
Film Festival: Wolfsbergen - Nanouk Leopold
08-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
09-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
Set in present-day Holland, screenwriter/director Nanouk Leopold's third feature is the story of a family going through testing times, as four generations come head to head when, following the death of his wife, the father of the family decides to commit suicide, warning his children beforehand. Wolfbergen is a film about people who seem to have lost the ability to love and to be loved. It is a kaleidoscopic portrayal of four generations of a family and their struggle to reach out to one another.
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.
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.
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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