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.
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.
Film Festival: 4 elements - Jiska Rickels 09-03-2008 / 18:30 Örökmozgó Filmmuseum 10-03-2008 / 17:00 Merlin
Since the beginning of time the human race tried to explain the primal elements of their world: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. During the development of mankind they were deciphered; the force of the elements were used, however, they were never totally dominated, controlled or predicted. Today we are still fighting to control earth, water, fire, and air. Four chapters documentary about people who work with the four elements, where fellowship and trust are of existential importance: Siberian smokejumpers, the fishermen of the Bering Sea in Alaska, Germany miners, and the astronauts and their lift-off in Kazakhstan.
Film Festival: Nadine - Erik de Bruyn 09-03-2008 / 20:30 Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
Nadine is a career woman: successful, independent and ambitious. But, she’s single, just over forty and still childless. Inside her body, the biological clock is ticking like mad, till the point where it begins to jump and finally derails into a bizarre and extreme act…
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.
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