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.
The Piano Trio Revisited
Jef Neve Trio, Michiel Braam - Béla Ágoston, Trio BraamDeJoodeVatcher
10-03-2008 / 19:30
Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts
The trio is one of the oldest of jazz formations. The joint concert of two piano trios who have chosen very different paths is clear evidence of the fact that creative musicians are always capable of filling this old form with new content.
Film Festival: The Only One - Geoffrey Enthoven
10-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
Living unhappily with his daughter Gerda after his wife's death, Lucien (Nany Buyl, one of Belgium's most renowned actors) is determined to return to an independent life in his own home. But that isn't so easy. Everyone has plans for Lucien, including Mathilde, his best friend's wife, with whom he has had a longstanding affair. When his much younger neighbor, Sylvia, arrives on the scene and—to Lucien's surprise—seems to take an interest in him, all kinds of possibilities emerge. Directed by Geoffrey Enthoven with a decidedly light touch, The Only One is that rare film about aging that completely avoids sentimentality
Film Festival: Duska - Jos Stelling
10-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
11-03-2008 / 16:00
Merlin
Duska is the imaginative story of Bob, who has the best part of his life behind him. He is addicted to film, has visited several festivals as a film critic and is now working on his own screenplay. His muse and inspiration is the attractive, young and unattainable cashier from the movie theatre across the street. But when Bob’s desire for the girl finally becomes reality and she ends up at his house, a man named Duska suddenly appears at his door. They had met once at a Russian film festival, and Bob had invited him to visit if he was in the neighbourhood. That was the worst thing he could have done; Duska is not about to leave Bob alone, resulting in an original tragikomedy full of suprising twist…
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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