Film Festival: Stages - Mijke de Jong
11-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
12-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
Following his parents’s divorce, Isaac, seventeen, lives alone with his mother. An introvert by nature, he passes the time by polishing his Samurai sword, listening to his walkman, and slipping into the apartments of absent strangers. His parents, Roos and Martin, meet regularly to keep a connection with one another. When Roos confides her concerns about Isaac, Martin seems to have little interest in his son’s life. Roos remains alone with the serious psychological problem of her son, and she cannot count on any help from the father.
Holland Tsunami
theatre group SPACE
11-03-2008 - 12-03-2008 / 20:00
Keleti Railway station
12-03-2008 / 22:00
Keleti Railway station
19-03-2008 - 20-03-2008 / 20:00
LABOR, Zsolnay factory, Pécs
‘We are facing a rescue operation unparalleled until this moment. We must achieve a full evacuation of 16 million people within a month time. This means over 170.000 people per day. The problem still stands that we don’t know where to leave them. Only a one country is willing to receive Dutch refugees, especially because there is a very limited chance that they will be able to return to their homeland.'
Film Festival: Jungle Rudy, the Chronicle of a Family - Rob Smits
12-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
As the son of a banker from The Hague, he had grown up in luxury and his future seemed all mapped out, but then Rudolf Truffino went hiking in the Venezuelan rainforest shortly after World War II. There, an Indian tribe saved him from death by exhaustion near the highest waterfall in the world, Angel Falls. Jungle Rudy, as his nickname soon became, proceeded to build the exotic holiday camp Ucaima for the wealthy people of the world.
STAU
Anouk van Dijk
12-03-2008 / 19:00, 21:30
Millenáris Theater
A hit across Russia, China, Australia and the United States, Dutch choreographer Anouk van Dijk's performance STAU dissolves traditional theatrical boundaries to examine the relationship between audience and performer – and transforms the experience of contemporary dance in the process.
Film Festival: Ex-drummer - Koen Mortier
12-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
Every village has its band of fools, trying to get to the top, following their idols in drug habits,
but staying losers till the end of their pathetic days. They all do this in the name of rock & roll. Three disabled rock musicians are looking for a drummer. Dries, a well known writer, seems the right guy for the job, were it not for the fact that his only handicap is that he can’t play the drums.
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Conductor: Ton Koopman
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, conductor: Ton Koopman
12-03-2008 / 19:30
Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir is a world-famous ensemble. Founded in the Netherlands in 1979 by Ton Koopman, the group consists of musicians from all over the world, sharing a particular passion for the Baroque. About seven times a year they gather to perform live and make CD-recordings under Koopman’s inspiring direction. At the closing event of the LOW Festival they will perform a special, symbolic Easter program.
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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