08 Oct 2012

CURATORS' NETWORK Budapest // Critical Tinkering

The Studio of Young Artists' Association presents:
CURATORS' NETWORK – BUDAPEST // CRITICAL TINKERING
A platform for emerging European artists, curators and art professionals to connect and collaborate

Between 9th and 12th of October 2012, the Studio of Young Artists' Association (SYAA) will organize the next encounter of Curators' Network at the Ludwig Museum, Budapest. The Curators' Network gathering in Budapest is the third in a series of meetings in five European countries between 2011 and 2013. The Budapest event will allow Hungarian artists, curators and other art-professionals to exchange ideas with their European counterparts, stimulating dialogue, debate and communication with a focus on establishing ties of international collaboration.
Curators' Network is set up by curators and cultural managers of Spain, Austria, Romania, Poland and Hungary. The goal of this union is to promote promising artists and projects throughout Europe, who still feel the lack of international exposure. The working method of the network is very simple: each member of the network invites the other members and other European curators to his home country and gives them an insight about their local contemporary art scene.

Furthermore, the network created a database – www.curators-network.eu/database – which contains the detailed information of the reviewed artists and the participating art-professionals in the five initial events.

Selected Artists:
BORSOS LŐRINC, Igor&Ivan BUHAROV, Ádám DALLOS, Sári EMBER, Krisztina ERDEI, Roland FARKAS, László HATHÁZI, GRUPPO TÖKMAG, Tamás KASZÁS, Katarina ŠEVIĆ, Ádám KOKESCH, TEHNICA SCHWEIZ, Barna PÉLI, Péter PUKLUS, Eszter SZABÓ, Péter SZABÓ, Zsófia SZEMZŐ, Hajnalka TARR, Zsolt TIBOR, Júlia VÉCSEI

Invited Curators:
Natxo CHECA (ES) Curator at Zé dos Bois (ZDB) Center for creation, production and diffusion of contemporary art in Lisbon, Portugal
Sebastian CICHOCKI (PL) Deputy director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
Luigi FASSI (IT) Director of ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum in Bolzano, Italy
Maaike GOUWENBERG (NL) Freelance curator, director of A.P.E (art projects era) and short film programmer at International Film Festival in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Søren GRAMMEL (DE) Director of Kœlnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Fatima HELLBERG (GB) Freelance curator and curator at Electra in London, United Kingdom
Gaweł KOWNACKI (PL) Freelance curator, chairman and co-curator at F.A.I.T. (Foundation Artists Innovation Theory) in Krakow, Poland
Andrea LÖBEL (AT) Director of Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Tevž LOGAR (SI) Artistic director of Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sören MESCHEDE (DE) Hablar en Arte, Madrid, Spain
Anca MIHULET (RO) Curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, Romania
Estelle NABEYRAT (FR-DE) Freelance curator and art critic based in Paris, France
Jiří PTÁČEK (CZ) Art critic, freelance curator and curator at Fotograf Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
Alina ŞERBAN (RO) Freelance curator based in Bucharest, Romania
Jürgen TABOR (AT) Deputy director and curator of the Galerie im Taxispalais in Innsbruck, Austria
Fatoş ÜSTEK (TR) Independent curator and art critic based in London, United Kingdom

PORTFOLIO-EXHIBITION AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
11th and 12th October 2012. 3pm - 8pm
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest - 3rd floor

The SYAA has invited a wide range of international curators to come to know the works of 20 emerging Hungarian artists, chosen through an open application process. The public events of Curators' Network Budapest include presentations and a portfolio-exhibition. The international curators and some local initiatives will present their projects, institutions and curatorial practices on the 11th and 12th of October 2012 in the Ludwig Museum. Before and during the presentations the portfolio-exhibition with the works of the participating artists will be also open to the public. These sessions will provide a venue for an enriched and sustained exchanging of ideas, and in doing so, pave the way for future collaborations between art-professionals.

The event in Hungary is realized with the support of the European Commission and the National Cultural Fund of Hungary