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Revolution I Love You
Exhibition on 1968 in art, politics and philsophy with Mladen Stilinović, Tamás St.Auby, Zofia Kulik, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Oliver Ressler, Fia-Stina Sandlund, Miklós Erhardt, Heath Bunting, Marko Lulić, Tamás Kaszás, Jean-Baptiste Ganne and Nancy Davenport...(more)

SocialEast Seminar on 1968
A symposium on the legacy of 1968 for contemporary art in Eastern Europe and beyond held at Jagiellonian University Krakow on 26 April 2008...(more)

Exit or Activism?
Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art at CEU Budapest 29 February 2008...(more)

Rehab
REHAB is a state of mind, a decision to press pause and unwind, a shrugging off of the burden of social responsibility and responsible socialising...(more)

Ecological Citizenship
Lecture by Maja and Reuben Fowkes on the Quest for Sustainable Citizenship at Turner Contemporary 12 February 2008...(more)

Art and Sustainability Blog
Explores the deepening relationship between contemporary art and notions of environmental sustainability...(more)


The Hidden Depths of Hungarian Art

Contribution to Modern Art Oxford's Arrivals: New Art from Eastern Europe published June 2007 examining the grassroots potential of the Hungarian art scene...(more)


Villa LithuaniaDon’t Complain
Art that does not seek to seduce, excite or create a spectacle at the Venice Biennial 2007 reviewed for exindex.hu...(more)



Sensuous Resistance

The legacy of modernism for sustainable art explored for the Dokumenta 12 magazine project...(more)

Revolution is not a Garden Party
Publication with new essays by Gerald Raunig, Benda Hofmeyr, Simon Sheikh, Chus Martinez and Maja and Reuben Fowkes that engage with issues such as art and revolution, aesthetics and politics, and ecology and anarchism...(more)

The Art of Post-Ecological Subjectivities
Futurological contribution to Die Planung / A Terv edited by Katarina Sević et al Budapest/Berlin, 2007...(more)

 

Remake
Csaba Nemes's project for the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial 2007 and the controversy surrounding the official result of the competition...(more)

Revolution is not a Garden Party
Contemporary resonances of the revolution with Michael Blum, Nick Crowe, Igor Grubić, Sanja Iveković, Gergely László and Péter Rákosi, Nils Norman, Adrian Paci...(more)


The Lure of Fresh Air:
Sustainability in Contemporary Croatian Art

Examines the shift towards dealing with deep-rooted environmental problems through sustainability...(more)


The Art of Making Do with Enough

Contribution to the new art dealing with sustainable practices in contemporary art, published by Rachmaninoff's London, October 2006...(more)


SocialEast Seminar on Art and Revolution
Manchester Art Gallery 3 February 2007 10-5pm, speakers include Gerald Raunig, Malcolm Miles, Klara Kemp-Welch and Gaspar Miklos Tamas see: www.socialeast.org

Socialist Memory
Screening of artist films using documentary techniques to engage with the socialist past at Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest 10 November 2006...(more)



Sustainable Visions
Screening of films engaging with sustainability for Shifting Ground Conference Ireland,19-22 October 2006...(more)

Djeribi and Stevens
Lecture and workshop by artist and architect based in rural Ireland addressing sustainable art and living in a rural context at CEU Budapest 11-12 April 2007...(more)

Transmit
The ideal is a translocal knowledge that manages to combine the insight and particular experience of the local and the specific, with a love of the comparative and the shared...(more)

Beata Veszely investigates the experience of the impossible in 'On the Way to Heaven', Galerija Balen Slavonski Brod, 8 September - 7 October 2006...(more)

Croatian Spring at Tate Modern
Paper given at Tate Modern conference 'Open Systems' on the innovative conceptual art of the early 1970s in Croatia...(more)

Ivan aAdislav Galeta, Spiral Mow, 2005Principles of Sustainability
Sustainable art is arguably a wider concept than environmental art, which is primarily focussed on remedying ecological problems, recycling, and the healing of nature...(more)

Indie Art and the SeventiesIndie Art and the Seventies
Explores the current revival of interest in the art of the 1970s. Are we to look to the art of the Seventies for the key to go beyond materialism? ...(more)

Ruri, Endangered WatersRuri - Endangered Waters
The Icelandic artist Ruri archives elements of the natural landscape that are threatened with extinction as a consequence of human intervention....(more)

Sustainability and Contemporary Art SymposiumSymposium on Sustainabiity and Contemporary Art
Speakers: Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon, Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison, Tamás Kaszás, Hildegard Kurt, Nils Norman, Marko Peljhan, Rúrí ...(more) (magyar)

Endre Koronczi, Powersave On, 2006"Powersave On"
Endre Koronczi’s film mimics the mode of scientific observation, slowly panning across found objects and scenarios to recreate the atmosphere of life on the seventh floor...(more)


Less is Beautiful
Cross-generational stretch, bold interventions in the exhibition space, ascendancy of relational aesthetics, dematerialisation, and a sense of sustainability in many works...(more)

Jane Frost, Living at the EdgeLiving at the Edge
Jane Frost residency at Galerija Balen Slavonski Brod, involving a community-based art project, exhibition, and investigation into the role of art in making an ecologically sustainable future...(more)

Possible Theatre
Exhibition of Croatian artists Iva Matija Bitanga and Leo Vukelic in Galerija Balen, focusing on performativity in their work...(more)

The Private Other in the American Dream
Kristina Leko employs the tools of ethnology to explore the Croatian émigré community in America.
(Art Margins October 2005)


Glocal Practices in Contemporary Croatian Art

Socially-engaged art practices at the intersection of global and local culture.
(Praesens 2004/2)


Art and Ecology: Unified or Fragmentary?
Critical review of alternative approaches towards art and environment.
(GreenMuseum)

Little Warsaw: Removal and Deconstruction
Physical and textual removals that recontextualise the reception of public monuments.
(Umelec 2005/3) [magyar]

 

Croatian Spring: Art in the Social Sphere
Paper for Tate Modern symposium on Open Systems c.1970, 16-19 September 2005. [programme]

System of Coordinates
Survey show at Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art Presents a heterogeneous but constructed picture of the contemporary Russian scene.
(Art Margins, June 2005)

Attention Recycling
Art that goes beyond the triviality of everyday living by raising problems and making solutions less transparent.
(Galerija Balen April 2002)

Unframed Landscapes
An international exhibition of environmentally-attuned art from Hungary and Croatia. [hrvatski] [magyar]

Art and Biotechnology
Heath Bunting's ‘Natural Reality Superweed’ is an important contribution to artistic practice in a new creative field on the borderline between science and art.
(Galerija Balen, April 2004)

Grass Sculptures
Erika Feher's grass chairs suggest the possibility of dialogue in a busy Budapest park.
(Praesens no.2 2005)

Alem Korkut
Solo exhibition of Croatian sculptor with first showing of prize winning installation 'Rain'.
(Galerija Balen, March 2005)

Human Nature
Contemporary Croatian artists explore the intriguing notion of Human Nature.
(Trafo Budapest June 2003)

Dream Factory Communism
Boris Groys lays aside western modernist scruples and hang iconic works of Socialist Realism on the walls of a major German art gallery.
(Blok November 2004)

Here Tomorrow
Engaging works and projects dealing with issues as diverse as institutional critique, war memories, globalisation, travel, fashion and activism.
(Frieze November 2002)

Branding vs. No Logo
Survey of the Croatian contemporary art scene, from the Zagreb Salon to Here Tomorrow.
(ArtMargins July 2004)

Budapest Box
Review of survey show on the Hungarian underground art scene of the 1990s at Ludwig Museum Budapest.
(Umelec no.3 2002)

Identity
Photographs and paintings of refugee children that tangle with the issue of the Other.
(Praesens no.2 2004)

ARTsylumseekers
Reflections on contemporary artists' experience of migration.
(Radionica no.1 January 2002)

Getting Personal
Feminist art at the Zagreb salon risks constructing a simulacra of Central European women's art.
(Balkon April 2002)

Sociability
Marijan Crtalić, Danko Friščić, Denis Krašković, Frane Rogić and Igor Zlobec began to hang out at the Academy in Zagreb and often organise common projects and group exhibitions.
(Galerija Balen September 2003)

Bar 24
Solo show of leading Hungarian video artist Hajnal Nemeth, currently living and working in Berlin.
(Galerija Balen December 2003)

 

 

 


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Artwork of the Moment

Miklos Erhardt, Footnotes to Bare Life, 2008

MIKLÓS ERHARDT
FOOTNOTE TO BARE LIFE - 26 CARDBOARD BOXES THAT (ARGUABLY) CONTAIN ALL MY BELONGINGS TO DATE
Vienna Secession 2008

 

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Thought of the Month
'If this seminar was taking place in 1968, half of those present would be stoned, and the other half would be rolling a joint, and I would probably be both.' (Malcolm Miles at the SocialEast Seminar on the Legacy of 1968 in Krakow)

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The Artists

AES+F
Balazs Beothy
Iva Matija Bitanga
Blue Noses Group
Michael Blum
Luchezar Boyadijev
Kayle Brandon
Heath Bunting
Ivan Bura
Nick Crowe
Marijan Crtalic
Peter Csaszar
Olga Chernyshova
Vlasta Delimar
Braco Dimitrijevic
Dubossarsky
Miklós Erhardt
Erika Feher
Vadim Fishkin
Janos Fodor
Ivana Franke
Danko Friscic
Ivan Ladislav Galeta
Tomo Savic Gecan
Tomislav Gotovac
Igor Grubic
Dimitry Gutov
Nicole Hewitt
Andrea Huszar
Aleksey Kalima
Tibor Iski Kocsis
Zlatko Kopljar
Alem Korkut
Ivan Kozaric
Kristijan Kožul
Denis Kraskovic
Ines Krasic
Elke Krystufek
Oleg Kulik
Andreja Kuluncic
Sanja Ivekovic
Kristina Leko
Little Warsaw
David Maljkovic
Dalibor Martinis
Hajnal Nemeth
Csaba Nemes
Nils Norman
Roman Ondak
Ana Opalic
Adrian Paci
Radek Group
Ivan Seremet
Boris Šincek
Sandra Sterle
Janos Sugar
Slaven Tolj
Milica Tomic
Goran Trbuljak
Újlak Group
Tibor Várnagy
Gyula Varnai
Matko Vekic
Beata Veszely
Vinogradov


 

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