'Dunapest Festival', Art Quarter Budapest, 2 – 3 September

  • 1 Sep 2017 10:00 AM
'Dunapest Festival', Art Quarter Budapest, 2 – 3 September
Every city has its secret creative hub, traditionally with an industrial design that highly attracts artists from time to time. Such center of art is Art Quarter Budapest [AQB] in Budafok (located in the 22nd district of Budapest), an independent international artist residency center for contemporary arts and Spatial Sound Institute, who are focusing on 4D sound experience and spacial acoustics. Due to their highly diversified activities, artist of all kinds of different disciplines of art find home for their work in the buildings overlooking the Danube that once belonged to the famous Haggenmacher Brewery.

Detailed program:

September 2, 7 pm – 9.30 pm
7 pm – 9 pm SPLASH – before, during, after / exhibition opening /
Grand opening of the joint exhibition of contemporary fine arts by AQB and Everybody Needs Art in aqb PROJECT SPACE.

Exhibiting artists: János BRÜCKNER, József CSATÓ, FUKUI Yusuke, Gábor ERDÉLYI, Tibor HORVÁTH, Zsófia KERESZTES, Max SIEDENTOPF, Éva SZOMBAT, Dorottya VÉKONY; Curator: Péter Bencze

7 pm – 9 pm Erik Mátrai: Porticus 3.0 / interactive light installation /
8:30 pm – 9:30 pm FOR. (T+U, Farbwechsel) / DJ set /

September 3, 12 am – 6 pm
12 am – 6 pm Traditional fish soup cooking in the courtyard of AQB
Cooks of the Érsekcsanádi Rév Csárda restaurant stand by the kettles.

2 pm – 4 pm 3:1 Art-Studio-Visit
Meeting three AQB artists in person on the studio level. We can peek into the working environment of Márton Emil Tóth, Csongor Szigeti and Áron Kútvögyi-Szabó. Number of participants for the walk is 50.
Preliminary registration: office@letitbeartagency.com

2 pm – 6 pm SPLASH – before, during, after / exhibition /
Joint exhibition of AQB and Everybody Needs Art in AQB’s Project Space.

Exhibiting artists: János BRÜCKNER, József CSATÓ, FUKUI Yusuke, Gábor ERDÉLYI, Tibor HORVÁTH, Zsófia KERESZTES, Max SIEDENTOPF, Éva SZOMBAT, Dorottya VÉKONY; Curator: Péter Bencze

2 pm – 6 pm Aloïs Yang [FR]: Hear The World Begin / audiovisual installation /
Guided tour from 4.00 pm
2 pm – 6 pm Installations of contemporary fine arts in the courtyard of AQB
Presenting: Flóra Kőszeghy, Csongor Szigeti, Ottó Szabó

5 pm – 6 pm DoN’T Eat Group: Loop Event / performance /
Site-specific performative happening of the smart! Series of Trafó House of Contemporary Arts.
Preliminary registration: andrea@trafo.hu

5:30 pm – 6 pm Performance with Csongor Szigeti’s interactive Trap-structures
Presenting: Kata Juhász Company, dancers, acrobats

Creative concept: Let it Be! art agency, Art Quarter Budapest
Cooperating partners: Spatial Sound Institute, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts

Venue: Art Quarter Budapest
Address: 1222 Budapest Nagytétényi út 48-50
Date: September 2 -3, 2017

More information: AQB

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