Krisztina Erdei

As part of Bialystok INTERPHOTO 2015, Arsenal Gallery

It will be presented from 23 October 2015 to 10 December 2015
Vernissage hrs .: 18:00
Curator: Agata Chinowska
Place: Arsenal Gallery, ul. A. Mickiewicz 2, Bialystok

Artists: Eva Kotátková (Czech), Lucia Nimcová (Slovakia) and Krisztina Erdei (Hungary)

The artists participating in the exhibition in the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok: Eva Kotátková (Czech), Lucia Nimcová (Slovakia) and Krisztina Erdei (Hungary) have quite a lot in common: they are of one generation (born in the late 70s or early 80s of the last century), use an identical medium – photography, and come from the same Visegrad Region. Their creative activity is a subjective recording of the surrounding reality and everyday life. Each artist draws inspirations from their closest environments and settings and simultaneously refers to their past which is presented both as a political system and a nostalgia for the childhood, adolescence etc. What makes their works distinct is their individual sensitivity and unique creative intuition resulting in their choices and decisions of registering particular, specific situations.

http://galeria-arsenal.pl/en/exhibitions/subjective-female-documentalists.html

This weekend I went home to Szeged and I spent 2 days near Roszke at the Hungarian- Serbian border. After many rainy days the place was really dirty. There were garbage everywhere in the fog, but many Hungarian and foreign volunteers worked in the cloud on the ground to make the “gyujtopont” cleaner and to give food and drink for the tired families just arrived. I also collected a couple of bags of garbage. It was good to see how people worked together without knowing eachother. The problem is that not just the weather was foggy but there was a total obscurity related to the informations. Nobody knew where the buses were going and what were the real options of the people crossing the wall of the police.

a kiállítás megtekinthető szeptember 24-ig a Liget Galériában

 

A LEGJOBB BEFEKTETÉS AZ ALKOHOL, MERT HOL KAPSZ VISSZA MÁSHOL 45%-OT? 

   

Mindenki érezte már, hogy szeretne elszökni, legalább egy rövid időre. Függetlenül attól, hogy milyen az aktuális helyzetünk, a problémák megoldása helyett egyszerűen csak úgy csinálni, mintha nem léteznének és lefoglalni magunkat egy alternatív valósággal. A megoldás árnyoldala csupán az, hogy időszakos és mikor újra szembesülünk a problémákkal, akkor újra elszöknénk. Ez az eszképizmus nem túl hatékony köre. A modern ember eltávolodása a társadalmi valóságtól sokféle okkal magyarázható. Lényeg, hogy szükség van a figyelemelterelésre akár szórakozás, akár pihenés formájában, hogy a hétköznapi élet nyomását enyhítsük.

Magyarországon a kultúra része a kocsmázás. A fogyasztás mennyiségét tekintve pedig a világ éllovasai közé tartozunk. Aligha kétséges, hogy a népesebb falvakban és a mezővárosokban már a középkortól működtek csapszékek, bormérések, amelyek egy idő után folyamatosan működő kocsmává intézményesültek. Helyek, amelyhez vallási ünnepek, hagyományok kapcsolódtak és emberek menedékévé vált az évszázadok során.

Ma is fontos szerepet töltenek be a kocsmák. Az ideérkező turisták egyik fő célpontja a (rom)kocsmák látogatása. A kocsma, mely a közösségi alkoholfogyasztás intézménye, a társadalmi viselkedésformák komplex színtere. Zárt világából kizárja a hétköznapok unalmát vagy a civilizáció gondját, baját. A kötetlen, nyilvános eszmecsere átmeneti otthona. „A kocsma menedék. Az egyetlen hely, ahol még elbújhatunk a világ elől. A kocsma az emberi civilizáció utolsó mentsvára.”(Cserna-Szabó András).

 Jelenleg a napi politika is a menekülésről szól. Átmeneti menedéket kell nyújtanunk az ide érkező migránsoknak. Nekik többnyire a háborús övezet a társadalmi és politikai valóságuk. Tranzitország vagyunk, ahova az emberek megérkeznek, de minél gyorsabban tovább is akarnak haladni. Egy betérő, ahol egyelőre teljes a káosz és az „ajtó” működése egyelőre tisztázatlan.

A fotóinstalláció az aktuális európai humanitárius katasztrófahelyzet és egy évszázados hagyomány kontrasztját emeli ki.

 

20 June – 16 August 2015

Australian Center for Photography, Sydney

Ex & Post presents the works of 14 contemporary photomedia artists based in Eastern Europe. Investigating the many cultural, economical and geographical connections between these countries, the exhibition goes beyond the clichés and exposes the intricacies of this political hot spot.

This exhibition features Andrej Balco, Tamás Dezső, Andrea Diefenbach, Krisztina Erdei, Kirill Golovchenko, Ivars Gravlejs, Iosif Kiraly, Rafal Milach, Marge Monko, Vesselina Nikolaeva, Lucia Nimcova, Tehnica Schweiz, Saša Tkačenko and Iveta Vaivode. Curated by Sàri Stenczer and coordinated by Krisztina Erdei (Photolumen, Budapest) in collaboration with ACP.

https://www.acp.org.au/index.php/exhibitions/88-exhibitions/exc-2/546-ex-post-eastern-europe-under-the-lens

 

Lumen Station #3
Reap and Sow
Issue release

Having received a lot of attention by contemporary art recently, the topic of this Lumen Station publication is agricultural production. More specifically, strategies of self-
sustenance and survival for individuals, small groups or a whole society, that have emerged primarily but not exclusively within art projects and initiatives launched by artists.

Utopias, an ever unreachable ideal world and the other side of the coin, dystopias, the nightmare of a dark, fearful era have been present all along known human history. However, in the recent past there has been an inevitable abundance of theories forecasting a collapse, and, parallel or maybe even as a response to these, appeared agricultural production, self sustenance and return to nature as more optimistic, counter­utopian ideas. This is not so much an artistic impulse, but a social phenomenon, which however interests many socially-engaged artists.

Editor: Virág Major
Co­Editors: Krisztina Erdei, Gergely László, Judit Szalipszki

Graphic Design: Katarina Šević

Contributors: Collective Plant, Andrea DUDÁS FAJGERNÉ and SZABÓ Eszter Ágnes, ex-artists’ collective, Fallen Fruit, finger group and Katalin ERDŐDI, Fallen Fruit, Ivan Ladislav GALETA, Fernando GARCIA­DORY, Gergely HORVÁTH ­ Róbert NAGY, Valentina KARGA, Christoph KELLER, Elke KRASNY, George McKAY, Miklós MÉCS, 
Myvillages, Nils NORMAN, Endre Lehel PAKSI, Claire PENTECOST, Klaus PICHLER, Harry SACHS ­ Franz HÖFNER

Publisher: Lumen Photography Foundation – www.photolumen.hu

The event will be accompanied by the screening of Paths Through Utopias (director: Isabelle Fremeaux, John Jordan).

The buffet during the event will be organized by the contributors of the publication from their own produces.

About Lumen Station program:
Between 2004 and 2012 the Foundation ran an international exhibition space in Budapest: the Lumen Gallery. As of 2012, the Lumen Committee has opened a new chapter. The monthly solo shows are substituted by the Lumen Station program, the publishing program of the Lumen Foundation. Within this framework a single project or a general topic is chosen and focused upon in a publication. Instead of the artwork and the exhibition, the artistic process and its context are put into spotlight.

The publication is released in the framework of the Off­Biennale Budapest.

www.offbiennale.hu

Flood, Budakalasz 2013

The theme of the sixth cycle of the Prix Pictet is Disorder. The theme was announced at a Reception at the Musée d’Art Moderne de La Ville in Paris, during the annual Paris Photo photography fair. The work of the finalists selected for the sixth cycle will be showcased in an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne da la Ville de Paris in November 2015, at which time the winner will be announced.

STOCKING ACCIDENTAL’ Exhibition @ Brody ArtYard

THURSDAY 24 JULY 2014 | 7PM+

Brody ArtYard is pleased to announce the opening of Krisztina Erdei’s photography exhibition.

Erdei is one of the 2 Hungarian artists presented at this year’s (19th) Sydney Biennale.

Her documentary-style photographs are quirky and humorous but also insolent, stirring, poetic or simply bewildering. Spanning communities across Ukraine, Lithuania, Kosovo and Hungary, her work provides a glimpse into the shifting circumstances of this region.

Erdei exhibited extensively abroad and was shortlisted for the 7th BMW-Paris Photo Prize in 2010. She is a founding member of the Lumen Photography Foundation, created in 2002 to nurture an experimental, international platform for photographic art in Hungary.

Exhibition can be viewed from July 24th to September 24th.

YOU IMAGINE WHAT YOU DESIRE

21 March – 9 June 2014
Artistic Director: Juliana Engberg
Read the Artistic Director Foreword
19th Biennale Exhibition Report

YOU IMAGINE WHAT YOU DESIRE

21 March – 9 June 2014
Artistic Director: Juliana Engberg

Visit the 19th Biennale of Sydney website

The 19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire presented the work of 92 artists from 31 countries free to the public over a three-month period. Curated by Juliana Engberg, the exhibition was presented at various partner venues including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, Carriageworks, Cockatoo Island and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Other works and events were experienced at various locations throughout the city, including Henrik Håkansson’s epic, episodic film and orchestral performance work, THE END (2011 and 2014), which was presented at Pier 2/3 in Walsh Bay.

This year, more than 623,000 visited the Biennale partner venues, including nearly 125,000 from overseas, the highest international visitation numbers recorded in the Biennale’s 41-year history. In addition, audiences also experienced outdoor works by Nathan Coley on the Eastern Apron of Cockatoo Island, and the building exteriors of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, as well as numerous performance works in public spaces.

 

 

 

Krisztina Erdei

10 photographs
90 x 120 cm each
Installation view of the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Courtesy the artist; Godot Gallery, Budapest; and Lumen Photography Foundation, Budapest
All versions were created for the 19th Biennale of Sydney
Photograph: Sebastian Kriete

 

The photography exhibition Power & Play will take place in the framework in the fifth edition of Summer of Photography. This year the main theme will be ‘gender’. The goal is to encourage debate on the position of men and women in our contemporary society.

Power & Play
The exhibition Power & Play in De Markten will bring the work of ten Central and Eastern European artists who focus on the theme of gender. Until recently, it was difficult to discover anything about the relationship between photography and feminism in Eastern Europe. Concepts such as feminism, liberation, and equality had a quite different interpretation under communism. Also during the political and socio-economic transformation after the fall of the Berlin Wall, little attention was paid to women’s position in society or to their participation in the changes. The following artists will focus on the theme ‘gender’:

Katarzyna Kozyra (1963 – PL)
Matei Bejenaru (1963 – RO)
Anetta Mona Chisa (1975 – RO)
Reinis Hofmanis (1985 – LV)
Eva Filovà (1968 – SK)
Lucia Tkacova (1977 – SK)
Dita Pepe (1973 – CZ)
Krisztina Erdei (1977 – HU)
Boryana Rossa (1972 – BG)
Pepa Hristova (1977 – BG)

This youth program initiative gives high school students the opportunity to participate in a lively debate and to question Biennale artists and arts specialists on current art issues. The forum is followed by a sneak preview of the 19th Biennale led by Gallery educators. This project was made possible with generous assistance from the Nelson Meers Foundation.

Biennale Art Forum: Michael Cook and Krisztina Erdei
20 March 2014 from 12PM
Art Gallery of NSW
Art Gallery Road, The Domain,
Sydney NSW 2000, Australia