Guided tour with curator Török Krisztián Gábor at "What year are you?" exhibition
We warmly welcome everyone to join us on December 5 at 5:30 PM for an English-language guided tour by Török Krisztián Gábor at our What Year Are You? exhibition!
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About the exhibition:
MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, founded in 2006, took an important step in 2023: our art center, which had been a gallery until then, entered the institutional network of museums, the primary and most important result of which is that its collection has now become accessible to the community, as a public collection. For us, this represents a change not only in terms of professional classification, but also because through our collection we preserve the legacy of the past for the future. Thus, we primarily perceive it as a common, but above all, as a community matter, the presentation of which, beyond the obligation that comes with status, is our intrinsic need and a task we are happy to undertake.
The exhibition What Year Are You? is a permanent exhibition of the collection of MODEM – Center for Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibition, which consists of a collection that has been continuously formed from the collections of the past 18 years, from art purchases, achievements of the Debrecen International Artists’ Colony, as well as from the donations of artists, was created through a curatorial selection process based on the criteria of generational research, presenting it in various artistic media on the basis of how it links with the professional portfolio of the institution. The exhibition from the collection of MODEM features works by nearly fifty artists from the so-called Lost Generation to Gen Z.
Each section is arranged by the birth year of the artists, rather than by the aesthetic, art theoretical or art historical categories they represent, or that can be associated with their works. Through a selection from the recent collection of MODEM, we aim to examine, among other issues, the creative and receptive aspects of art, cultural necessity and social relevance of the museum and the collection through questions, such as to what extent do the different generations and the very different geographical and social conditions associated with them determine the way in which certain artists create and the themes they address.
Exhibiting Artists:
Lost Generation: Aba-Novák Vilmos
G.I. Generation: Reigl Judit, Vera Molnár
Silent Generation: Birkás Ákos, Keserü Ilona, Lakner László, Nádler István, Tölg-Molnár Zoltán, Tót Endre
Baby-Boomers: Bukta Imre, Csontó Lajos, Eperjesi Ágnes, Fehér László, feLugossy László, Gábor Imre, Gerber Pál, Kicsiny Balázs, Lovas Ilona, Pinczehelyi Sándor, Várnai Gyula
Generation X: Asztalos Zsolt, Benczúr Emese, Csörgő Attila, Eszterházy Marcell, Gyenis Tibor, Katharina Roters, Nagy Kriszta x-T, Pettendi-Szabó Péter, Richter Sára, Société Réaliste, Szolnoki József
Generation Y (Millennials): Balázs Nikolett, Bede Kincső, Dobokay Máté, Gallai Judit, Nemes Márton, Molnár Judit Lilla, Renta Pintérova, Schuller Judit Flóra, Tim Freiwald, Váczi Lilla
Generation Z (Zoomers): Koltay Dorottya Szonja
Curator: Süli-Zakar Szabolcs (Generation X)
Co-curator: Török Krisztián Gábor (Generation Z (Zoomers))
Center of Modern and Contemporary Art - Modemart
“The MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art is a cultural institution with international connections, which has two main missions: the exhibition of the most significant 20th century Hungarian and international works of art, and the representative presentation of the current schools and progressive efforts of the contemporary visual art and culture as well as most respected Hungarian and international artists.”
The MODEM intends to realise those ambitious goals that the institution has set for itself during the start-up period.
With one of the best infrastructural conditions in East-Central-Europe, the MODEM is to be an essential part not only of the visual art scene but the whole cultural sphere. The art center is suitable to represent that the culture has high priority for the institutes and the whole town. Therefore, one of our basic goals is to make the MODEM a wider intellectual space and forum to where not only the spectators but also the artists return regularly with pleasure.
The primary point of view of the MODEM is the reconstruction of its character in the Hungarian art life, with the cooperation with new elements which strengthen the relation with the local and regional community as well as with the broader international cultural scene in a longer term perspective and form and run a multilevel and manifold network. We aim to create a brand new narrative which change the public opinion about the role of the contemporary art and make the visual art the part of the everyday life. An important goal of our programme is to represent the diversity of the contemporary art and to display the attendant art in different forms. In the selection of thematic exhibitions, not only the visual art gets into focus but the architecture and social science as well.
The Antal‒Lusztig Collection also plays a major role in the MODEM’s life, since it is permanent part of the ground floor exhibition room. The items of the collection are presented by newly arranged exhibitions twice a year. Furthermore, the professional and accurate cataloguing of the collection has started simultaneously as well.
