Időszaki kiállítás: Tanulni a természettől? – Botanika
We welcome all visitors - not only nature lovers - to our latest temporary exhibition at MODEM, from 7 December 2024 to 23 March 2025!
The exhibition "Learning from nature? - Botany is for those who want to explore the intersection of nature and contemporary art, and are open to rethinking the way we live with nature.
The three main themes of MODEM's exhibition are the observation of Anthropocene mosaic landscapes, the reinterpretation of natural symbolism and the use of speculative storytelling.
The works on display were created during a two-week workshop at the Debrecen International Artists' Colony 2024 in the summer of 2024. The participating artists, architects, musicians and designers drew inspiration from the rich natural history of Debrecen and its surroundings, fostering artistic exploration and collaboration.
About the exhibition:
Through the Herbarium written by Péter Juhász Méliusz (1578) and the Hungarian Herbarium of Sámuel Diószegi and Mihály Fazekas (1807), the city has been a centre of botanical and natural history research. MODEM's new exhibition builds on this rich heritage and showcases Debrecen's unique natural collections, such as the Debrecen Reformed College Museum, the University of Debrecen Botanical Garden and the Hortobágy National Park.
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Exhibiting artists:
CENTRALA - Małgorzata Kuciewicz & Simone De Iacobis (PL/IT),
Daniel Godinez Nivón (MX/NL),
Illés Zsófia Szonja (HU)
Katalin Kortmann-Járay & Karina Mendreczky (HU)
Kuzma Eszter Júlia (HU), Gaja Mežnarić Osole & Krater Collective (SI)
Thea Lazăr (RO)
Szabó Bálint (HU)
Szabó Nóra (HU)
Vékony Dorottya (HU)
More information:
https://modemart.hu/kiallitas/tanulni-a-termeszettol-botanika/
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.