Hanyas vagy? (2024. március 30. - 2025. december 31.)
The MODEM Public Collection exhibition on a generational approach
We welcome all visitors to our exhibition "How old are you?" between 30 March 2024 and 31 December 2025!
"We understand each other with half words!?"
Schedule
Founded in 2006, the MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art took an important step in 2023: the art centre, which had previously been a gallery, entered the museum institutional network, the primary and most important result of which is that its collection is now accessible to the community, a public collection.
Hanyas Vagy? is a permanent exhibition of the collection of the MODEM Modern and Contemporary Art Centre in Debrecen.
The exhibition is based on the collection of the last 18 years, which is still evolving from the collections and acquisitions of the Debrecen International Artists' Colony, as well as from the results of the Debrecen International Artists' Colony and the donations of artists, and was created following a curatorial selection process based on the criteria of generational research, and is presented in various artistic media in line with the professional portfolio of the institution. Drawing on the insights of generational theory, each section is arranged according to the artists' year of birth, rather than according to the aesthetic, art theoretical or art historical categories they represent or can be associated with their work. The collective exhibition includes works by nearly fifty artists from the so-called lost generation to Z.
In selecting the works on show, the curators have taken care to ensure that the exhibition is a worthy representation of MODEM's 18 years of cultural activity, and have selected works by artists who have either had a solo exhibition or have been the main artists in a major group show.
Exhibiting artists:
Lost Generation: Vilmos Aba-Novák
Founders (Builders):Judit Reigl, Vera Molnár
Veterans: Ákos Birkás, Ilona Keserü, László Lakner, István Nádler, Endre Tót, Zoltán Tölg-Molnár,
Baby Boomers.
Generation X. Zsolt Asztalos, Emese Benczúr, Attila Csörgő, Marcell Esterházy, Tibor Gyenis, Tibor Nagy Kriszta x-T, Péter Pettendi Szabó, Sára Richter, Katharina Roters, Société Réaliste, József Szolnoki.
Generation Y: Nikolett Balázs, Kincső Bede, Máté Dobokay, Tim Freiwald, Judit Ágnes Gallai, Judit Lilla Molnár, Márton Nemes, Renata Pintérova, Judit Flóra Schuller, Lilla Váczi.
Generation Z: Dorottya Szonja Koltay
Curator: Szabolcs Süli-Zakar (Generation X)
Co-curator: Gábor Török Krisztián (Generation Z)
Z Generation (Z Generation)
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.