Zones of Opacity – The Central Exhibition of AWB
This year, Art Weekend Budapest opens with the central exhibition “Zones of Opacity”, which also marks the first presentation of the STRABAG ART collection in Hungary. The exhibition features a selection of works from the collection, expanded with invited artists, presented according to Krisztián Gábor Török’s curatorial concept.
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„The exhibition invites us to recognize that visibility is never neutral, often a privilege, while opacity, like a figure beyond frosted glass, is a space for protection, for preserving one's own narrative. Based on the STRABAG ART collection and expanded with invited artists, the selection, as the central exhibition of AWB, reinterprets this year's theme - See and be Seen -through the concept of "the right to opacity" by Martinican writer Édouard Glissant.
The visual and conceptual tensions that unfold between the works rethink the relationships between vision, visibility, and concealment - pointing out that visibility is not only a possibility but often a privilege, while opacity can be a space for protection, autonomy, and freedom.”
Featured artists:
Kristóf József Balogh, Catherine Biocca, Júlia Csapó, Maria Corejova, Márta Czene, Ákos Ezer, Robert Gabris, Aldo Giannotti, Birke Gorm, Emma Hummerhielm Carlén, Tadéas Kotrba, Nana Mandl, Georg Pinteritsch, Markus Proschek, Maja Vukoje
Curator: Krisztián Gábor Török
Curatorial assistant: Fruzsina Szabó
The exhibition is on view until 9 January 2026.
Opening hours: from Monday to Sunday 10:00–17:00 (during the holidays, between December 24–26, Brody House and the exhibition will be closed)
All visitors are warmly invited to the opening on 27 November at 19:00 at Brody House.