HANDLE WITH CARE.
Caring is a shared experience that we all share, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. It can be understood in relation to ourselves (self-care), at the level of interpersonal relationships (caring for children, the sick, the elderly), but it can also be extended to natural beings and, more broadly, to a caring relationship with the Earth itself. The multifaceted concept of caring also has a strong economic and political dimension, with the crisis of care, care migration, global care chains and their impact being among the most pressing issues of our time.
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The title of the exhibition, Care, Fragile ∞ Handle with Care, alludes to the vulnerability of those in need of care, the asymmetrical relationship between caregiver and cared-for, the fragility of life and the fragility of our ecosystem, the gaps in the social safety net and the everyday rituals of caregiving - but most of all, it calls attention to the need for collective responsibility. It also relates to the role of the museum itself, which, beyond the careful management of artefacts, must face new challenges and tasks that affect society. At a time of crisis on multiple levels - social, economic, natural, health - the exhibition seeks to answer the question of how to interpret the multifaceted notion of care and the role of art (and the museum) in rethinking it. Bearing in mind the original meaning of the word curator (curare = to care, to nurture, to heal), what are the pillars of a 'caring' museum? How can an art institution become more sensitive to social issues, more inclusive, more open, more accessible, more community-building?
Caring permeates almost every aspect of today's social reality. Partly as a consequence of the pandemic COVID-19, the sense of collective care and responsibility for oneself and others has become more acute than ever. The epidemic period also showed the heavy burden on women, health workers and social workers, and the inequality in the gender distribution of care work. It also highlighted issues relating to the role of the state, the primacy of economic interests and the autonomy of the individual.
This exhibition presents real situations and raises questions rather than providing ready answers to these problems. The different artistic positions take up different points of view and the diversity of the works shows that care is a key concept of our time and its critical potential is not negligible.
Curators:Rita Dabi-Farkas, Viktória Popovics
Concept by Viktória Popovics
Exhibiting artists
BAGLYAS Erika, Maria BARTUSZOVÁ, Oksana BRJUKOVECKA, Elina BROTHERUS, Seba CALFUQUEO, Aleksandr CSEKMENYOV, Phil COLLINS, Anna DAUČÍKOVÁ, EPERJESI Ágnes, ESTERHÁZY Marcell, FAJGERNÉ DUDÁS Andrea, FÁTYOL Viola, Andreas FOGARASI, Coco FUSCO, Anna HULAČOVÁ, Sanja IVEKOVIĆ, KIS Judit, LŐRINCZ Réka, Katyerina LISZOVENKO, MATERNAL FANTASIES, OLÁH Norbert, Oláh Mara OMARA, Kateřina ŠEDÁ, SZÁSZ Lilla, SZENES Zsuzsa, TARR Hajnalka, TRANKER Kata, VÉKONY Dorottya, Stephanie WINTER
External venue | Hungarian Hospice Foundation, Kenyeres utca 18-22.: Tamás KASZÁS, Anikó LORÁNT
Documentaries by Benedek BOGNÁR & Zsuzsi SIMON - Dániel SZALKAI, István M. DABI - Rita DABI-FARKAS
Other contributors: Krisztina ERDEI, Juli JÁSDI, Eszter KÁLLAY, Andrea PÓCSIK and Norbert OLÁH, RomaMoMA Nomadic Library, Romani Design
Ludwig Museum
The Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, located in Müpa, is the first museum in Hungary to exclusively collect contemporary art. In addition to a permanent exhibition of the collection donated by the Ludwigs and a number of temporary exhibitions, the museum aims to raise awareness of the works and their creators through special publications and a variety of art education and art education programmes.