Sárai Vanda művészeti író, műfordító tárlatvezetése a MODEM 20 című kiállításon
We warmly invite anyone interested to join art writer and literary translator Vanda Sárai for a guided tour of the exhibition “MODEM 20: A Selection from the MODEM Collection” on July 25 at 4:00 p.m.!
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About the Exhibition:
Founded in 2006, the MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and the concept of this exhibition reflects on this milestone. From the very beginning, collaboration with cultural and educational institutions in Debrecen has been of paramount importance to MODEM, which is why we invited twenty partner institutions in Debrecen—with whom we have worked over the past two decades—to select a work from our collection that is important to them and to write a statement of up to 1,500 characters explaining their choice.
We are dedicating part of this anniversary to showcasing Debrecen’s cultural diversity and to presenting a kaleidoscopic view of the works in our collection through the perspectives of our partner institutions.
In the second section of the exhibition, we have selected works by artists who have some connection to MODEM—for example, those who have previously been featured in our exhibitions—but for whom we have not yet had the opportunity to acquire their works.
Exhibiting Artists:
Kristóf József Balogh, Mária Berhidi, Ákos Birkás, Loránd Bögös, Imre Bukta, Centrala (Małgorzata Kuciewicz & Simone De Iacobis), Balázs Csizik, Daniel Godínez Nivón, Miklós Erhardt, Mátyás Erményi, Miklós Ganczaugh, Pál Gerber, Kitti Gosztola, Ferenc Gróf, Sándor Imreh, Richárd Kiss, Katalin Kortmann-Járay & Karina Mendreczky, Gábor Kristóf, Csilla Nagy, Norbert Oláh, Rudolf Pacsika, Péter Pettendi-Szabó, Société Réaliste, Luca Rózsa, Ádám Szabó, Lilla Szász, Lenke Szilágyi, Lilla Váczi, Ottó Vincze, Wiosna van Bon
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.
