This year, OFF-Biennale marks a decade of collaborative efforts as a grassroots organization and independent platform. Through its diverse activities, OFF-Biennale aims to strengthen the local independent art scene, and to contribute to public discourse on social, political and environmental issues, with the intention of promoting a culture of democracy through art.

The 5th anniversary edition will take place across various venues in Budapest from May 8 to June 15, 2025, followed by events in several European cities—Vienna, Amsterdam, Oldenburg and Limerick—through various partnerships.

This year’s theme revolves around the concept of “security”—a term often invoked and distorted in public discourse, largely shaped by populist right-wing rhetoric. The title of the Biennale, Poems of Unrest, references a work by artist and activist Robert Gabris, which introduces new techniques for collective productivity and imagination to help navigate the present. The Biennale comprises numerous projects at different locations, primarily as exhibitions and accompanying events (performances, screenings, walks), but also featuring collective actions in public spaces.

As multiple crises intensify and converge—fueled by far-right political agendas, wars, the cost-of-living and housing crises, and the anthropogenic climate crisis—we find ourselves on shifting ground, grappling with persistent feelings of unrest and anxiety.

However, we must acknowledge that not all of us are equally affected. We each experience different privileges and disadvantages, and our awareness of global systems of imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism varies. These systems shape our lives, positioning us as both beneficiaries and those marginalized by them, often simultaneously and to varying degrees.

Our fate, as social beings, is inextricably linked to the world around us—human and non-human alike. In this context, how can we build and sustain meaningful connections, develop inclusive political and social agendas, amplify often unheard voices, and foster resilience and cooperation in times of insecurity?

Poems of Unrest draws on diverse experiences and offers profound, personal perspectives, capturing emotional complexities where the poetic manifests in many forms. The selected works engage with the theme of security while addressing interconnected issues such as systemic inequality, control, marginalization, the impact of armed conflicts, migration, decoloniality, the climate crisis, queer ecologies, domestic violence, bodily autonomy, and feminist resistance.

The works on display employ a range of strategies, including absurd humor, practices of pleasure, and playfulness, to reflect on our current condition, urgencies, and challenges. At the same time, they look to a wealth of knowledge and civic practices for building alliances, solidarity, and sustainable, meaningful ways of living together.

Curatorialteam: Nikolett Erőss, Rita Kálmán, Eszter Lázár, Edit Molnár, Veronika Molnár, Kata Oltai, Lívia Páldi, Hajnalka Somogyi, Borbála Soós, Katalin Székely

Main supporters: The Sigrid Rausing Trust, EU Creative Europe Programme / European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), Foundation for Arts Initiatives, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland / Polish Presidency, Our Common Values Programme / Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV), ERSTE Foundation, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Federal Ministry Republic of Austria – Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sports, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, OFF Friends’ Circle, Green Cloud Platform Zrt., Culture Ireland, Silkem Hungary Kft., Concorde, Maurice Ward Art Handling, Goethe Institute Hungary, British Council Hungary, Between Bridges

Supporters: French Institute Hungary, Polish Institute Budapest, Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest, Ukrainian Institute, Praktiker Kft., Sika Hungary Kft., JCDecaux, White Lake Consulting, University of Bergen Faculty of Art, Music and Design, Embassy of Sweden, Italian Cultural Institute Budapest, Nordconn International, Oázis Garden Centers, Bortársaság, Gerlóczy Café & Restaurant, Cabrio, Municipality of Józsefváros, II. District Municipality, and private donors supporting the 2025 biennale edition

Mainpartners:Light Art Museum, EVA International, Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg

Partners: Vintage Gallery, Bakáts Bunker Underground Kulturális Tér, Blinken OSA Archivum, CEU Open Gallery, Milestone Institute, ISBN+, Biennale Warszawa Foundation (_BW_Lab), Semmelweis Medical History Museum/Library/Archives, Sincerely Yours Space & Agency, Bura Gallery, Useless Galeri, Trafó Gallery, Liget Gallery, BHM-Kiscelli Museum Municipal Gallery, School of Disobedience, 1111 Gallery, Kisterem Gallery, Longtermhandstand, ACB Gallery, Budapest Gallery, Hungarian Látványtár Foundation & Collection, Recetas Urbanas, Artemisszió Foundation / Mira House, FiDo Youth Centre, Gólya Community Center / Building Communities Through Neighborhoods programme, Glove Factory Community Center, Moravcsik Foundation, Never Give Up Hungary Foundation, Péter Vajda Community Garden, Second Chance Sports Association, Uccu Foundation, Art is Business, Museum of Contemporary Art | Belgrade, Polona Institute (Warsaw), Jednostka Gallery (Warsaw), Das Weisse Haus, r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation, Klauzál6 Project Gallery, Romano Kher

Mediapartners:Artmagazin, Contemporary Lynx, Glamour, Józsefvárosi Újság

OFF-BIENNALE PROJECTS:

these walls are not here to defend us¹

Open and associative yet tangible and specific, the exhibition these walls… brings together a diverse array of artistic practices that explore the Biennale’s key themes: safety and security. Though loosely connected, the selected works speak to and through one another, their varied—and at times conflicting—voices coexisting in dialogue. Informed by distinct human, cultural, and political experiences across geographies and historical moments, these perspectives intersect and challenge binary thinking and patriarchal worldviews. They confront both literal and metaphorical walls that shape our contemporary reality.

Exhibiting artists: Larry Achiampong (UK), Kateryna Aliinyk (UA), Kader Attia (DZ/FR), Daniel Baker (UK), Anna Barna (HU), Mária Berhidi (HU), Gipsy Criminals (HU), Anna Daučíková (SK/CZ), Sara Greavu – Ciara Phillips – Derry Film and Video Workshop (IE), Róza El-Hassan (HU/SY), The Erfurt Women Artists’ Group (DE), Rachel Fallon – Alice Maher (IE), Robert Gabris (SK/AT), Dóra Galyas Denerák (HU), Andrea Gáldi Vinkó (HU), Andrea Éva Győri (HU), Anita Horváth (HU), Gideon Horváth (HU), Ingela Ihrman (SE), Flo Kasearu (EE), Dorottya Szonja Koltay (HU), Dominika Kowynia (PL), Anikó Loránt (HU), Goranka Matić (SI), Noor Afshan Mirza – Brad Butler (UK), Zanele Muholi (ZA), Iz Öztat (TR), Paula Rego (PT),

Davinia-Ann Robinson (UK), Katarina Šević (RS/HU), Zsófia Takács (HU), Dominika Trapp (HU), Slavs and Tatars (PL/US), Zorka Wollny (PL)

Curators: Rita Kálmán, Eszter Lázár, Edit Molnár, Veronika Molnár, Lívia Páldi, Hajnalka Somogyi, Borbála Soós, Katalin Székely

Venue: Merlin, Károly krt. / Town Hall Park (District 5)adam mickiewicz institute Opening: May 8, 19.00

Open: May 9 – June 15, Wednesday: 16.00–19:00, Thursday–Friday: 16.00–20.00,

Saturday–Sunday: 10:00–16:00

Emergency Frequencies

Sound, with its intense somatic materiality, is often deployed in psychological, and even in physical warfare. The sounds of air raids, bombs, and fighter jets impacts can be as devastating as the actual casualties they induce. The butcher’s bill is paid in somatic symptoms and

post-traumatic conditions, which, as we know, can be as deadly as the weapons themselves. Organized in a former air-raid-shelter in the framework of OFF-Biennale Budapest, the exhibition EmergencyFrequenciespresents works that represent, manipulate, and play with the sounds of war. These works transcribe, deconstruct, recompose and overwrite the sounds of conflict, offering visions of possible futures where weapons might remain silent after all. The exhibition, in collaboration with the Blinken OSA Archivum, will also present a range of archival

¹ Extract from the poem ‘tourists’ by the poet Rebeka Kupihár. English translation by Anna Bentley: https://konyvesmagazin.hu/panodyssey_cikkek/kupihar_rebeka_forditas.html

material on the Cold War civil air defense, as well as documents from the siege of Budapest, which ended eighty years ago.

Exhibiting artists: Lawrence Abu Hamdan (JO/UK), Nikita Kadan (UA), Ádám Jeneses – Dániel Kophelyil – Ádám Krasz (HU), Cal Kowal – Charlotte Moorman (US), Tuan Andrew Nguyen (VN/US), Open Group (UA), Tamás Páll (HU)

Curators: Veronika Molnár, Katalin Székely

Venue: Bakáts Bunker Underground Cultural Space, Bakáts tér 1. (District 9) Vernissage: May 10, 18:00

Open: May 8 – June 15, Monday–Sunday: 9.00–19.00

Traces of Life

The exhibition Traces of Life interrogates the interdependence of human and non-human life, exploring their intersecting mobilities and rights in hostile environments. Too often, nature has been weaponized in the service of military invasions and national border defenses. Controlling nature, like controlling people, has long been part of the arsenal of war. The stakes in this struggle involve the power to determine who6 is welcome in certain territories and who is not. Who is displaced, and for whose benefit? What complex forces govern these sites? And how is value measured when the preservation of specific orchid species is contrasted with the neglect of vulnerable groups of people, such as refugees?

Exhibiting artist: Forensic Architecture (UK), Hanna Rullmann (NL) – Faiza Ahmad Khan (IN), OFF Seed Library – Seeds of Tomorrow

Curators: Borbála Soós, Katalin Székely

Venue: CEU Open Gallery (Nyitott Galéria), Nádor utca 11. (District 5) Opening: May 9, 18.00

Open: May 8 – June 14, Tuesday–Saturday: 12.00–18.00

Kincső Bede – The Art of Pista

Though drawn from her personal experiences—specifically the complicated and often unsettling relationship between her grandparents—the Romanian/Hungarian artist Kincső Bede’s

long-term series The Art of Pista (2015–2023) opens up various perspectives on the capacities and responsibilities of photography. The work is presented as a site-specific installation that guides the viewer through different spaces and rooms, each representing a chapter in a layered story of intergenerational dynamics. Bede blurs the boundaries between staged images, figments of her imagination, and what might be considered a documented event. The installation consists not only of her photographs but also of surviving props and wooden sculptures created

by her grandfather, Pista, as well as documents, letters, additional photographs, and a video piece.

Bede also reflects on her position as a photographer, using the camera as a shield—a protective device in difficult situations that provided her both a vantage point and a necessary distance. The result is a tabloid-like, complex mapping of intertwining relationships and a nuanced reflection on vulnerability, the construction of private and collective memory, and photography as a powerful tool for multifaceted approaches to abusive histories.

Curator: Lívia Páldi

Venue: Milestone Institute, Wesselényi utca 17. (District 7) Opening: May 9, 17.00

Open: May 9 – June 14, Thursday–Friday 16.00–19.00, Saturday 10.00–16.00 (Due to private events, the exhibition will not be open to visitors on May 10 and 17)

Mai Ling – Dirt Nouveau

The connecting link of the Vienna-based Mai Ling artist collective’s exhibition is the sticky substance made out of the roots of the kudzu plant. Its viscous quality symbolizes not only unity and community but also resistance, challenging the stereotypes associated with “Asia” as the exotic Other, and questioning the entanglements of food, migration, colonization, and the dirty and sticky intersections of imagination. The exhibition includes a sound installation that highlights issues of racism, sexism, and immigrant experiences, as well as a statement video referencing the collective’s name beside analyzing the enduring sexist and racial stereotypes of Asian women.

Founded in 2019, Mai Ling aims to address discrimination by amplifying the voices of Asian FLINT* (female, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, and trans) communities and creating new forms of collaboration and community.

Curators: Rita Kálmán, Eszter Lázár

Venue: Kisterem Gallery, Képíró utca 6. (District 5) Opening: May 8, 18.00

Open: May 8 – June 13, Tuesday–Friday: 14.00–18.00

Karolina Bregula – The Storm

Polish artist Karolina Breguła’s video installation The Storm is a rather dark portrait of collective fear, isolation and, on a larger scale, a dysfunctional society. At a time of global political and environmental crises, Breguła’s dark, analytical work could describe a complex psychological situation through a rather simple scenario: the image of the sea and a distant island, observed by five characters who reveal their most hidden emotions as the destructive wind and waves grow. The threatening change in the weather reveals social tensions and conflicts within the small community, which seems unprepared to face the coming dangers together. The text-heavy

talking head composition of the 5-channel video installation portrays the individuals gripped by fear, and the growing mastery of suspense highlights the protagonists’ inability to unite, their fear keeping them separate, suspicious and powerless.

Curator: Edit Molnár

Venue: Vintage Gallery, Magyar utca 26. (District 5) Opening: May 8, 18.30

Open: May 8 – June 13, Tuesday–Friday: 14.00–18.00

Venom Zine Library

Venom Zine Library is a DIY BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) and queer zine library, as well as a platform for exploring self-publishing. Based in Copenhagen, it was founded by Maya Acharya and Janna Aldaraji. The project stems from a desire to collectivize access to zines, share resources on zine-making, and promote self-publishing as a tool within communities, activist spaces, organizing, and academia.

To foster conversation and contextualize Venom’s collection within OFF-Biennale Budapest, Hungary, and Eastern Europe, curator Borbála Soós, in collaboration with the ISBN+ team, has selected additional publications. This selection aims to highlight grassroots organizing and

intersectional struggles from marginalized perspectives, amplifying anti-fascist, feminist, disabled, queer, and Roma voices.

Come and browse over 200 zines at ISBN+ or create your own using guided instructions from Venom Zine Library. Explore zine-making as a powerful tool for grassroots organizing, activism and sharing ideas and art.

Curator: Borbála Soós

Venue: ISBN+, Baross utca 42. (District 8) Opening: May 10, 13:00

Open: May 8 – June 14, Tuesday–Friday 12.00–18.00, Saturday 14.00–18.00

AllinOne – Participatory Urban Planning and Building Project in the Making

AllinOne is the name of a public installation planned for the bustling Kálvária Square (District VIII.) in collaboration with local civic groups and their communities, under the professional guidance of Recetas Urbanas, an international collective of architects and activists. Led by the Spanish architects Santiago Cirugeda and Alice Attout they have been engaged in participatory design and socially engaged architecture worldwide. Their approach builds on the challenges and opportunities faced by participating communities while fostering cooperation, solidarity, and creativity.

As part of the OFF-Biennale and its central theme, with the engagement of local civic groups, established and emerging communities, and residents, the project will reflect on the accessibility of public spaces while exploring the concept of security through public, dialogical interactions.

Grounded in the site’s unique characteristics, participants will not only co-design and construct a

community structure but will also define its function and operation, ensuring its long-term integration into the public space.

Curators: Nikolett Erőss, Rita Kálmán, Eszter Lázár Venue: Kálvária tér (District 8)

Vernissage: May 10, 15.00–18.00

Open: May 8 – August 31

COOPERATIONS / coproductions by OFF and a partner organisation:

The Day After Tomorrow, Everything Will Change

The exhibition, staged in multiple locations, examines how emerging and mid-career Hungarian women artists relate to the promise of the day after tomorrow inherited from previous generations. In the constantly reshaping battlefields, how do women respond, negotiate, and attempt to expand the narrow paths offered by patriarchy?

The exhibit is divided and installed across two locations: a private home, rented for the exhibition, and a former pharmacy, now part of a museum. The two spaces hold significant meaning as this area of Budapest’s 8th district is connected to the social trauma of prostitution. While society has removed this taboo from the streets, it has never tried to discuss it in a broader context. It is crucial to consider how we initiate the resolution of the oppressive gestures against women in this geopolitical context, and what suggestions, juxtapositions, and overwritings occur. The exhibition’s two spaces create connections between inside and outside, private and public/social realms, individual experience and cultural representation. They establish contexts where female narrators appear, negotiating with patriarchy, resisting, dancing out, bending in, and displaying various strategies.

Exhibiting artists: Boglárka Dankó, Nóra Zsófia Demeter, Andrea Fajgerné Dudás, Andrea Gáldi Vinkó, Dorottya Szonja Koltay, Éva Magyarósi, Dóra Palatinus, Eszter Szabó, Klára Petra Szabó

Curator: Kata Oltai

Venues: József Ernyey Pharmaceutical History Library – Semmelweis Medical History Museum, Mátyás tér 3. (District 8) / Private flat in Koszorú utca 27. (District 8)

Vernissage: May 8, 15.00–18.00 Open:

• Mátyás tér 3.: May 8. – June 13., Thursday–Friday: 15.00–19.00
• Koszorú utca 27.: May 8 – June 14, Thursday–Saturday: 15.00–19.00

Security / Borders

The exhibition Security/Borderscritically examines the concept of security through the lens of technologies, featuring works created at the intersection of art and technology, politics and society. It exposes how security infrastructures and systems, while ostensibly designed for protection, actually function as instruments that reinforce authoritarian practices, creating pockets of authoritarianism embedded in seemingly democratic systems.

Based on their previous cooperation, OFF-Biennale invited the team of Biennale Warszawa Foundation(_BW_Lab) to participate as guest-curators. Biennale Warszava is an interdisciplinary cultural institution conducting artistic, research, educational and social activities. It operates at the intersection of various disciplines, combining the area of culture and art with the area of theory and research, as well as social activism.

Exhibiting artists: Bahaleen (PS), Border Emergency Collective (PL), Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich (UK/BY), fantastic little splash (UA), Martyna Marciniak (PL), Oleksiy Radynski (UA), Firas Shekhadeh (PS), Tytus Szabelski-Różniak (PL), Filip Wesołowski (PL)

Curators: Bartosz Frąckowiak, Ewa Kozik, Paweł Wodziński / Biennale Warszawa Foundation (_BW_Lab)

Venue: Margit krt. 5/A. (District 2) Opening: May 8, 17.00

Open: May 9 – June 15, Wednesday: 16.00–19:00, Thursday–Friday: 16.00–20.00,

Saturday–Sunday: 10:00–16:00

On the Edge – Between Uncertainty and Safety

The exhibited artworks explore the layered interplay between the sense of uncertainty and safety, embodying, through a variety of media, the delicate harmony teetering on the edge—or precisely, the tireless search for it. Rather than depicting the ideal state of safety, the exhibition delves into subjective and often contradictory moments of harmony found along the fault lines of expansive, frequently incomprehensible structures—hopeful connections, discovering joy in the crumbs falling from the table. Alongside the unpredictability of the social “wheel of fortune,” appears the strength of solidarity between close-knit communities and the desire for life within the web of unchangeable circumstances—finding inner silence amidst external noise, the

prison-like fences woven from our stories and closing in on us. The duality carried within the artworks offers no simple answers, but complex perspectives when approaching the theme of safety.

The use of materials reinforces this duality, reappearing throughout the space in a certain rhythm: metals and textiles, cold and sharp materials contrasted with fabrics evoking softness and warmth. The artists investigate the boundaries where safety and uncertainty are not opposing states, but subjective experiences blending into each other. The exhibition’s audio elements also capture the interrelation of pleasant and unpleasant stimuli. The sound imprints, relying on individual perception, focus on visceral reactions to sensations of safety or danger. The language of the artworks draws from personal experiences, intertwining universal themes with private symbols, such as the family dining table, a childhood blanket, our protective

garments, or the hum of the street. The exhibition invites us to discover the lively dialogue between tension and calm, secretly residing within everyday life.

Exhibiting artists: Aliz Farkas, Sándor Alex Kunu, Vendel Vajda, Valentina Várhelyi

Curators: Clara Farkas, Nikoletta Lakatos, Norbert Oláh / The Bura Gallery team Venue: Bura Gallery, Kőfaragó utca 5. (District 8)

Opening: May 10, 17.00

Open: May 8 – June 7, Thursday–Saturday: 15.00–19.00

Shanghai street – Three walks in the Józsefváros Market

Who is considered the foreigner, the outsider, and the host? Over the past decade, war refugees and economic migrants from various regions have arrived in Hungary, seeking new homes. Within the fabric of the city, these ‘communities of outsiders’ are sometimes invisible and at other times highly visible.

Due to prevalent social disconnection and distrust, diasporas residing in Hungary frequently form tightly-knit communities, creating their own microcosms. Within the urban landscape, it is common to encounter ‘reverse spaces,’ local businesses operated by individuals from different countries or cultures. The staff often speaks a foreign language and upholds distinct social norms, while the products on display may be unfamiliar creating a sense of exclusion in the members of the majority society. One of the most intricate examples of this phenomenon is the Józsefváros Market, also known as the Chinese Market. Entering the area, a sense of disorientation takes hold, blurring familiar reference points. Who truly belongs here, and whose rules govern this space?

The project features three walks through the market, each designed to be experienced individually. These walks explore personal and societal themes related to migration, security, and accessibility. At the same time they evoke universal emotions of belonging and alienation, offering experiences that anyone can resonate with.

Exhibiting artists: Richárd Melykó – Haibo Illés, Zsófia Móró, Zsófia Paczolay Curators: Luca Petrányi, Fanni Solymár (Useless Galeri)

Venue: Józsefváros Market, Kőbányai út 29. (8. district) Opening: May 25

Open: May 26 – June 15, Monday–Friday: 7:00–18:00, Saturday–Sunday: 7.30–17.00

COLLATERAL PROJECTS / independent productions related to the OFF theme, with joint communication

Anna Daučíková – The Grammar of the Gaze

A pioneering figure in feminist and queer art in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Anna Daučíková’s highly anticipated first solo exhibition in Hungary delves into her themes of (self-)education in feminist critique and gender politics, featuring a selection of her

single-channel videos, photo and video performance works from the 1990s. It focuses on her exploration of the body as a “tool of intermediation” and her engagement with the sensualization of the visual. The exhibition also showcases more recent works that challenge boundaries, rules, and norms, reflecting Daučíková’s experience of bodily being and becoming, both as transgender and transsexual.

Curators: Lívia Páldi, Borbála Szalai

Venue: Trafó Gallery, Liliom utca 41. (District 9) Opening: May 6, 18.00

Open: May 7 – June 15, Tuesday–Sunday: 16.00–19.00

Comfort Zone

As part of OFF-Biennále Budapest, Liget Gallery will host Comfort Zone, a group exhibition curated by ETC. Magazine. ETC. is an annual showcase magazine based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, presenting contemporary art from the Balkans to the Baltics. Under the title Comfort Zone, its fourth issue explores the multitude of ways in which we seek comfort—in the context of the body, family, relationships, and community in general—while also acknowledging the discomfort on the other side of the same coin. Through a selection of projects from the magazine’s pages, the exhibition at Liget Gallery will focus on questions of intimacy, queer perspectives, gender roles and gendered spaces. The artists approach these topics through a variety of media, with a sincerity and openness proving once again that the personal is political and that seeking comfort is an act of agency.

Curators: Hana Čeferin, Ajda Ana Kocutar, Lara Mejač / ETC. Magazine Venue: Liget Gallery, Ajtósi Dürer sor 5. (District 14)

Opening: May 9, 19.00

Open: May 8 – June 15, Wednesday–Friday: 16.00–19.00

Eszter Salamon – MONUMENT 0.7: M/OTHERS (2019)

Human relations are modes of being in the world. Several of Eszter Salamon’s works focus on female subjectivities, feminist genealogies, and multi-generational relationships. The performance M/OTHERSexplores the mother-daughter dynamic. Through various modalities of action, feeling, and perception, it opens an inter-subjective time, giving birth to a singular space marked by traces and states of conjoining.

This is the second time the artist has invited her mother (Erzsébet Gyarmati) to perform with her. The duet between them fosters empathy, care, and compassion. Through sensual attention, it experiments with a poetic weaving of oscillating meanings. Their cohabitation and constant reconfiguration of their bodies’ entanglement become a process of undoing and redoing identity, creating a moment of ‘co-emergence’: being and being with, and witnessing the time-space beyond identity.

Curator: Lívia Páldi

Venue: BHM – Kiscelli Museum, former Church Space, Kiscelli utca 108. (District 3) Performance days: May 8: 20.00 / May 9: 19.00 / May 10: 19.00

School of Disobedience – The Art of Holding Space

The School of Disobedience is a community art practice: a space that gives space. It operates as a ‘traveling school’ characterized by its pop-up and nomadic nature, constantly on the move to foster local engagement and community care. In this world of brutality and aggression, the School of Disobedience wants to be a peaceful island of radical tenderness, softness, and care. During the OFF-Biennale, it will open the doors of its current space, so everyone can step inside the process, witness artistic practices, attend performances, take part in workshops, or even immerse themselves in a three-week intensive international masterclass which is designed for artists, makers, creatives, and cultural practitioners seeking to expand their practice into socially engaged art, community facilitation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

The School of Disobedience’s theme for May is TheArtofHoldingSpace, explored, questioned, applied, and examined from multiple perspectives through the programs.

Programs led by: Anna Ádám (founder) and students of the School of Disobedience Venue: 1111 Gallery, Kende utca 1. (District 11)

Open workshops: May 19: 17.30–18.30, 19.00–20.00 / May 20: 17.30–18.30, 19.00–20.00 /

May 23: 17.30–18.30, 19.00–20.00 / May 24.: 14.30–15.30, 16.00–17.00

Rising above – Her stories on resilience

The Heartbeats Creative Collective was founded by a group of women in 2016, in Szomolya, a settlement in Borsod County, and it has been operating ever since against all odds. The exhibition presents the almost decade long story of this community: personal accounts, therapeutic and creative processes and the resulting artworks. It also exposes the social and institutional conditions that Roma women living in rural areas and in difficult financial circumstances face day by day, first of all those of childbearing and childcare. Alongside the often vulnerable and traumatic experiences, the exhibition also reveals the forms of resistance and coping that these women use to create security for themselves, their children and their families. Beyond the individual coping strategies, the main intention of the exhibition is to show the power of a small creative community of women for the local society.

The exhibition will be accompanied by workshops, theatre events and guided tours by members of the company.

Curators: Dalma Czímer (Romano Kher), Renáta Gallai (K6 Galéria) Cooperating photographer: Gabriella Csoszó

Members of the community: Renáta Báder, Andrea Polgár Csörgőné, Barbara Horváth, Kata Horváth, Rita Horváth, Róbert Horváth, Zsanett Horváth, Ildikó Juhacsek, Maja Kapala-Havas, Anett Lakatos, Mariann Lakatos, Rudolf Lakatos, Eszter Pados, Lilla Proics, Edit Romankovics, Róza Szabó, Natália Szitai

Venue: Klauzál6 Project Gallery, Klauzál tér 6. (District 7) / Romano Kher (Napház), Népszínház utca 31. (District 8)

Open: June 3 – 30

Romano Kher (Napház): Tuesday, Thursday: 9.00–17.00

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