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Series of talks and exhibitions 2024/2025

Gábor Andrási, Mariann Imre and Eike Berg

In the framework of the project From Halle to Hungary and back in 40 years

30 November 2024, Saturday 7 pm
Gábor andrási in conversation with Mariann Imre and Eike Berg
in Hungarian language with German translation - participation after prior registration

1 December 2024, Sun 1 - 6 pm
Exhibition with art works by Mariann Imre and Eike Berg
Visit by appointment

Mariann Imre and Eike Berg met in the young art scene in Hungary in the 1990s. They took part in exhibitions and art projects together and were part of a circle of artist friends in Budapest who engaged in intensive dialogue. Mariann Imre became known for embroidering stone and concrete and took part in the Venice Biennale in 1999.

Gábor Andrási has been a formative personality in the Hungarian art world for decades. For many years he was editor-in-chief of the art magazine Műértő (The Hungarian Art Connoisseur); as director and curator of progressive urban gallery spaces such as Budapest Galéria and Óbudai Társaskör, he has systematically and favourably supported young artists.

 

Gábor Andrási

born in Budapest in 1954, lives and works in Budapest
https://tranzit.org/posttransition/?page_id=165

Gábor Andrási studied philosophy and art history at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. From 1980 to 2007, he curated almost 300 exhibitions as director of the Óbudai Pincegaléria and the Óbudai Társaskör Galéria. After managing the Kassák Museum in Budapest (2007 to 2010), he was curator of the Budapest Galéria from 2013 to 2018.

He has also worked as an art critic since 1980 and has published numerous essays and reviews on contemporary art and is co-author of the book ‚The History of Hungarian Art in the Twentieth Century‘. From 2000 to 2022, he followed the international and Hungarian art scene as editor-in-chief of the Hungarian art newspaper Műértő (The Hungarian Art Connoisseur).
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Mariann Imre

born in 1968 in Medgyesbodzás, Hungary, lives and works in Budapest
https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Mariann

Mariann Imre studied painting at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1986 to 1991. She has received numerous art awards and took part in the Venice Biennale in 1999.

‘For fifteen years I have been creating my works with the main theme ‘Fixation of Impermanence’, subtitled: Water, Embrace, Crumbs, Tears, Cut Nails. I like to incorporate my everyday life into my art, but sometimes I am also interested in the completely impossible.
Sewing concrete was also a way of combining the impossible with an everyday activity. For me, art is nothing other than the temptation of the impossible, the combination of the sacred and the profane with a complete naturalness.’
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Eike Berg

born 1966 in Halle/Saale, lives in Freising near Munich
eike.qxd8.com

At the core of Eike Berg’s works is the question of the organization and nature of human knowledge and perception. His works navigate around these semantic centers with varying conceptual approaches and different genres, including video, installation, photography, computer art, and light art. His works share a focus on the element of change, usually examining on notions of the borderline or transgressions of borders: space and time, reality and abstraction.
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Many thanks for the kind support

Collegium Hungaricum Berlin | culture.hu/de/berlin
Werkleitz | werkleitz.de
Art of Care Brussels | Facebook: artofcarebrussels





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