Projects-Events
We don't play guitars
– debut show of the
new members of FFS
11.11 - 24. 10. 2018.
K.A.S. Galéria
Artists: Szilvia Bolla, Gergely Kiss, Imre Kiss, Richárd Kiss, Dóri Lázár, Domonkos Tamás Németh, Zsombor Pólya, Zsófia Sivák
Curated by: Dániel János Fodor, Oxána Sztrehalet
The new members of the Studio of Young Photographers don’t take photographs, and even if they do, they do it in ways you wouldn’t expect. This team of eight young artists is searching for the relevance and potentiality of photography in 2018. Inspired by the power of light, information overflow, and also capturing, examining, highlighting or hushing up things, the artists step on the stage, smash their instruments, grab the nearest object then start playing music. Moshing and crowd surfing are prohibited.
Vernissage on 24 October 2018, 7 pm
Opening speech by János Vető
FFS booth
at Art Market Budapest
11-14. 10. 2018.
Millenáris, Hall D
P503
FFS Wednesday – 05. 10. 2018.
Mai Manó House
Agnieszka Rayss (Sputnik Photos)
– artist talk
Can photography re-enact the past?
Photography has become a veritable seedbed for (re)staging, re-playing reenacting for the camera. There are works that use further and closer history, mix theatricality and documentality in attractive ways. What does it serve for - can we really look into the past using photography? Is photography still any witness, can it be witness of any past? Where should we stop to believe photography?
Agnieszka Rayss,
documentary photographer, based in Warsaw, Poland. Co-founder of the Sputnik Photos collective. A two-time winner of the Picture of the Year award and other important international and local awards. She published the album “American Dream” (about cultural transformation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe) and recently “This Is Where the End of Cities Begins” – on undiscovered suburban spaces.
Photo © Agnieszka Rayss (detail)
FFS Wednesday – 19. 09. 2018.
Mai Manó House
Alternative daycare
– Domonkos Tamás Németh's
report on the FOTOPUB festival
Domonkos Tamás Németh is a new member of FFS. In August he took part in the portfolio review of this years' FOTOPUB festival, which usually takes place in the small town of Novo Mesto, Slovenia. The festival focusing on to showcase the freshest artistic experiments and activity of young artists.
Plan D
- workshop and fieldwork
Summer 2018 - Spring 2019
Cooperation project with Contemporary Art Center - Dunaújváros (ICA-D).
Moderator: György Cséka
Participating members: Vera A Fehér, Krystyna Bilak, Dávid Biró, Szilvia Bolla, Zsolt Ficsór, Dániel János Fodor, Balázs Fromm, Enikő Hodosy, Gergely Kiss, Imre Kiss, Richárd Kiss, Dóri Lázár, Márk Martinkó, Tibor Nagy, Domonkos Tamás Németh, Anna Palkó, Zsombor Pólya, Miklós Pomsár, Zsófia Puszt, Benedek Regős
Schedule
11 June, Monday
Lecture # – Tamás Kaszás: Be a tourist on a design table!
time: 18:00
place: K. A. S. Galéria (1114 Budapest, Bartók Béla út 9)
18 June, Monday
Lecture #2 – Zoltán Fehérvári: The formation of Dunaújváros - struggle of modern and socreal
Lecture #3 – Annamária Nagy: IRON/WORK
time: 18:00
place: Budapest Projekt Galéria (1053 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos u. 16)
25 June, Monday
Lecture #4 – Márió Nemes Z.: Hungarofuturistic Space Fantasies
Lecture #5 – Anna Balázs: Children of Iljic: Ironworkers at the time of decommunization
time: 18:00
place: Budapest Projekt Galéria (1053 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos u. 16)
7-8 July, Saturday-Sunday
Trip to Dunaújváros – Guided city walks with Annamária Nagy
January 2019
Exhibition at ICA-D
Workshop is funded by National Cultural Fund (NKA).
Contemporary Art Center - Dunaújváros
www.ica-d.hu
New members of the Studio
On May 15, the four-member jury selected 8 new Studio members from 37 candidates. Members of the jury were Caludia Küssel, leading curator of Mai Manó House (former curator of FOAM in Amsterdam), Bálint Ferenczy, art historian, board member of FFS, Dániel János Fodor, artist, board member of FFS and Benedek Regős, photographer, visual artist, board member and secretary of FFS. The new members of FFS in 2018:
Szilvia Bolla
Gergely Kiss
Imre Kiss
Richárd Kiss
Dóri Lázár
Domonkos Tamás Németh
Zsombor Pólya
Zsófia Sivák
FFS Wednesday – 02. 05. 2018.
Mai Manó House
New generation in the gallery
– Talk with Dávid Biró and Zoltán Földvári
FFS Wednesday - 28. 02. 2018.
Judit Flóra Schuller: Memory Theatre
Judit Flóra Schuller's lecture and presentation about her current exhibition project at Labor Gallery.
The starting point of the exhibition is the artist’s family archive and the descendents’ relationship toward this rich material. The artistic research project Memory Theatre examines how the artist - as the representative of the third generation - can deal with this topic and what kind of personal approaches she can formulate toward the archival heritage. Judit Flóra Schuller deals with the mechanisms of memory and forgetting, the notions of loss and solitude. Through the artistic analyzation and interpretation of her family heritage the artist creates space for a possible dialogue between generations. Through this process, as the artist claims, both parties are going through some kind of transformation: the archive itself is reducing and moving towards a systematic order, while the artist is stepping in the phase of oblivion as she slowly abandons the process of cultivating memory. The other keyword of the exhibition is the notion of absence: this is what explains the collecting attitude of the family that had become even more stronger and conscious due to the effects of the holocaust in the family. What motivates the artist is the unreachable process of completing the void of absence, as she continues the research about her own genealogy and trying to get a closure in the process of bereavement. The exhibition unravels fragmented micro narratives through the story of the apartment which the artist inherited from her grandfather, Imre Schuller. Through the act of repetition, appropriation and performative reflections, the artist outlines different patterns in dealing with the heritage of the past. Similarly to the act of remembering and forgetting, Memory Theatre cannot exist as an accomplished entity, it is always in transition; an open conversation between time parallels, layers of history and generations.
Judit Flóra Schuller: Memory Theatre
24. 02 - 03. 03. 2018.
Labor (Képíró utca 6., Budapest, 1053)
ISBN feat. Patron books -
Christmas book market
12 - 21 December 2017
Between the 13rd and 21st of December, as the satellite program of PATRON art fair the Studio of Young Artists’ Association (FKSE) and the ISBN books+gallery* organize a joint Christmas book market. At the market, the publications of the FKSE, independent publications, zines, exhibition catalogs and other professional publications will be available for a super-discounted price. With every purchase, you support the survival of FKSE! Names and keywords: Gábor KRISTÓF | 1×1 | Andrea DUDÁS FAJGERNÉ | MAMA photobooks | Innen | Dávid DEMETER | FFS | Little Warsaw | Studio yearbooks | deposit | Anna ZILAHI | Kata TRANKER | Kisterem | Endre KORONCZI | László GYŐRFFY | László HEGEDŰS 2 | Dorottya VÉKONY | Virág LŐDI | Mózes MURÁNYI | Ilona KESERÜ Ilona | István OCZTOS and a lot of surprise.
The ISBN books+gallery is a brand new art bookstore and a contemporary art gallery. The first pop-up project of the ISBN is the PATRON books 2017. The most important mission of the ISBN books+gallery is the mapping, collecting, exhibition and distribution of domestic and regional, Hungarian and foreign language, new and antique contemporary art publications, exhibition catalogs, zines, art books, photobooks and theoretical publications.
The ISBN – books+gallery is in the 8th district of Budapest, a few minutes’ walk from Blaha Lujza Square.
Address: H-1084 Budapest, Víg utca 2.
Photos © ISBN books & gallery
In Essence
– Exhibition of the members of FFS
22 December 2016 - 09 January 2017
In Essence represents a photographic view that does not consider the attachment to reality important, and it even questions it in some cases. The exhibition moves the viewer toward a photographic direction through the different abstracting practices of young photographers. The exhibited artists freely use the technical opportunities of the medium, and consciously condense or extract the visual information. Although the works build upon reality – that is a fundamental peculiarity of the medium - , this time it is not realism we get, but its simplified extract through which artists allude to complex topics, such as the phenomena of touch, the visual representation of the invisible, the image analysis of artificial intelligence or the ruling order in chaos. One can find certain real-world references, thus the artists do not cut their works off reality, they only elevate them. These consciously simplified visual worlds on one hand offer less concrete facts, thus expand the possibilities for interpretation, and at the same time focus the attention.
Exhibiting artists: András Bán, Máté Dobokay, Dániel János Fodor, Katalin Illés, Márk Martinkó, Ping-Pong collective (Anna Ádám, Judit Gellér), Ákos Rajnai, Eszter Riga, Judit Flóra Schuller, Lilla Szántói
Opening speech by Bálint Ferenczy, art historian
Curators: Máté Dobokay, Dóra Villing
FFS at 4th ViennaPhotoBookFestival
(with Association of Hungarian Photographers)
June 11-12. 2016
Brotfabrik, Vienna
European Photo Youth 2014
August 24-31, 2014
Maribor, Slovenia
The European Photo Youth workshop was organized by the Association for Film Culture Development in Maribor, Slovenia. 12 members of FFS were participated with a polish and a slovenian group.
Participating members: Ágnes Básthy, Andrea Bényi, Dávid Biró, Máté Dobokay, Dániel János Fodor, Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss, Benedek Regős, Bianka Schumann, Lilla Szántói, Dorottya Vékony.
Mentors: Eszter Biró and Réka Kóti
Cover photo © Dániel János Fodor
Home Away
- fieldwork in New York
02-21 September, 2014
The Studio of Young Photographers Hungary is delighted to announce that we have won a grant from the Hungary Initiatives Foundation which gives us the possibility to realize a group fieldwork in New York in September 2014. Seven selected Studio members will work on a photography project about the young Hungarian diaspora living New York for three weeks. The project will be realized between 2nd and 21st of September in 2014.
During the fieldwork, the selected photographers will discover and document the young Hungarian diaspora’s generation in New York. Our proposed project rises from the idea to connect young Hungarians living in Hungary and the young Hungarian diaspora in the United Sates through a contemporary documentary photography (and videography) project. A group of selected photographers from our Studio will participate in a long term project where - after a workshop and preparatory course - they will visit young second generation Hungarian people and households in New York for a three- week period and document the lives and identity of the Hungarian community.
The goal is to provide a real experience of connection for the participating photographers and households as well as to distribute the visual material on offline and online platforms. We would like to make an exhibition in Hungary after our three weeks period project to familiarize the Hungarian diaspora in today’s Hungary, and as a result of the project we will publish a special photobook as a documentation and also as a present to those Hungarians in the diaspora who have been involved in the photography project. Besides, a website will be launched to showcase the works and share the experiences in a blog format and facilitate future similar projects.
We will also visit the International Center of Photography in New York - to learn about the great heritage of Robert Capa -, being the holder of a comprehensive collection of Robert Capa material like vintage prints, negatives, contact sheets, slides, manuscript letters, and tear sheets.
Generation X is the generation born after the Western Post-World War II baby boom from the 1960s to the 1980s, whereas the Millennial Generation, also known as Generation Y. It’s a curiosity that the term "Generation X" was coined by Robert Capa in the early 1950s. He used it later as a title for a photo-essay about young men and women growing up immediately after the Second World War. As Capa referred to his intention, "We named this unknown generation, The Generation X, and even in our first enthusiasm we realized that we had something far bigger than our talents and pockets could cope with." This time we would like to determine the new Generation Y with the help of the visual language, through documentary photography. The Studio of Young Photographers Hungary will gladly face this initiative together with its young talented photographers.
Participating members: Zsófia Pályi, Zsuzsa Bakonyi, Máté Bartha, Éva Szombat, Bálint Hirling, Dániel Halász, Bernadett Alpern
About the Hungary Initiatives Foundation:
Our mission is to build lasting value by reviving and strengthening the cultural, educational, and emotional bonds between the United States and Hungary as well as the large and diverse Hungarian American community and its mother nation. We promote cooperation and understanding between our great nations, thereby fostering democracy, freedom, human rights, and human dignity, the dearest values of our history and our peoples.
Cover photo: The group in ICP
FFS at 2nd ViennaPhotoBookFestival
June 14-15. 2014
Brotfabrik, Vienna
Brunch und Präsentation
„Studio of Young Photographers Hungary“
11-18 h, December 8, 2013
Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna
Wir laden zu einem gemütlichen Sonntagsbrunch und zur Präsentation „Studio of Young Photographers Hungary“. Gezeigt wird eine Auswahl der besten Arbeiten der wichtigsten ungarischen Gemeinschaft aufstrebender junger FotografInnen. Behandelt werden drei wichtige Themen der Community: der innere Kreis, der Bereich der dokumentarischen Repräsentation und die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Umwelt. Neben Vortrag und Projektion gibt es zahlreiche Prints und Bücher zu sehen und zu kaufen.
Brunch mit Sekt: 11-14 Uhr, 15 Euro (Anmeldung bis 6.12 unter ida.kielmansegg@anzenbergergallery.com)
Ab 14 Uhr freier Eintritt
Präsentation „Studio of Young Photographers Hungary“ 12 Uhr und 14 Uhr
