Finissage of the aqb community exhibition Elective Affinities.

Exhibiting artist duos/groups:
BALÁZS Bori – JÓZSA Tamás
MELKOVICS Tamás – KRISTÓF Gábor
TÓTH Márton Emil – AGG Lili – JANKY Máté Előd
KOLTAI Barbara – Temana MAIRE
NOVÁK Erik – CSOBOTH Dorka
MOLNÁR Zsolt – ANTALKA Zsófia
KOLESZÁR Stella – MÁTRAI Erik
KOLESZÁR Stella – Creature Furniture
VASS Imre – JÓZSA Zoltán
SZABÓ Nóra – TASNÁDI József
METZING Eszter – HARSÁNY Patrícia
SZÉLL Ádám – GÁTI Ráhel
MOLNÁR Csaba – JANKY Máté Előd
GÓTH Martin – LAKATOS GELLÉRI Barnabás
KOVÁCS Máté – VADAS Zsófia Tamara
eden_jeneses – Omon Wynfryth
ingatlan – Borsos Lőrinc
Christa BARTESCH – KOÓS Gábor

What happens when the act of selection and the curatorial tasks are carried out by the artists themselves over each other’s work?
The premise of this year’s community exhibition stems from a studio experience: a work by Gábor Kristóf was placed in a new light for the artist himself by an observation made by Tamás Melkovics during a studio visit. Building on this reflexive dynamic, the aqb community has based this year’s group exhibition on professional trust. Participants invited one another into their creative spaces to highlight a specific work from each other’s practice through the act of selection.
Elective Affinities is organized around subjective connections and dialogue. During the process, not only were existing works placed into new contexts, but in several cases, the intensity of these encounters inspired collaborations created specifically for this occasion. For one month, aqb Project Space transforms into a living network where works do not merely exist side by side but appear as reflections of one another.
The exhibition is realized with the support of the National Cultural Fund (NKA).