In mid-May - after what seems like a rather long time - art quarter budapest will again host an Open House weekend festival: the studios and workshops will be open to the public, and the venue will offer programs from the basement to the roof terrace: two exciting international group exhibitions, art education and creative workshops, guided tours, as well as exciting music, dance and gastronomic delights at the Budafok art centre.

PROGRAM:
■ MAY 13. / FRIDAY

1 9 : 0 0 – 2 1 : 0 0
„BLACKS & REDS” international exhibition opening
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/733158137841989
Venue: aqb Mines

The exhibition titled Fekete és vörös which seeks answers to the questions of what civil partnership arching through nations, solidarity and voluntary commitment mean in our present, moreover, of what socially relevant answers fine arts can give to the problems of history (e.g. the rise of extremist ideologies, social and economic crises), in case it considers reacting its task at all.

Exhibiting artists:
Juan Aizpitarte (ES), Jean-Michel Alberola (FR), Collectif Troptôttroptard (FR), Emese Benczúr (HU), Dániel Bozzai (HU), Andreas M. Fohr (DE), Antonio Gallego (FR), Frédéric Héritier (FR), Kiko Herrero (ES), Antoine Hoffmann (FR), Gabrielle Manglou (FR),Miquel Mont (ES), Francoise Quardon (FR), Pavel Karous (CZ), Tamás Kaszás (HU), Deana Kolencíková (SK), Sasha Kurmaz (UA), Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux (FR), Ko Siu Lan (HK), Lise Lerichomme (FR), Jean-Claude Luttmann (FR), Bernard Marcadé (FR), Roberto Martinez (FR), Louise Moulin (FR), Cynthia Montier (FR) & Abdul-Hadi Yasuev (RU–CE), Sándor Dávid Papp (HU), Patrick Pinon (FR),Punx23 (CZ), Zsófia Rumi (HU), János Sugár (HU), Mathieu Tremblin (FR), Vladimír Turner (CZ),István Zakariás (HU)

Curators:
Antonio Gallego (FR), Roberto Martinez (FR), Bernard Marcadé (FR), Mathieu Tremblin (FR) & Le Conseil Artistique du Syndicat Potentiel, Kristóf Kovács A.K.A Gergely Sajnos (HU)

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■ MAY 14. / SATURDAY

1 0 : 0 0 - 1 8 : 0 0
TAPE THAT Performance
Venue: building A lobby
The Berlin collective will use adhesive tape as an artistic medium and will create a collaborative artwork in the lobby of the aqb's main entrance.
https://www.tapethatcollective.com/

1 4 : 0 0 - 1 8 : 0 0
Dávid SOMLÓ - Mandala
Times: 14:00, 16:00, 18:00
Meeting point: aqb Yard in front of GRÜNN
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/710120253440903
Venue: aqb Nest
Mandala is a participatory sound performance for audience members, portable sound devices and combinations of shapes demarcated on the performance floor.
http://davidsomlo.com/Mandala

1 4 : 0 0 - 2 0 : 0 0
"ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE?"
Selection from the OSTRALE Biennale.

Venues: aqb Project Space, aqb AiR Room, Artists’ Containers

The exhibition is one of the largest international projects in the history of aqb: featuring works by a selection of artists making their debut in Hungary, telling local and regional, personal and general stories of loud or silent conflicts, animals and people, power and values - often with ironic lessons. In many voices and with great emphasis, it shows the poeticism and ordinariness of artistic activity, the heroisation of work, and the satirical mockery of this heroism, whether it is a feature of the semi-historical or of contemporary manager-capitalism.

Exhibiting artists:
Seçkin AYDIN, Viktor BRIM, BRÜCKNER János, Gaby BURCKHARDT, Daniel BURKHARDT, Nadja BUTTENDORF, Mauro CUPPONE, Abdoul-Ganiou DERMANI, Tibor DIETERS, Alexei DMITRIEV, FABRICIUS Anna, FERENCZY Zsolt, Michael HEINDL, Yuki JUNGESBLUT, Nikita KADAN, Neža KNEZ, KOLXOZ, Glorija LIZDE, Larion LOZOVOY, Dean MAASSEN, studio ASYNCHROME, Petra MRŠA, Sali MULLER, NEMES Csaba, Andrea PALÁSTI, Predrag PAVIĆ, Ghenadie POPESCU, Marko RODICS, Farid RASULOV, Sandra ROSENSTIEL, Goran ŠKOFIĆ, Lana STOJIĆEVIĆ, Kamen STOYANOV, SZABÓ Attila, SZOLGA Hajnal, SZOLNOKI József, Stipan TADIĆ, Philipp VALENTA, Arturas VALIAUGA, Vangjush VELLAHU, Xueying WANG, Yinglin ZHOU

Curator:
Krisztián KUKLA
Event: https://fb.me/e/1DDbU1z0g

1 4 : 0 0 - 2 0 : 0 0
SONOTOMIA: Audition of the Future City

Venue: Spatial Sound Insitute studio

Imagine the soundscape of the city a thousand years from now. Which sounds have remained and which have disappeared? How does the way we listen in the here and now enable us to evolve the future?

SONOTOMIA – Sound Anatomy of Unique Places investigates sound as a unique artifact of cultural and natural heritage. A collaboration between four diverse cultural partners: Pedra Angular (Portugal), Fundación Santa María de Albarracín (Spain), 4DSOUND (Netherlands) and Spatial Sound Institute (Hungary).
https://spatialsoundinstitute.com/Sonotomia

Participants:
Úrsula BRAVO, Andre FONSECA, Csaba HAJNÓCZY, József ISZLAI, Kim LYONS, Rozi MÁKÓ, Jamie MAN, Duarte José de Lemos MARQUES

1 4 : 0 0 - 2 0 : 0 0
„BLACKS & REDS” international exhibition
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/733158137841989
Venue: aqb Mines

1 4 : 0 0 - 2 0 : 0 0
All day long chill zone
Venue: aqb Rooftop

1 5 : 0 0 - 1 8 : 0 0
Open studios

1 5 : 0 0 – 1 9 : 0 0
András NAGY & Péter HALÁSZ – Immersion: Generative Gallery
Venue: Building A, 2nd floor - Sepia Sound Studio
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/287690640243476
Synesthetic generative audio-visual installation
https://www.facebook.com/sepiasoundstudio
https://www.facebook.com/siblicity
https://andrasnagy.xyz/

1 7 : 0 0 - 2 3 : 0 0
Music program and season opening of Grünn
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/7EdnWPed4
Venue: Grünn
Artists:
Eril Fjord (17:00 - 19:00)
https://soundcloud.com/eril-fjord
MΣO CULPA (19:00 - 21:00)
https://soundcloud.com/meoculpa
Vedat Akdağ (21:00 - 23:00)
https://soundcloud.com/vedatakdag

1 8 : 0 0 - 1 9 : 0 0
Curatorial guided tour of the exhibition "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE?" by Krisztián Kukla
Venue: aqb Project Space

2 0 : 0 0 - 2 0 : 3 0
Imre Vass: in_form dance performance
Venue: building A, 4th floor (room A26)

in_form is a movement-based performance that uses amplified breathing sounds and stays on the very edge of visibility. It asks you to listen. How informative a simple breath can be?

The figure of the performance stays in the constant flux of becoming. He senses and picks up various modalities of beings and states from inner and outer spaces. Transformation happens on it’s own accordance as it is being consciously manipulated as well. On the edge of visibility, he examines the contours of understanding, he stays in potentiality. Yet, he is only a shadow of himself.

in_form is the 1st episode of the performance series PERSONAL TRAINER. The series aims to explore the notion of progress on the personal level. It invites the audience to map their reasons and tendencies of becoming different, more or advanced. What are the desires and motivations to be better, to be fitter, to grow, to evolve?

2 0 : 0 0 – 2 1 : 0 0
Live concert
Sabw - Ruminative Flooding (Play Dead Inside)
Venue: Building A, 2nd floor - Sepia Sound Studio
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/287690640243476
Uninterrupted contemplation, inaudible closure, ethereal mood, stirring emotions: rumination - or the expression and mapping of emergence from this, in a cinematic, atmospheric music environment - at times through repetitive themes and 'rounded', unidentifiable sounds. This is the ruminative flooding.
www.soundcloud.com/sabw

2 1 : 0 0 – 0 0 : 0 0
Deep Listening - Péter HALÁSZ (Siblicity, TOTIM Records, Sepia Sound Studio)
Venue: Building A, 2nd floor - Sepia Sound Studio
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/287690640243476
Meditative and hypnotic sound variations.

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■ MAY 15. / SUNDAY

1 1 : 0 0 - 1 2 : 3 0
Art education program with Dóri Kelecsényi and Bettina Bence on the exhibition ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE?
Venue: aqb Project Space
Registration:
https://forms.gle/HX8QxwXxQ2P5f7sS6
The workshop is for 14-18 year olds and requires pre-registration.

1 2 : 0 0 - 1 7 : 0 0
TAPE THAT Workshop
Venue: building C, meeting at the couryard
The Berlin collective will use adhesive tape as an artistic medium and will teach how to use it within a workshop, based on the collaborative artwork they created in the lobby of the aqb's main entrance on Saturday.
https://www.tapethatcollective.com/

1 4 : 0 0 - 2 0 : 0 0
"ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE?"
Selection from the OSTRALE Biennale.
Venues: aqb Project Space, aqb AiR Room, Artists’ Containers
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/2ksRBC5e0

1 4 : 0 0 - 2 0 : 0 0
SONOTOMIA: Audition of the Future City
Venue: Spatial Sound Insitute studio
https://spatialsoundinstitute.com/Sonotomia

1 4 : 0 0 - 2 0 : 0 0
„BLACKS & REDS” international exhibition
Venue: aqb Mines
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/733158137841989

1 4 : 0 0 - 2 0 : 0 0
All day long chill zone
Venue: aqb Rooftop

1 8 : 0 0 - 1 9 : 0 0
Curatorial guided tour of the exhibition "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE?" by Krisztián Kukla
Venue: aqb Project Space

CATERING:
Throughout the day in the courtyard of aqb, besides the usual microgreens, the team of Grünn will be preparing season-opening drinks and food.

PARTNERS:
Budapest Brand Nonprofit Zrt., Goethe-Institut, National Cultural Fund of Hungary, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Budapest, Österreichisches Kulturforum Budapest

The exhibition is part of the Flowing Connections cooperation project, co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.

The program is implemented in the framework of the Budapest Spring Festival with the participation of the Budapest Brand.

Graphics: Csilla BARTUS