Organized in collaboration with the House of Arts Veszprém, and in connection with the group exhibition Doomsday (b)rain check – radical crisis management, realized simultaneously in two venues, the MAGMA Contemporary Art Space presents its activities within MINIFEST, part of the Veszprém–Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture program.
March 31, Friday
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Add Yourself / portrait-making across different eras, workshops. One focus of the workshop is portrait photography, inspired by 17th-century Dutch portrait painting as well as the portrait series of contemporary Dutch photographer Hendrik Kerstens. Another point of reference is the iconic portraits of Andy Warhol, serving as a basis for creating portraits of participants in a similar style using collage techniques.
HOT Pixels / selection from the MAGMA video collection, continuous screening
April 1, Saturday
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Add Yourself
portrait-making across different eras, workshops
HOT Pixels / selection from the MAGMA video collection, continuous screening
5:00 PM Guided tour with the curators in the exhibition Doomsday (b)rain check – radical crisis management
Curators: Gábor Áfrány, Attila Kispál, Ágnes-Evelin Kispál
6:00 PM The First 13 Years of MAGMA, lecture
A brief history of the MAGMA Contemporary Art Space, which marks exactly its 13th anniversary on April 1, 2023, and its connections to the contemporary art scene in Romania and abroad.
8:00 PM Algo+tiebN
Experimental electronic music concert by Bence Kovács-Vajda and Barnabás Tóth.
Processes and stochastic changes. Is randomness variable or constant? Can I be random, or am I always guided by some organizing principle? If I program the machine to be random, it becomes less of a tool and more of a partner.
