Virág Anna Virág is the first female composer to have contributed to a collaborative piece created using the Cadavre Exquis method within the Mind the Gap project. We spoke with her about her creative methods, her comfort zone, mathematics, and what it’s like to make a name for herself as a female composer in Europe today, focusing on her sequence titled Never Heard.
OPEN CALL: European Solidarity Residency 2026
We’re inviting early-career curators and cultural professionals—especially those from underrepresented backgrounds—to join our second, 2026 cohort across Budapest, Dubrovnik & Lidice (14 September–13 October 2026). ESR offers 20 fully funded residencies across 2025–26.
LEAP-Mansour Forouzesh: Transforming the Ordinary into Cinematic Vision | Documentary workshop in the Border Situations exhibitions in the Border Situations exhibition
Mansour Forouzesh is an Iranian-born, Hungary-based filmmaker, photographer, and interdisciplinary artist working across cinema, photography, installation, and artistic research. His practice explores how narrative structures shape perception and how meaning emerges through the relationship between artwork and viewer. His works have been exhibited internationally in countries including Hungary, Iran, Romania, Spain, and the United Kingdom, while his films have been screened at more than seventy international film festivals worldwide, including Oscar-qualifying festivals such as the Cork International Film Festival. Alongside his artistic practice, he is currently a doctoral researcher at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where his research focuses on narratology in visual art and the ways storytelling operates beyond linear forms.
BORDER SITUATIONS EXHIBITION |Parallel Selves | Guided meditative drawing with Sarah Diefallah
As part of the Border Situations exhibition, Sarah Diefallah invites you to a meditative drawing session where we explore our hidden selves through visualization and drawing exercises.
Inspired by the Internal Family Systems approach and the concept of alter ego, we will reflect on our parallel identities, which we long for, grieve, or at times, reject.
LEAP-BORDER SITUATONS Opening with Zahra Fuladvand “Between Homes”performans
Zahra Fuladvand’s performance opens the group exhibition Borderline Situations, which explores questions of displacement, belonging, and the boundaries that shape our personal and social experience. Zahra Fuladvand’s work is closely connected to these themes: through the body, the gaze, and the space it creates, it reflects on migration as a lived condition and on the fragile process of finding one’s place between cultures.
Meet the Team Shaping the Academy for Actors of Social Change 2026
At the heart of the Summer Academy is a dedicated team of artists, educators, and facilitators who bring years of experience in socially engaged art practices.
Open House I. – Academy for Actors of Social Change Focusing on ARTIVISM 2026
Join us and learn more about this year’s Academy and its currently open call for artists, educators, youth workers, facilitators, and community organisers who work with underprivileged communities and individuals.
OPEN CALL for Artistic Activism Training – Academy for Actors of Social Change Focusing on ARTIVISM 2026
An exclusive opportunity for participants from European and Erasmus+ eligible countries to partake in a specialised training focusing on Artistic Activism, the fusion of art and activism.
Mon-Art Residence Programme in Hungary – Call For Artists
We’re looking for Mon-Artists for our residency programme!
Call For Artists – Mon-Art Residence Programme
The Mon-Art Residences constitute a transnational programme of artistic residencies dedicated to Regeneration Artists — artists who work at the intersection of creativity, community life and cultural production. These residencies are conceived as living laboratories where artists are invited to design creative interventions that reimagine the relationship between people, nature, and cultural heritage with a view to embracing new models of existential meaning.The programme includes a series of artistic residencies across the five partner countries, namely: Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, and Cyprus. Each residency will be hosted and managed by a founding partner of the MON-ART network, ensuring strong connections to local contexts and communities.