The program is an accompanying event of the Border Situations exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Uccu Foundation. Its focus is Roma identity and history, as well as the social issues that also appear in the exhibition.
LEAP-The Price of Social Advancement: Mobility and Roundtable discussion with Emőke Both, Anna Fabricius and Zoltán Ginelli.
What is the price of social advancement? What do we have to give up, what must we change, or what parts of ourselves must we push into the background in order to move forward, fit in, or become accepted?
ESR 2026 Open House I.
The ESR 2026 Open House I: How to Apply (Technical Session) will take place via Google Meet on Thursday, 30 April 2026, 6 pm.
Meet the TIDAL ArtS Residency Winners
We are excited to share that the TIDAL ArtS Residency Programme has selected its four winning artistic projects, and one of them will take place in Hungary, along the Danube in Ráckeve.
Shared Futures – Open Call for cultural facilitators, called Social Dreamers – THE CALL IS CLOSED!
Shared Futures is a European cooperation project that brings cultural and creative professionals together with communities, environmental actors, and funders to imagine more sustainable futures for the sector. At a time when culture is expected to respond to climate change, inclusion, and wider social change – yet is often pushed into short-term, reactive work – the project creates space for collective visioning, dialogue, and scenario-building across sectors. By fostering structured collaboration between artists and stakeholders, Shared Futures turns sustainability from a policy expectation into a shared cultural practice and supports a more resilient, inclusive, and future-oriented cultural sector.
Garden Stories
Urban biodiversity and the harmonious coexistence of people and their environment can be explored from many different angles. At the intersection of nature exploration, research, and art, Pro Progressione and the Free Radicals project’s two-day event, Garden Stories invites participants to discover the meaning of urban biodiversity in two different locations and contexts.
“It’s hard to strike a balance between continuing to talk about music and speaking out on socially important issues.”
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.
Launch of New European Project “RE-MARK”: Art and Culture revitalizing rural farmers’ markets and communities.
Budapest, 16 Avril, 2026 – The official launch of the European project RE-MARK will take place in Bertinoro (IT) on 16th – 17th April 2026, marking the beginning of an ambitious initiative aimed at triggering systemic change in how culture is produced, accessed and sustained in rural territories across Europe. In contexts marked by demographic decline, social fragmentation and cultural underinvestment, the project proposes a radically new use of a familiar infrastructure: the rural market. By transforming rural farmers’ markets into Rural Creative Markets intended as hybrid spaces that combine artistic creation, local economies, community engagement and cultural storytelling, RE-MARK introduces a replicable, place-based model for culture-driven rural regeneration.
OPEN CALL: European Solidarity Residency 2026 – THE CALL IS CLOSED!
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.