Regina Sárvári, one of the exhibiting artists of the group exhibition Border Situations, observes the workings of social and political languages in her text-based works that move across multiple media. How long does a sentence remain a slogan, and when does it become the material — and the burden — of everyday life?
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Don’t Endure This – The Song of Firedamp Performative workshop with visual artist Dorottya Szonja Koltay
In the space of a former coal mine, later used as a bunker, we will work with the memory of carrying burdens and the practice of laying them down. The song of the haulers and the song of firedamp will be heard.
UccU x Border Situations – Roma Identity and History
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?
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.