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.
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.
BORDER SITUATIONS – Budapest exhibition of the LEAP
Border Situations is the Budapest exhibition of the LEAP – LEgAcy in Progress: (Re)Constructing European Narratives and (De)colonising Discourses project. Starting from the historical memory of the transatlantic slave trade, the exhibition examines how colonialism continues to shape the present. Following Aníbal Quijano, it uses the term coloniality to refer to the afterlife of colonialism: the ways its effects persist in modern societies. The exhibition understands this as a logic that reproduces hierarchies by granting unequal access to protection, mobility, and recognition.
LEAP-MEET THE ARTISTS
As part of the LEAP project, four pop-up exhibitions will be held between March and April 2026 in unconventional venues across Europe, each focusing on a specific narrative and encouraging forward-looking dialogue on the legacy of colonization in today’s Europe.
LEAP- INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL FOR CREATIVE WORKS – THE CALL IS CLOSED!
LEAP is a project co-financed by the European Commission that seeks to stimulate a broad and comprehensive reflection about the historical truth surrounding the colonial legacies. By exploring the deep-rooted links between these legacies and contemporary racism, the project aims to create a space for reflection, dialogue and transformation.