Handbook for the museum education programs of the Deák17 Youth Art Gallery in 2021/2022/2023 “One of the aims of culture is to actively preserve the values it creates. This is the role that carved objects, museum education sessions, and, though indirectly,…
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SQUARING THE CIRCLE III.Book
Handbook for the museum education programs of the Deák17 Youth Art Gallery in 2019 and 2020. I would like to invite all teachers to browse this book for inspirational ideas and guidance. Although it might seem that the activities are…
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– Handbook for the museum education programs of the Deák17 Youth Art Gallery in 2017 and 2018 We recommend the book for teachers, educators, parents, grandparents and visual culture researchers. The semi-language book was written in Hungarian and in English. ‘The…
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– Handbook for the museum education programs of the Deák17 Youth Art Gallery in 2015 and 2016 The semi-language book was written in Hungarian and in English. The most important and, at the same time, the most difficult task of…
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BUDAPEST – CITY OF ADVENTURERepresentation of Budapest in Contemporary Hungarian Children's Book Illustration
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Through the lens of contemporary Hungarian children’s book illustration, this exhibition celebrates the 75th anniversary of Greater Budapest. The city’s many faces unfold through the works of the country’s finest illustrators – from the historic downtown to the modern housing…
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For centuries, the practice of folk tale telling and listening has shaped oral culture, sustained folk traditions, and offered a framework for understanding and interpreting the world. “That’s how the story goes” is an exhibition that seeks to revisit and…
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It is not only as a child that we need the surreal world of beings beyond reality, of fairy tales, dreams, myths and fantasies. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of surrealism, the exhibition, which is a selection…
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MADI is an acronym created from the words Movement, Abstraction, Dimension and Invention, which refers to an international contemporary geometric art movement that has also established itself in Hungary. For the exhibition at Deák17 Gallery, a selection of domestic and…
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Silent book is the name of a special type of book that tells stories without text, using only pictures. Our exhibition focuses on the unique international picture book collection of the Bródy Sándor Library in Eger, Hungary, complemented by a…
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The Budapest Puppet Theater is the 74-year-old institution of 150-year-old Budapest. Our exhibition selects from the theater’s unique collection of puppets and fine arts. In addition to viewing the puppets, photos, and posters, visitors also have the opportunity to accompany…
Read more "ALL IS PUPPET!"AUTONOMOUS ANATOMYThe works of the students of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and the Institute of Fine Arts and Art Theory of Eszterházy Károly Catholic University
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The project-based anatomy course of university assistant professor Dániel Horváth can be seen as a 21st-century addition to Jenő Barcsay’s long-standing artistic anatomy education. We present a selection of the best of these two courses, from the works of the…
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The works included in the group exhibition live with the genre of embroidery traditionally considered folk or industrial art, yet they enrich contemporary fine art – at the same time, they make us examine our common and private heritage. Exhibiting…
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The exhibition – Budapest Street Archæology – catalogs the Hungarian aspects of the international Street Art Movement over the past 20 years. It presents the defining Hungarian artists, projects, tangible reminders and documents of the movement. The goal is for…
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How can the four classical elements that make up the world around us – earth, water, fire and air – capture passing moments and become a medium of ephemeral compositions? Do they make us more aware of the complexity of…
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Exhibition of Estonian illustrators The exhibited 20 Estonian artists have been isnspired by the Brothers Grimm’s fairy tales – ones that have been the closest to the artists’ own hearts. Some illustrations speak to the children, others to the children,…
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The exhibition follows the history of skateboarding, an alternative sport that has become a subculture from the second half of the 1970s to the present day. Its aim is to show how a generation growing up in the changing Budapest…
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The Space-Motion-Game exhibition was the result of an extraordinary collaboration between painter Tamás Konok and biologist Tamás Vásárhelyi. Drawing inspiration from Konok’s abstract paintings based on geometric elements and fine lines, Vásárhelyi extended these structures into space to build his…
Read more "SPACE – MOTION – GAME"Parallel realitiesCatalogue
Real and virtual dimensions, natural spheres, imaginary worlds of digital and analogue maps. Information seen, heard, touched. Systems that are rule-based and interactively malleable. The Parallel Realities group exhibition takes us into personal universes built from plants, glass, concrete, found…
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In his photos, Zoltán Kluger has captured the formation of the State of Israel, a nation’s aspiration to autonomy and the resurgence of hope after tragedies. Despite all the tragedies and pain of the 20th century, he represents hope on…
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In the spring of 2018, the children’s photographs of Hungarian photographer Ata Kandó, who is also a prominent artist in the fields of portraiture, ethnographic photography and fashion photography, were presented at the Deák17 Gallery. The exhibition catalogue can be…
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