Manifesta 8.

9 October 2010 – 9 January 2011
Region of Murcia (Spain), in dialogue with Northern Africa

Groups of Curators: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (Bassam El Baroni, Jeremy Beaudry), Chamber of Public Secrets (Khaled Ramadan, Alfredo Cramerotti), tranzit.org (Vít Havránek, Zbynek Baladrán, Dóra Hegyi, Boris Ondreicka, Georg Schöllhammer)
Hungarian participants: Igor and Ivan Buharov 

ISCP, New York - 2010

Within the framework of ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange and International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) collaboration one Hungarian curator is invited to spend a 2 months' residency  at ISCP in New York between 1st of December and 31st of January 2011.



The jury:

Edit András, art historian, Hungarian Academy of Sciences;

Rita Kálmán, program coordinator of ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange;

Katalin Simon, chief curator of Ludwig Museum Budapest

Recipient of the ISCP curatorial residency grant is: Attila Tordai-S.

The grant covers the travel, accommodation and living costs and the studio use.

The program is organised and financed by ACAX | Ludwig Museum with the support of TMU (Trust for Mutual Understanding).

ISCP, New York - 2010

Hungarian participant: Szabolcs KissPál
Date:  1 September 2010. - 30 November 2010.

Szabolcs KissPál will spend 3 months at ISCP  between 1st of September 2010 and 30th of November 2010.

Liverpool Biennial 2010.

Touched

18 September - 28 November 2010
Liverpool, United Kingdom

The Liverpool Biennial - the UK’s largest as well as one of the most exciting contemporary visual arts event - presents Touched, the International Exhibition of the Biennial. Consisting of around 40 new projects by leading and emerging international artists, Touched presents artworks that affect the viewer through addressing a total context (mind, body and place: relatedness in space and time); artworks whose investment and inscription in the particular and the personal affects the general and the social.

Lorenzo Fusi, curator of the current International Exhibition, was invited to Budapest for a curatorial research trip in the frame of the ACAX Check-in Budapest visitor program in September 2009. Following his visit he invited two Hungarian artists - Emese Benczúr and Csaba Kis Róka - to participate in the Biennial.

Emese Benczúr will present her site specific work Think About Your Future in the framework of the PUBLIC REALM section of Touched, curated by Lorenzo Fusi.
Production of Emese Benczúr’s site specific work Think About Your Future is supported by ACAX | Ludwig Museum.

Csaba Kis Róka is one of the 8 invited artists to exhibit at the THE HUMAN STAIN section of Touched, curated by Lorenzo Fusi.
Csaba Kis Róka’s participation in the Liverpool Biennial was supported by ACAX | Ludwig Museum.

ISCP, New York - 2010

Within the framework of ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange and ISCP collaboration one artist will spend a 3 months' residency at ISCP in New York between 1st of February 2010 and 30th of April 2010.

Recipient of the ISCP residency is: Gergely László