ACAX launches its new Curators-in-Residency programme

Lene ter Haar, curator

We are happy to announce ACAX’s new Curators-in-Residency programme, the first edition of which was established in cooperation with the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Our first guest curator is Lene ter Haar, curator at SCHUNCK, Heerlen, The Netherlands, who is spending a two-month curators-in-residency period in Budapest.

The next guest and lecturer of the Check-in Budapest curatorial visitor program is:

Stijn Huijts, the director of the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht.

Date: 22th January 2013 (Tuesday), 6 pm
Venue: Ludwig Museum Library
(1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell út. 1. 2nd floor)

The next guest and lecturer of the Check-in Budapest curatorial visitor program is:

Margriet Schavemaker, head of collections and research at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Date: 3rd October 2012 (Wednesday), 6 pm
Venue: Ludwig Museum Library
(1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell út. 1. 2nd floor)

The next guest and lecturer of the Check-in Budapest curatorial visitor program is:

KARI CONTE, Director of Programs and Exhibitions at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York

Date: 24th September 2012 (Monday), 6 pm
Venue: Ludwig Museum Library (1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell út. 1. 2nd floor)

ACAX becomes a member of the Visual Arts Platform

In 2011 ACAX was invited to be the sixth member of the Visual Arts Platform (VAP), an international network of arts agencies. VAP includes the most prominent European arts agencies such as the British Arts Council England, the Danish Agency for Culture, the Dutch Mondriaan Fund, the Belgian BAM (Flemish Institute for Visual, Audiovisual and Media Art), the Swiss Pro Helvetia.