is GERARDO MOSQUERA, artistic director of PhotoEspaña 2011 - the annual festival of photography and visual arts held in Madrid - by now one of the crucial events of the international photography scene.

In his lecture Gerardo Mosquera will speak about the curatorial programme of the current edition of PhotoEspaña, which will take place from June 1 to July 24, 2011. This year the festival is dedicated to the theme: Interfaces. Potraiture and Communication.

Date of the lecture: 18 April, 2011 (Monday), 6 p.m.
Place: Hungarian House of Photography - Mai Manó House, 1065 Budapest, Nagymező utca 20.

The lecture will be held in English. All are welcome!

The photography section of the Check-in Budapest program is supported by the National Cultural Fund (of Hungary) | Collaborating partner of the current event: Hungarian House of Photography - Mai Manó House

is DAN BYERS, associate curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and co-curator of the 2013 Carnegie International.

In his lecture Dan Byers will talk about his latest curatorial projects at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and will present the Carnegie International, which is the oldest exhibition of international contemporary art in North America, and the second oldest in the world.

Date: 13 April 2011 (Wednesday), 6 pm
Place: Labor, 1053 Budapest, Képíró utca 6.

The lecture will be held in English. All are welcome!

The Check-in Budapest program is supported by the Ministry of National Resources | Collaborating partner of the current event: Labor

Constitutional experiments by the way of
Manifesta 8

March 1, 2011, 6 p.m.
Ludwig Museum–Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Public lecture organized by tranzit.hu and ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange
 

One of the curatorial teams of Manifesta 8, the European nomad art biennial, tranzit.org – represented by Vít Havránek, Dóra Hegyi, Boris Ondreička and Georg Schöllhammer – shares their experiences about the possibility to democratically „constitute” the rules of a group exhibition organized in Murcia, Spain in 2010.

As part of the event the film Rudderless produced for the biennial by the Hungarian Manifesta 8 participants Igor and Ivan Buharov (Kornél Szilágyi and Nándor Hevesi) will be screened.

The Check-in Budapest curatorial visitor program of ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange continues in 2011! Since its launch in 2006 more than 60 renowned professionals participated in the program that generated numerous projects, collaborations and invitations to international biennials and other important shows.

In accordance with our long-established goal to facilitate, help and strengthen exchange between the Hungarian and the international art scenes, our first visitors this year are curators of two significant biennials in 2011: VICTORIA NOORTHOORN, appointed curator of the Lyon Biennial,  JENS HOFFMANN, co-curator of the Istanbul Biennial.

The Check in Budapest program is supported by the Ministry of National Resources.

is MARTA SZYMANSKA, artistic coordinator of FOTOFESTIWAL International Festival of Photography in Łódź.

In her lecture Marta Szymańska will talk about the curatorial and programming practice of the  Łódź FOTOFESTIWAL of the last years and outline the thematics of the upcoming festival in 2011. The presentation will be accompanied by a short movie reviewing the past editions of the festival.

Date: 22 November 2010 (Monday) 6 pm

Place: LudwigInzert (József krt. 70, Budapest H-1085, on the corner of József körút – Nap utca)

The lecture will be held in English. All are welcome!