exkursion 01: budapest
14.-17. November 2002
Die Exkursion gibt einen Überblick über die derzeitige Situation der Budapester Museums- und Ausstellungslandschaft. Die Bandbreite der besuchten Institutionen reicht von Kunstmuseen, Galerien über kulturhistorische Ausstellungen bis zu Offspace-Projekten. Beleuchtet werden neue Entwicklungstendenzen der Budapester Szene, Repräsentationsformen nationaler und transnationaler Identitäten sowie die Auswirkungen des veränderten kulturpolitischen Kontextes durch die neue Regierung.
In all den Institutionen diskutieren wir direkt mit den DirektorInnen und verantwortlichen KuratorInnen, die uns Einblick in ihre Programmatik und Arbeitsbedingungen geben. Ziel der Exkursion ist überdies eine internationale Vernetzung voranzutreiben und die soeben gegründete schnittpunkt Dependance in Budapest (metszèspont) vorzustellen.
Anzahl der TeilnehmerInnen: 30 Personen
Konzeption/Organisation:
Beatrice Jaschke, schnittpunkt und Nora Sternfeld, schnittpunkt/Büro trafo.K
Die Wende zum Publikum. Museen und Kunstszene im Wandel in Ungarn
Gábor Ébli
In 2002, Hungary celebrates the bicentennial of its Museumswesen - as the Germanic tradition labels the 'museum idea' and its institutional embodiments. An examination of this development reveals the riches of public collections, as much as the sharp contrast between their initial expansion until World War I and their subsequent, prolonged, demise. Today's museum landscape can best be characterised in the light of the controversial history and structure of these museums.
The presentation will lay a specific focus upon the changes since the democratic transition. Today, museums struggle with insufficient funding, outdated schemes of organisation, and a lack of marketing and communication skills. At the same time, they have to re-invent their exhibitions under the pressing shifts in contemporary art, as well as under the public expectations for a new national canon of classic modernism. The collaboration of museums in Budapest and outisde the capital is also undergoing a transformation, as ought to the relations to the international arts scene.
We shall look closely at the tradition and the current revival of private collecting, commercial art dealership and philanthropy. Together with not-for-profit institutions, these initiatives promise a blossoming of the Hungarian arts scene. The lecture will argue that it is the diversity of the aesthetic character, of the institutional status, and of the mission of arts institutions that ensures a vivid dialogue with the public and a balanced development of the art world in Hungary - and elsewhere abroad.
Gábor Ébli (born 1970, PhD Aesthetics) works for the Institute of Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, and teaches at the Department of Aesthetics of Pécs University. His research focuses upon the history and structure of public and private collections of modern art, and upon the relationship of modern vs. contemporary art in exhibitions in museums.
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