Bartok's Bugs

March 5 - April 14, 2007

Featuring works by Bálint Bory, Ken Butler (USA), Károly Elekes, Andrea Hajagos, Balázs Kicsiny, Sándor Racmolnar, John Roach (USA), Gábor Roskó, Róbert Swierkiewicz, Dezsö Tandori, Tibor Várnagy, Arpád Zsák.

Béla Bartok has been known throughout the world as one of the most important composers of the 20th Centur, as well as a collector of folk music from Europe and the Middle East, as well as bird sounds.

Less known is that besides music, he was an avid collector of insects. His formidable collection included many species from Europe, South America and North Africa. The insect collectionswere ultimately eaten by other bugs.

We asked contemporary artists to respond to Bartok's bug collection with their own artworks. A number of the objects in the exhibition were brought to life by a group of puppeteers, who staged a performance at the opening. As well, video documentation was projected in the gallery's Black Room.

Death Mask - Life Mask
November 10, 2006 - March 31, 2007

Under Alma's auspices, New York-based sculptor Louise McCagg participated in this exhibition at the Museum of Literature Petöfi, which focused on the traditional practice of making death masks of well-known individuals. Death masks included Liszt, Beethoven, Nietzsche, Hegel and Brecht. McCagg contributed a number of life masks of prominent Hungarian poets, all cast in New York, including Gyögy Petri, Lászlo Baranszky-Job and Sara Karig. Subsequently, she donated the masks to the museum's collection.

December 20, 2006 - January 29, 2007
N&n Gallery, Budapest

Alma On Dobbin helped organize and introduce to Budapest the acclaimed New York institution Storefront for Art and Architecture. In collaboration with N&n Architecture Gallery in Budapest, Storefront is exhibiting images and documents from its 24-year history. More...

Sculptors
November 7 - December 31, 2006
On October 23, 1956, Hungarians in Budapest assembled to knock down the 20-meter-high monument of Stalin by artist Sandor Mikus, at the Felvonulas Square in Budapest. The participants were workers who were later jailed. Fellow prisoners called them "sculptors." This show commemorates their memory and the 90 invited artists used the 20 cm high paper cutout of the Stalin statue in their work. Pictures at the 2B Gallery site...

Participants:
Ingo Abeska (A), Antal István, Uri Asaf, Bálint Ildikó, Bátki János, Belecz Péter, Beöthy Balázs, Bori Bálint, Böröcz András, Csató Máté, Czakó Mária, Csontó Lajos, Drégely Imre, DrMáriás Béla, Elekes Károly, efZámbó István, FeLugossy László, Forgách András, Forgács Péter, Gábor Áron, Garaczi László, Gellér B. István, Daniel Georges (USA), Gergely Nóra, Göbölyös Luca, Regina Granne (USA), Gerhard Gross (A), Györffy Sándor, Hamarits Zsolt, Hecker Péter, Geoffrey Hendricks (USA), Hermann Zoltán, ILA (A), Ilauszky Tamás, Madácsy István, Mamikon Yengibarian, Kalmár János, Kicsiny Balázs, Kirkovits Andrea, KissPál Szabolcs, Klimó Károly, Kozári Hilda, Kukorelly Endre, Martin Krusche (A), Ian Laughlin (USA), Lábass Endre, Lóránt Zsuzsa, Lukoviczky Endre, Mátrai Péter, Louise McCagg (USA), Mezei Gábor, Nikolaus Mohr (G), Carole Naggar (USA), Sylvia Netzer (USA), Cristina Ohlmer (G), Parti Nagy Lajos, Pauer Gyula, Peternák Miklós, Beatrix Piesh (USA), Pinczehelyi Sándor, Rácmolnár Sándor, Martin Rasp(G), Révész László László, Peter Riek (G), John Risseeuw (USA), Romvári Márton, John Roach (USA), Robbin Ami Silverberg (USA), Tatiana Simonova (USA), Solymosi Bálint, Szabó Eszter Ágnes, Szacsvay Pál, Szerényi Gábor, Szegö György, Sam Szembek (G), Szikszai Károly, Sziládi Mónika, Szilágyi Lenke, Szirtes János, Szombathy Bálint, Szüts Miklós, Tandori Dezsö, Tomka Zsóka, Tooth Gábor Andor, Tóth Eszter, Romiko Tsuda (USA), Várnai Gyula, Várnagy Tibor, Vásárhelyi Antal, Vásárhelyi Zsolt, Wechter Ákos, Paul Werner (USA)

Waldsee 1944
An international traveling exhibition of postcard-sized works by more than 70 Hungarian and international artists as a tribute to the 600,000 Hungarian Jews who perished in World War II (May-June 2004).

In the Jewish Museum and Archive in Budapest postcards have been preserved that were written by the deported to their relatives. Participating artists created these small works as a reaction to the existence of this historic deception cooked up in the camps.

Featuring works by, among others: Paul Emmanuel, William Kentridge, Erika Hibbert, Diane Victor (South Africa); Gyorgy Kemeny, Janos Major, Janos Megyik, Balint Nagy, Laszlo Rajk, Gabor Rosko, Lenke Szilágyi , Kamilla Szij (Hungary); Ida Appelbrog, Judy Chicago, Tobi Arthur Kahn, Stephen Lack, Louise McCagg, Sylvia Plachy, Archie Rand, John Roach, Greg Stanger, Donald Woodman (USA); Annette Munk, Anton Wurth (Germany).