Illustration: Stipan Tadić, 'Super Andrija', 2018

aqb Volunteering
Volunteering period will be from March until May of 2022, to help at the upcoming exhibition “Are you sure you want to leave?”, a selection of the OSTRALE Biennale "Breathturn".
APPLICATION
Deadline: February 27, midnight
OPTIONAL TASKS
We would like volunteers to help throughout the exhibition minimum once a week for 5 hours. Volunteering periods are:
• Exhibition installation, preparation between March 1 - 18
• Art mediation, exhibition guarding between March 19 - May 22
REQUIREMENTS
• Conversational level of Hungarian and English
• Having personal interest in cultural and art related projects
COMPENSATION
• We can provide you with the signing of your school / university documents (if required), along with inviting you to gain a basic insight of the content, preparation and outcome of a Budapest-based international contemporary art exhibition.
ABOUT US
Being an independent cultural institution and a centre of contemporary arts, art quarter budapest hosts a wide diversity of programs. The building complex consists of a broad collective of in-house visual and performance artists and gives home to creative industry companies also. Aqb curates local on-site exhibitions and hosts a residency program for various international creators.
Ádám DALLOS
“In a bleeding sunset over Lake Balaton, after an all-encompassing storm, as an orange moon is rising and moustachioed boys make love to weeping dragons on the beach, while, in the reeds, a brownish swan wraps itself around the bull with the bloody eyes, I imagine myself a vampire under a dome. The adolescent boy swaps places with the dragon, the rats have crawled out from under the bed, they’re under the pillow already. I wear a robe of blue, veiny skin, I pull away to dodge the snake’s kiss, while laying my body down on its sharp scales, on the filthy floor tiles of the sauna.
After my 2018 paintings of black cobras licking themselves in the storm, groups of mating swans among white-tipped waves, and rearing, muscular horses running out of this world, my paintings created in 2019 have grown angrier; the young men sporting their first beard – who have now been given wings – with their penises erect, are embracing dragons in front of a blood-red backdrop.”
Ádám Dallos
Ádám Dallos (1986), a uniquely sensitive artist from the generation of young, Central Eastern European figurative painters, lives and works in Budapest. In 2010, he participated in the exhibition Ars Homo Erotica, which was held at the National Museum Warsaw and attracted considerable international attention. His painting was featured on the cover of the exhibition catalogue. Since then, he has had yearly solo exhibitions at such venues as Art+Text Budapest, the Blitz Gallery, and the Platán Gallery. His works have been showcased in group exhibitions at the Central Slovakian Gallery in Banská Bystrica, the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, and the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, to only mention a few. In 2018, he was an artist in residence at the Cité International des Arts Paris.
