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.
Elly Strigner (UK)
Elly Strigner is an artist whose work focuses on illustration, animation and storytelling. She is especially interested in listening to and finding exciting ways of telling other people’s stories. Her illustrations and stories have been published by Cracked Eye, Wrap magazine, and Mardi Books. She regularly devises and runs illustration, book making and animation workshops for museums, festivals and galleries; including WOMAD, End of the Road festival, the National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, Ruthin Craft Centre and Oriel Mostyn in North Wales. She has worked as an artist in residence in a care home, curated exhibitions and showreels for events, and created animated visuals for collaborative performances at Blinc Digital Arts Festival in North Wales and Sensoria Festival in Sheffield. She is originally from North Wales and currently lives and works in London.
