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.
Gábor SZERDI
"In my artistic program, I am currently exploring the concept of the absurd. For me, it is not just about processing literature-inspired themes, it is also how I try to extend the boundaries of visual formulation through working with incidental, impossible or even nonsensical scenes from the everyday life. In my works – to place them in relation to art history styles - I combine the realistic representation of Pop Art and the Baroque. My paintings can be considered figurative; the figures are realistically displayed as organic parts of the geometrical elements in the background (or sometimes in the foreground). The subject matter is varied; most of the time, I paint humans and animals, sometimes in the same picture, sometimes in standalone scenes. Right now, I find the ‘dog and dwarf’ theme the most intriguing, alongside habits relating to bodily waste."
