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.
Lena Lapschina
"Walls are welcome places for artists, in- and outside the museum. You can drive a nail into the wall and hang everything up. You can also write and draw on these walls. Lena Lapschina claims the walls as her canvas.
"Any thing, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain." It was a shot of Anglican phlegm, administered by an artist. Lena's drawings have this same inexplicable quality. Perhaps because of her use of clichés - that she loves so much. "They beg us to look. Clichés won't let us look away."
Her drawings have no beginning and no end; no chronology. They are like pop-ups on the internet, that pop up at the instant that someone looks at a site. There must be a spark; a short moment of insight. It makes one think of an epiphany, a recurring theme in the writing of James Joyce. The meaning of epifany is a moment, a split second of clarity, that makes everything able to be understood. This is what Lena Lapschina wants us to see here.
…this work will disappear, but Lena is not mournful of this… For someone who is looking for the moment, eternity must wait."
- Wido Smeets
