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.
Erik MÁTRAI
Even though I graduated from the University of Fine Arts in the department of painting (2004) I generally use a wide range of mediums for the realization of my art pieces, while I keep on making panel paintings.
I am continuously experimenting with new materials and techniques that mostly result in new works.
I often deal with sacred topics but the basic elements and sheer geometry are also in the focus of my attention. The themes of my works are mainly inspired by religion and art-history.
Nature and the phenomena-, and the basic elements of nature have a serious effect on my works. Artistically I often deal with materials and symptoms like reflections, water, fog and I am intent on creating pieces that are mere and clear out.
Light also plays an important role in my works. Sometimes I just depict it but sometimes I use it to create new spaces and sometimes it appears through simple symbols.
Most of my video works are usually slow, meditative and stand from one cut.
The characteristic of them are the permanence and eternity and often have Biblical reference.
I depict well-known panel paintings with the latest technology with the tools of classic iconography which finally come together as a moving image in a 'montage way'.
I often create site-specific installations, and I really deal with the connection between the artwork and the space itself and the relation between the art piece and the viewer. These ones are often situated in sacral spaces or the works make the space to have a sacral meaning.
Collaboration with other artists is very important for me, thinking together is more loose and fluent in many cases. The way other artist think or consider the things provides another aspect and has an effect on my own works as well.
