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.
Rolina Nell
Rolina Nell (1968, the Netherlands) is a visual artist. She graduated in 2001 from the Academy of Fine Art and Design Minerva, Groningen, the Netherlands. Rolina exhibits her work regularly in the Netherlands and abroad. Rolina travels extensively and works in artist residencies world wide. To carry out her practice on a professional basis she was a.o. supported by The Mondriaan Fund. Rolina worked for several years in Rotterdam, the Netherlands at Duende studio's. Currently she lives and works at a farmhouse in the North East polder, the Netherlands. Rolina is member of the
board and curator of artists initiative id11.
“I find my inspiration through observation and interaction with the environment and daily life. Women take centre stage in my paintings and drawings and are isolated from her everyday environment. I concentrate on women and the female as a core subject by dealing with universal, existential questions of what the female can mean. Derived from my own femininity. Postures fixed in egg tempera on linen or with pencil/charcoal on paper. Painting and drawing are for me a form of (self) research, an awareness of being. It is not autobiographical story. The meaning of the work transcend the personal. Intuition and imagination play an important role in my work process. It is an attempt to grasp life and capture it and learn to understand it. In my paintings and drawings only gesture, fabric, patterns and appliqués of clothes as well as personal items are visible. The paint and the gesture of painting are discordant with the beautiful images and lead one to suspect subdued tensions. The absence of faces as a main human attribute leaves space for the exploration of female identities behind cultural codes. Identity is a key word in my work. Paintings and drawings where the identity remains mysterious.”
