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.
TECHNO WORLDS
August - October, 2021
Fotók/Photos: Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss
As a global phenomenon, techno has not only shaped the history of music, but has also had a significant influence on culture. Techno's impulses have an impact on the various fields of art, pop culture, media consumption and technologies. Techno is thus an attitude towards life, that reflects on particular social, living- environment and economic structures and can also serve as a political medium. This exhibition realized by the collaboration of Goethe-Institut Budapest and aqb is a world premier: it can be seen in Budapest for the first time, and starting from here continues as a travelling exhibition of an international importance, showing the fault lines of art, music, pop, media and technology. The main focus is on works of art that explore the thematics between local and global, underground and mainstream, politics and commerce, proposing questions about commercialization, digitalization, experiences of body, space and creativity. In Germany, techno acted as a connecting element between East and West, and after the fall of the Berlin Wall gained particular importance. Berlin, which attracted attention in the 1990s with the Love Parade, developed into one of the most prominent capitals of techno music. The exhibition presents video installations, objects, pictures, sculptures, and involves a separate document section, beside the Project Space of aqb, it fills more rooms from the cellar and up. The exhibition alongside with the accompanying events provide an opportunity and a chance to reflect also on the local connections of art and techno.
Exhibiting artists: Chicks On Speed / Tony Cokes / Zuzanna Czebatul / Deforrest Brown, Jr. & AbuQadim Haqq / Aleksandra Domanović / Rangoato Hlasane / Ryōji Ikeda / Maryam Jafri / Robert Lippok / Lőrinc Borsos / M+M / Mamba Negra / Henrike Naumann & Bastian Hagedorn / The Otolith Group / Carsten Nicolai / Vinca Petersen / Daniel Pflumm / Sarah Schönfeld / Jeremy Shaw / Dominique White / Tobias Zielony
Documentary films: Jaqueline Caux, Romuald Karmakar and Lisa Rovner
Fashion, Magazine: Kerstin Greiner
Curated by Mathilde Weh, Justin Hoffmann, Creamcake
Curator of the contribution from Sao Paolo: Camilo Rocha
Local curator: Krisztián Kukla
Partners of the event: Goethe-Institut
Supporters of the exhibition: NKA - National Cultural Fund of Hungary, EPSON, Korean Cultural Center, Csokonai Theater, Artoid Studio, ICA-D Institute of Contemporary Art
