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Theory | Interview

Interview

'22.09.23.

We talked to the owner of the Deák Erika Gallery about online culture consumption, art criticism in Hungary, the role of education, the prospects for young people and the scholarship programme she set up a few years ago.

“I still believe in personal interaction”– Interview with Erika Deák

Media | Project

Proejct

'22.09.16.

The short film Balaton Prospects is intriguing for a number of reasons, but perhaps the most fascinating thing about it is its origin story. Three MOME fresh graduates, Mimi Ernst, Tamara Peszeki and Gerle Szabó, have explored a subject that is close to their heart as part of a shared summer love child project.

“We found it important to pick a subject that most Hungarians could relate to”

Photography

'22.09.08.

Without exaggeration, her series One foot here is like a therapy. Raw, painful, embarrassing, intimate, exemplary brave and liberatingly difficult.

Exposition of the home – Dorottya Novák’s alternative family photo album

Design

'22.09.01.

Sarolt Sógor is interested in hand crafting and the related craftmanship skills that are increasingly fading out in this age of automated mass production and digital culture.

The joy of crafting – Sarolt Sógor’s Connections collection

Architecture

'22.08.26.

Júlia Kovács’s diploma work is unusual for a number of reasons. For one, she involved several engineers from her contemporaries in the design process, and for another, she used a reverse logic to approach her subject. She took an energy object and turned it in her mind into a building.

Can buildings be regarded as energy objects? Interview with Júlia Kovács

Theory

'22.08.19.

Do you believe in having a soul or not? Do you use your balcony to sit out and chill, or to cram it full of junk? What words do you use to praise your children, and for what reasons do you scold them? These and similar important questions are listed on the back cover of Ágnes Kapitány and Gábor Kapitány’s book published this year. Symbolisation – How We Act Using Symbols stands out with more than just its suggestive blurb.

“It would be way more effective for humanity if the goal was to synthesise individual perspectives”

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