Bookfriendship

October 12–22, 2017

The project entitled Bookfriendship deals with the heritage of the regional and Hungarian working class culture and its role in the history of organized labor movements. The title of the project was borrowed from Ervin Szabó’s article, titled A Few Words on the Hungarian Socialist Bookfriendship (1916), in which Szabó, who was also the founder of the public library system of Budapest, collected all of the extant Hungarian-language literature of the Left. He argues that the enlightenment/cultivation of the working class is an important means within its egalitarian struggles.

Exhibiting artists: Virág Bogyó, Miklós Erhardt, Gábor Erlich, David Karas, Krisztián Kristóf, Szilárd Miklós, Bence György Pálinkás

Curators: David Karas, Virág Lődi, Márton Pacsika, Márton Szarvas

Venue: The headquarters of the Union of Steel and Metalworkers of Hungary / VASAS (1086 Budapest, Magdolna u. 5.)

Supported by the Union of Steel and Metalworkers of Hungary (Vasas)