Home: An art project on housing

Budapest, May 17 – 24, 2019

In the former premises of the Otthon Department Store, 13 emerging visual artists reflect on the concept of home, their relationship to their own living spaces, and the challenges arising from the housing crisis.

The housing crisis, as a widespread and systemic issue, affects not only marginalized social groups but also young people, families, and the elderly alike. In addition to the exhibition, performative events address questions of cohabitation and homelessness. A professional roundtable discussion with invited experts offers a broader perspective on the historical background of the housing crisis, the current situation, and possible alternative models.

Alongside this program, architecture students from MOME engage with the topic of social housing. Through their project work, they transform the site of a former set storage facility into community-oriented spaces that may provide alternative housing solutions within an overburdened urban environment. Films depicting various housing situations, curated by the Verzió Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, DAAZO Shortfilms, and the grassroots organization The City Is for All, will also be screened.

The Home:An art project on housing program series is the diploma project of students from the Art Theory Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Its realization was supported by the OFF-Workshop Budapest program led by the OFF-Biennale, with the support of the Summa Artium Foundation.

Participants: AU Workshop, Anna ÁDÁM, Csönge BALLA, BOTTOM UP, Eszter HORVÁTH, Ádám JENESES, Mártha KICSINY, Attila LAKATOS, Tünde MÉZES, Bálint MISETICS, Judit Lilla MOLNÁR, MOME Master’s students of the Institute of Architecture (Viola Bálint, Olivér Bartha, Máté Gadolla, Dániel Lengyel, Katalin Gencsi, Veronika Róza Háló, Evelin Murczin, Krisztina Anna Németh, Renáta Pomázi, Dorottya Seenger, Ákos Sógor, Áron Szabó, Rákhel Szabó, Dávid Székely, Marcell Szodfridt, Gergely Tasnádi, Bence Varga, Adrienn Veres), MOME Design Culture students (Éva Antal, Brigitta Ádi, Luca Csíkszentmihályi, Lilla Gollob, Vivien Kádi, Anna Karsai ), Zsuzsanna PÓSFAI, Dávid SMILÓ, STEREO Akt, Márton SZARVAS, Lili THURY, Balázs VARJU TÓTH, Szabolcs VIDA, Willany Leó Improvizációs Táncszínház
Curators: Borka CSEJDY, Réka ÖLVEDI, Dénes PETÁK, Fanni SOLYMÁR

Opening: May 17, 2019, 18.00-22.00
Finissage: May 24, 2019, 19.00-22.00
Address: ex-Otthon Áruház, 1074 Budapest, Rákóczi út 74-76.