REVOLUTION IS NOT A GARDEN PARTY

Trafó Gallery Budapest Oct-Nov 2006
Holden Gallery Manchester Feb 2007
Norwich Gallery Mar - Apr 2007
Galerija M-K Zagreb Jun-Jul 2007

Curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes

Michael Blum (Austria), Nick Crowe (UK), Igor Grubić (Croatia), Sanja Iveković (Croatia), Gergely László / Péter Rákosi (Hungary), Nils Norman (UK) and Adrian Paci (Italy)

The international exhibition ‘Revolution is not a Garden Party’ considers the resonances of social and political revolution in contemporary art against the backdrop of the 50 th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising.. The exhibition consists of new and recent works that examine the global economic and political context against which revolutions take place, as well as the intersection between personal and artistic heritages of revolution. It expresses the sorrow of failed political struggles in the past and the future, and considers the shared experience of a communist past and the post-communist reality. Other concerns include the experience of revolutionary literature, the gendered images of resistance fighters in contemporary media, and the legacy of 1956 for the relationship of art and revolution...(more)

REVOLUTION I LOVE YOU
1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy

Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki May-Aug 2008
Trafó Gallery Budapest Sep - Oct 2008
International Project Space Birmingham Nov-Dec 2008

Curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes

Mladen Stilinović, Tamás St.Auby, Zofia Kulik, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Oliver Ressler, Fia-Stina Sandlund, Miklós Erhardt, Heath Bunting, Marko Lulić, Tamás Kaszás, Jean-Baptiste Ganne, Nancy Davenport, Csaba Nemes, Zanny Begg

‘Revolution, I Love You’ is a slogan from May ’68 that recalls the exuberance, deep desire for change and belief in the possibility of freedom illuminating a precious moment of universal revolt.   The exhibition investigates 1968 as an interlude of liberty and global resistance, focussing on the interplay between the politics of the street, radical philosophy, and the explosion of creative responses in the period. It considers the modalities of the unrest across Europe against the backdrop of contrasting economic and political systems in East and West...(more)

REVOLUTIONARY DECADENCE
Foreign Artists in Budapest since 1989

Kiscell Museum - Municipal Art Gallery Oct-Nov 2009

Curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes

Catherine Bürki, Eike, Yusuke Fukui, Sanna Härkönen, Rodolf Hervé, Dominic Hislop, Diana Kingsley, Claudia Martins, Alexander Schikowski, Katerina Sević, Allan Siegel, Alexander Tinei, Ninni Wager and David Wilkinson

Revolutionary Decadence is the last in a trilogy of exhibitions investigating the revolutionary moments of recent history and takes as its subject the contribution of foreign artists to the Hungarian art scene since 1989. The exhibition focuses on the effect of the changes of 1989 on a single community in one locality, namely the enclave of foreign artists within the Budapest art world, and examines their participation in libratory forms of sociability, negotiation of the politics of belonging, and contribution to a post-national understanding of contemporary art in post-communist Europe...(more)