My book, There's Nothing Wrong With That is also on the show.
SANS Foreboding.
DUMMY AWARD KASSEL
Vienna Photo Book Festival
PHOTO/BOOK
Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Artists: Zsuzsa Bakonyi, Eszter Biró, Dávid Biró, Máté Dobokay, Bettina Gál, Judit Gellér, Bálint Hirling, Enikő Hodosy, Katalin Illés, Réka Kóti, Kriszti Mag, Marcell Piti, Flóra Judit Schuller, Lilla Szántói, Réka Szent-Iványi, Éva Szombat, Dorottya Vékony
The exhibition was open to the public:
06/06/2015 – 18/06/2015
1980s GENERATION
Exhibition by Young Hungarian Photographers
Month of Photography 2015, Balassi Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria
“1980s Generation / snapshot-society” is a project initiated in 2012, in Budapest Hungary, as a multidisciplinary workshop of sociologists and artists, which then led to an exhibition at the PhotoMonth Budapest 2012 and to this website The focus is the diverse social phenomena and social problems that concern the 20 to 30 year-olds of today in CEE. This online platform was created to host artists’ works from different countries to reflect on the specific issues of this peculiar generation born in socialist times but grown up in democracies (i.e. in the 1980s).
Artists: Zsuzsa Bakonyi, Gergely Barcza, Zsuzsi Flohr, Emőke Kerekes, Katalin Illés, Márk Martinkó, Ildikó Péter, Kata Somogyvári, Réka Szent-Iványi, Katalin Vágó-Lévai – Csaba Vágó, Enikő Várai, István Virág.
Curator: Edit Barta, Assistant Curator: Anna Balázs
The exhibition was open to the public:
28/05/2015 – 30/06/2015
SECOND SKIN
Visual Codes of Social Constructions
The exhibition is drawing a line starting from the recent economic and social changes which began in Hungary not long before the end of communism and explores the relationship between identity and its defining power structures, showing the works of artists who have similar interests in fine-art photography and photojournalism side by side.
Kata Oltai art historian, curator of the exhibition
Artists:
Alíz Arató, András Bánkuti, Szabolcs Barakonyi, Csilla Cseke, Lajos Csontó, András Dér and László Hartai, Ágnes Eperjesi, Anna Fabricius, Viola Fátyol, Andrea Gáldi Vinkó, Pál Gerber, Gábor Gerhes, Luca Gőbölyös, András D. Hajdú, Tamás Király, Kenguru, Endre Koronczi, Árpád Kurucz, Lilla Mitro, Kriszta Nagy x-T, Márta Pintér, Róbert Szabó Benke, Réka Szent-Iványi, Éva Szombat, Technica Schweiz, Zsuzsi Ujj, Tamás Urbán, Tibor Várnagy, Éva Velledits, Dorottya Vékony – Júlia Farkas, Zsuzsi Vinkler, Krisztián Zana
Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest
The exhibition was open to the public:
30/09/2014 – 02/11/2014
There's Nothing Wrong With That
Curator: Szandra Ruda
Where does the private space begin and where does it end? Whose private space is it? Mine or the captured person’s? Who is entering where?
The photographs of Réka Szent-Iványi do not wish to provoke, and yet they do. They do not wish to judge, and still they do. They provoke and judge the viewer, shouting out the words "intimate" and "private". In fact they are "quiet" documents, the imprints of a man's life nicknamed Torgyán, thrown very gently in a naturalistic manner to our faces by Szent-Iványi. The medium is the negative, the subject is the everyday life of Torgyán. How do we react when entering the private life of a man, who shares a one-bedroom panel apartment with his mother, a dog and a cat, and when we face all the absurdities of his life? The photographs show us a dimension, where we do not know, cannot know, which part is true and which is just for the show, but these correlating reality-layers are the ones creating that complex texture we define as life, in this case as the private life of Torgyán. Actions occurring among the four walls of our home by ourselves within our private zone only concern one: us, alone. Gaining insight into such deeds is an intimate act, which is bound to the permission of the revealing one. We give and gain permission, triggering the collision of private spaces. Who is entering where?
These pictures crawl inside your private space, demanding answers.
Do you dare to expose yourself? You can't help but to do so.
But there's nothing wrong with that.
The exhibition was open to the public:
09/04/2014 – 10/05/2014
XY - Human Dignity and the MOME Generation
“THERE IS SOMETHING THAT IS UNTOUCHABLE IN ALL OF US. THIS SOMETHING IS UNRELATED TO COUNTRIES, REGIMES AND EVEN TO PEOPLE. IT SPRINGS FROM LIFE ITSELF. FROM THE UNIQUE, INIMITABLE EXPRESSION OF HUMAN EXISTENCE. WE CAN COMPREHEND IT ONLY IN OURSELVES. ONCE AND FOR ALL. AS LIFE TURNS INTO EXISTENCE, THE PARTICULAR INTO UNIVERSAL, AND THE CONTINGENT INTO THE NECESSARY. AS WE STRIVE FOR PERFECTION. FOR THE UNREACHABLE. TRYING TO REACH IT IN OTHERS. IN EVERYONE.”
Gábor Kopek, rector of MOME
