PARALLEL ART FOUNDATION
Réka Szabó
When I grow up
2025 09 01 - 21
Cairo Contemporary
Opening: 2025, September 1, 6-7.30pm
Réka Szabó's sculpture When I Grow Up seeks to capture a moment that is impossible in reality, yet evokes feelings familiar to us all. "As children, we often associate height with becoming an adult. Who hasn't heard the question: What will you be when you grow up? To this day, I still can't answer that question – perhaps because I never really grew high," says the artist.
Réka Szabó is a student at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, attending Ádám Szabó’s class. She is currently still searching for her own path, while striving to master as many techniques and forms of expression as possible. Environmental protection and social responsibility are close to her heart, and these themes play a decisive role in her thinking and work. In the future, she would like to use her sculptures to draw attention to the harmful effects of consumer society.
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On view 0-24h
PUCCS Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.
Organised by Parallel Art Foundation
Curator: Gábor Pintér
Supported by Budapest - District 8 Józsefváros Municipality and Hungarian Academy of Arts.
Lilla Törteli
Breadman
2025 09 01 - 21
Cairo Contemporary
Lilla Törtei has recently been preoccupied with the question of how much she believes her father's view of her and whether she really is the way he imagines her to be. Can she detach herself from the image she has created of what her father might think of her? Can she allow her father to think what he wants without it affecting her mood? The figure that emerged from this first appeared in a painting, then in 2024, Kenyérember (Breadman) was born, who is now visiting Cairo.
Lilla Törteli graduated from the University of Pécs in 2015 with a degree in painting. She is primarily interested in human and divine relationships, and within that, understanding and experiencing the concepts of freedom and peace.
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Cairo Contemporary, 1071 Budapest, Lövölde tér 7.
Organised by Parallel Art Foundation
Curator: Gábor Pintér
Supported by Erzsébetváros Municipality, Hungarian Art Academny
Cooperation partner: Bischitz Johanna Integrated Human Service Centre
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Mátyás
Weisz -
Vencel
Kustra
My your room
2025.09.26 – 10.31.
PUCCS Contemporary Art
Opening: 2025 September 26., 6-7.30pm
During the performative exhibition, the artist duo treats the gallery space as a minimalist space, a cell for living. After a while, the living space, which was initially adapted to its usual functions, is rearranged into new, previously unknown structures. Unusual parasitic furniture, novel spatial walls, and unique spatial forms begin to fill the space. Settling in and for the body finding a relationship with the space becomes a constant challenge, alienating it from our daily routine. The transformation is generated by arbitrary infinitives written alternately to each other. The triple chain of interpretation-association-modification is repeated until the end of the exhibition.
Both artists are first-year students at the BME Doctoral School of Architecture. Mátyás Weisz (1998) is interested in freehand drawing, the concepts of architectural form and character, as well as object creation and its spatial relationships. Vencel Kustra (1999) is interested in postmodern architecture, epistemological aspects of spatial design, and the connections between presence and physicality.
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On view 0-24h
PUCCS Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.
Organised by Parallel Art Foundation
Curator: Gábor Pintér
Supported by Budapest - District 8 Józsefváros Municipality, Hungarian Academy of Arts.
Kamilla Szeli
Remus
2025.11.07 – 30.
PUCCS Contemporary Art
Opening: 2025, Nov 7., 6-7.30pm
What is this place?
I see the source. It towers above me in its orange splendor. It looks familiar. It's as if I've drunk from it before. Breast milk?
Remus, wake up!
This is the new world.
Kamilla Szeli, with her works, creates the life of her own fictional soft planet, where the mysterious forms of underwater worlds, the alien aesthetics of extra-terrestrial life, and symbols of femininity intertwine. She brings her sculptures to life using traditional techniques of sewing, stuffing, and wool felting, inviting interaction with their softness and organic yet unfamiliar forms.
In her works, textile as a medium conveys the duality of fragility and flexibility. The volume achieved through stuffing reflects the changing shapes of the female body, while the wool felting reflects the ancient power of motherhood. Her sculptures are at once playful and unsettling, familiar and alien, just like the inhabitants of the mysterious planet she imagines.
When creating her works, the artist's main inspiration is to use visual language to tell stories about existence, transformation, and mysterious relationships. She invites the viewer to enter this world woven from fabric and imagination and discover the sometimes grotesque stories hidden behind the soft forms.
[Remus 2025, textile, wool, polyurethane foam, glass]
On view 0-24h
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Supported by Budapest - District 8 Józsefváros Municipality and Hungarian Academy of Arts.
PUCCS Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.
Organised by Parallel Art Foundation
Curator: Gábor Pintér
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Hanna Szabó-Sáfrány
I missed a spot
Cairo Contemporary, Budapest
1071 Budapest, Lövölde tér 7.2025, May 31 - July 27
On view 0-24hHanna Szabó-Sáfrány, Budapest-based visual artist and electronic musician. In her project-based works, she focuses, in many cases, on comically exaggerated physicality, such as the grin, the parasitic body hair, or the reproduction on assembly line. Her visual mind-maps and objects are dealing, among other things, with fictional notions of the reproduction of the human being, or with contemporary assumptions about the body's ancient past.
I missed a spot is one of a series of chameleon-like puppet installations, with the recurring element of three grinning heads and their lithe bodies. The puppets change character in different appearances and adapt to their environment. This provides an opportunity to contextualise their grins, making them sometimes compulsive, sometimes seductive, and in other cases exaggerated as a reaction to existential crisis. I missed a spot, exhibited at the FKSE Gallery in February 2025, took the form of a person compulsively cleaning a dusty basement in an attempt to achieve shiny surfaces. This summer, she will activate herself in the space of Cairo.
Hanna Szabó-Sáfrány (2001) is currently studying painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. In 2024, as part of the international MUTO Project "If There's a Common Thread" exhibition series, she participated in an art colony in a nuclear bunker in Zlín. She occasionally performs and/or exhibits at electronic music events (Zaj+, KamaRave, Képzaj, Memphis Series, Wounded Healer). She is the winner of the 2024 Telekom Electronic Beats SZELEKTOR. Since 2024, she is a member of the Young Artists’ Studio Association, where she participated in the debut exhibition "Verbs of Existence" for new members.
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Curator: Gábor Pintér
Cooperation partner: Bischitz Johanna Integrated Human Service Centre
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