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.
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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Bálint Gutay
How deep an iceberg is
2025 April 14 - May 25
> Budapest Photo Festival <
How deep an iceberg is photography project of Bálint Gutay is dealing the social transformation and digital revolution of the past twenty years, considering these two as one conceptual unit. Social transformation sparks the digital revolution and the digital revolution chaos and reorganises society. Public versus private, real identity versus virtual persona. Is there a way out, or can we only mitigate the inevitable fate.
[photo: Ádám Kuttner, Fresh meat, K6 Gallery, 2024]
Adrienn Szövérffi - Lukács Sámuel Tompa
Horse on Display
2025.04.01 – 26.
PUCCS Contemporary Art
Opening: 2024, March 31, 6-7.30pm
Official event of Budapest Photo Festival 2025.
The photographic installation points to the current situation of the Roma community in Budapest and the problems of social exclusion. Under socialism, the integration of Gypsies into the labour market and their relocation to cities required a lifestyle and cultural adaptation, which was made more difficult by the lack of education and vocational training, increasing their exclusion. Trying to take the customs of rural life (including their domestic animals) with them, they created absurd situations.
The Muybridge horse behind the bars symbolises the traditional occupations of this ethnic group as well as the loss of the gallery's classical function. The symbol of movement now stands motionless, locked up, without its rider, pointing to a universal history where the values of the past can become the prison of modernity. The work requires an active viewer's approach, and when viewed from a central perspective, the projection of the grid disappears, inviting the viewer to search for a solution.
Adrienn Szövérffi's work explores the nature of personal identity and current social issues. She draws from a photographic toolkit that supports her chosen subject matter in both content and form, and through her installations, she offers further interpretations of the topics she explores.
Lukács Sámuel Tompa is particularly interested in experimenting at the boundaries of moving images and photography. Through this, he seeks new tools to achieve a more complex and expressive visual language.
They have presented their collective and solo works in several group exhibitions, including the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Telep Gallery, Artus Studio in Budapest, Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence and OFF Bratislava.
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PUCCS Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.
Organised by Parallel Art Foundation
Curator: Gábor Pintér
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