PARALLEL ART FOUNDATION
OPEN CALL
PUCCS Contemporary Art
2025-2026
Site-specific visual projects
Parallel Art Foundation is once again launching a call for contemporary artists and artists collectives to create new installations in the PUCCS Contemporary Art space.
Without any restrictions in terms of genre or form, we are looking for installation designs that fit into the exhibition space and - in line with the exhibition concept - can be interpreted frontally, from the street.
Place of realisation: PUCCS, 1084 Budapest, Víg utca 22.
Invited artist is responsible for funding travel, accommodation, transportation, and restoration expenses. Parallel Art Foundation can provide letter of invitation for grant purpose.
A jury of experts will select the projects to be implemented from September 2025.
Content of application
1) completed application form
2) CV
3) reference projects
4) project description and visual design
Applications should be sent to info@parallelfoundation.com
Feel free to contact for site visit.
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PUCCS Contemporary Art
PUCCS was founded in 2014 by Bullet Shih, visual artist from New York, whose aim was to give time and space to artists both from Hungary and abroad to experiment in a non-profit environment. Installations and performances were the main focus of the program, and a strong community was evolved around. Bullet curated his last exhibition at the end of 2019.
PUCCS was reopened in November 2021 with the “Insight” installation series of Parallel Art Foundation. Bullet’s family continues to operate PUCCS in his loving memory.
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Information on the space and implementation:
- Size of the space: 3x3x3 metres
- Power supply: 220V
- Interior lighting: 07:00-23:00
- Time available for installation: 3 days.
- Time available for dismantling and restoration: 2 days.
- The artist is responsible for the replacement of objects damaged during the exhibition.
- Objects in the window may be exposed to sunlight.
- The use of hazardous materials is not permitted.
- The use of technical equipment with manual on/off switch - TV, monitor, tablet, sound equipment, etc. - is not recommended.
- The use of devices with high electrical energy consumption is not permitted.
- The content of the project must not be offensive to public morals.
- At the end of the exhibition, the space must be restored to the condition in which it was received.
- The Foundation is not responsible for the objects of the installation.
- The Foundation will, by special agreement, provide installation and repair tools and materials.
- The Foundation will conclude a contract with the selected artists for the realisation of the project.
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The programme is supported by the Józsefváros Municipality of the 8th district of Budapest and the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
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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
www.parallelfoundation.com
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SUPERMARKET
Stockholm Independent Art Fair
Location: SKHLM Skärholmen Centrum
Skärholmsplan 5, 127 48 Skärholmen
SUPERMARKET – Stockholm Independent Art Fair is an international art fair for artist-run initiatives. Supermarket is dedicated to exhibiting artist-run spaces, artists’ collectives, nomadic spaces and independent artists’ initiatives of all shapes and from around the world. Its key aim is to display unique projects, create opportunities for new local and international networks and share the strengths of the independent art world with a large audience. The art fair exhibition is accompanied by the public Talks and Performance programme with invited performance artists and speakers from Sweden and abroad.
For the first time, Parallel Art Foundation is partnering with Supermarket and participates in the professional program with the aim of learning new concepts and strategies for programming and operating non-profit art spaces, discovering organisations with similar activities, finding new partners for future collaborations and widening the Foundation’s international activity.
Within the Meeting Expanded section, Gábor Pintér, art director and Árpád Forgó, assistant curator lead a round table talk about window galleries:
No need to enter get in
3 April, 6pm
Meeting Room
Special characteristics of window spaces, where "fear to enter" does not exist. Story of PUCCS and Cairo Contemporary - curating, funding, cooperating, sensitive content.
More info: https://supermarketartfair.com
The mobility project was funded by the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.
