PARALLEL ART FOUNDATION
OPEN CALL
PUCCS Contemporary Art
2026-2027
Site-Specific Installations
Parallel Art Foundation is announcing a call for proposals for contemporary artists and artist collectives to create new installations in the PUCCS Contemporary Art space.
The gallery has been operated by the Parallel Art Foundation since 2021, and to date, some thirty artists from Hungary, beyond its borders, and abroad have taken on the challenge of stepping outside their comfort zones to create works that reflect on the space and its surroundings. PUCCS is a white cube, a blank canvas, a showcase, a space for experimentation in the heart of Józsefváros, where radically different installations engage passersby month after month.
Apply now if you would like to participate in this project — unique in Hungary — during the 2026–2027 season.
We are looking for installation designs that
- integrate organically with the exhibition space,
- can be interpreted at a glance,
and may even
- experiment with blending different genres, operating at their boundaries,
- are realized through innovative use of materials.
Eligibility:
- all creators, regardless of age or educational background,
- representatives of the visual arts, architecture, design, and other creative fields,
- students enrolled in higher education art programs.
What we offer:
- a space for experimentation and the realization of long-cherished dreams,
- a 4-6 week solo exhibition,
- an opening event,
- press coverage,
- honorarium: 60,000 HUF net per project.
(Please note that PUCCS does not cover travel and accommodation, but in case of successful application we discuss additional funding possibilities with the artist, and issue a Letter of Invitation as well.)
Venue: PUCCS, 1084 Budapest, Víg utca 22.
Submission
Deadline
June 15,
2026, 11:59 PM (CET)
Components of the application package
1) Completed application form >>> [download from here]
2) project description [maximum 1 page] & visual concept [free style]
3) CV [maximum 2 pages]
4) reference projects, exhibitions [maximum 10 pages]
Please upload the application materials—each item as a separate PDF file—here: https://forms.gle/hjySBCdwnEWfmZjJ8
File names to be uploaded:
LastName_FirstName_ApplicationForm.pdf
Last_Name_First_Name_Project.pdf
Last_Name_First_Name_CV.pdf
Last_Name_First_Name_Reference.pdf
We offer the opportunity to visit the site by prior arrangement.
Contact: info@parallelalapitvany.hu
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Information regarding the venue and installation
- Space dimensions: 3x3x3 meters
- Power supply: 220V
- Time available for installation: 3 days.
- Time available for dismantling and restoration: 2 days.
- The artist is responsible for replacing any objects damaged during the exhibition.
- Objects placed in the display window may be exposed to sunlight.
- The use of hazardous materials is not permitted.
- Technical devices that are manually turned on and off— TVs, monitors, tablets, sound equipment, etc. – is not recommended.
– The use of devices with high power consumption is not permitted.
- The content of the project must not violate public morality.
- At the end of the exhibition, the artist is obligated to restore the space to its original condition upon handover.
- The Foundation assumes no responsibility for the objects in the installation.
- The Foundation will provide installation and repair tools and materials upon separate agreement.
- The Foundation will enter into a contract with the selected artists for the implementation of the project.
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Supported by
Mátyás Fusz
No bottom, no top
Cairo Contemporary, Budapest
2026, May 22 - July 10
“I’m not sure where a mountain begins. Is there a clear line, a stream, or a low point beyond which everything above counts as a mountain?
Then, up there, I have been to peaks that were very flat—almost like plateaus—and I have even turned back a few hundred meters before reaching the summit. Partly because I am afraid of heights, and partly because, when I am exhausted, I can easily come to terms with the idea that I will not finish this all the way through.
Maybe that is also, why there is about 10 square centimetres of panelling missing from the top of my house. Back then, I got tired and climbed down from the ladder, thinking I would finish it later, but I never went back up there. There is no need to panic—it is not leaking—but still.
The exhibition plays on this 99-percent-of-the-time character, creating hiding places and unavoidable priorities for it.”
Mátyás Fusz explores the subjective and objective boundaries of perception primarily through sculptures, objects, and installations. His works and series, which depict the possibilities—or indeed the impossibilities—of defining what is different and what is the same, are studies of the simplest possible cases.
He graduated as a painter from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Pécs in 2009 and earned his Ph.D. from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2021. He has had solo exhibitions at the Budapest Gallery, the Kisterem Gallery, and the Liget Gallery, among others, and has participated in group exhibitions at the Kiscelli Museum, the Vasarely Museum, and the M21 Gallery in Pécs. In 2023, he won the Leopold Bloom Fine Arts Award.
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On view 0-24h
Cairo Contemporary, 1071 Budapest, Lövölde tér 7.
Organised by Parallel Art Foundation
Curator: Gábor Pintér
Supported by Hungarian Academy of Arts
Cooperation partner: Bischitz Johanna Integrated Human Service Centre
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Lisette Appeldorn (NL)
Characters
2026.03.30. – 05.17.
Cairo Contemporary
The exhibition is a part of the official
program of Budapest Photo Festival 2026.
Lisette Appeldorn merges her experience and knowledge obtained from fashion-, product- and photography. With the use of everyday objects, which form the raw materials in her configurations, quirky characters come to life. That established a peculiar world both fictional and imaginative, yet prevail in a close relation to our direct worldly surroundings. This interrelationship between the elements of reality and fantasy hold up a central role in her work.
Supported by
Cooperation partner
Dávid Biró
Trust the Grid
2026.04.01. – 04.24.
Puccs Contemporary Art
Official event of Budapest Photography Festival
Midissage: 2026.04.15. 18:00-19:30
Current imaging contexts create a visual environment that resists stable frameworks of image interpretation. The image does not appear as an unambiguously readable structure, but rather as a system built upon multiple, contradictory visual logics. Recognition is not an automatic process, but rather an uncertain and constantly renegotiated one. In this context, the increasingly advanced cognitive capabilities of algorithms—pattern recognition, categorization, and visual inference—shape not only the creation of images but also the frameworks for their interpretation. The distinction between virtuality and reality cannot be fixed but dissolves, rendering the image’s status fundamentally unstable.
Similar to his earlier works, Dávid Biró draws upon this state of uncertainty. The resulting composition creates a visual situation in which the viewer remains in a constant state of interpretive attempt. The emphasis is not on the subject of the image, but on the process of recognizing and reconciling various patterns, structures, and visual signs. The image thus does not offer a solution, but creates an open enigma in which the conditions of interpretation become visible.
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On view 0-24h
PUCCS Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.
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Orsolya
Jancsovics
Imitation
2026 02 27 - 03 27
PUCCS Contemporary Art
Opening: 2026, February 27, 6-7.30pm
Orsolya Jancsovics' installation entitled Imitation deals with the issues of "imitation" and "identification," further developing her earlier series of works entitled Disguise. The artist interprets disguise as a form of blending in: "dressing up as nature," a gesture of returning to the beginning, to Mother Nature. The costumes here are not related to the world of consumption, but to the archaic knowledge of tribal communities, the experience of belonging and unity with nature. The individual who comes into contact with the "magical object" can immerse themselves in the flow experience, loose control over time, and reconnect with their own inner rhythm. The suspended work features contrasting pairs such as civilization–culture, urbanization–nature, contemporary–archaic, and male–female. The relationship between men and women appears not only in formal but also in technical terms: it merges into a kind of androgynous creation; the masculine framework often used in sculpture is combined with softer, feminine raffia weaving. The decomposing materials of the work themselves evoke the cycle of nature.
After her study tour in China, Orsolya Jancsovics made a definitive commitment to sculpture. The art and philosophy of Far Eastern culture have continued to influence her work ever since. She is interested in everything that is ancient and belongs to the past. However, this does not mean that she is simply nostalgic or traditionalist. For her, the transmission of values always goes hand in hand with constant change and dynamism: a synthesis of the past and the present, and perhaps even a sense of the future.
In her earlier works, she has already dealt with issues related to gravity and sculpture, such as balance and the risk of collapse. Her works are often characterized by performativity, while exploring borderline situations and the extent of the individual subject.
In the fall semester of the 2025/2026 academic year, as a student at Taipei National Taiwan University of Arts, she created her installation entitled Injured Island, which is the precedent of the work created in Puccs, composed of banyan roots brought from Taiwan, as well as wires, raffia, and yarn. Walking through the streets of the gigacity, the artist was fascinated by the banyan tree's roots hanging down from above and intertwining everything, giving the impression that the tree had human hair. And next to it is a network of electrical wires running along the walls of buildings, which in Europe tend to be hidden away. These two types of "ropes" create a parallel between the natural and the artificial, as do some of the synthetic pieces used by the artist herself.
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On view 0-24h
PUCCS Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.