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Curatotial Dictionary: An Exhibition

Project Launch

Project website of the Curatorial Dictionary


Exhibition Opening

Time: December 6, 2013, 7 pm
Venue: Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102, 1st floor

The exhibition is on view until December 7, 2013, 7 pm.


Related program:

Time: December 7, 2013, 5:30 pm
Venue: Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102, 1st floor

Discussion about the dictionary project and its wider contexts, with the participation of dictionary working group members artist Balázs Beöthy, ethnographer Zsófia Frazon, curator Eszter Lázár, and curator Eszter Szakács (tranzit.hu).

Moderated by curator Márton Pacsika


The first phase of the Curatorial Dictionary, a longer term research project, is launched and presented with a two-day exhibition. The project working group endeavors in the open-access, online, Hungarian and English language dictionary to interpret the most frequently used but hardly clear-cut concepts of curatorial–contemporary art discourse, which has been ever expanding since the 1990s. In the dictionary, there are also suggestions for—the often missing—Hungarian equivalents of the English terms.

Thus far, the following concepts have been defined: exhibition display (bemutatásmód), discursivity (diszkurzivitás), collaboration (együttműködésen alapuló művészeti gyakorlatok), white cube (fehér kocka), interpretation (interpretáció), exhibiting cultures (kiállított kultúrák), curatorial (kurátori [szemlélet]), educational turn (oktatási fordulat), performative curating (performatív kurátori gyakorlatok), participation (részvételen alapuló művészeti gyakorlatok), authorship (szerzőség), and new museology (új muzeológia).

Project working group members are artist Balázs Beöthy, curator Nikolett Erőss, ethnographer Zsófia Frazon, curator Eszter Lázár, and curator Eszter Szakács (tranzit.hu), editor of the dictionary.

The videos in the exhibition feature interviews with individuals working in the contemporary art field in Hungary and the Eastern-European region, who reflect through their own projects on different aspects of some of the concepts in the dictionary. The interviews are also preparations for the next phase of the project: we plan to differentiate the dominant, “international” curatorial discourse with practices and reflections from various cultural positions, which are frequently missing from this discourse.

Participants of the video interviews are Barnabás Bencsik (curator, Budapest) Szabolcs KissPál (artist, Budapest), Hajnalka Somogyi (curator, Budapest), Attila Tordai-S. (curator, tranzit.ro, Cluj), Jelena Vesić (independent curator, writer, Belgrade), and Raluca Voinea (curator, tranzit.ro, Bucharest).

Video interviews and exhibition concept by artist David Karas, artist and designer Imre Lepsényi, and curator Eszter Szakacs



External Links
Project website of the Curatorial Dictionary