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Jeannette Christensen’s installation for Budapest is not only site-specific but also “time-specific”, although the latter term is hardly used in contemporary art. Her work Every Day is a Miracle II uses a completely banal, everyday material, jelly to create objects that appear as minimalist sculptures, which take on a “life of their own” due to the atmospheric characteristics of the exhibition space – a cellar. The biochemical processes that take place in the gel cause the installation to appear differently at almost every moment to the viewers, who cannot see the work in its “entirety”, but only experience it in the time they spend at the exhibition. The installation, however, is the sum of all the moments that make up the process of decomposition and thus draw the viewer’s attention to the temporality of the reception of the work. As the work itself is in fact destroyed by the end of the process, and thus of the exhibition, temporality raises further questions not only about the reception but also about the survival and, eventually, the disappearance of the work.

In conjunction with the Ludwig Museum’s international exhibition Extended Present – Transient Realities, the concept of the exhibition will be presented in three external venues in parallel, embedded in the urban fabric of Budapest.

Of Matter In Waves is a site-specific installation realized with the cooperation of Műhely / The Hall of ONYX: the work is dedicated to unfolding matter into the sonic domain through a textile sound system. EJTECH's work creates a space for exploring the extended present via electromagnetic air sculptures.

In conjunction with the Ludwig Museum’s international exhibition Extended Present – Transient Realities, the concept of the exhibition will be presented in three external venues in parallel, embedded in the urban fabric of Budapest. Nomadia, an installation presented in Budapest by multimedia artist Oto Hudec in cooperation with KÉK, evokes the tent as an archetypal form of temporary architecture, including tents of nomadic peoples, refugees and hikers.

We will give you an insight into the formation of our exhibition titled After Dreams: I Dare to Defy the Damage, planned for the Hungarian Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale, and show you some of the sculptures that have already been completed.