Series of talks and exhibitions 2024/2025
In the framework of the project From Halle to Hungary and back in 40 years
1 August 2025, Friday 7 pm
Erzsébet Tatai in conversation with Marianne Csáky and Eike Berg
in Hungarian with German translation - participation after prior registration
2-3 August 2025, Sat-Sun 1 - 6 pm
Exhibition with art works by Marianne Csáky and Eike Berg
Visit by appointment
Marianne Csáky and Eike Berg met in the early 1990s as members of FKSE (Studio of Young Artists’ Association) in Budapest. Even after Csáky moved to Brussels and later Berg to Freising near Munich, they remained in regular contact and exchanged ideas. What many of the two artists' works have in common is their artistic research into the connections between the past, present and future, which they combine with personal images and experiences.
As an art historian, Erzsébet Tatai was and is a key figure in the artistic life of Hungary and beyond. She has also written numerous texts about the two artists, including the monograph on Marianne Csáky published in 2015. As the former director of the Bártok 32 Gallery and later the exhibitions department of the Kunsthalle in Budapest, she often collaborated with Marianne Csáky and Eike Berg and promoted their artistic work.
born in Budapest in 1958, lives and works in Budapest
She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Art History of the Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN). She was the chief curator of Kunsthalle Budapest and director of the Bartók 32 Gallery (Budapest). She was also editor of the Enciklopédia Publishing House and Fine Art Publishing House (Budapest). She has been a senior lecturer at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Eötvös Loránd University, Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, and Budapest Metropolitan University.
One of several books she has edited is Conceptual Art at the Turn of Millenium (with Jana Geržová, Budapest–Bratislava, 2002). She published books on Neo-Conceptual art in Hungary in the nineties (Neoconceptual Art in Hungary in the Nineties, Budapest, 2005), on environmental culture for teachers (Environmental Culture. Teacher's Guide – with Mária Tatai, Budapest, 1994), an introduction to the history of art (Art History Knowledge. Budapest, 2002). She publishes essays on Feminist Visual Culture (Tempting the Impossible. Women Artists. Selected Esseays on Contemporary Hungarian Art. Budapest, 2019) and artist monographs (Koronczi Endre. 2014, Marianne Csáky. 2015, Szabics Ágnes. 2020).
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born in 1959 in Budapest, lives and works in Brussels
www.mariannecsaky.be
Before moving to Belgium, Marianne Csáky spent several years in Asia, taught at the Yunnan Art Institute in China, and participated in residency programs in the USA, France, Sweden, Finland, South Korea and Germany, among others. Her work has been shown internationally including a solo appearance at Paris Photo (2019), a solo at Volta New York (2013), as well as shows in the US, Europe and Asia, including China and South Korea.
In 2018 she founded an artist-run show room, the Streetview Anderlecht in Brussels, where she invites artists from all over the world to show their works.
She earned an MA in Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology; a vocational BA in Multimedia Development and Design; and a PhD in Visual Arts at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the history of Chinese video art and its Western reception.
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born 1966 in Halle/Saale, lives in Freising near Munich
eike.qxd8.com
At the core of Eike Berg’s works is the question of the organization and nature of human knowledge and perception. His works navigate around these semantic centers with varying conceptual approaches and different genres, including video, installation, photography, computer art, and light art. His works share a focus on the element of change, usually examining on notions of the borderline or transgressions of borders: space and time, reality and abstraction.
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Marianne Csáky: The Language of Memory 2007-2025
Personal and collective memory is an inexhaustible source of energy regeneration. In the process of remembering, we constantly rewrite our memories in accordance with the challenges and needs of our present – whether this leads to positive or negative results. Times and stories, slide over each other, are exchanged in this process. People transform and then disappear, and only an (un)certain shape indicates their significance in the story. Objects that create the appearance of objectivity, but they are all just toys of interpretation.
The installation contains the following works:
Eike Berg: Past Cuts
2005, animated video with sound, 5‘40“
The rotor blades of wind turbines cut images from the 1980s out of the sky in suggestive movements.
http://eike.qxd8.com/video001.html
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Media Art Loft Halle (MALH) is a space for contemporary art with a focus on media art and discourse. A pop-up gallery and art salon, it was launched by Eike Berg at the end of 2023.
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Erzsébet Tatai
Marianne Csáky
Eike Berg
Works in the exhibition
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