GLASSIFICATION.HU – GLASS MASTERS FROM HUNGARY

15 December 2023 – 10 January 2024

Gala opening: Friday, 15 December 2023 at 7 pm

The exhibition will be opened by the following: H. E. József MAGYAR, Hungarian ambassador to Serbia, Róbert Kaszab, director of the Collegium Hungaricum in Belgrade and Biljana Jotić, director of the Museum of Applied Art.

Curator and project leader: Rita Mária Halasi

Coordinator: Jelena Popović, MAA senior curator

Organizers: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, the Hungarian Institute in Belgrade – Collegium Hungaricum Belgrád and the Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade

The exhibition Glassification.hu – Glassmakers from Hungary is a traveling exhibition that will be presented in 15 cities all over the world during the next two years. After London, Venice and Helsinki, this exclusive exhibition has arrived at the Belgrade Museum of Applied Art.

The exhibition Glassification.hu – Glassmakers from Hungary, through 20 masterpieces by ten authors and four generations, represents a cross-section of contemporary Hungarian art in glass, which currently occupies one of the first places in the world in terms of aesthetic value and technological production.

The following artists will present their works at the exhibition: Endre Gaál, László Lukácsi, Marta Edöcs, Anita Darabos, Péter Borkovics, Kira László, Kristóf Bihari, Balázs Sipos, Eszter Bösze and Amala Gyöngyvèr Varga. Each artist is represented with two works created especially for this exhibition.

The exhibition provides an insight into the technological diversity typical of contemporary Hungarian glass and consists of glass sculptures characterized by a high level of abstraction. The high artistic quality of the works is confirmed by the fact that these authors, also incorporating young artists, are the winners of more than thirty important domestic and international awards, and more than fifty of their works are displayed in the most prominent public collections in Hungary, Europe and the world.

The name of the exhibition is based on the rarely used English noun glassification, which means transformation into glass. In addition to semantically fitting the topic, this word is also a reference to the term gamification, and at the same time it is rhythmic and attractive in its sound. The suffix .hu refers to the digital age and creates a strong link with Hungary.

Exhibition curator and project leader: Rita Mária Halasi

Specialist partner: the Hungarian Glass Art Society

Professional consultant: Eleonóra Balogh

Museum partner: Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

Design: de_form, Тomasz Boldiszar

Video: Atilla Varga Koritár

Photography: Victoria Gyorfi

Sound: Agnes Clara Mate

Project partner: House of Music Hungary, Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, the Hungarian Institute in Belgrade – Collegium Hungaricum Belgrád

Sponsor: Rákosy Glass