Exhibitions

Winners of the Hungarian Design Awards, managed by the Hungarian Design Council, are announced for the 30th time this year. The prizes are awarded by a jury of acclaimed artists and experts in four categories – Product, Visual Communication, Concept and Student Work – for the most outstanding Hungarian design achievements. The exhibition containing some of the most outstanding entrants of the competition gives an insight into the most recent processes of Hungarian design culture.

Hungarian Design Awards 30 Life achievement award ceremony and poster exhibition

The Hungarian Design Council celebrates the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the Hungarian Design Awards with an award ceremony and a poster exhibition.

Design Management Award 2009

This year for the first time ever the Design Management Award founded with the aim of starting a tradition is presented. The award acknowledges and demonstrates how design and its professional management can help the realisation of the objectives of an organisation and, not least, its successful operation.

The Applied Arts Institute (AMI) of the University of West Hungary aims at searching and producing progressive possibilities of visual culture and the effective forms of design and presentation in the field of architecture, design and graphic design. AMI working together with the Kecskemét based International Ceramics Studio introduces its result in the Budapest gallery of the Studio. Some of the showcased works have been awarded, for example a poster by Anita Lukács or the Atlantic Ocean crossing ship designed by Andrea Pálos and Gábor Rakonczay.

Budapest Couture aims at the introduction of Hungarian haute couture. The exciting exhibition and the spectacular performances showcase the work of some of the best contemporary Hungarian fashion designers; the audience can come to know clothes most typical of the designers' creative work.

One of the highlights of the “15 years 15 artists” series of events celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Gallery is an exhibition based on classical music inspirations consisting of similar modules, which is open during Design Week. At the opening Eszter Krulik and József Rácz play the violin. Exhibiting textile designers: Rita Halasi, Hedvig Harmati, Krisztina Jung, Diane Kappa, Kinga Kónya, Réka Molnár, Gábor Munkácsi, Bernadett Páger, Emília Pájer, Szilvia Szigeti.

The project was launched as the co-operation of two universities (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest and Schule für Gestaltung, Ravensburg) as a joint research and art initiative for experts and students who live in Hungary or Germany and work in the field of visual communication. The exhibited task was completed by randomly associated German and Hungarian pairs. After the first move of the starting designer the graphical work was sent six times between the artists of the two countries, thus shaping into its final form. The visual responses are interesting even in their own right, but the real excitement is the process of the creation.

VAL Workshop aims at introducing talented designers, as well as architecture and interior decoration products of outstanding quality in addition to „traditional” casings. The most recent creations of Kata Brinkus are displayed in the ground floor “sitting room” – there is a café, as well – of Loft Showroom built in the area of Hungária Malomudvar. In addition to the improved versions of the patent protected light carpet, special pieces decorated with hologram and Swarovski crystals can also be seen.

That version of the mapping of visualisation, in which the invisible or the hardly see through is realised in a visible model. The aim is the creation of a visual essence that helps understanding. Art is the steady utopia of self-reflexion, the gesture of self-cognition and self-correction by self-expression. Ego Trip is a visualisation experiment for the spiritual mapping of the ego. Self-mapping, self-measurement that might take the creator closer to understanding his/her own intellectual development.

The exhibited works are visual studies of the applied art students of the school created at the visual communication classes. The aim was that students get the chance to glance into the anatomy, the working mechanisms of contemporary art trends and at the same time try to create their own art pieces as autonomous creators. Even though prepared as studies, the works were created with the expectation to stand their ground at exhibitions, as well.

The Hungarian Design Council celebrates the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the Hungarian Design Awards with an award ceremony and a poster exhibition.

INDEX: Award is the biggest design award in the world and is awarded every two years in Copenhagen in five categories – Body, Home, Work, Play and Community –, the winner in each category receives a prize of €100,000. The focus on design to improve life differentiates INDEX: Award from other design awards, as design is evaluated in a much broader sense than traditionally. In the selection process works reflecting openness, horizontal, interdisciplinary approach are selected. The exhibition in Budapest presents the six winners.

After the Goteborg Röhsska Museum, the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism presents the most interesting pieces of the globally unexampled lemon-squeezer collection of the Swedish Anders Alvarsson. The visitor is amazed by the diversity of the exhibition – who would have imagined that such an everyday object can exist in so many different colours, shapes, materials? Some of them do not even look like a LEMON-SQUEEEEEEEEZER!

Moho brand was founded by Magda Lubińska and Michał Biernacki in 2004. Their carpets based on traditional Polish weaving techniques are exciting pieces of form and technology experiments. The designers have gained international recognition, worked with Ross Lovegroves, as well as the Italian Moroso. They even won Wallpaper magazine's prize for the best textile design and were the first Polish brand to be awarded with the famous Red Dot Prize, which they received in 2008.

The exhibition of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME) debuted this April at That’s Design! in Milan. It represents the contemporary tendencies in the mutually fructifying cooperation between design, art and science and also integrates experimental works based on a new system of symbols with unique structures of interpretation. The installation working with very surreal, low-tech and high-tech counterpoints contains interactive components and intensifies visitor activity through the gesture of hiding.
Exhibited works by Zsolt Budai, Tamás Erdélyi, Je suis belle, Bence Ádám Kiss, Réka Lőrincz, Ágoston Nagy and Balázs Püspök.

Gaye Cevikel is the knowledgeable expert of our time's design culture; he is the founder of Gaia&Gino, the jewel of progressive Turkish design. In the brand's collection of premium home décor accessories, exceptional pieces designed by Jaime Hayon, Karim Rashid, Defne Koz and Andrée Putman can be found. Introductory presentation of the company founded in 2004 and awarded with the Good Design Award and Design Plus.
Registration is required for the programs (by e-mail only:kornelia.fabian@pointzero.hu). We can accept the registration of a maximum of 80 persons.

The aim of the exhibition is clarifying the expressions 'public space design' and 'public art' for the laic and the professional audience alike through the introduction of recently realised projects and the work of the Urban Landscape Group. Visitors can examine the work of the Group and participating international professionals printed on boards.

The importance of dialogue with nature is an approach determinative of the entire Finnish design history. The exhibition organised with the participation of Design Forum Finland shows how designers are inspired by geological and biological formations and how they conceive the beauty of the ever changing environment in the language of objects. The 60 pieces of the exhibition are from some of the bests and examine the possible links between design and nature through technological achievements, as well as the application of traditional materials and processes.

The Swiss Design in Hollywood exhibition was called into being with the aim of retracing the work of contemporary Swiss artists and their impact on the creation of the visual world and digital imagery of international film productions and video games.
The film industry is one of the most important cultural contributors of the modern era. Few know that in the past decades a number of artists with strong links to Switzerland have successfully participated in the conception design of the characters, fantasy creatures and sceneries dominating the universe of films and video games. Today, many of these artists are working on some of the most publicly-recognised projects (including animated films) and are leaving an enduring mark on popular culture, although their contribution is largely unknown.
The exhibition consisting of tables and film sequences focuses on the personal influence of Swiss designers and illustrators – whether independent or employed by the big special effects studios – on the aesthetics of film production, without forgetting their personal creations.

We have always known that Scandinavian design companies are full of creativity. Now we can experience what comes out of this fertile energy. After Milan and Stockholm, the most recent products of the world famous brand, Normann Copenhagen are introduced in Budapest, as well. Whether it is a simple, everyday object like the Red Dot Design Award winning Funnel, the tuft like Grass vase or Woofy, the dog gobbling up cables – it is always about astounding and amazing ideas and first class workmanship.