27 August – 27 September 2024.
Opening: 27 August 2024, 18:00
The Teleport Gallery was the mobile exhibition space of a collective of curators (Tamás Don, Flóra Gadó, Bea Istvánkó, Ferenc Margl, Eszter Őze, Vanda Sárai) active between 2015 and 2018. Each time, the Teleport projects took place in a different location, i.e. it did not have a permanent, geographically specified space. Their exhibitions were primarily projects reflecting on current social and political issues, and they involved young, mostly emerging artists. After a 6-year hiatus, the collective will be presenting a revamped version of one of their best-known projects, Cinema Teleport, at the opening event of ISBN+.
The Cinema Teleport mobile video gallery debuted in 2016: the project was born out of the realization that contemporary video works, often up to the length of a cinema film, are not suitable for installation in white cube exhibition spaces, and therefore cannot sustain the interest of the audience for the duration of the work. The aim of the project was to experiment with new ways of presentation. Beyond the specifics of video art, the project also explored how the mechanism of TV viewing works in an era of changing media consumption habits, especially the proliferation of streaming services.
In the 2024 edition of Cinema Teleport, the project arrives in the cinema space indicated in its title: as the opening event of the new screening room of ISBN+, some of the previous video selections, which are still highly topical today, are complemented by new Hungarian video works produced in recent years.
Artists: Miklós Erhardt, Tamás Éliás, Gideon Horváth, Eszter Kállay and Luca Markó, Szabolcs KissPál, Boglárka Milinszki, Csaba Nemes, Alicja Rogalska, Katalin Erdődi, Réka Annus and the Kartali Asszonykórus, Société Réaliste, T(N)C / Tina Kult & Ágnes Várnai, Anna Zilahi & Laura Szári feat. Varsányi Szirének
Curators: Tamás Don, Flóra Gadó, Bea Istvánkó, Ferenc Margl, Vanda Sárai
Visuals: Máté Lukács
The new ISBN+
ISBN Book+Gallery has been operating for seven years in Víg Street, Budapest, as an art bookshop and contemporary project gallery. On 27 August, a new chapter in the history of the institution will open, as it will move to Baross utca 42. and continue its operations under the name ISBN+, with renewed spaces and an art programme. In the new location, the classic white cube exhibition space will be replaced by a video gallery, which will also function as an event space, and a project space optimized for pop-up exhibitions. The renewed ISBN+, a contemporary cultural center, will offer more space for books, works on paper, moving images and events. Cinema Teleport is the debut project of ISBN+’s video gallery.
On the opening night, the Cinema Teleport selection will be screened twice in two acts. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Screening times:
18:15 – Act 1
19:15 – Act 2
20:15 – Act 1
21:15 – Act 2
Location: ISBN+, 1085 Budapest, Baross utca 42.
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 12-18:00, Sat 14-18:00