October 2 – October 31, 2026
Curator: János Gát
Venue: BTM Kiscell Museum, Crypt Hall, 108 Kiscelli Street, 1037 Budapest, Hungary
Opening hours: Monday–Sunday, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
The exhibition can be visited on the hour, every hour, accompanied by a museum attendant.
Please note that the exhibition space is cooler than a typical indoor environment. We kindly ask visitors to dress accordingly to ensure a comfortable visit.
RELATED PROGRAMME
October 17, 2026, 2 PM, Kiscell Museum: Celebrating Tibor Hajas’s 80th Birth Anniversary
Tibor Hajas (1946 – 1980) and Steve Lacy (1934 – 2004) Divertimenti
music/performance by the Fidelio Quartet, Sheryl Sutton (long distance) & distinguished guests.
On October 17, 2026, the Kiscell Museum presents Divertimenti, a special concert-performance celebrating the 80th anniversary of Tibor Hajas’s birth. Bringing together the experimental visions of Hajas and jazz pioneer Steve Lacy, the event explores the boundaries between music, performance, and artistic freedom. Featuring the Fidelio Quartet, Sheryl Sutton (long distance), and distinguished guests, this unique tribute revisits the creative spirit of the 1970s.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The NagyMolnár light-artist duo’s ethereal installation gives full justice to – and is given full justice by – the dramatic exhibition space. The Trinitarian crypt glows with Zoroastrian light-scapes – picturesque sculptures or sculpted pictures – that keep changing while observed, looking, each and every time and to each and every observer, different. The use of light as a medium evokes beyond-visible realms. In the classless struggle between light and darkness, light doesn’t illuminate; it reveals, conceals, purifies, and touches on the infinite by revealing new dimensions. Light as a universal tool, a practical implement: darkness is not the opposite, but the bearer of light.
The Infinite in easy steps:
1. In the Beginning
The visitor is greeted by pair of symmetrically placed works. Universe is built around a large mirror sphere. The sphere’s surface and the glass cube’s internal reflections create the illusion of endless space that loops back upon itself. Choice is likewise configured of reflections and transparencies.
2. Angels
Three works from the Angel series mounted as an altar of light.
3. Fall and Ascension
The Fall and Ascension installations mirror one another reversed.
4. Mirror
Viewers can step into or peer into a work composed of glass panes and flat and distorted mirrors suspended on chains.
5. Heaven and Earth
On one side, the shadow of a human body is cast upon the ground; on the other, a transfigured body ascends The exhibition’s end of is also a beginning: retracing one’s steps, one faces one’s own presence.
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