Tamás Urbán: Unwanted Butterfly

Until August 23, 2020

Unwanted Butterfly spent half of his 40 years behind bars, so he had plenty of time to have his whole body tattooed. He was an unusual sight in Socialist Hungary, comfortable both in the prison and in the Budapest underground scene, doing gigs with the famous band Sziámi in the Black Hole alternative club, drawing, painting, creating puzzles, and writing a journal. Photojournalist Tamás Urbán met him in 1988 for the first time, in the Csillag Prison of Szeged, Hungary. The exhibition presents a selection of the photographs taken in the following six years – until Butterfly’s death in 1994 – as well as of the objects and documents collected by Tamás, and of Butterfly’s journal.

Thomaz Farkas: The Rythm of Light

Until August 23, 2020

The Capa Center presents the first comprehensive exhibition in Hungary of the Hungarian born and celebrated Brazilian photographer Thomaz Farkas (1924–2011). He is considered to be one of the great representatives of modern photography and documentary cinema in Brazil. He left behind a unique artistic oeuvre, particularly contributing to the representation of Brazilian culture and establishing a visual approach that relates him to important exponents of his time. The Rhythm of Light includes highlights from his photographic works from the 1940s and the end of the 1950s as well as some of his most important documentary films from the same period.

Eight Weeks. Hungarian photographers during the pandemic

Until August 16, 2020

Eight weeks. This is how long we followed the activities of contemporary Hungarian photographers in the virtual space during the pandemic. The eight selections published on the Capa Center blog from week to week will appear in the physical space now in the form of a pop-up exhibition, commemorating the events of the past few months. The pandemic and its consequences have considerably impacted the lives of photographers as well. Yet, they continued doing what they do anyway: they took pictures. The exhibition, which was compiled to present a varied selection of creative attitudes and viewpoints, showcases this period through the images published on the public Instagram profile of 39 photographers.

Zsuzsanna Kemenesi: Welcome

Untily July 12, 2020

The images of Zsuzsanna Kemenesi’s exhibition Welcome fit neatly into the line of her work. Six years have passed since her last solo exhibition, and the photographs showcased here are the fruit of this period, the lyrical imprints of a reality captured in black and white. The spaces depicted in the images are scenes of the author’s everyday life, but they are mostly related to her professional activity. They show institutional spaces, homes to objects of the past, documents, as well as the arts. Thus, they are not so much presented in their physical form, but as symbolical spaces, extending the possible meanings.

The Photojournalist Robert Capa

Until December 31, 2020

Robert Capa is considered the unique visual chronicler of several 20th-century wars (the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Second World War, the First Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War) both in the world and the Hungarian history of photography. The Hungarian photographer, who covered five wars directly from the battlefield, made his mark in photography in the course of his tragically short life. His photographs taken in the frontlines and in the heartland brought about a visual world establishing a new school, and he showed the power of images constructed from a deep sense of humanism to generations to come, up till today.

MEOW!

Vernissage: July 15, 2020, 6pm

The MEOW! exhibition features a tiny segment of the world’s ever-expanding archive of kitten images. The collection of photos from nine contemporary Hungarian artists (photojournalists, photographers, artists) are accompanied by their short personal anecdotes about feline-human and human-human relations, aspects of image theory, sociological observations, superstitions, obsessions, eyes, and whiskers.