The Public Presentation of the 2015 Capa Grand Prize Hungary Fellowship Recipients

The Capa Grand Prize Hungary 2015 contest has come to its final phase. The three fellowship recipients selected earlier – Gábor Arion Kudász, Gyula Sopronyi and Ákos Stiller – will report their work to the jury in a public presentation event, which is going to be held on October 9, Friday, 1 p.m., at the international contemporary art fair Art Market Budapest.

The Capa Grand Prize Hungary 2015 contest has come to its final stage. Shortlisted artists Gábor Arion Kudász, Gyula Sopronyi and Ákos Stiller will give account of their work to the jury in the form of a public presentation at 1pm on Friday, October 9 at the international art fair, Art Market Budapest.
Established by the Capa Center in Budapest last year, in 2015, the Robert Capa Photography Grand Prize Hungary is awarded for the first time by the independent jury of six renowned Hungarian and international professionals. In May, the jury selected three candidates, Gábor Arion Kudász, Gyula Sopronyi, and Ákos Stiller for the Grand Prize of HUF 5 million in total. Shortlisted artists have since been working on their photography projects and are now to give an account on their work and progress in the form of a public presentation at Art Market Budapest 2015 (Millenáris Building D/Inside Art room), in order for the jury to decide who receives the Capa Grand Prize on October 21, on the occasion of Robert Capa’s birth anniversary.

Fellows of the Capa Grand Prize:
• Gábor Arion KUDÁSZ
• Gyula SOPRONYI
• Ákos STILLER

The winning works of the fellows can be found here.

Members of the jury:
• Attila HORÁNYI, president of the jury, art historian, aesthete, associate professor at the Institute for Theoretical Studies, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
• Regina ANZENBERGER, owner and director of Anzenberger Gallery (Vienna, Austria)
• Dimitri BECK, editor-in-chief of Polka Magazine (Paris, France)
• Clare GRAFIK, head of exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery (London, UK)
• Péter KORNISS, Kossuth Prize-winning photographer
• Monika PERENYEI, art historian, Institute of Art History of the Research Centre for the Humanities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Click here for more information about the jury members.

The presentations will be in English (simultaneous translation to Hungarian will be provided).