Capa Center presents: FUTURES – European Photography Platform – The Elevator Chats 3.0 (Other location: Art Market Budapest)

Opening on Wednesday, 15 October, 2025, 6 pm
The opening can be viewed with an Art Market VIP ticket.
Opening remarks and introduction to the FUTURES – European Photography Platform: MUCSI Emese and VIRÁGVÖLGYI István.
Other location: Art Market Budapest MTK – SPORTPARK (1087 Budapest, Kerepesi Street 17.)
On view: 16 to 19 October, 2025
OPENING HOURS
October 16, 2025, Thursdas 11 am – 7 pm
October 17, 2025, Friday 11 am – 9 pm
October 18, 2025, Saturday 11 am – 7 pm
October 19, 2025, Sunday 11 am – 7 pm
Valid Art Market ticket required for admission.
Curator: Emese Mucsi
Exhibiting artists:
GAJEWSZKY Anna (HU) & Emilia MARTIN (PL)
HEVESI-SZABÓ Lujza (HU) & Matteo BUONOMO (IT)
KÖLCSEY-GYURKÓ Sára (HU) & Zoe HAMILL (IE)
LANTOS Olivér (HU) & Alessio PELLICORO (IT)
TÓTH Hunor (HU/RO) & Igor SCHILLER (RS/NL)

The elevator pitch or elevator chat is an impromptu self-introduction technique performed in monologic or dialogic form, allowing the speaker to transfer substantial information to theirinterlocutor about themselves or the project they are working on. By today, speeches and talksof this kind have left the office building elevators and gained ground in many other situationsin which we have little time to draw attention to who we are and what we are currentlyengaged in. While they are trying to get approved by The Establishment, it is relativelycommon that young emerging photographers find themselves in situations where they have toaddress directors and curators of leading institutions, art writers, magazine editors, collectors, accomplished artists, and fellow photographers ahead of a promising career. In the last fewyears, several platforms were created for photographers in Europe that provide opportunitiesfor such decisive encounters. One of them is the project FUTURES – European Photography Platform that started in 2017. This cooperation, which connects 20 photography centersacross 20 European countries, set as one of its main goals to scout remarkable new talents and introduce them into the world of international photography, and into the art market inparticular. Each institution participating in FUTURES selects five emerging artists per yearand then creates a number of situations for them–exhibitions, roundtable discussions, tutoring, portfolio reviews, workshops, and virtual events–where they can establish professionalrelationships with people from different areas of expertise within photography, and with eachother. Based on this experience, at The Elevator Chats 3.0 we initiated five online dialoguesbetween ten FUTURES talents, creating five short one-to-one conversations, or elevatorchats. Placed next to one emblematic picture from each artist’s latest project, the five elevatorchats on the wall, like punchy interviews, will provide you with a swift insight into thecurrent issues dealt with, the artistic practices pursued, and the different techniques applied bythe talented emerging photographer.

Curated by Mucsi Emese

FUTURES – European Photography Platform is co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission.