opening Thursday, November 3, 2022, 6:00 p.m
Exhibition by photographer Magdolna VÉKÁS
It will be opened by pastor Gábor IVÁNYI.
“I have been monitoring the activities of the Protection Charity Association and the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship for a long time. With the help of the creative scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, I was able to take photos in their institutions for a year starting in September 2020 and capture the sacrificial work they do in caring for the elderly, helping the homeless, raising children, and in the life of faith. They do all this despite their increasingly difficult circumstances, with perseverance, love and compassion. Thanks to all of them…” Magdolna VÉKÁS
admission is free
available until 12.04.2022
opening hours: Wednesday-Sunday 14.00 – 19.00
Magdolna VÉKÁS, photographer, teacher
She was born in 1956 in Budapest. Magdolna VÉKÁS has been taking photos since 1974, active photographer, retired teacher. At the beginning of her career, she was attracted to documentary subjects. She has been dealing with historical photo processes for a long time – cyanotype, salt paper, albumen. Lately, her interest has turned to photograms and macro photography. Her pictures are almost always arranged in series, often connected by a text or poem written by the author. Education plays an important role in her life, for years she was a teacher of archaic photo processes at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and applied photography at the Alternative Economic High School.
Memberships
Youth Photography Studio 1977-83
Association of Hungarian Photographers since 1984
Since 1986, the National Association of Hungarian Artists
Awards
Grand prize of the Esztergom Photo Biennale
Károly Divald Award
Rudolf Balogh Award
Her pictures were featured in numerous individual and group exhibitions both at home and abroad.