Opening: Fragile Balance (Danger)
Vernissage of the exhibition Fragile Balance (Danger)
→ 7pm, Trafó Gallery
⦾ Opening remarks (on video) by Ildikó Enyedi, film director, screenwriter
→ 8pm, Trafó Main Hall
⦾ Lecture-performances and music performance: Ferenc Gróf: Bank Secret; Viktória Monhor: What’s Up?; EM90 Band (Rozina Pátkai, Richárd Melykó, Barnabás Bácsi, Dániel Németh)
Admission to the exhibition and the events is free.
Fragile Balance (Danger)
On view: 23.01 - 22.03.2026
Exhibiting artists:
Miklós Erdély
Lőrinc Borsos, János Brückner, Márta Czene, Attila Csörgő, Márk Fridvalszki, Andreas Fogarasi, Ferenc Gróf & Zsófia Gyenes, Gideon Horváth, Réka Lőrincz, Martin Piaček, Viktória Monhor, Rudolf Pacsika, Rozina Pátkai, Benedek Regős, Société Réaliste (Ferenc Gróf & Jean-Baptiste Naudy), János Sugár, Csaba Vándor, Tibor Várnagy
Curated by Borbála Szalai
"A well-chosen motto becomes an act." says Miklós Erdély in an interview.[3]
The exhibition Fragile Balance (Danger) has a dual purpose: on the one hand in this sense in a manner similar to a motto or a slogan it aims to call attention to and place in a contemporary context the most monumental of Miklós Erdély’s glass-panel installations; the Fragile Balance (Danger), which was originally presented in Kraków in 1981, while on the other hand, it attempts to reactivate Erdély’s legacy through contemporary artworks that reflect on his intellectual and artistic heritage. Every element of the exhibition is thus an experiment with uncertain outcomes, exploring whether it is possible to dislocate the art of this remarkable artist of the Hungarian and Central-Eastern European neo-avant-garde from its invisibility, and how his ouvre can continue to live on through the artworks of contemporary artists.
Supported by: National Cultural Fund (NKA), Káli Kövek
Photo Credit: Miklós Erdély, Fragile Balance (Danger), 13 November 1981 (environment, part of The IX Cracow Meeting, Pawilon Wystawowy, Kraków, Poland) Photo: Jacek Szmuc © heirs of Miklós Erdély,Jacek Szmuc
[3] Zoltán Sebők: Towards a New Mysticism – Conversation with Miklós Erdély, HÍD (Novi Sad) 1982/3, p. 366.
