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
Vernissage: 23.01. 2026 (Friday)
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)
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Finissage: 2026.03.30
Closing performance: SZ.A.F. (Judit Fischer & Miklós Mécs)
Admission to the exhibition and the events is free.
"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.
Professional leader of the reconstruction: Annamária Szőke, art historian
Jury members of the open call: Jakab Erdély, visual artist, art director, grandson of Miklós Erdély; Sándor Hornyik, art historian, Institute of Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA BTK);
Borbála Szalai, art historian, curator of the exhibition
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: Ryszard Bobek © heirs of Miklós Erdély, Ryszard Bobek
[3] Zoltán Sebők: Towards a New Mysticism – Conversation with Miklós Erdély, HÍD (Novi Sad) 1982/3, p. 366.
