collaborators

Eszter Szakács (1983) is a curator at the contemporary art organization tranzit.hu in Budapest, which is part of the East-Central European network tranzit.org. At tranzit.hu, since 2011, she curated the project of The Pseudo Race Group Liberagility (2012), Theodoros Zafeiropoulos’s exhibition (2014), and since 2012 she is the curator-editor of the ongoing collaborative research project Curatorial Dictionary that has been realized as an online dictionary and an accompanying exhibition (2013), a participating video project (Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, New Museum, New York, curated by tranzit.org, 2014), a series of short essays published in Curating Research (Eds. Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson, London: Open Editions, Amsterdam: de Appel, 2014), as well as a tranzit.hu Free School for Art Theory and Practice workshop (2015). She is co-editor of IMAGINATION/IDEA. The Beginning of Hungarian Conceptual Art. The László Beke Collection, 1971 (Budapest: tranzit.hu, Zurich: JRP|Ringier, 2014). Previously she worked at Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest as an assistant curator (2008–2010). Since 2013 she is a guest lecturer at the Art Theory and Curatorial Studies Department at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Since 2013 she has been collaborating with Athens-based artist Theodoros Zafeiropoulos on the Quest of Query project and has curated its exhibition chapters at tranzit.hu, Budapest (2014); Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest (2014); Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2015); and Nitra Gallery, Thessaloniki (2015).