Join us on Friday, April 25 at 7 PM at the Delta 5 – Artist-run space – located at the address of the same name on the first floor of the former IVEX building in Rijeka – for a talk with Hungarian curator Róna Kopeczky entitled Measuring Space: A Curatorial Agenda in Hungary Today.

Moderated by artist Iva Kovač, the talk will be held in English, admission is free.

Delta 5. Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more

Róna Kopeczky (1983) is a curator and art historian based in Budapest. She worked as a curator for international art in Ludwig Museum Budapest between 2006 and 2015, where she mostly focussed on the site- and situation specific practices of young and mid-career artists from the Central Eastern European region. In 2015, she joined acb Gallery in Budapest as artistic director, and also actively contributes to the publishing activity of acb Research Lab, with a focus on forgotten, neglected or ignored oeuvres of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde art. She participated in the organization of the first and second OFF-Biennále Budapest (2015-2017). She is the co-founder of Easttopics, a platform and hub dedicated to contemporary art of Central Eastern Europe.

She was the curator of the 18th Tallinn Print Triennial (2022) in Estonia and of the Hungarian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). She has been working on the elaboration and development of Secondary Archive, a platform dedicated to women artists from Central and Eastern Europe, launched in 2021. She completed her PhD in Art History in 2013 at Sorbonne University in Paris.

The presentation will focus on curatorial urgencies on the Hungarian contemporary art scene, the dichotomy between the public cultural agenda and the private, independent, self-organised sector, as well as regional cooperation projects that can offer an alternative to official nationalist, conservative and patriarchal policies.