Among the programs of Látkép 2025, we are pleased to present two exciting exhibition openings. Both exhibitions will be on view throughout the festival on the ground floor of the HTK building.
Olga Kocsi: Invisible Work
Visualizing Temporal Perception in Spatial Form
Olga Kocsi’s series Invisible Work features thirteen participants—artists, curators, and educators—whose everyday activities the artist has documented using various technical tools: photography, video, 3D point clouds, and Kinect Azure sensors. The activities chosen by the participants are both ordinary and repetitive, consisting of well-practiced gestures that are nonetheless essential to the lives of individuals, families, or communities. Although these tasks are necessary, they remain invisible—not only are they carried out automatically by those performing them, but their beneficiaries also tend to take them for granted.
Through these technological recordings, Kocsi has created a digital archive of movement sequences, which she has used to produce 3D prints and photographs printed on glass, steel, and textile.
Thanks to the possibilities offered by new media, the dimension of time—specifically, the temporal aspect of visual perception—plays an increasingly significant role in contemporary art. One common method in new media art is to transform time into spatial form. While tools relying on visual persistence (often with entertainment purposes) have long enabled the illusion of motion, Kocsi’s 3D prints present individual phases of movement in space—visible from multiple perspectives. The essential difference between these two modes of representation is that the former relies on human vision, while the latter can only be realized through technological means.
Opening: Thursday, September 25, 19:00
Curators: Olga Kocsi and Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák
Opening speech: Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák (Hungarian National Museum)
Olga Kocsi’s Invisible Work series was created within the framework of the BME Art Residency Program.
INVENTORY OF HISTORIC GARDENS in Heves County | 2021–2024
Poster Exhibition
Historic gardens and landscape heritage are vital components of Hungary’s cultural heritage. Any comprehensive intervention aimed at the preservation, management, or restoration of these ensembles must be based on an inventory-level understanding of their garden history, architectural history, and heritage value.
Since the second half of the 20th century, several initiatives have sought to catalog Hungary’s historic gardens, but a systematic heritage inventory is still pending. In 2016–2017, landscape architects Katalin Takács and Imola Gecséné Tar developed a dedicated survey sheet tailored to Hungary’s landscape heritage, based on analyses of both international and domestic methodologies. They also launched a pilot project in Komárom-Esztergom County, surveying and updating records of historic gardens there.
In 2021, the inventory work continued in Heves County. Based on written sources, locations with potential landscape heritage value were identified—ranging from castle parks, manor and villa gardens, and public parks to hunting lodges, estate gardens, forestry arboretums, and lost historical gardens.
Between 2017 and 2024, with the involvement of master’s students in garden art at the Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, and Ornamental Horticulture (MATE) and its predecessor institution, nearly 130 sites in the two counties were visited and cataloged. The poster exhibition presents a selected group of historic sites from Heves County.
Opening and Guided Tour: Friday, September 26, 16:30
Opening speech: Gábor Alföldy (HUN-REN BTK Institute of Art History)
Guided tour by: Imola G. Tar (MATE) and Katalin Takács (MATE)
Exhibition organized by: HUN-REN BTK Institute of Art History and the Imre Ormos Foundation
Curators:
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Imola G. Tar (MATE)
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Katalin Takács (MATE)
Professional support provided by: MATE Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, and Ornamental Horticulture, and the Hungarian Academy of Arts
