APPRECIATE YOUR DEBRIS! Night of Museums at Kassák Museum
5-6 PM
Kassák for everyone!
Avant-garde in simple terms - Interactive, playful guided tours for for visitors with learning or cognitive disabilities.
Our museum has produced a plain language version of the texts of the Kassák! permanent exhibition. The plain-language version will allow newer visitor groups, including students and adults with learning or cognitive disabilities, to have equal access to the exhibition. Our playful guided tours, which actively involve the participants, are especially designed for them!
In our Open Museum programme, Éva Ilona Sallai, ÉFOÉSZ's self-advocate, will give a guided tour with the active involvement of the public, with the help of Anna Jónás, a special education teacher.
Participation in the programme is free of charge for visitors with cognitive disabilities and their accompanying persons.
6-6.30 PM
Appreciate your Debris!
Guided tour of the temporary exhibition Brickology: What fell down by Night, was built back by Dawn with Dorottya Szonja Koltay and Anna Seress
The Bricks may be silent, but are not mute. They are knowers of difficult stories. The Bricks are experienced wall-residents, and know the grief of the Stonemasons’s wife. They also know her child, who grew tired of his mother's silent cries.They break the wall and its silence for them and with them. The exhibition, realised as part of the Kassák Contemporary Art Award’s 2024 winning project, aims to reflect on the relationship between the individual and society, using as a starting point the social-critical interpretation of the ballad, The Stonemason’s Wife. Arranged in a living, moving, changing installation, Dorottya Szonja Koltay's works make the exhibition space a stage, a playground, a diary of the creative process and a discursive space where the audience can be take on both playing and creative positions. This change of perspective is brought to life during the exhibition through participatory interventions, a series of performances, collective singing and dancing.
6.30-7 PM
Kassák! – Meet the museum
Guided tour of the permanent exhibition with art historian Edit Sasvári
In the permanent exhibition, the public can learn about the life of Lajos Kassák through his influential journals, while the museum's temporary exhibitions present the art of the avant-garde and modernism in a historical, cultural and social context. The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted work of the great Hungarian avant-garde figure, his editorial, artistic and literary activities, and his public roles. Contemporary documents, publications and works of art trace the highlights of Kassák's work and personal aspects of his career.
7-8 PM
Nyugat Plusz
Literary talk show with Kölcsey Prize-winning writer and newspaper editor Attila Szabó Zoltán.
Introducing the new issue of the literary magazine Nyugat Plusz, a tribute to Lajos Kassák and János Sziveri. Guests: Guests: writer and Piarist monk Ferenc Bozók (author of the essay Lajos Kassák's path(s) from the red-light houses to repentance), artist Emő Miske and István Németh poet, writer. Zoltán Attila Szabó, the author of Tabán a világ közepe (Tabán is the Centre of the World), will be in conversation with Merse Pál Szeredi, Director of the Kassák Museum, about the second, expanded edition of the book. Before and after the talk show: tasting of Bolyhos pálinka collections from Újszilvás, book signing, chat.
9-10 PM
Appreciate Your Debris!
Demolition Day – procession in Óbuda led by Dorottya Koltay Szonja, Anna Seress and the Brick Choir
Gathering in front of the Kassák Museum in the demolition area (we will return here).We will hold a demolition ceremony in the immediate urban surroundings of the Kassák Museum. We are preparing for the Night of Museums with a procession: we will take our voices and bodies outside the exhibition space, singing, dancing, shouting and drumming together, whispering and sitting together in the streets and squares. Our sorrow and our joy are not private, not secret, not even only ours. Let's share them with each other and with the city!
10-12 PM
Demolition Day – picnic in the playground
On returning from the procession, we invite everyone to a picnic with a special guest. We'll play in the exhibition spaces - with and in the installation - learn songs and sing together, and have a chat and a bite to eat.
Participation in the programmes and visiting the exhibitions is possible with Museum Night wristband.
The wristbands exchanged at the Kassák Museum or in advance come with a spritzer!
Adult ticket: 3000 HUF
Children's ticket (6-18 years): 1500 Ft
Free for children under 6 years of age.
The Kassák Museum can be reached on foot in 1 minute from the Szentlélek tér bus station and the tram stop on the Árpád Bridge, and in 4-5 minutes from Flórián tér. The exhibition hall of the Kassák Museum is located on the first floor of the Zichy Castle on Óbuda's Main Square.
We reserve the right to change the programme.