In 2023, we launched the Art Weekend Budapest (AWB) festival, which debuted in the capital on the first weekend of December. Through a variety of exhibitions, guided tours, art tours, and discussions, AWB introduced culture enthusiasts to Budapest's exciting and diverse contemporary art scene. At the first AWB, we organized a total of 58 programs. In addition to exhibition openings and artist talks at 29 venues, guests could take part in guided art walks on 8 routes, three times a day (once in English). The Cross-Artour walks were very popular. On these tours, which took a different route each day, fashion designer Kinga Cakó, creative professional Ádám Kanicsár, and musician and creative professional Péter Jakab led the walk and shared their thoughts on the exhibition in question in dialogue with the gallery owner/curator/artist.
The program series primarily serves the development and sustainability of the domestic fine arts scene, while drawing attention to the artists themselves, art professionals, gallery owners, and prospective collectors. At the same time, AWB is part of the international Art Weekend series of events, and therefore directly contributes to the existence of European and international fine arts relations. As a partner event of Gallery Weekend Budapest, it further strengthens and represents its values. In 2023, the partner of the AW event in Budapest will be Ljubljana Art Weekend, with whose organizers we are strengthening the fine arts relationship between the two cities through a joint project, and we are preparing negotiations with the organizers of another major European city's AW event.
What we considered our greatest success was that a record number of venues signed up for the first event, and we launched a partnership with the Ljubljana Art Weekend event.
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