MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art’s exhibition “Untold Stories” seeks to show, through the art collections of museums in rural areas, the values that institutions outside Budapest acquired between 1989 and 2024. Opening in the 2nd floor exhibition space of MODEM, the selection attempts to provide a picture for professionals and the general public of how the collecting practices of rural museums have evolved in the decades following the fall of communism.

About the concept of the exhibition:

MODEM collaborated with over 20 rural museums to present a new exhibition, by calling for a list of approximately 50 artworks, reflecting each institution’s collection focus. The exhibition offers diverse perspectives on local identity and cultural heritage, and provides a comprehensive overview of Hungarian fine art, making it a new level of collaboration.

Beyond the representation of the collections, we also focus equally on the background work of collecting and the art institutions themselves, which are presented primarily with the help of infographics. In addition, the animations visible in the exhibition space provide a brief summary of the research topics organised around the exhibition, which, among other things, concern the collecting opportunities of rural museums and the role of the rural museum system in domestic cultural policy.

Institutions:
Déri Museum, Debrecen
Dornyay Béla Museum, Salgótarján
Damjanich János Museum, Szolnok
Ferenczy Múzeumi Centrum, Szentendre 
Göcseji Museum, Zalaegerszeg, Szentendre 
Gödöllő City Museum, Gödöllő
Hatvany Lajos Museum, Hatvan
Herman Ottó Museum – Miskolc Gallery, Miskolc
József Attila Museum, Makó
Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros (ICA-D)
Kuny Domokos Museum, Tata
Laczkó Dezső Museum, Veszprém
MODEM, Debrecen
Móra Ferenc Museum, Szeged
Paks City Museum, Paks
Rippl Rónai József Museum, Kaposvár
Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr
Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár
Szombathely Gallery, Szombathely
Tatabánya Museum, Tatabánya
Ignác Tragor Museum, Vác
 

Curators: Bálint Ács Bálint, Tamás Don

Date: 26 April -24 August
Location:MODEM Art Centre
Source:modemart.hu/kiallitas
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