Current exhibitions at the Capa Center

Tamas Dezs?: Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf

Until December 23, 2022

”In his latest work, Tamas Dezs? investigates the personal identity of all living creatures, including humans. What is the mysterious and inexplicable link that connects personalities of all living entities throughout life? We are in constant change physically: similarly to other living beings, almost all molecules of a human body turn into new ones continuously. We are also in constant transformation intellectually: our way of thinking changes throughout our whole life. So what, then, is identity? How can we identify ourselves as the very same person all along despite these changes? Looking at ourselves at the ages of ten and fifty there is more difference than similarity. A seed and a tree with widely spreading branches grown from the seed do not apparently hold anything in common, yet we are talking about the same living organism. ” István Virágv?lgyi, curator

Hans van der Meer: Minor Mysteries

Until December 23, 2022

”Hans van der Meer (Leimuiden, 1955) belongs to the most distinctive Dutch documentary photographers of his generation; he is a storyteller in image and text. His approach is based on an inquisitive look and a sharp sense of observation, in which empathy, social involvement, and a strong sense of humor and absurdity go hand in hand. They run like a thread through his entire oeuvre. In addition to the series he shot in Budapest in 1985-86, the exhibition?Minor Mysteries?also includes highlights from later projects that relate and cross-reference Van der Meer’s origins to the period when he worked in Hungary. ” Claudia Küssel, curator

MOME Photo MA degree 2020–2021–2022

Until October 16, 2022

In the project space of Capa Center, new passages are created between the works of photographers who completed their studies during the pandemic years. Week after week, we bring into play a set of important topics that the youngest generation of photographers are concerned about: the cohesion of groups, the challenges of our future, questions around self-acceptance, social tensions, confronting the past, or creating a home.

André Kertész. His Photographs Donated to Szigetbecse

From July 02, 2022

Curator: Károly Kincses

André Kertész, by his own admission, acquired everything that his art, his vision, and his personality were based on and determined by, here in Szigetbecse and the surrounding landscape, inspiring artworks of nearly eight decades. Now we are showcasing seventy of the images selected by Kertész, based on an agreement with the Municipality of Szigetbecse.

Photo credits in the order of appearance: Capa Center, Hans van der Meer: Hoogmade, Hollandia | The Netherlands, 1996 ? Hans van der Meer, Capa Center, André Kertész: André Kertész átugorja az itatóvályút, Szigetbecse, Magyarország | André Kertész jumping over the drinking trough, Szigetbecse, Hungary. Kertész Jen? felvétele I taken by Jen? Kertész, 1923/ c.1967 ? Courtesy André Kertész Memorial Museum, Szigetbecse, Hungary