Lokart 3.0
fine art biennale

This summer, Pécs once again becomes the capital of contemporary visual art: works by more than 60 artists will be on display at 6 exciting locations across the city – with a central focus on the body, the body and time, and contemporary questions of body politics.

The Visual Arts Centre is organizing the LOKART Contemporary Visual Arts Biennale for the third time. This unique series of events in Hungary aims to bring together different generations of Hungarian contemporary visual artists on a shared platform.

Launched under the motto “My Body, My Castle”, the exhibition series explores questions of identity, perception, and body politics from a new perspective.

The festival features iconic artists such as El Kazovszkij, Orsolya Drozdik, and Katalin Ladik, alongside members of the Pécs Workshop and emerging young talents.

The guest curator is Áron Fenyvesi, with the concept developed by Valéria Fekete and László Százados.

Helyszínek: m21 Galéria, Pécsi Galéria, Ancora Contemporary Gallery, Nick Gallery, JPM Szerecsen Patikamúzeum, JPM Schaár utca

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Our sense of reality has changed irrevocably in recent decades as a result of our social fragmentation. In the context of this process, the proliferation of social media has become a kind of lock between us and reality. It is no coincidence that, as a result, our understanding of reality is increasingly dominated by processes whereby more and more of us are navigating our increasingly chaotic reality individually, relying on our own individual means. It is as if the social fabric around us has unravelled and we are left alone. As the remnants of our social systems are increasingly distrusted, the certainty of the individual and his or her own direct physical or psychological experience has been valorised, and from this, countless individual narratives are now being constructed. Not unrelated to these processes is the fact that many people have become more receptive than before to body culture and psychology, which resonates in the interpretative space of the exhibited works.The physical and psychological reality of our bodies remains the last basic unit that we can no longer dissect in the mirror of reality. For the individual, the body has thus become the most elementary surface of perception and communication. Lokart explores the body as a unit that is the basic elementary carrier of our symbols, signs and even stories. Through the complex processes of our perception, the reception of any human body, however stylized, triggers narrative interpretations within us. The exhibition aims to provide a number of examples of this phenomenon.