Lokart
Festival
2025

Art historian Áron Fenyvesi was born in 1983 in Novi Sad. He started his studies at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University in 2002, where he studied art history and aesthetics. Between 2008-2009 she was the secretary of the Young Artists Studio Association. Between 2009 and 2010, she was awarded the Ernő Kállai Art Historian and Art Critic Fellowship, which was dedicated to research on the relationship between modernist utopias and young Hungarian contemporary art. In 2009 he was nominated for the Lorenzo Bonaldi Prize. From 2009 to 2017 he served as a jury member of the Esterházy Art Prize. He has published several articles in Hungarian art magazines and ArtReview. He lives and works in Budapest.

Dr. Andrea Bordács, aesthete, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Visual Arts, ELTE BDPK Graduated in Hungarian - History - Aesthetics - Cultural Management. The main focus of her research is partly on the border between art and art theory. Besides teaching, he writes and edits art criticism, studies, books and has worked as an independent curator. In contemporary art, she is most interested in body image, feminist perspectives, women's roles, reflection on tradition, i.e. rewriting and reinterpreting it, the digital world, and art education and art education. Another important research focus is the question of centre-periphery and Central European art.

Katica Kocsis, aesthete, is an active participant in the contemporary art scene in Hungary. Working as a journalist and curator, her previous projects have typically focused on women's issues, but she has also organised exhibitions on vulnerability and wandering in search of a home. In a series of video interviews on Instagram, she interviews artists in their studios, which simultaneously give insight into these spaces that are not always visible, while their direct tone aims to connect with contemporary artists. Her first book on Peter Weiler was published in April and she is currently working on a volume on the Duck Collection. He is the founder of the online magazine Focus On Black Art, a platform for interviews with black artists that provide a deeper understanding of black art.

Gergely Nagy (1969), journalist, editor, writer. Lives and works in Budapest. Currently he works for Qubit.hu. He holds a doctoral scholarship from the ELTE BTK. His main fields of interest are contemporary art, cultural politics and cultural resistance. After many years of journalistic work, she has been editor-in-chief of Artportal and then of the online art magazine A mű since 2013. He is one of the initiators of East Art Mags, a collaborative project bringing together five art magazines from the Central and Eastern European region. He is one of the founders of OFF-Biennale Budapest, an NGO that manages the largest civil contemporary art initiative in the region. Author of four books. He has contributed to several reports on the situation of artistic freedom and freedom of expression in Hungary. He is a member of the Critical Culture Group, which organises events and conferences on the state of progressive culture in Hungary.

Attila Sirbik is a journalist, writer, cultural organiser, entrepreneur, born in Yugoslavia, former soldier in Požarevac. He currently lives and works in Budapest. He has published his art articles in Serbian and Hungarian newspapers. From 2000 to 2024 he was editor-in-chief of Új Művészet Online. He also works in web and brand building. He is the director of Symposion Publishing House. Author and co-author of several books. His first novel, St. Euphemia, was published jointly by Magvető and Forum.

In 1989 he graduated from the ELTE in History of Art in Hungary. He worked at the Qualitas Gallery and organized an exhibition of the painters of the Roman School. Between 1991-93 he participated in the production of art TV programmes and made a short film about János Vaszary. In 1995 he founded the art consultancy Vendemiaire. His writings have appeared in several art magazines and in 2003 he founded Artmagazine, of which he has been editor-in-chief since 2005. Éva Rónai has written a book about textile artist Éva Rónai. Since 2007, she has been an art advisor at Müpa Budapest, conducting exhibitions and promoting contemporary art in radio programmes and podcasts. In the Life in Pictures podcast series, she discusses exhibitions with Nóra Winkler. She was awarded the Pro Cultura Urbis Prize in 2024.