Conceptual Practices from the Former Yugoslavia

11. March 2016. – 21. April
MegnyitóOpening: March 10, 2016, 7:00 pm
The Bosch+Bosch Group (Bálint Szombathy, Slavko Matković, László Szalma, László Kerekes, Katalin Ladik, Attila Csernik, Ante Vukov) was founded in 1969, as one of the experimental artistic collectives of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia.

The specificity of their integrative presence in the local art scenes lay in their strong connection with the Hungarian historical avant-garde (namely its symbolic figure Lajos Kassák) as well as with its contemporary figures (György Galántai, Miklós Erdély, Tamás Szentjóby, Endre Tót, Gábor Tóth etc.).

Therefore, beside the mediatic heterogeneity of the group (actionism, body art, land art, mail art) the core of their activity lay in the theoretic and visual approaches of language (visual and concrete poetry, phonic poetry).

Our exhibition presents a selection from the seven-year long activity of Bosch+Bosch group, opening up new possibilities in the research of transregional avant-garde.