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\u201eNo One Ever Asks What a Man\u2019s Role in the Revolution Is\u201d<\/em><\/h1>\n

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Budapest Gallery<\/p>\n

1036 Budapest, Lajos utca 158.<\/p>\n

18 July \u2013 5 October 2025<\/p>\n

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Exhibiting artists:<\/p>\n

Nearly two hundred, mostly female exhibitors, from the 19th century to the present day<\/p>\n

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Curator:<\/p>\n

Anna Lujza SZ\u00c1SZ<\/p>\n

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Consultant:<\/p>\n

\u00c9va BICSKEI<\/p>\n

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Assistant curator:<\/p>\n

Fanni T\u00d3TH<\/p>\n

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Graphic design:<\/p>\n

Anuri Design Studio<\/p>\n

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Ford\u00edt\u00e1s:<\/p>\n

SIPOS D\u00e1niel<\/p>\n

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Reader editing:<\/p>\n

D\u00f3ra SZEKERES<\/p>\n

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Artwork cards for children:<\/p>\n

\u00c1gnes SZABICS and Fanni T\u00d3TH<\/p>\n

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Installation:<\/p>\n

P\u00e9ter GYENEI, Zsigmond PETERN\u00c1K, Imre SZAKSZON<\/p>\n

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Press:<\/p>\n

Zsuzsa G\u00c1M\u00c1N<\/p>\n

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Opening:<\/p>\n

17 July 2025 (Thursday), 6 pm<\/p>\n

Opening speech by:<\/p>\n

Emese S\u00dcVECZ<\/p>\n

art historian, one of the founders, executive director of Hungarian Women Fund<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ el_class=”full-2″][vc_column_text]Over the years, women have launched several community fundraising campaigns associated with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the institutional embodiment of the national idea and movement. One of the first of these was the making of the floral carpet<\/em> between 1865 and 1867.<\/p>\n

The Academy\u2019s headquarters were inaugurated in 1865, but by the time the building was completed, money had run out and the interiors were left undecorated. This information was most likely brought to the attention of Mrs. J\u00e1nos Bohus, n\u00e9e Ant\u00f3nia Sz\u0151gy\u00e9n (1803-1890) in Arad, who launched a public call to the community in several newspapers for a carpet to be made for the Academy\u2019s ceremonial hall. The carpet was completed by 1867 and brought to the Academy building, to take its place in the ceremonial hall first into a piece of furnishing, then as a decorative object representing the institutional authority across regimes and eras. The groups of women involved in the embroidery, counting over a hundred and sixty individuals, represented almost every stratum of society in terms of social class, denomination, age and marital status. The barriers to entry were the ability to sew and the purchase of a 75 x 75 cm unit to be crafted.<\/p>\n

The carpet reflects the stylistic traits of the late Biedermeier period. The necessity of making the Academy homely was only part of the reason underlying gesture that it was crafted to be placed \u2018under\u2019 the men, on the floor of the Ceremonial Hall. There was a much deeper meaning to it: by making their appearance in the representative central space of this institution of national foundations, women also entered the academic and social public sphere and expressed the need and desire to belong to the national community. Through sewing, women\u2019s gatherings created community, wove networks and carried power. Since most of the participants were widows or orphans of the Revolution of 1848, the foundations of their organisation were politically rooted in the ideas of \u201848 resistance and independence.<\/p>\n

In a grid of ten by sixteen fields on the carpet, the floral motif appears arranged in a reddish-brown frame on a green background, sometimes as a wreath, sometimes as a bouquet. The pattern on each unit was pre-printed, embroidered by cross-stitching with wool yarn, and then the hundred and sixty variegated yet similar fields were stitched together into a single structure \u2013 network \u2013 under the guidance of Mrs. Bohus. The resulting carpet was thus enormous, 7.5 x 12 metres in size. Later, probably before 1917, it was cut into two units of eighty fields each (582 x 710 cm and 566 x 728 cm).<\/p>\n

The exhibition seeks to delve into and disseminate the history of the carpet and explore its layers of meaning, interweaving them with other 19th century and contemporary Hungarian and international works. It also attempts to present alternative art histories through the history of the carpet and the artworks and artefacts surrounding it, with a special focus on those never acknowledged or long forgotten 19th century handiworks that can be considered an integral part of Hungarian decorative or applied art. Institutional (self-)reflection may also come under scrutiny within the framework of the exhibition, especially in the light of the fact that the autonomy of the spaces of culture and science is being increasingly undermined \u2013 partly by privatisation and partly by unsustainability \u2013 or becoming intertwined with the powers that be. The gallery\u2019s spaces are thus opening up to knowledge and academic works that have hitherto remained hidden, even though they carry considerable cultural-political weight. However, we must recognise that the carpet is impossible to present in its entirety and in the manner it deserves, not only because it is now cut into two pieces, but also because the spaces of culture are becoming ever so tight both symbolically and practically.<\/p>\n

The title intends to highlight the status of \u201eman\u201d as unidentified identifier. The translucent position in which \u2013 regardless of all the historical practices that can shape individual and collective experience \u2013 the man remains normative and unclassified, and in comparison to which the woman\u2019s position is mostly secondary. By unmasking this status, this exhibition focuses on women and the stories they tell.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to: ALBRECHT Zs\u00f3fia, B\u00c1LINT M\u00f3nika, CZERN\u00c1K Dorottya, Mia EVE, ILAUSZKY Irma, ILAUSZKY Tam\u00e1s, KISKOV\u00c1CS Eszter, Anton LEDERER, Tev\u017e LOGAR, Margarethe MAKOVEC, MOLN\u00c1R Emese, P\u00c1L Rebeka, R\u00c1CZ Katalin, UGRY B\u00e1lint, V\u00c1G\u00c1NY Judit<\/p>\n

Artwork loans: Akad\u00e9miai Lev\u00e9lt\u00e1r, Budapesti M\u0171szaki Egyetem \u00c9p\u00edt\u00e9szett\u00f6rt\u00e9neti \u00e9s M\u0171eml\u00e9ki Tansz\u00e9k, Catholics for Choice, F\u0151v\u00e1rosi Szab\u00f3 Ervin K\u00f6nyvt\u00e1r, Honv\u00e9delmi Miniszt\u00e9rium Hadt\u00f6rt\u00e9neti Int\u00e9zet \u00e9s M\u00fazeum, Katarzyna Pabijanek, Lits Levente, Magyar Nemzeti M\u00fazeum K\u00f6zgy\u0171jtem\u00e9nyi K\u00f6zpont, Magyar Tudom\u00e1nyos Akad\u00e9mia K\u00f6nyvt\u00e1r \u00e9s Inform\u00e1ci\u00f3s K\u00f6zpont, Magyar Tudom\u00e1nyos Akad\u00e9mia M\u0171v\u00e9szeti Gy\u0171jtem\u00e9ny, National AIDS Memorial, Zempl\u00e9ni M\u00fazeum.<\/p>\n

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Photos: Tam\u00e1s Juh\u00e1sz G.<\/p>\n

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