Dóra Hegyi

Dóra Hegyi is a curator and critic. Between 1996–2003, she worked as a curator at the Ludwig Museum, Budapest. Since 2005, she is director of tranzit.hu. Hegyi organizes exhibiton, discursive, educational, research, and publication projects in both institutional and non-institutional contexts. A primary motivation that informs her work is the consideration of art as a field of experience that can initiate new approaches and mediate among other fields of knowledge production. In this framework, her most significant initiatives include: Free School for Art Theory and Practice; Art Always Has its Consequences; Catalyst Award; and Artists at Schools. Exhibitions curated and co-curated by Hegyi include: Creativity Exercises, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, 2014–2015; Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, New Museum HUB, New York, 2014; Art Under Dangerous Star, tranzit.hu, Budapest, 2014; Parallel Chronologies, tranzit.hu, Budapest, 2009; Typopass, tranzit.hu, Budapest, 2009; tranzit-Auditorium, Stage, Backstage, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 2006; Moszkva Tér [Gravitation], an exhibiton in public space, Budapest, 2003. In 2008, Hegyi curated Periferic 8: Art as Gift, Iasi. In 2010 Hegyi was part of the curatorial team of Manifesta 8, European Biennial for Contemporary Art, Murcia, Cartagena. From 2000–2001 she was member of the group Two Artists Two Curators. In 1999 she intitiated the project space at the Ludwig Museum, Budapest. Hegyi lives and works in Budapest. [Last updated 2015]