Wednesday
06:00 PM-9:30PM Details:
EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMATIVE ACTS
Grand opening: September 3, 6pm
- Presented at The Gallery at Dobbin Mews
50-52 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn
- Presented at TBSP Studio and TBSP ground floor
48 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn
Presented at TBSP Studio
48 Dobbin St, Brooklyn
Details → RSVP →06:30 PM Details:
Hungary L!ve invites a selected group of visual artists active in both New York and Budapest, exploring the theme "MULTILOCATION: NEW YORK-BUDAPEST."
Guided tour with the artists:
September 3, 6.40pm;
September 6, 2:00pm
7 September, 12:00pm
On view: September 4-7
Thursday 4.00pm-6.00pm,
Friday 4.00pm-7.00pm,
Saturday-Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
Presented at TBSP Studio
48 Dobbin St, Brooklyn
Details →07:00 Pm Details:
Máté Bartha’s Anima Mundi follows a fictional observer seeking hidden patterns and order within a sprawling, imaginary city.
On view: September 4-7
Thursday 4.00pm-6.00pm,
Friday 4.00pm-7.00pm,
Saturday-Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
September 3-7
Presented at The Gallery at Dobbin Mews
50-52 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn
Details → RSVP →7:30 PM Details:
We all carry physical and emotional pain, from minor discomforts to overwhelming suffering. This dance installation gives form to pain through movement, exploring how we confront and live with it. Lili Stern embodies this struggle, interacting with inflatable “pain bags” in a visceral, evocative performance.
Event place:Presented at TBSP Studio 1st floor
48 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn
8:00 PM Details:
András Böröcz (b. 1956, Budapest) is a Hungarian visual and performance artist based in Brooklyn, who has been active in the United States since 1986. His interdisciplinary work combines sculpture, drawing, installation, and performance.
Music by Ádám Móser
Presented at TBSP Studio
48 Dobbin St, Brooklyn
Details →Thursday
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Máté Bartha’s Anima Mundi follows a fictional observer seeking hidden patterns and order within a sprawling, imaginary city.
On view: September 4-7
Thursday 4.00pm-6.00pm,
Friday 4.00pm-7.00pm,
Saturday-Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
September 3-7
Presented at The Gallery at Dobbin Mews
50-52 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn
Details → RSVP →0_see the description below Details:
Hungary L!ve invites a selected group of visual artists active in both New York and Budapest, exploring the theme "MULTILOCATION: NEW YORK-BUDAPEST."
Guided tour with the artists:
September 3, 6.40pm;
September 6, 2:00pm
7 September, 12:00pm
On view: September 4-7
Thursday 4.00pm-6.00pm,
Friday 4.00pm-7.00pm,
Saturday-Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
Presented at TBSP Studio
48 Dobbin St, Brooklyn
Details →07:00 PM Details:
An exciting contemporary adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann's work from the 19th century, titled "Lonely Lives." Generational problems manifest most when the knowledge of previous generations quickly becomes outdated.
A performance by Katona József Theatre, Budapest
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club– The Downstairs Theatre
66 EAST 4TH STREET, NEW YORK, 10003
10:30 PM Details:
Sisi’s first song and homemade music video, Yalla, debuted online in January 2022. Following a string of popular tracks, she released Rappelj jobban and her first EP, SISTEMATIIK, which marked her breakthrough moment. Since then, she has become one of the most popular and successful hip-hop artists in Hungary.
Event place:NUBLU
151 Avenue
Details →11:30 PM Details:
OIEE is the colorful electronical solo project of Bence Kocsis launched in 2019. OIEE’s main genres are nudisco, dance and R&B, mixing instrumental sounds with tropical and not-so-tropical house, techno, disco and trance elements and modern soul-like vocals...
Event place:NUBLU
151 Avenue
Details →Friday
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Máté Bartha’s Anima Mundi follows a fictional observer seeking hidden patterns and order within a sprawling, imaginary city.
On view: September 4-7
Thursday 4.00pm-6.00pm,
Friday 4.00pm-7.00pm,
Saturday-Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
September 3-7
Presented at The Gallery at Dobbin Mews
50-52 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn
Details → RSVP →0_see the description below Details:
Hungary L!ve invites a selected group of visual artists active in both New York and Budapest, exploring the theme "MULTILOCATION: NEW YORK-BUDAPEST."
Guided tour with the artists:
September 3, 6.40pm;
September 6, 2:00pm
7 September, 12:00pm
On view: September 4-7
Thursday 4.00pm-6.00pm,
Friday 4.00pm-7.00pm,
Saturday-Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
Presented at TBSP Studio
48 Dobbin St, Brooklyn
Details →7:00 PM Details:
An exciting contemporary adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann's work from the 19th century, titled "Lonely Lives." Generational problems manifest most when the knowledge of previous generations quickly becomes outdated.
Event place:La Mama Experimental Theatre Club – The Downstairs Theatre
66 EAST 4TH STREET, NEW YORK, 10003
7:00 PM Details:
A young film director is invited by the mayor of a village to facilitate a summer workshop for kids. He quickly discovers that the village is overrun with corruption and exploitation. He decides to intervene, but his good intentions threaten everyone involved.
Event place:Presented at TBSP Studio ground floor
48 Dobbin St, Brooklyn
Details → RSVP →Saturday
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Máté Bartha’s Anima Mundi follows a fictional observer seeking hidden patterns and order within a sprawling, imaginary city.
On view: September 4-7
Thursday 4.00pm-6.00pm,
Friday 4.00pm-7.00pm,
Saturday-Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
September 3-7
Presented at The Gallery at Dobbin Mews
50-52 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn
Details → RSVP →0_see the description below Details:
Hungary L!ve invites a selected group of visual artists active in both New York and Budapest, exploring the theme "MULTILOCATION: NEW YORK-BUDAPEST."
Guided tour with the artists:
September 3, 6.40pm;
September 6, 2:00pm
7 September, 12:00pm
On view: September 4-7
Thursday 4.00pm-6.00pm,
Friday 4.00pm-7.00pm,
Saturday-Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
Presented at TBSP Studio
48 Dobbin St, Brooklyn
Details →10:00 AM -12:00 PM Details:
How can parenting and freelancing be reconciled? How can we be full-time parents and freelancers at the same time? How can independent professionals find balance between childcare and (creative) work?
Event place:Movement Research, 150 1st Ave, New York, NY 10009, United States
Details → RSVP →12:00 PM Details:
Goulash Extravaganza is a community-based culinary art program centered around one of Hungary’s most iconic dishes: the goulash. The project brings people together through the act of cooking, creating space for connection, dialogue, and the sharing of cultural values.
Event place:Presented at TBSP ground floor
48 Dobbin St, Brooklyn
Details → RSVP →01:00 Pm Details:
Máté Bartha’s Anima Mundi follows a fictional observer seeking hidden patterns and order within a sprawling, imaginary city.
On view: September 4-7
Thursday 4.00pm-6.00pm,
Friday 4.00pm-7.00pm,
Saturday-Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
Presented at The Gallery at Dobbin Mews
50-52 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn
Details → RSVP →01:30 - 2:00 PM Details:
András Böröcz was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and was a member of Indigo, an underground artist group that was critical of the dictatorship.
Event place:Presented at TBSP Studio
48 Dobbin St, Brooklyn
Details → RSVP →02:00 PM Details:
Hungary L!ve invites a selected group of visual artists active in both New York and Budapest, exploring the theme "MULTILOCATION: NEW YORK-BUDAPEST."
On view: September 4-7
Thursday 4.00pm-6.00pm,
Friday 4.00pm-7.00pm,
Saturday-Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
Presented at TBSP Studio
48 Dobbin St, Brooklyn
Details → RSVP →8:30 PM Details:
#Orpheus#Eurydice, the first full-evening performance collaboration between Simkó and Grecsó, is a richly textured, emotionally resonant contemporary dance piece.
Event place:La Mama Experimental Theatre Club – The Downstairs Theatre
66 EAST 4TH STREET, NEW YORK, 10003
Sunday
0_see the description below Details:
Máté Bartha’s Anima Mundi follows a fictional observer seeking hidden patterns and order within a sprawling, imaginary city.
On view: September 4-7
Thursday 4.00pm-6.00pm,
Friday 4.00pm-7.00pm,
Saturday-Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
September 3-7
Presented at The Gallery at Dobbin Mews
50-52 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn
Details → RSVP →0_see the description below Details:
Hungary L!ve invites a selected group of visual artists active in both New York and Budapest, exploring the theme "MULTILOCATION: NEW YORK-BUDAPEST."
Guided tour with the artists:
September 3, 6.40pm;
September 6, 2:00pm
7 September, 12:00pm
On view: September 4-7
Thursday 4.00pm-6.00pm,
Friday 4.00pm-7.00pm,
Saturday-Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
Presented at TBSP Studio
48 Dobbin St, Brooklyn
Details →03:00 PM Details:
Hungary Live! And Hungarian poetry is alive and kicking. Actor András Pál sharpens his voice, cellist Tamás Rozs rosins his bow… and yes, the rumours are true: these two brilliant performers are bringing a fresh and vibrant selection of contemporary Hungarian poems to New York.
Details → RSVP →10:00 AM -12:00 PM Details:
Our bodies keep the score. Past experiences, tension, daily stress, and trauma become deeply embedded in our muscles, movement patterns, and posture. As Bessel van der Kolk’s research shows, the connection between body and mind is essential in shaping how we perceive ourselves and the world.
Event place:Movement Research, 150 1st Ave, New York, NY 10009, United States
Details → RSVP →4:00 PM Details:
#Orpheus#Eurydice, the first full-evening performance collaboration between Simkó and Grecsó, is a richly textured, emotionally resonant contemporary dance piece.
Event place:La Mama Experimental Theatre Club – The Downstairs Theatre
66 EAST 4TH STREET, NEW YORK, 10003
6:00 PM Details:
Inspired by the Ten Commandments, the play of Csaba Székely follows ten individuals, gradually uncovering the hidden connections between them in the style of a crime series. As part of the staged reading there will be a visually atmospheric introduction created for this occasion by Kriszta Remete.
Event place:La Mama Experimental Theatre Club – The Downstairs Theatre
66 EAST 4TH STREET, NEW YORK, 10003
Festival (3-7 September) + Program table
Programs at the La MaMa in Manhattan:
Concert at NUBLU
Programs at the The Gallery at Dobbin Mews and TBSP Studio in Brooklyn:
Workshop
L!VE Talks
Private Programs
FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS
I was born in Budapest. I graduated in 2012 as an actor. I have been organizing theater and music productions and study trips to the USA on a voluntary basis since 2010. I am the dreamer of the Hungary L!ve Festival and the chairman of the board of the Hungary L!ve Arts Foundation.
She dedicates her work to support emerging artists in developing their career, finding collaborators, funding, presentation opportunities locally and internationally. She is working as a freelancer cultural producer, but in an official Partnership with Workshop Foundation since 2023, as they are mutually supporting each other in development, strategy and project implementations. Brigitta is responsible for the international development of the Foundation in collaboration with director Gergely Talló, and works as the project manager of Life Long Burning Creative Europe project from WSF’s side. She is running a management capacity incubation program, called Next Stage, under the umbrella of WSF. The initiative aims to support the artist management work of Brigitta and fellow international producers and provides enhanced capacity for WSF itself.
As an artist manager since 2018, she has worked with individual artists and art collectives, such as Beatrix Simkó (https://simkobeatrix.hu/), Ladder Art Company (www.ladderartcompany.com) and Imre Vass (https://www.imrevass.com/ ). In 2021 she became a CEC ArtsLink fellow and was hosted by Movement Research (NYC) in 2022 for a 7-week residency. She has been developing and implementing several exchanges between the US and Hungary ever since. She is producer and co-curator of Hungary L!ve Festival, an interdisciplinary festival showcasing Hungarian contemporary artworks and artists in New York. The different activities are linked by her mission is to improve the precarious working conditions of artists and cultural workers in the performing arts field, and initiate mutually beneficial partnerships that can aid more sustainable career paths and strategies.
Lili graduated from the University of Theater and Film Arts Budapest with a BA degree in Art Mediation and Theater Pedagogy, then she graduated with a masters degree in Arts Management from SUNY Buffalo in New York State. She was working as community engagement and social media manager in California and New York. She is a communication and project manager at Workshop Foundation and also actively working as a performer, choreographer and dramaturge in the independent contemporary theater and dance field in Europe. Lili is managing also Next Stage Project’s social media platforms, and helping with other production related tasks too, such as grant writing, production management for Beatrix Simkó and organizing the 3rd Hungary Live Festival in New York.
Emese Mucsi is a Hungarian-born curator and art critic. She has been the curator of the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (www.capacenter.hu) in Budapest since 2018. Emese’s projects bring together artists and photographers with photojournalists, writers, actors, directors, and other thinkers to experiment with new approaches to photography. Her father is a DJ, and Emese “grew up” in disco, so she has a keen sense of how to blend high art with contemporary popular culture. She writes interesting and accessible articles on all kinds of topics, from photography and fashion history to cats. As a curator and author, her goal is infotainment. From March 2014 to January 2018, she was the Editor-in-Chief of Artmagazin Online (artmagazin.hu). Emese is a contributor to the British Journal of Photography, Trigger magazine, Glamour Hungary, and Artmagazin. She founded and started to run the DOXA exhibition space and art educational venue (@doxa_budapest) in 2022, which she has been managing ever since. She is a guest lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (2023–) and the University of Szeged (2024–). She has been appointed as the artistic director of the Hungary L!ve festival in the field of visual arts in 2025.
Eszter Lovrity comes from an arts and design background and works as a project manager in the independent theater scene. She lived and worked in France for four years, which led to her involvement in Ladder Art Company’s participation in the Avignon Off Festival in 2024. At Next Stage Project, she primarily focuses on managing projects for artist Beatrix Simkó and coordinating the 3rd Hungary Live Festival in 2025, while also being involved in other initiatives within Next Stage.
Adam Boncz is an actor who graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. For over a decade, he performed on prominent New York stages, including La MaMa ETC, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. In addition to his stage work, he has appeared in numerous international film and television productions, such as Shadow and Bone, Rematch, FBI: International, Infinity Pool, and Lee. He also holds a degree in Arts Management from the State University of New York. www.adamboncz.com
Photo: Alíz Győri
I’m Zsuzsa Oláh presented here in 2 variations. I think I was born to become an innovation manager. I’m interested in science and art and first of all in human beings. My job enables me to always work with new things and talented people.
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