Freedom Trap
Program Series
The joint program series of the Blinken OSA Archivum and the Goethe-Institut Budapest, accompanying the exhibition “Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag. The Story of a West Berlin Fellowship.” The series takes its name from Hajnal Németh’s performance of the same title.
December 12, 2025, 6:30 p.m.
Hajnal Németh, Freedom Trap
Freedom Trap (2023–) is an innovative performance in an “counter-concert” format that employs musical, rhythmic, and vocal techniques, and brings together performers from a range of diverse professional fields to interpret two distinct yet interrelated texts. The first part reimagines Tibor Hajas’s Freedom Industry Broadcast, Channel IV (1973). Serving as a kind of counterposition, this is followed by excerpts from archival secret-agent and police reports documenting Hajas’s 1973 performance in Balatonboglár and describing the context of the Chapel Studio.
December 13, 2025, 3:00 p.m.
Shifting Perspectives – Curatorial Guided Tour
Curatorial guided tour in the exhibition “Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag. The Story of a West Berlin Fellowship.” The exhibition’s curators, Nóra Lukács and Melanie Roumiguière, will lead a guided tour in the presence of the artists.
February 1, 2026, 4:00 p.m.
Guided Tour by Dávid Fehér
A guided tour of the exhibition will be led by art historian Dávid Fehér, director of the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI).
February 14, 2026, 4:00 p.m.
Perspectives in Dialogue: Archives, Cultural Research, and the Art Historian as Witness
The exhibition “Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag. The Story of a West Berlin Fellowship” will be presented in a guided tour by cultural organizer and former residency fellow Vera Baksa-Soós and cultural researcher Andrea Pócsik.
March 5, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
From Europe to Europe
The film From Europe to Europe is about the decisive moment when Hungary joined the European Union. Ten outstanding filmmakers representing different generations (Ildikó Enyedi, Benedek Fliegauf, Miklós Jancsó, Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, Elemér Ragályi, János Rózsa, Pál Sándor, Sándor Sára, István Szabó, Ferenc Török) talk in short, lyrical reflections about what they are bringing with them to Europe from their cultural heritage and their private and professional lives. To Europe to which we have always belonged.
Before the screening, an introductory lecture will be held by Erika Kapronczai.
March 8, 2026, 4:00 p.m.
Archive and Materiality. Artist talk with Sonya Schönberger
Berlin-based artist Sonya Schönberger will speak about her approach to archives and materials. The artist talk is the closing event of the exhibition “Shifting Perspectives: If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag. The Story of a West Berlin Fellowship.”
Organized in cooperation between the Goethe-Institut Budapest and the Blinken OSA Archivum.