Iasi - Romania, 3-18 October 2008

Curator

The eighth edition of the Periferic Biennial for Contemporary Art is curated by Dora Hegyi (project leader of tranzit. hu/ Budapest, Hungary).

Dora Hegyi is an art historian, curator based in Budapest. Between 1996 and 2003 she was a curator at the Ludwig Museum Budapest, initiator of the Project Room of the museum in 1999. She curated, among many others, the exhibitions “Budapest Box - The hidden scene of the 1990s" (co-curator), 2002 and “Moszkva ter-Gravitation”, 2003. Since 2005 Dora Hegyi is project leader of tranzit. hu, a contemporary art initiative supported by the Erste Bank Group, which organizes discursive events. In this framework she started the Free School for Art Theory and Practice, to strengthen the professional discussion of art and critical thinking in Hungary.