Eszter Szakács
Eszter Szakács is a curator, researcher, and Ph.D. candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam, where she is taking part in a project IMAGINART – Imagining Institutions Otherwise: Art, Politics, and State Transformation. Eszter is on the curatorial team of the grassroots art initiative OFF-Biennale Budapest, with which they were lumbung members at documenta fifteen (2022). She was a team member of the East Europe Biennial Alliance – co-funded by OFF-Biennale Budapest – that collectively curated the Kyiv Biennial in 2021.
Eszter worked as curator and editor at tranzit.hu in Budapest between 2011 and 2020. Her research and writing revolve around grassroots art organizing outside state art infrastructures.