Krisztián Gábor Török

Krisztián Gabor Török, is a curator, researcher and writer. Currently based in Budapest, Krisztián’s research focuses on socially engaged art, especially educational practices in the Central Eastern European region. His curatorial practice, at the intersection of alternative pedagogies, institutional critique and socially engaged art, questions the hegemony of exhibition-making using alternative formats to present artistic process such as peer-learning groups, discursive platforms and workshops. He is a member of the Minitremu educational project since 2020.

Education and residencies:

Selected project:

2021

Minitremu Project, Our Other Us, 2021 Art Encounters Biennial Timisoara 
Minitremu VI Art Camp, Meetfactory Prague, co-organiser

2020

What is a school: #3 Future Intimacies round table discussion with Marianna Dobkowska and Kasia Wlaszczyk, Szkola Kem, Warsaw

Community/Care/Laboratory. Mapping Residencies: Laboratory round table discussion with Marianna Dobkowska Vytautas Michelkevicius and Martin Newth, Adam Mickiewicz Institute

Minitremu V Art Camp @ B5 Studio, Targu Mures, Romania - Curatorial Collaborator and workshop co-organised with Vlad Morariu – August / September 2020 

Who constitutes the public space? How can we reimagine it? workshop @HEKLER Assembly – in collaboration with Farideh Sakhaeifar

Curatorial School on Collaborative Practices @Swimming Pool Sofia Bulgaria – Curatorial Fellow

Writing & editorial:

2021

"If You Feel Like It" Minitremu Art Camp (2016-2020) assignment book, co-published Minitremu & PUNCH

How Does an Artist Work with the Educational System?, Solitude Journal #2, Akademie Schloss Solitude

2020

“The Most Memorable Year: Highlights of 2020” , in Blok Magazine

“Minitremu, lessons in civil process through the imaginary possibilities of art.” in Minitremu, Idea Art + Society 56

“If this world would end tomorrow, what would you take with yourself”? in Minitremu V

“Interview with OFF Biennale Budapest” in Flash Art CZ/SK, Autumn Issue, 2020

2019

“Where Do These Winds Blow? - Review of the Art Encounters Biennale 2019.” In Revista-ARTA

Interviewed by, Petrică Mogoș & Laura Naum,in “Imagined Exchanges”, Dispozitiv Books

Date of residency: 01.08. 2021 –⁠ 31.08.2021