week 7

today I was helping to open an exhibition at the Art Factory studio, the exhibition is featuring the works of Levente Thury, a ceramist and sculptor

the studio space is quite big and we had to use heating systems (similar are used for contemporary section at Budapest art fair), it was pretty crowded, so the opening was really a success) some problems were about exhibiting really small pieces (app. 3-4 cm in hight), there was a special room for them with shelves, but still they are so small that people may just take them and it is hard to notice, that is why we are thinking maybe about numbering them
one more problematic thing is that the studio is situated in the factory area, so the entrance is not from the street, but u need to go through the building and factory in order to get to the studio, we put signs on the way from the building entrance so it helped people to find the place

everything was done just perfect - catalogs, cards with sculptures, food and drinks, PR (press and Tv were there), opening speech, etc.

week 6

we had quite an interesting trip and I learnt a lot about what is going inside the gallery before the show)
it was strange to see the work in a not straight frame at the opening at Oktogon gallery, they did not fixed it, it would not be a problem, but this painting was quite an important one or one of the most important ones)
plus, it was too crowded at oktogon gallery, because people who went to Varfok's openings and also new comers - all went to Oktogon's opening, moreover it seemed to me that people were 'stealing' wine from Varfok and going to Oktogon, because at the Oktogon gallery they did not serve wine and food)it might sound funny, but such little things give an impression about the gallery itself, and I think if it adds professionalism and does not require huge amount of investments, then why not do it?

week 5

it was a very useful trip to see what mistakes could be done even in such big and important museums) basically what we learnt from these two exhibitions is that everything should be updated from time to time (having and exhibition for a very long time is great when you keep an eye on it and try to eliminate any technical problems which may occure), plus since the museum is one of the important ones in Budapest and a lot of tourists visit it every day (simply because it is infront of the parliament) it was an unforgivable mistake to make it without translation into english-german languages. 
when planning an exhibition in such a huge place with great importance, everything should be taken into consideration, because people who will see the exhibition are usual people (not the professional arts managers or curators with experience) and they will just got an unpleasant feeling if something is wrong, but they won't be able to see what is wrong and explain to themselves "oh the curator forgot this thing, but it is ok, such things happen" and understand, but will leave the museum with strange feeling and won't be satisfied

week 4

we looked through different examples of catalogues, some of them were quite good, but some lacked different things (eg no titles, info about artist, etc)
I think that depending on the targeted audience catalogues should include different information (or at least give more space for one category of information or another), foe example if with this catalogue an artist want to interest the audience which has purchase power and increase sails, then the catalogue should include all the necessary information which increase the value of the artist and his works

using two languages is great, you never know who is going to look at your catalogue

week 3

this week was devoted to the actual exhibition planning and checking the steps of the upcoming exhibition in the Redidence hall
a lot of things which are vitaly important for big events are completely unnecessary for small ones (eg contracts, proper packaging while transportation, events during the viewing time, etc)
the possible problems which can occure during preparation may be related to installation and the way pictures are put on the walls, that is why the unstallation date is set on Wednesday, 1 day before opening, to make sure everything is all right and have time to fix in case there is a need for it.
the transportation will be done on Tuesday and then we will be able to see in what way we want to place the pictures in the hall