Bázis – Hungarian Association of Literature and Arts in Slovakia is an association for autunomous, independent literature, art and science in Slovakia.

It’s going to be an exciting week. I came home from Japan a few days ago and on the one hand, I am editing the video documentation of my project realized there. On the other hand, my class and I are preparing for an exhibition presenting the works of the semester at the Hungarian University […]

What feels a ballerina toward the body?What an artist or author? What feels themasseuse or the surgeon? And what the poet?What the whore? What is and is not the body, and for whom?What is dark clothing to the body and what is naked light,which one’s absence will leave it vulnerable, exposed,and which will leave it […]

Pál Száz gave a lecture on Jaroslav Hašek at the International Balkan Express Conference at Charles University on November 11, 2023.

Rudolf Radics will give an English-language ecocritical lecture on the poetry of Zoltán Németh at the conference Literature & The Natural World at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra on 7 November 2023. The conference will take place at the Department of English and American Studies, Štefánikova trieda 67.

3rd Bázis Festival – IN SITU exhibition in At Home Gallery in Somorja-Šamorín (SK). Location: At Home Gallery, Synagogue, Somorja-Šamorín (Slovakia). Opening date: 27 October 2023, Friday, 6.00 p. m. Duration of the exhibition: 27/10/2023 – 26/11/2023. Artists: ARADSKÝ Richárd, EGERVÁRI Júlia, FERDICS Béla, FUNCZIK Mónika, GYENES Gábor, MAZÁN Anikó, NAGY Csilla, PÁLMAI László, PÉZMAN […]

Máté Csanda will give a lecture The Družba and Its Afterlife – Bratislava’s Freedom Square / Námestie Slobody (formerly Gottwald Square) as Stage and Litmus Paper of (Post)Socialist Body Politics at the (Post)Socialist Body conference in Florence (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Via dei Servi 51, 50122 Firenze, Italia) on […]

Márton Simon will participate in the Poets of Today – Voices of Tomorrow Poetry Performance on September 20, 2023 at 19.00 at Jurányi Produkciós Közösségi Inkubátorház in Budapest. More information can be found on Facebook: “We would like to invite you to the Poets of Today – Voices of Tomorrow (POT-VOT) project, a poetry performance […]

Photos of the 6th conference of the Bázis Association on Transculturalism and Bilingualism in Nitra, where on the first day participants presented on issues of transculturalism and on the second day on the transcultural characteristics of the works of Zoltán Csehy, who will turn 50 this year. Participants: Zsófia Bárczi, Zoltán Csehy, Éva Bányai, Gabriella […]

András Gerevich‘s two poems has been published in Andrew Fentham‘s translation on Hungarian Literature Online. The poems can be read on hlo.hu.

Magdalena Garbacik-Balakowicz‘s review about Laimonas Briedis’ Vil­ni­us: City of Strang­ers has been published in Reciti. The full version of the review can be read on the website of Reciti. “Vil­ni­us: City of Strang­ers was first pub­lis­hed in 2009, with trans­la­tions into Lit­hu­a­ni­an, Ger­man, Rus­si­an, and Por­tu­gu­ese pub­lis­hed to date. The Eng­lish edi­ti­on was re-published in 2021. […]

Kinga Tóth’s “AnnaMaria sings/singt/énekel” can be supported by pre-ordering on the author’s website! Kinga Tóth’s art album “AnnaMaria sings” contains audio-visual, installative and performative poetry, concerts and poetry videos, graphics, photos – and also some texts.  “This album is an object between poetry and art, containing my visual, sound, and performative works from the last three […]

Roland Farkas‘ action installation ’We’ will be on view in the courtyard of the Slovak National Gallery on August 19, 2023, from 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. The performance is the author’s interpretation of the theme of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel of the same name from 1921. For more information please visit the website of the […]

In recent weeks I have been working on a research-based art project around the nuclear energy and its relationship with religion. I am fascinated by some of the fears and myths about these invisible rays that we construct and add certain mythology to. I have been talking to people, gathering resources and inspiration around the […]