Vegyeskereskedés

10/06/2026

𝓼𝔃𝓸-𝓼𝔃𝓸: 𝓼𝔃𝓸𝓶𝓼𝔃é𝓭 𝓼𝔃𝓸𝓴á𝓼𝓪𝓲 — május 30. 2026

Thank you all for joining us last Saturday of May for the szo-szo: Szomszéd Szokásai gathering with our neighbors to experience some traditional rituals and try refreshing Ukrainian summer food. 🍓🫜🥒

19/05/2026

12/05/2026

There is a quiet yet powerful wind moving through Hungary carrying hope ✨, a sense of renewal 🌱, and a shared longing for joy and togetherness 😊🤝. As spring reaches its final days and summer is coming the air is filled with light, warmth, lots of vitamin D, and the gentle promise of something new ☀️🌈

Inspired by the tradition of the Májusfa 🌳, we invite you to gather with us and plant small seeds  of hope, love, and belonging ❤️🏡. We will build a tree not only from reed branches and ribbons, but from our presence, our stories, and our intentions. We will write letters to future selves, dance, and share food 💃🕺🍲.

Together with our neighbors, we’ll create small rituals that can grow into traditions of care. Just as we once gathered in our courtyard for Szomszéd Vacsora, we’re coming together again to get to know each other better, and make our neighborhood feel more like 🏠.

Program:
15:00 – Building our shared májusfa 🌳
16:00 – Writing letters of aspirations ✉️
16:30 – Dancing and singing together 🎶
17:00 – Cooking kholodnyk 🥣 and lazy dumplings 🥟
18:30 – Dinner 🍽️

💵 Admission is free. Feel free to bring something to share, whether it’s food, a drink, or just your company/presence 🤍. Please register in bio ☺️
This event is a collaboration between Vegyeskereskedés and Józsefváros municipality.

20/04/2026

The Sea of Volcanic Hearts 🌊🌋♥️ brought people and artists together to reflect on past and future revolutions, while also celebrating one year of vegyeskereskedés. Throughout the year, we gathered people of different nationalities and cultures around a shared table to learn from one another, exchange ideas, and create together. Challenged Orbán’s fearmongering and instrumentalization of the war in Ukraine, while responding to ongoing attacks on the LGBTQ+ community by organizing events rooted in solidarity and support.

In the revolutionary artworks, Mina’s painting Azadi (Farsi: freedom) portrays the figures of the Iranian revolution, she emphasizes that her piece is not yet finished just like the revolution itself. Meanwhile, in Birth of Revolution, Barbara .mihalyi approaches the idea through the process of birth, using it as a metaphor for rupture, pain, and emerging forces. In Landscape, Andrii .jpg visualizes the system and the ongoing interdependence between the state and its people.

Hosting this event a month before the national elections in Hungary, there was a fragile yet persistent sense of hope for political change. We questioned whether a 16-year-old system could truly be undone, whether something so deeply rooted could shift at all – it almost felt unreal to imagine it. And yet, the unlikely became real, reminding us that even entrenched authoritarian structures are not immovable, and that they can be challenged and overturned through the collective force of democratic participation.

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Artists: , .mihalyi, .jpg
Curators: .tolstikov
Assistants .boran
📸 .tolstikov

02/04/2026

𝓿𝓮𝓰𝔂𝓮𝓼𝓴𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓴𝓮𝓭é𝓼 𝓩𝓲𝓝𝓮 ✨

𝒪𝓃 𝑀𝒶𝓇𝒸𝒽 𝟣𝟦 𝓌𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝒵𝒾𝓃𝑒 💫 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓋𝒶𝒾𝓁𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓁𝒾𝓂𝒾𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝑒𝒹𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝟥𝟧 𝒸𝑜𝓅𝒾𝑒𝓈.

𝐿𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝒽𝒶𝓁𝒻 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝒶𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓋𝒶𝒾𝓁𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒. 𝒢𝑒𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝑜𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝑜𝓇 𝓋𝒾𝒶 𝒟𝑀 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈 🫶🏼

𝟥.𝟢𝟢𝟢, - 𝐹𝓉 💫

20/03/2026

Nagyon hálásak vagyunk ezért a lehetőségért, hogy a vendégeitek lehetünk ebben a gyönyörű helyben, köszönjük! 🥹♥️🥹♥️🥹

19/03/2026

Thank you for coming last Saturday and celebrating the One-Year anniversary of Vegyeskereskedés with us – we are truly grateful to have each of you!🫶🏼

Alongside the celebration, we held a commemoration of revolutionary events and the exhibition opening The sea of volcanic hearts 🌊🌋♥️ with wonderful artists .mihalyi , , and .jpg . Join us today for a guided tour with Sasha.

Meanwhile, don’t forget to enjoy the cherry blossoms 🌸 on Gellért Hill – and strawberry season is right on the corner, yay! 🍓

We decided to extend the exhibition until March 29! 💥

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Köszönjük, hogy múlt szombaton eljöttetek, és velünk ünnepeltétek a Vegyeskereskedés egyéves évfordulóját – igazán hálásak vagyunk mindannyiótokért! 🫶🏼

Az ünneplés mellett megemlékeztünk a forradalmi eseményekről, valamint megnyitottuk The Sea of Volcanic Hearts 🌊🌋♥️ című kiállítást a csodálatos művészekkel: .mihalyi , és .jpg . Csatlakozzatok ma egy vezetett tárlatvezetéshez Sashával!

Közben ne felejtsetek el gyönyörködni a Gellért-hegyi cseresznyevirágzásban 🌸 – és már a szamócaszezon is a küszöbön van, yay! 🍓

Úgy döntöttünk, hogy a kiállítást március 29-ig meghosszabbítjuk! 💥

16/03/2026

🌊🌋♥️ The sea of volcanic hearts - tárlatvezetés / guided tour in English with Sasha.

March 19, Thursday 7—8 PM 💥
Gallery 1111, Kende u. 1, Budapest

Sasha is a cultural and social practitioner working across multidisciplinary art and curatorial projects that explore identity, mind, and societal structures. Co-founder of , an experimental art collective and community.

On March 14, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of vegyeskereskedés—a year of creation, experimentation, new ideas, and community building. For this occasion, artists from Hungary (Barbara Mihályi), Ukraine (Andrii Nekraha), and Iran (Mina) created works in the studio throughout the day, reflecting on the theme of revolution.

The space was also open for collective participation. Blank sheets marked the working area, but participants were free to extend their drawings beyond them onto the wall, challenging their sense of comfort and boundaries through acts of drawing.

We will walk you through the works which were created during the opening last Saturday, while discussing the ideas behind the gathering and the practice of vegyeskereskedés over the past year.

Registration form in bio 💫

Admission is free 🤗

DM if you would like to see the exhibition during the week. The Gallery is opened We-Th-Fr, 14–18

08/01/2026

There are many ways to welcome a new year but this one felt extra special ✨
Thank you to everyone who joined us, not just on this night, but at our events throughout the past year. Your energy, openness, and honesty make these gatherings feel so cozy and safe. We’re so grateful for each and every one of you 🫂✨

If you were at the Szilveszter and would like the photos from the night, just text us and we’ll share the links with you 📸💌

P.S pictures were made by our beautiful guests and friends 🧚🏻🫶🏻

This night reminded us why we do this: to create space for warmth, connection, play, and belonging. And this is just the beginning because there are soooo many more exciting, curious, and beautiful things ahead 🪩💫

Happy New Year 🥺🎄✨

photography style and concept of .jpg

26/12/2025

In the autumn of this year, we made several trips to NYC for the annual reopening of the art scene, and in particular to visit a new project by Lucien Smith – a reanimation of the iconic artist-run establishment from the 1970s, originally founded by dancer-photographer Carol Goodden and Gordon Matta-Clark.

Lucien Smith is a contemporary artist and the founder of STP , a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide young artists with opportunity and support, and simple offer space for people to speak, listen & exchange.

He left the gallery system to invest all his time in FOOD , an artist-run restaurant developed in dialogue and in co-ownership with the legacy of Gordon Matta-Clark. In a recent interview with , Lucien Smith says that excessive art-making can eventually turn into ma********on, paraphrasing famous childhood trope that ma********ng could lead to blindness – “If you jerk off your art too much, you’ll lose sight of the world around you.” Continuing the conversation, he suggests that being a restaurateur is simply another medium for making art, and reasons that such a development in an artistic career makes one sort of post-art.

“Fear is something that we all have to live with. But allowing fear to make decisions for you can he very dangerous”

Briefly on FOOD from 70s.

FOOD was an artist-run restaurant founded in 1971 in SoHo by Gordon Matta-Clark, Carol Goodden, and Tina Girouard. Conceived as a communal space, it approached cooking, labor, and everyday life as artistic practice. Artists rotated roles as chefs, servers, and organizers, blurring distinctions between art production and social exchange. Figures from the downtown scene, such as Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, and other guest contributors, including Philip Glass, participated through meals, events, and performances, transforming FOOD into a site of artistic community and new forms of collective life.

Thank you for the inspiration 💫✨

txt by .tolstikov
pics: András, Taras
b/w photos are from variety of online sources.
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