10. HORSE AND ART RESEARCH PROGRAM
International artist residency


DATES 

17-29 July 2025


ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Studio practice
Talks and lectures
Training with horses
Practice and theory
Archery
Horsearchery
Excursions
Lectures and seminars lead by Tóth Bettina equine ethology teacher


PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Angela Han (USA)
Hillary Curtis (Australia)
Julianna Poldi (USA)
Kaori Kodama (Japan)
Kim Kwaaitaal (Netherlands)
Laura Merz (Finnland)
Luca van de Laar (Netherlands)
Nina Vermeulen (Belgium)
Onongua Enkhtur (Mongolia)
Priska Engelhardt (Germany)
Samara Johnson (USA)
Solweig von Kleist (France/Germany)
Sophy Brown (Great Britain)
Zoe Hawker (Australia)


EXHIBITION

Closing exhibition was held on the 26th of July 2025 in the Lovarda Galéria (Riding Arena Gallery) including all participants
as well as artists participating from previous years:

Liz Cleaves (USA)
Louise Taylor (Great Britain)
Natalie Hill (Great Britain)
James Keay-Bright (Great Britain)
Karin Victorin (Sweden)
Lee Deigaard (USA)
Szmrecsányi-Veszely Beáta (Hungary)


OPEN DAY

"For in the end, nothing remains except the angels and the horses."
Nemes Nagy Ágnes: The Horses and the Angels (Hungarian poem: A lovak és az angyalok) Opening speach was held by Oberfrank Pál Kossuth- and Jászai Mari-prize winner actor, director of the Veszprémi Petőfi Színház (Theatre) and the Veszprém Regional Board of the Hungaian Academy of the Arts (Magyar Művészeti Akadémia - Veszprémi Regionális Munkacsoport).

PERFORMANCE As part of the opening ceremony a performance was shown by contemporary dancer Kim Kwaaitaal with a horse, named Syglavy Capriola Szamóca.

HORSEARCHERY SHOW Equestrian archery show was held by the team of the Kassai Horsearchery School Szmrecsányi Kánság.

LIVE HUNGARIAN FOLK MUSIC Navratil Andrea, a Liszt Prize-winning folk song singer; Demeter László, a Béla Bartók Memorial Prize-winning koboz artist; Legeza Márton, a hurdy-gurdy player and Young Master of Folk Art; and Félegyházi Miklós, a student majoring in folk music at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music’s Department of Folk Music, participated.

HIGHSCHOOL Dr. Boór-Gőblyös István and his students, Szmrecsányi Márton and Szmrecsányi Veszely Beáta were showing practicing school gaits exercises with a slideshow.


PHOTOS

Mráz Edina
Participating artists
HARP


MEDIA

Tóth Bettina: Lovaglás és Művészet (Riding and Art), Lovas Nemzet (Horse Nation), 2025. September-October


The event was supported by the Hungarian Academy of Arts (Magyar Művészeti Akadémia)