ARTISTS

Amber Hansen (USA)

Angela Han (USA)

Bagó Alexandra (HUN)

Beth Simcock (UK)

Gabrielle Nelson (USA)

Lynn Van Hoydonck (B)

Melina Flessas Benson (GR)

Solweig von Kleist (F)

Sophy Brown (UK)

Szmrecsányi Veszely Beáta (HUN)

Végh Marcell (HUN)

DATES 9-23. August 2026

LOCATION Next to the Balaton Uplands National Park, in the small village of Barnag, at the Szmrecsányi family’s Szmrecsányi Kánság estate, home to the Kassai School of Horseback Archery. An outdoor riding arena, an archery range, and an indoor riding arena with an adjoining exhibition space and studio. An official horseback archery course following the Original Kassai System. A communal kitchen, dining room, lecture hall, and studios.

PROGRAM An intensive artist residency program featuring lectures, equestrian, archery and horseback archery training, horse ethology seminars by Tóth Bettina, observational drawing seminars, trail riding, individual studio work, study tours to Tihany and the Festetics Palace in Keszthely, an exhibition, an exhibition opening, and an open studio day.

PROGRAM LEADERS Szmrecsányi Veszely Beáta, artist, Szmrecsányi Márton, horsearcher and trainer, Szmrecsányi Benedek, horsearcher

ACCOMMODATION In traditional yurts and in a 19th-century thatched-roof farmhouse located next to the riding arena.

HORSES The eight horses of the Szmrecsányi family. All of our horses are trained according to the principles of Natural Horsemanship and the Academic Art of Riding.

OPEN DAY On August 21, we opened the Horse and Art Research Program to the public as part of the Szmrecsányi Kánság and the Történelemi Hadi Akadémia (Historical Military Academy) Open Day.

FURTHER INFORMATION Szmrecsányi Veszely Beáta at info@horseandart.hu