JURY
The awarding of the fellowships and the prize is decided by an independent jury of five renowned Hungarian and international professionals. The work of the jury is supported by a secretary, who has no right to vote. The award judging process is completed through a series of online and in-person private sessions conducted in English.
The members of the Capa Grand Prize Hungary jury in 2017:
Attila Horányi
President of the jury, art historian, aesthete, associate professor at the Institute for Theoretical Studies, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Attila Horányi is the director of the BA program in Art and Design Theory at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and president of the Hungarian Section of AICA. He has an MA in Art History and a PhD in Aesthetics, both from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Dr. Horányi was a Fulbright scholar at the Cultural Anthropology Department at Northwestern University. He was a fellow and later board member of the Civic Education Project, and received the Kállai Grant for three years. He is the recipient of the prestigious Németh Lajos Prize (given to art historians and art critics) and for one of his book reviews he received the Opus Mirabile Prize awarded by the Art Historian Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been the member of numerous boards, the most notable of which was the Photography Board of the National Cultural Fund, which he also led for two years. Dr. Horányi frequently organizes conferences in art history, theory of photography and visual culture. His areas of research include modernist art and art theory, design theory, and the philosophy and history of art history. He is also completing a monograph on the autonomy of art, and a collection of published and unpublished essays.
Visual artist awarded with the Munkácsy Mihály award, university teacher. Between 2006 and 2015 he was an external lecturer at the Media Design major of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, and since 2010 he has given lectures at the Photography major of the Budapest Metropolitan University. He was previously vice president of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association. He is a member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers and the Intermedia Department of the National Association of Hungarian Artists. His work has been awarded on numerous occasions: Soros Grant, Eötvös Grant, Derkovits Grant, Munkácsy Award, and so on. Between 2004 and 2005, he received a creative grant from the French government for the Recollettes of Paris, and in 2006 he was awarded the grant of the Kulturkontakt center, Vienna. In 2014, he received the main prize of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) for his exhibition titled Neue Ordnung (presented in Trafó Gallery, Budapest). In 2014, he was included in the selection of the best 30 Hungarian photographers compiled by the magazine Kreatív (Creative). Since 1985 he has regularly appeared in exhibitions: a solo exhibition at Ludwig Museum, Budapest and different solo or group exhibitions at Műcsarnok I Kunsthalle, National Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center as well as several major towns of the Hungarian countryside. His works have also been displayed abroad: Paris (Grand Palais, Louvre-Caroussel), Montpellier (FRAC), Brussels (BOZART), Helsinki, Bratislava, Warsaw (Palace Ujazdowsky), Bucharest, Vienna, Lisbon, London (Anthony Reynolds Gallery), Trieste, Venice (Villa Manin), Berlin (Akademie der Künste), Basel (Art Basel), Taiwan, and the United States of America. His works have been purchased by Soros Foundation in Budapest, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Budapest Gallery, Hungarian National Gallerythe Museum of Fine Arts, Hermann Ottó Museum in Miskolcn and Miskolc Gallery, Public Foundation for Modern Art in Dunaújváros (Institute of Contemporary Art), Hungarian Museum of Photography, Art Gallery of Szombathely, King St. Stephen Museum in Székesfehérvár, and MODEM Collection in Debrecen, among others. Several of his works are owned by the Irokéz Collection and the Somlói-Spengler collection in Hungary, the H. Ringier collection, and the Kunsthaus Glarus in Switzerland, the public collection of the Stiftung DZ Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as well as by other Hungarian and international private collections. The artist is represented by the acb Gallery in Hungary. He lives and works in Budapest and Balatonalmádi.
Gábor Gerhes
Artist, University teacher
Anna-Alix Koffi
Photo Editor, Publisher
She was born in Abidjan, raised in Paris. As creative director and photo editor she founded and self- published the book magazine OFF the wall cultures photo in 2013: 10 books to collect, photography only. The purpose was to publish very young talents and tell another story mixing their work with the well or lesser known archives of established photographers. Each magazine launch came with an exhibition (at Arles, Le Bon Marché, Fotofever, private companies and law firms, and so on…) to continue the promotion of the published artists. She also created and produced magazines for fairs and festivals in 2016 (Arles, Visa, Paris Photo). Since then, Anna-Alix has parallel projects related to photography between France and the African continent. She is now working on something we Africans got, her new magazine about artistic and cultural interconnections with Africa.
Nestan Nijaradze is joint founder and joint artistic director of the Tbilisi Photo Festival – founded in 2010 in partnership with Les Rencontres d’Arles. She is also founder and director of the Tbilisi Photography House, an institution for the promotion of photography in Georgia. Between 2007 and 2009 she was editor of Photo Magazine – the first photo magazine to be published in Georgia. She also works as a free-lance curator, regularly organizsing exhibitions in Georgia and abroad. Over the last ten years Nestan Nijaradze has published many articles on photography in the Georgian press.
Nestan Nijaradze
Artistic Director of Tbilisi Photo Festival
Donald Weber
Photographer
Donald Weber is the author of four photography books. Interrogations, about post-Soviet authority in Ukraine and Russia, has garnered much acclaim: it was selected to be included in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s seminal ‘The Photobook: A History, Volume III.’ He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lange-Taylor Prize, the Duke and Duchess of York Prize, and two World Press Photo Awards. He has also been shortlisted for the Scotiabank Photography Prize. His diverse photography projects have been exhibited as installations, exhibitions, and screenings at festivals and galleries worldwide.
István Virágvölgyi studied freehand drawing, desktop publishing and photography and earned a master’s degree from library and information studies at Eötvös Loránd University. He worked at Origo news portal first as photo editor and then as head of photography between 2007 and 2011 after which he joined MTI Hungarian News Agency and was the head of the photo desk until 2014. He served as deputy director for professional affairs at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center until the end of 2015. He is the secretary of the Robert Capa Photography Grand Prize Hungary.
István Virágvölgyi
photo editor, curator, secretary of the Capa Grand Prize Hungary
