The famous Rumbach Synagogue in Budapest gave home from 6th till 22nd October 2009 for the artwork exhibition which honored Anne Frank's 80th birthday in October 2009.
Anne Frank became famous due to her diary, written in Dutch, in which despite her young age, she describes in a sensitive, acute and mature way, what she, her family and their friends went through in their hiding place from the Nazis. Anne Frank is the Shoah's 'most famous victim' as well as 'the most famous child of the twentieth century', and her face, with the sad shy smile is one of the icons of twentieth century.
The photographs of Anne Frank are famous documents worldwide representing the Shoah and were adopted by many artists as a source of inspiration to express their feelings and ideas. There was wide use of Anne Frank's image in artworks of many artists worldwide. Every artist refers to her image according to his/her cultural perception and artistic style.
For the first time, in the exhibition Anne Frank in the Artists Eyes, a large collection of original artworks depicting Anne Frank was presented. It exposed the wide variety of subjects concerning Anne Frank's image that occupies the artist's thoughts, ideas and emotions. Twenty-two artists from Hungary, Germany, Austria, Holland, UK, USA and Israel participated in this exhibition with various artistic media and style.
The curator of the exhibition was Dr. Batya Brutin, Director of the Shoah Studies Program at Beit Berl Academic College in Israel.
Between the 8th and 22nd September 2009 the Peter Wilhelm Art Center housed exciting typographical works realized by photographic-graphic methods, manually or by using a computer. The exhibition entitled BULVÁR was the 6th event of the Typochondria series staged by the TypoSzalon of the Association of Hungarian Typographers. The material shown had been selected by a jury of experts from the works submitted to the competition announced by the Association.
Peter Wilhelm: “The material of the exhibition reflects our reality today. The original meaning of the word bulvár (an epithet of the tabloids) — a strong phenomenon that often rewrites or distorts facts, steps over them — we have forgotten in the last few decades. In sight, in sound, in behavior. The tabloids are a sign of the times. They are conscious, manipulative and seldom of good intention. The creators of this exhibition show viewers their own opinion, relations (sometimes perhaps even desires) by the means of typography and graphics. In some places phonetics, in others also semantics shine through, here however visual composition is stronger than any verbality.”
Exhibition of paper kites in the Peter Wilhelm Art Center
Between the 5th and 7th June 2009 the PAPÍRVARÁZS FESTIVAL was once more organized as part of a series of festivals in the Ráday Kultucca (the Ráday Street of culture). Within the framework of the Festival, in the exhibition rooms of the Peter Wilhelm Art Center, the paper kite works of contemporary Hungarian and foreign artists were on view.
Between the 7th and 25th June 2009 the artist, Ágnes Szabó opened her latest exhibition entitled Növényfüggöny in the Peter Wilhelm Art Center. At the opening Erzsébet Tatai, a research worker of the Research Institute for the History of Arts belonging to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences delivered the inaugural speech. At the reception after the opening the pianist, Daniel Löwenberg played.
Áprilisban jelenik meg a Balkan Fanatik új lemeze, az American Perestroika. A zenekar hivatalos Dürer kerti lemezbemutató koncertje előtt, zártkörű rendezvény keretében a Peter Wilhelm Art Centerben prezentálta az új albumot.
