New Town: Dunaújváros, Hungary
Organisation: Institute of Contemporary Art of Dunaujvaros

Gabriella Zsinka is art historian, aesthete and as a career starter she accompanied the political takeover of the Műcsarnok, one of the leading exhibition institutions of the Hungarian cultural scene, and then she returned to Dunaújváros. As the Artistic Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, she has a broad knowledge of the cultural conditions in Dunaújváros and has organised many exhibitions and contemporary art projects. In the creation of cultural products, it is important to move society, the community, and the everyday person towards a more inclusive, creative and critical thinking, in contrast to the fractured, often hostile, self-important and superior nature of Hungarian public thinking. In her curatorial work, she prefers to deal with themes and phenomena that are worthy of rethinking and exploring from new perspectives for society and our immediate micro-environment (from football to sexuality to trauma). She was one of the initiators and organisers of the Yeast Local Patriotic Community and the city’s first grassroots, independent cultural festival, an important conceptual element of which was "being rooted in the city", exploring and transforming the complex set of values of belonging into (festival) experiences.