Mentors and instructors

Máté BALOGH
MENTOR | PR, MARKETING COMMUNICATION

Cultural communications professional, the director of KortársPR-os Ltd. and leader of the art manager course of Werk Academy.

Linda BÉRCZI
MENTOR

Art manager, the director of L Art Management. She is the inventor of the Afternoon of Open Ateliers and the Budapest Art Week who is also responsible for the existence of the Budapest Art Mentor program.   

Írisz BABANICS
ONLINE MEDIA STUDIES

Small business marketing specialist. She specifically helps individual/micro/small businesses in how to use their limited resources in order to maximize growth.

Bálint FERENCZY
INTERNATIONAL SCENE STUDIES

Art and photography historian. In 2018, he has founded the Budapest-based Initio Fine Arts and the CZY PROJECTS in London.

Anikó FRITZ
PR, MARKETING, COMMUNICATION

A specialist in educating and choosing communication teachers with a 10-year experience at multinational companies and a devotion to human resources development.  

Orsolya HEGEDŰS
ARTISTIC CAREER BUILDING

Art historian, curator, the director of acb Gallery.

Dr. Dániel HORVÁTH
ARTISTIC CAREER BUILDING

Painter. Recipient of the Essl and the Eszterházy Prize. Professor of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (Budapest) and the Visual Arts Institute of the Károly Eszterházy University (Eger). Vice president of the Foundation for The Day of Hungarian Painting.

Tibor iski KOCSIS
ARTISTIC CAREER BUILDING

Artist, curator, art history and visual arts teacher. Founding member and art director of the VILTIN Gallery. As the curator of a number of exhibitions, he has presented the works of artists both from Hungary and abroad.

Dóra JUHÁSZ
PR, MARKETING, COMMUNICATION

Communication specialist, arts manager, PR Director of Müpa. Between 2013-2015, she was a participant of the Global Arts Management Fellowship Program at the DeVos Institute of Arts Management. She regularly holds lectures about cultural communication and strategic planning at conferences as well as universities in Hungary and abroad.  

Dénes LEGEZA
LEGAL STUDIES

Lawyer, member and secretary of the Copyright Expert Panel, professional adviser to the National Intellectual Property Office, author of numerous articles on copyright.

Krisztina LÖBL
TENDER WRITING AND MONITORING

The executive director of Art Market Budapest, tender specialist, organizer of fine arts and photography exhibitions.    

Annamária MOLNÁR
ARTISTIC CAREER BUILDING

Economist, curator, founder and director of the Ani Molnár Gallery, former president of the National Association of Hungarian Contemporary Art Galleries, board member of the Federation of European Art Galleries Association.

Anna OLAJOS
INTERNATIONAL SCENE STUDIES

Arts consultant and manager with international know-how; lawyer.   

Zsolt PETRÁNYI
INTERNATIONAL SCENE STUDIES

Art historian, curator, university professor, Head of the Department of the Hungarian National Gallery’s Contemporary Collection. Former director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (Dunaújváros) and the Kunsthalle (Budapest).

Tamás SZVET
ARTISTIC CAREER BUILDING

Artist, recipient of the Talentum and the Junior Prima Prize. Regular participant of resident programs, and contributor of exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. His artistic research deals with the possibilities of expanding human perception.  

Délia VÉKONY
MENTOR | INTERNATIONAL SCENE STUDIES

Art historian, curator, adjunct of the Arts Management Institute of IBS (Budapest).  

Pál Sándor TÓTH
MENTOR | HANDLING ARTWORKS

Former director of the Erika Deák Gallery. Guest lecturer of the Cultural Manager and Museum Manager courses of MOME,  former lecturer of the Arts Manager course of IBS. President of the cultural association cARTc, founder of a number of businesses related to contemporary art.