Opening: 8th April. 18:00
Location: Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Aula (1062. Budapest, Andrássy út 69-71.)
The exhibition is open 8 – 19. April, 2025; Monday to Saturday, from 10:00 to 18:00.

Welcome address by Prof. Dr. István Erős, Rector, Hungarian University of Fine Arts
Opening Speech: dr. hab. Varga Tünde Mariann, PhD, associate professor of HUFA / Fine Art Theory Department
Musical performances by students of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music: Tibor Osvalda, saxophone, Szabolcs Horváth, piano, Mátyás Szigeti, percussion

Patrick Tagoe-Turkson, a prominent figure in contemporary art in Ghana, is a distinguished guest artist at the International Week of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, held for the second time this year. Tagoe-Turkson's works reflect on Ghana's visual culture and current socio-environmental challenges: the main material for her work is waste flip-flop slippers collected from the Atlantic coast.

Tagoe-Turkson's artistic inspiration focuses on the coast and its ever-changing wildlife. The University of Fine Arts' exhibition Rewoven Patterns features eight large-scale, installative works, repetitively structured wall objects composed of colour fragments. The compositions, created using a special technique from recycled flip-flop slippers, evoke the vibrant textile motifs of West Africa as much as the kaleidoscopic images of our childhood. Here, the metamorphosis of waste into art is not just an aesthetic gesture, but a reflection on issues of globalisation and sustainability.