de Appel welcomes interim Artistic Director Eszter Szakács

Curator Eszter Szakács will be covering for Artistic Director Lara Khaldi on her maternity leave for the months to come. In 2023, Eszter curated the exhibition Dóra Maurer – SUMUS – We Are Together at de Appel, and in 2024 she returned to de Appel to launch Solidarity Must Be Defended, a publication she co-edited with Naeem Mohaiemen.

Eszter has taken part in various group-based forms of organizing and curating, such as the Curator of the Guest Programme of the 41st EVA International, made in collaboration with the EVA Team (2025); as a curatorial team member in OFF-Biennale Budapest’s second (2017) and third edition (2021), as well as in OFF-Biennale’s participation at documenta fifteen as a lumbung member (2022). She is a member of the IMAGINART research group as a PhD candidate at ASCA of the University of Amsterdam and a Tutorial Collective member of the Lumbung Practice temporary master’s.

Photo by Fransisca Angela