Dreamwork, a film series we’ve been working on for a year now premieres on December 10th in @isbn_plus gallery Budapest.
The first episode features Nicole Clore — the legendary alter-ego of dancer and choreographer Csaba Molnár @csaba_molnar_nicole_clore .
Nicole Clore is a world-famous choreographer, educator, singer-songwriter, theatre and film director, art writer, critic, game and character designer, psychotherapist and dance artist.
In the first episode of the series you will join Nicole and the show’s hosts inside the virtual reality of Dreamwork, where one of Nicole’s wild dreams comes to life and sweeps the crew into its perfect storm. We travel to a landscape shaped by fantastical creatures, symbols piercing through bodies, and composite identities, inhabited by infrastructures that whisper the stories of shared fantasy.
Dreamwork is a long-term experimental documentary series initiated by Tamás Páll to explore relationships and worldmaking built on shared fantasy. The project archives and simulates the otherworlds that emerge between the hosts and the participating artists who developed long-term alter-personas, living multiple lives over many years. Each episode focuses on a new character, and a network of identities gradually building an interconnected narrative where Dreamwork participants meet and relate across episodes.
Nesting opens on January 25th at @discotec.art .
In my first solo show in Vienna, the gallery space will host a 3-channel video and several scraps and artifacts from a branching story and research I’ve been working on in the last 2 years.
Nesting conjures a community of squatters and urbex role-players, who summon rituals in construction sites and record them as memory-worlds. In the center of the 3 channel video installation the simulated avatars of the community talk about their experiences that unfold in obscure goverment locations set in Hungary, their methods of transforming into animals and infrastructure and their origin story that emerged from a disillusionment in universal worldviews. This interview is coupled with research videos on real-estate projects, urbex social media videos and behind the scenes footage.
Come by to the opening at 6PM if you are Vienna.
2nd photo was made by @szombathy_and_ras during the ETERNIT exhibition in Budapest.
I’ve been working on Lair for the past few months, researching biodomes, synthetic bodies and squatting.
Lair is a series of interactive installations and cinematic game scenes. In the current set of scenes a group of virtual beings dwell in a never fully built biodome that was modeled after Pannon Park - a spectacle in Budapest that turned into a futile government project. The story revolves around the dwellers of this virtual dome and how artificial biospheres and real estate projects intertwine with storytelling, coexistence dynamics, virtual embodiment and role-play.
The crossreality prosthetics (the physical parts of the installation) of Lair are an aluminum frame and a microcomputer, an unearthed plaster infused PC case, soil and shell samples and a web interface that can be used to interact with the installations.
The first iteration of the installation was exhibited on the coast of Danube at a pop-up exhibition called Petrichor and the current phase of the work is now exhibited at Ludwig Museum in Budapest (on view till 27th November).
On Wednesday from 7PM we will do a screening and talk with @csaba_molnar_nicole_clore about dreams, fantasies and desires that we share with each other and the audience in @isbn_plus
In the next few days I will be sharing some teasers from Dreamwork.
In the first episode Nicole Clore @csaba_molnar_nicole_clore shares one of her dreams, that is rendered as a virtual world in Dreamwork.
The premier will be in the 10th of December in @isbn_plus in Budapest at 19:00.
🪨 "𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡-𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙮 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮."
@tomipall is an interdisciplinary artist from Budapest whose work merges digital media, video games, installation, performance, and myth-making to explore the politics of technology, Eastern Europe, and nonhuman storytelling. He is the co-founder of art collectives @ritesnetwork and @hollow.systems .
—Gyula Muskovics (@jule.core ) speaks to his friend and collaborator Tamás Páll on the occasion of the exhibition Emergency Frequencies, where Rumble premiered. The show (featuring artists like Nikita Kadan, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, or Lawrence Abu Hamdan) was part of the 5th @offbiennalebudapest (May 8-June 15, 2025), Hungary’s largest contemporary art event.
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Kiállítóink az idei Budapest Contemporary vásáron
PÁLL Tamás (1989-)
Páll Tamás interdiszciplináris művész és kutató, Budapesten és Bécsben él, digitális médiával, filmmel, installációval, játéktervezéssel és performansszal foglalkozik. Munkáiban kelet-európai politikai narratívákat és underground közösségeket sző össze a technológiával. Folyamatos kutatásaiban a kollektív világteremtés, a játékmechanika és a szimuláció új formáit vizsgálja.
A Budapest Contemporaryn bemutatott LAIR egy művészeti kutatási projekt, amely egy sor installáció és videó segítségével ötvözi a természetet, a tudományos fejlesztéseket, az ingatlanbefektetéseket, a mitológiát és a technológiát. A mű Páll folyamatban lévő művészeti kutatási projektjének, a „Cycles”nek a része, amely filmek, performanszok és installációk segítségével vizsgálja a félig fiktív underground közösségek világteremtő rituáléit és tárgyait, azok kapcsolatát az anarchizmussal, a közterületek használatát és az újraiparosodó Kelet-Európában zajló ingatlanfejlesztési projekteket. A LAIR középpontjában a mesterségesség és a természet közötti szakadék áll, feltárja, hogyan olvad össze a természet és a tudományos infrastruktúrák privatizálása a kortárs ingatlanbefektetésekben, valamint a squatting és a mitopoézis, mint kollektív világteremtő eszközök szubverzív mechanizmusait.
@tomipall #palltamas #lair #budapestcontemporary2025 #bct2025 #kisteremgallery
On June 11th we will perform Dreamwork.live with @csaba_molnar_nicole_clore in @ail_vienna starting at 5PM
Dreamwork is a film and performance series that strings together dreamwork rituals evoked by alter-egos, XR technology and altered-states of consciousness.
Dreamwork.live is the first live iteration of the series, transforming dreamworks into a live reality distortion field.
Tamás Páll and Nicole Clore, the characters of the first chapter of Dreamwork will augment the space of the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab through a gamified guided tour.
The performance invites the audience to participate in a guided tour, that reaches towards otherworlds, bleeding through the bounds between fact and fiction to extend the frame of reality of the here and now.
💥Introducing the artists of EXOSKELETON💥
TAMÁS PÁLL is an interdisciplinary artist from Budapest, working with digital media, film, installation, game design and performance. His works interweave Eastern European political narratives and underground communities with technology. In his ongoing research, he explores new forms of collective world-making, game mechanics and simulation.
He is a co-founder of the artist group Hollow. With Hollow they create speculative live performances and cross-reality installations that revolve around the human body, club culture and alternative communities.
His works have been showcased in numerous venues, including The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; ISCP New York, Residency Unlimited New York; Art Cologne; Radialsystem, Berlin, Panke Gallery, Berlin, Transmediale, Berlin; MeetFactory, Prague; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest among others.
🚧Previous works🚧
1. Nesting (2024). Discotec, Vienna
2. Nesting (2024). Discotec, Vienna. Photo: Tina Kult
3. Lair (2022). Ludwig Museum, Budapest
4. Lair (2022). Petrichor, Budapest. Photo: Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss
5. Hollow: Aura (2023). Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest. Photo: Dániel Szalai
Portrait: Hollow Baby (2025) - Tamás Páll - photo by Urska Boljkovac
Ešte do konca januára môžete navštíviť aktuálnu výstavu Archive III (Baby) maďarského kolektívu Hollow. 🫂
„Umelecká prax Hollow je z veľkej časti založená na performance, kde sa stretáva choreografia a inštalácia s live action role-play (LARP), hernými prvkami a technikami rozšírenej reality. Od vzniku svojho prvého projektu, vytvára kolektív imerzívne prostredia, ktoré sa nachádzajú v blízkej budúcnosti alebo niekde neďaleko časopriestoru, v ktorom žijeme. Tie nás často vedú do temných, schátraných, apokalyptických realít, kde prosperujú nové komunity.
Bolo by príliš zjednodušujúce a povrchné vnímať surrealistické krajiny Hollow ako dystopické vízie, hoci sa tak na prvý pohľad môžu javiť. „Prototypy sveta“
kolektívu sú temné a vynárajú sa z ruín súčasnosti, ale znamená to automaticky, že predstavujú niečo nežiadúce? Táto otázka možno odráža širší zápas o
predstave blízkej či vzdialenej budúcnosti a alternatívnych spôsobov spolužitia.”
- úryvok z kurátorského textu Natálie Drtinovej
Pozývame k prebádaniu svetov aktuálnej výstavy a odporúčame využiť prvky rozšírenej reality pomocou umiestneného QR kódu pre intenzívnejší zážitok.
🕒 STR - PIA / 15.00 - 18.00
🕐 SO / 13.00 - 18.00
Foto @cibiscuit
Výstavy tejto galérie z verejných zdrojov podporil @fond_na_podporu_umenia . Fond na podporu umenia je hlavným partnerom projektu.
Projekt ďalej podporilo Mesto Košice.
@kosice_official@creativeindustrykosice
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– anglická verzia v komentároch
– english version in the comments
Po sviatkovej prestávke sme späť a od minulého týždňa je galéria opäť otvorená!
Aktuálna výstava vás zavedie čiastočne do imaginárneho sveta menom Aura – jedinečného priestoru, ktorý vznikol ako výsledok kolektívneho výskumu Hollow na tému zdieľanej predstavivosti a spoločného budovania svetov.
Navštíviť nás môžete v týchto časoch:
STR - PIA / 15.00 - 18.00
SO / 13.00 - 18.00
Tešíme sa na vás!
Foto @cibiscuit
Výstavy tejto galérie z verejných zdrojov podporil @fond_na_podporu_umenia . Fond na podporu umenia je hlavným partnerom projektu.
Projekt ďalej podporilo Mesto Košice.
@kosice_official@creativeindustrykosice
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After a holiday break, we’re back, and the gallery has been open again since last week!
The current exhibition takes you partly into an imaginary world called Aura – a unique space created as a result of Hollow’s collective research on shared imagination and collaborative world-building.
You can visit us during the following hours:
WED - FRI / 3.00 PM - 6.00 PM
SAT / 1.00 PM - 6.00 PM
We’re looking forward to seeing you!
Photo by @cibiscuit
The exhibitions of this gallery are supported using public funding by @fond_na_podporu_umenia . The Slovak Arts Council is the main partner of the project.
The project is also financially supported by City Košice. @kosice_official@creativeindustrykosice
