Virág Major

Virág Major is a cultural manager and curator based in Berlin. She has worked for the Contemporary Architecture Center in Budapest and for the Curatorial Department of dOCUMENTA 13, as well as at the Vasarely Museum – Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. She is interested in (art) education, developing empowering, non-formal formats for learning, as well as participative, socially-engaged approaches. Her current projects are the Value of Culture, which looks at artistic work with refugees in the Berlin context, Tanközlöny, a non-formal artistic educational project in Hungary based on methods developed by Célestin Freinet, and Urban Bees – bees, ecology, democracy, a project of democratic learning through art and with the help of bees.