Parallel Paths

Parallel Paths is a New European Bauhaus Satellite Event that connects Malta and Hungary through architecture, material reuse, and shared questions of belonging. Conceived by AHA Objects, and hosted at Kiscelli Museum in Budapest, the exhibition presents a new iteration of SORĠI, a New European Bauhaus Prize finalist project that transforms construction waste into sculptural public benches inspired by endangered architecture. 

The exhibition title refers to several dualities. The first is geographic. Maltese inspired works appear within a Hungarian museum context, while a new SORĠI chapter in Budapest is under development. The second is biographical. Designer and architect Anna Horváth, a Hungarian practitioner who launched SORĠI in Malta, now returns to her homeland with a project that speaks to both locations. The third concerns time and material. What was once solid architecture becomes rubble, then is reconstituted as public furniture and narrative object. 

Parallel Paths does not only import Maltese stories into a Budapest institution. Instead it creates a reflective mirror. By placing Maltese cases within Kiscelli Museum, the exhibition invites visitors to consider similar pressures on modernist and late twentieth century architecture in Budapest and to reflect on their own parallel paths of loss, reuse, and care. The aim is to offer a clear, sensory, and accessible experience that speaks about circularity, memory, and identity in the built environment, while strengthening Maltese and Hungarian connections within the NEB framework.