SHAPE platform

The platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, known first as SHAPE and later as SHAPE+, had been active for more than a decade.

While the individual partner festivals and venues will continue to develop new initiatives, SHAPE+ is reaching its conclusion at the end of December 2025.

Across its ten years of activity, SHAPE facilitated the careers of 676 innovative artists, and is thankful to them for their trust and participation. The creators of SHAPE owe much gratitude also to the core 18 adventurous music festivals of the platform, as well as external partner organizations, media partners, and participating entities from previous versions of the project.

The project has been co-funded by the European Union, in its last years also by Pro Helvetia.

https://shapeplatform.eu/2025/shape-the-project-has-concluded/

ARTIST OF THE WEEK - THE STANLEY MANEUVER (HU)

The Stanley Maneuver is the solo project of András Molnár, a musician, dj and organizer based in Budapest. His practice focuses on weaving a web of fragile environments that have their own histories, desires, faults and secrets. Building upon improvisational and generative techniques he constantly repurposes his materials to explore territories in and around experimental music and intimacy.

Besides working on his solo project he is in constant collaboration with multidisciplinary artists and contemporary dancers on performances, installations and experimental computer simulations.

https://shapeplatform.eu/artist/the-stanley-maneuver/