Jury and portfolio review work includes
SEE South East Europe: People and Culture – Photography Competition – Jury Chair
Invited to serve as cultural grant evaluation expert for the EC (Literary Translation)
Transcultural Exchange – Mentor, Portfolio Reviewer, Panellist/Speaker about artist residencies, programming and arts management
Neu/Now European Arts Festival Jury
Imago International Photography Competition Jury
Cultures in My Street – European Intercultural Dialogue Jury Member
Your Story Photography Competition Jury
André Kertész Photography Competition I-II-III-IV-V – Founding Jury Chair and Curator
International Photography Competition, OSI Open Society Institute – Founding Jury Chair and Curator
Creatives without Borders HASFilmFest, Jury Chair and Curator
BAFTA British Film Academy Awards – Awards voting, inc. the Documentary, Films Not in the English Language and Writing Chapters
Curatorial work includes
Some of the exhibitions and installations curated are below, with reviews and comments.
Contact for portfolio reviews, art festivals, juries and curatorial ideas: zsu@ardo.org
European Identities Explored, Digital Exhibition curated from across Europe, at Europe House Westminster to tie in the European Identities Revisited philosophy talk and debate
Combatting Social Exclusion/Poverty and The World of Animals – André Kertész Photography Competition IV, Jury Chair and Curator, Hungary
The Spirit of Film: the Road to Casablanca via Béla Balázs – Everyman Cinema, Hampstead, Belsize and Baker Street June 2010 to 18th February 2011
The Spirit of Film – British Film Academy, London UK
Creativity – André Kertész Photography Competition Exhibition III, Jury Chair and Curator Hungary
Before the Third Man: Sir Alexander Korda Exhibition, British Film Academy London UK
Dual Muse – The Artist As Author, the Author As Artist, artsDepot Gallery London UK
Image of Sound – Colours of the Subconscious, London UK
Intercultural Dialogue and The Spirit of the Place – André Kertész Photography Competition Exhibition II, Hungary
Roma International Photography Exhibition, Open Society OSA Archives Budapest Hungary
André Kertész Photography Competition Exhibition I, Szigetbecse Hungary
About the curatorial work by Zsuzsanna Ardó
Very imaginative use of montage and typography and only dawned on me afterwards how advanced this was.
Orde Eliason, The PrintRoom Promoting Contemporary Photography
The exhibition looks fabulous in situ, both for its immediate visual impact and for piquing people's interest so that they take a closer look to ‚get‘ each image's meaning… A pioneering project in many ways. Balázs would be pround!
Adam Tuck, BAFTA
The exhibition captures incredibly well the ideas that Balázs was trying to communicate.
Mark Stanton, Berghahn Books – Film Series Editor
A kiállítás pazar és szivet melengető.
Kertész Bence, Producer
Great eye for design and is full of creative ideas.
Pete Reynolds, Tate Gallery, formerly BAFTA
Impressive flair and imagination.
C. Drazin, Film Scholar, University of London
Focussed, imaginative eye.
D. Korda, Film Finances, Producer
Feast for the senses.
A. Oldham, Arts Review, Hamsptead and Highgate Express
Magical, brilliant. Vivid and moving.
F. Cox, Director, Wind, Sand and Stars