Artist manager, producer, and cultural manager, Brigitta Kovács (she/her) dedicates her work to supporting emerging artists in developing their careers, finding collaborators, funding, presentation opportunities locally and internationally. She holds a Management degree from Corvinus University Budapest, a Marketing Master degree from VU University Amsterdam, and worked as the COO of Style Communications branding agency in Budapest for 3 years.
She has been working in the performing arts sector since 2016, with a strong international focus. Coming from a business background she is working on finding new business models for NGOs in the performing arts sector in Hungary and improving their access to international funding and markets. She works with individual artists and art collectives, such as Beatrix Simkó (https://simkobeatrix.hu/), Ziggurat Project (http://zigguratproject.com/), Ladder Art Company (www.ladderartcompany.com). She is the production manager of Hungary L!ve Festival, organised at HERE Arts Center in New York in May 2022.
Besides providing management support for contemporary artists and arts organizations she has a strong focus on the development of the contemporary performing arts scene as a whole and takes part in several initiatives and programs that serve this mission. In 2019 she was selected in the SuSy Cultural Management program of Workshop Foundation and has been working in close collaboration with them ever since. She’s been involved in several international networks and programs, such as Tandem Europe, IETM, Bosch Alumni Network, Visegrad Grant projects, Erasmus+. In 2021 she became a CEC ArtsLink fellow and is hosted by Movement Research. During her residency in the United States, she is keen to explore different managerial approaches and initiate a collective reflection on innovative fundraising strategies, organization structures, and the means to successfully engage with audiences, partners, and communities.
