Bullet founded Puccs Contemporary Art in 2014 as a forum for curators to present engaging, noncommercial art that is both visually and intellectually stimulating. The street level gallery is located at Budapest’s Rákóczi tér, the city’s former red light district. Puccs has been hosting artists monthly. Bullet’s enduring legacy has been his voice and vision for Budapest’s experimental art scene and his impact and encouragement of his fellow artists including many who have created installations there. Bullet’s family has promised to continue to curate Puccs in perpetuity according to Bullet’s vision and in his memory.
Puccs Contemporary Art
1084 Budapest
Víg utca 22.
photograph by Gábor Pintér, curator
When exhibitions were installed [at Puccs], the light was left on most nights, and the art was visible for all to see, all the time. Puccs, with its lantern-like presence, was very much like Bullet Shih himself: always on, always available, and always searching, in both his painting as well as his irrepressible spirit to interact with other artists and to get work out there. His contributions to other artists, through personal support and encouragement, was immense. All this added to his beacon-like aura not just as an artist but as someone who profoundly affected an experimental art scene in a place that was deeply worthy and in need of one. The light cast by Puccs’s window illuminated not just the street outside, but all of Budapest, as did Bullet Shih.
-- William Corwin, 2022