The Medence Group is a creative community that was founded in the empty pool of Orczy Garden in Budapest in January 2000.
It is an independent physical and spiritual creative workshop with members who are professional designers and visual communication artists. The three founding members - András Gross interior designer, Gergely Magyar communication designer-artist, Tóbiás Terebessy designer-artist were joined by Ágnes Ónody cultural manager in 2005. Their work is helped by different contributors and participants like other designers, performers, artists and civil and non for profit organizations.

Our first significant order was placed for a bamboo framed event tent that was designed and created for the occasion of the Sydney Olympics in the year 2000. This installation was placed to the facade of Műcsarnok (Küntshalle) during the Millennium Fine Arts exhibit. We participated in several group exhibitions as an exhibiting artist-group and we organized and executed several exhibitions as applied artists as well.

Among our exhibitions we’d like to point out the Pictures of the Heart exhibit that was commissioned by the British Council and had its debut in the House of the Future in the Millenaris Cultural Center and later was seen in many other Hungarian cities.

At the Sziget Festival the Octopus All Artist Venue which has a very unique atmosphere was made of several bamboo framed tents based on our own design. We became the host of the place in 2003. The Labirynth, the Cinetrip and the Meduza were created the same way. Our design titled Ability Park received the special prize of the Ministry of Education in the Industrial Design category in 2003.

The main ideological line of the Medence Group is finding harmony with the environment.
The main character of our work beside its „artistic” values is that it can be defined as an offer to society to change its everyday views: it’s a call for us to pay attention, to be responsible for the environment. Since the founding of our group we executed our job for the satisfaction of our continuously growing clientele. Thanks to this we have the opportunity to manifest our creative ideas in more and more different ways and forms and through time we’ll be able to enlarge our own constructional capacity.

Our group undertake fine-, and applied art design, architectural and industrial design projects from plan to finish, from design to completing the construction in the spirit of arts&crafts.

In our philosophy of design we employ the organic-design cycle: estimating requirements, conception planning, research, development, visual effect design, physical design, construction, supervising construction, managing (running) or operating the project, redesign or recomposition, reutilization.
In October 2007, in the frame work of the event titled Design7 our place called Makett Labor opened its doors at Pipa utca 4 in the IXth District in Budapest. The space was won by us in the tender of the Local Government of Ferencváros. The tender was called for the utilization of a cultural space. This opportunity opened a new chapter in the life of the group to present ourselves directly to the audience. Makett Labor fills the gap between the galleries in Budapest by undertaking exhibitions and popularizing the works of artist who move along the border of environmental consciousness and by organizing lectures and creative workshops. The new design and the reconstruction (financed by our group) of the space - previously the Local History Museum of Ferencváros - made it a continuously changing, altering and permeable communication surface which operates as an office, modell workshop, store, show room and exhibition hall at the same time. Between two exhibits the open workshop gives an opportunity to anyone to follow the actual project, to see the process of creation.