CURATOR PROFILE

Krisztina Hunya

  • Hungary (b. 1988 in Budapest)
  • Currently in Berlin, Germany.
  • Curatorial Assistant at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) Freelance project manager, curator. MA Art Historian (FU, Berlin, ELTE, Budapest) and MA Cultures of the Curatorial (HGB, Leipzig).

CONTACT & LINKS

EXPERIENCE

  • Curator of the Symposium, f/stop Festival, Leipzig, Germany. 2018.
  • Project Manager, 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. 2018.
    Titled We don’t need another hero, the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art is a conversation with artists and contributors who think and act beyond art as they confront the incessant anxieties perpetuated by a willful disregard for complex subjectivities. Starting from the position of Europe, Germany, and Berlin as a city in dialogue with the world, the 10th Berlin Biennale confronts the current widespread states of collective psychosis. By referencing Tina Turner’s song from 1985, We Don’t Need Another Hero, we draw from a moment directly preceding major geopolitical shifts that brought about regime changes and new historical figures. The 10th Berlin Biennale does not provide a coherent reading of histories or the present of any kind. Like the song, it rejects the desire for a savior. Instead, it explores the political potential of the act of self-preservation, refusing to be seduced by unyielding knowledge systems and historical narratives that contribute to the creation of toxic subjectivities. We are interested in different configurations of knowledge and power that enable contradictions and complications.
  • Assistant Curator, ifa Gallery Berlin exhibition / Riots: Slow Cancellation of the Future, Berlin, Germany. 2017 - current.
  • Project Manager, 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. 2016.
    Young Curators Workshop Post-contemporary Art w/ Armen Avanessian, Maurin Dietrich
  • Assistant Curator, Contour Biennale 8, Mechelen, Belgium. 2015 - 2017.
    Contour Biennale 8, curated by Natasha Ginwala considers an uncertain scenography in which we are urged to set up encounters as actors, agents and dissidents. Against the backdrop of Mechelen’s historic role as a legal stronghold for medieval Europe, the curatorial approach engages an over 400-year old juridical past of the Great Council that first sought to address the Dutch, French and German territories through rational jurisprudence as a region. From the vestiges of Europe’s first courthouse, what might it mean to survey the field of social justice and its implements as media archaeology such that justice itself is considered a “medium” that is simultaneously a performative, ethical and aesthetic operation.
  • Assistant, argobooks, Berlin, Germany. 2014 - 2015.
    argobooks was established in 2007 with a focus on artist books, books on art and theory and political readers. We are working with contemporary artists, curators, and art institutions, often situated in Berlin, where we are based. Amongst our backlist you will find monographs and artist's books by Ignaki Bonillas, Filipa César, Dani Gal, Dora Garcia, Jonathan Monk, Olaf Nicolai, Lisa Oppenheim, Heidi Specker, Erik Steinbrecher, Heimo Zobernig.
  • Curator, ZÖNOTÉKA, Berlin, Germany. 2014 - 2016.
    Derived from the biological term ‘coenosis’ and the idea of a shelf or the movement of placing, presenting, and storing things (-‘thek’), ZÖNOTÉKA can be defined as an independent project space, a shared shelf, a cupboard-symbiosis, or a common ground to place ideas. Space and content remain unified, while the box is re-framed for every hosted presentation. Located in Berlin-Kreuzkölln, ZÖNOTÉKA aims to foster a creative micro-community by offering individual working places beside a varying exhibition, event, and screening program. By means of selected projects, a symbiotic space for innovative encounters will be carefully established.
  • Program Coordinator, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. 2014 - 2015.
    project: Conference and First General Assembly of the International Biennial Association IBA
  • intern, KW Institute for Conemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. 2013 - 2014.
  • Gallery Assistant, Jiri Svestka Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 2013 - 2014.
  • Intern, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, United States. 2010.
  • Intern, Knoll Galéria Budapest, Budapest, Hungary. 2006 - 2009.

EXHIBITIONS

2020

2018

  • It's Worth It, ISBN books&gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Ilona Németh: Eastern Sugar, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia. Assistant Curator, Curator: Nina Vrbanová, Artists: Ilona Németh, Lonnie Van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan.

2017

  • Performing Relationships, KV - Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. Co-Curator: Daniel Niggemann / Artists: Johannes Bendzulla, Jennifer Bennett, Miklós Erhardt, Adelita Husni-Bey, Mutter/Genth, Alexander Rischer, titre provisoire, Anna Lena von Helldorff, YES! Association/Föreningen JA!, Heimo Zobernig .
  • Ilona Németh: Pack up Everything, Knoll Galerie Wien, Vienna, Austria. Ilona Németh.

2016

  • Ilona Németh: METOD, ZÖNOTÉKA, Berlin, Germany. Ilona Németh.
  • Marshalling Inc. - The Future of Value Extension, ZÖNOTÉKA, Berlin, Germany. Máté Feles, Mark Fridvalszki, Adam Hruby, Krisztina Hunya, Peter Lowas, Joshua McNemara, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, Márió Z. Nemes, Dominika Trapp, András G. Varga, Nora Vera, Nullius in Verba.

2015

2014

2013

  • HG60 – aesthetic disobedience, MÜSZI, Budapest, Hungary. Bea Istvánkó, 2META, Matei Bejenaru, Lőrinc Borsos, Imre Bukta, Dumitru Gorzo, Tibor Horváth, István Nádler, Csaba Nemes, Gyula Pauer, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Péter Prutkay, János Sugár, János Szirtes, Sorin Tara and ZUZU-KINA.

2012

  • Jeewi Lee: Looking glass self, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. permanent installation by Jeewi Lee.
  • ISOLAT!ON, Senatsreservenspeicher Berlin / Artitu e.V., Berlin, Germany. Lörinc Borsos, Razvan Botis, Marcell Esterhazy, Mark Fridvalszki (OVERMIND) X Peter Lowas, Petra Feriancova, Catalin Ilie, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Kristof Kintera, Vikenti Komitski, Mircea Nicolae, Anna Szigethy, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor.
  • CITISCAPES, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. Erlich Gábor (H) Karas Dávid (H) Florian Hildebrandt (D) Mascha Logaćeva (D) Nadja Milenkovic – Sebastian Seitz (D) Idan Nelkenbaum (IL) Simon Zsuzsanna (H) Szécsényi-Nagy Loránd (H) Szigethy Anna (H).

2011

  • Urban Spaces Berlin Budapest, Demo Galéria, Budapest, Hungary. Erlich Gábor (H) Karas Dávid (H) Mascha Logaćeva (D) Nadja Milenkovic – Sebastian Seitz (D) Idan Nelkenbaum (IL) Simon Zsuzsanna (H) Szécsényi-Nagy Loránd (H) Szigethy Anna (H).

OTHER PROGRAMS

2014

  • projectzone, Project, http://projectzone.hu/, Budapest, Hungary. Bea Istvánkó, András Zalavári.
    Project spaces are independent art spaces that operate beyond state and mercantile scopes. Further characteristics of project spaces are: interdisciplinarity, self-organization, flexibility, and temporary nature. Project Zone is an online platform, which archives, documents, and connects the project spaces of Budapest. The collection of places marked on the interactive map starts with 1989, the year of the Transition. By moving the timeline at the button of the website, the appearance and disappearance of art centers can be witnessed as well as their position within the urban structure. The main goal of the map is to assemble, preserve, and provide a searchable database of the ever-changing art spaces, while reflecting on the art institutional system determined by cultural policy.

2011

  • MEETROPA e.V., Project, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
    MEETROPA e.V. is an association working on a non-profit basis and acting as a bridge between East-Central Europe and Germany to launch new art projects and social initiatives. The center of activities is the city Berlin, where most of our members live, study and work.

LOCATION

  • Born 1988 in Budapest, Hungary.
  • Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.