ARTIST PROFILE
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- Hungary (b. 1990 in Budapest)
- Currently in Budapest, Hungary.
CONTACT & LINKS
ARTIST STATEMENT
Nikolett Balázs(1990) creates artworks that redifine classic artistic techniques and materials of our environment. Often originated from peripheral environments, she drags her found objects and poor materials form their millieu, and by recycling them she puts them in an artwork position, questioning their values and interpretation. The rusty wire bundle, industrial foam and waste wood integrate with the canvas, oil paint, and gypsum in one picture.
For Balázs, creating an artwork is a metamorphosis, the interpretation of our philosopiycal, ordinary, social and personal relationship with the material. Balázs folds, cuts, untwist, guts, sews, glues, forms, paints and constantly searches for new contexts of the materials. The playful, sensual, social and aesthetical natures of fine art are essential elements of Balázs’s art, wich become more human on the borderline of abstraction and figurality.
Each work tells a story about how our memories and feelings become tangible. As digitalisation becomes widespread, our relationship with materials, our own phisicality and the manual treatment of materials are becoming a more and more important topic. This elementary experience pulsates in Balázs’s work, embedded in the story of our own age and personal mythologies.
BIOGRAPHY
Membership
MŰTŐ artist run space
Prize
2019 Young Talents of Hungary Scholarship NTP NFTÖ -19
2016 Barcsay Prize
Residency
2019 Villa R residency – Sicily
Studies
2018-2019 Budapest Art Mentor
2015-2016 Hungarian University of Fine Arts – Teacher
2009-2015 Hungarian University of Fine Arts – Painter
2005-2009 Medgyessy Ferenc High School and Secondary School of Fine Arts
Solo shows
2019 Sensation Session – Négyszoba Gallery
2019 Game of Snakes – Telep Gallery
2019 Clean Yard – Deák palace
2017 Inside-Out – MŰTŐ
Group Shows
2019 Matter – MODEM Debrecen
2019 The Tidal Flood Beneith the Lunar Sway – Cluj-Napoca
2019 Transition – Suomi Art Fair Helsinki
2019 Acidic Taste – Durden and Ray Gallery Los Angeles
2019 Dreams Upon waking – MŰTŐ
2018 Break-out 2.0 – MŰTŐ
2018 Break-out Independent Art Fair Stockholm
2016 Interferencia – MŰTŐ
2016 Hélium Contemporary – A38 Exhibition Space
2016 Barcsay Prize- Szentendre, Barcsay Museum
2015 There must be a window above every coach! – Hermina Gallery
2015 Studio discourse – Godot Gallery
2015 Degree show – Barcsay room
2015 Thinking spaces – Ram colosseum
2014 Ludwig scholarship group show – Barcsay room
2014 Gén-Tér-Kép – Artus Gallery
2013 Gender brush – Barcsay room
2013 Feminin-maszkulin – Műterem Gallery
2013 Attention – Mazart Gallery
2011 Mester and apprentice – Karinthy Salon
Contact
Mobile: +36 30 925 5454
E-mail: nikolett.blzs@gmail.com