Csilla Nagy & Rita Süveges

CSILLA NAGY
A recurring idea in CSILLA NAGY's work are the ways of remembrance, strategies for how individuals or communities are commemorating events which are of value to them. The topic of remembrance, for her, is a constant pulsing between the private and the global. On one hand she is trying to observe and reflect on her narrow environment, but in parallel she is seeking for wider context. In recent years she has been interested in ceramics which she integrates into her artistic practices with ease: using clay in a conceptual and experimental manner, trying both ancient techniques and new methods.

She was awarded the Derkovits Grant, Visegrad Scholarship and Art scholarship of the Hungarian Academy in Rome. From 2018 she is an Assistant Professor at J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia. She lives and works in Galanta, Slovakia

RITA SÜVEGES is a visual artist based in Budapest. Her practice is research-based, she works with communities through knowledge-sharing performative events, and for the white cube context she uses a wide range of installative media. Süveges's main topics are rooted in the ecological and climate crisis, her aims are to repoliticize the societal understandings of these issues through the imaginative power of art. She is enrolled in the Doctor of Liberal Arts program of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. In her upcoming dissertation, she is questioning geoengineering and techno-optimism from a feminist perspective.

She was awarded the TÓTalJOY Award, Smohay Award, Derkovits Grant, New National Exception Grant, Visegrad Scholarship, and was nominated for the Strabag and the Esterhazy Art Award.

She took part in residency programs in Cité des Arts de Paris, ISCP New York, Meetfactory Prague, MQ/Q21 AIR Vienna, Balatorium, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, etc. She has participated in several solo and group shows in Hungary, and in the international context she has exhibited in Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Off–Biennale Budapest and Collegium Hungaricum Berlin among others.

She is also a co-founder of xtro realm artist group, which since 2017 organizes reading circles, exhibitions, and field trips dealing with the ecological theories that critique the anthropocentrism of contemporary thinking. She was an editor, author and designer of extrodæsia – Encyclopedia Towards a Post-Anthropocentric World, and the Climate Imaginary Reader. Suveges was a curator of ACLIM! part of OFF–Biennale Budapest 2021. She was also a board member of the Association of Studio of Young Artists between 2018–2021.
http://www.ritasuveges.com/