Réka Szabó (Italië/Hongarije)

Réka Szabó is een Hongaarse beeldend kunstenaar, voornamelijk werkzaam op het gebied van omgevingskunst, conceptuele kunst en locatiespecifieke installaties. Ze heeft een universitair diploma in grafische kunst en een masterdiploma in visuele communicatie. Sinds 2013, toen ze haar opleiding afrondde, heeft ze voornamelijk gewerkt met omgevingskunst, conceptuele kunst en locatiespecifieke installaties.

Op een sluwe manier is de natuur eenvoudig, maar deze eenvoud verschijnt in raadsels. Bij Nature Art is Réka vooral geïnteresseerd in het oplossen van deze raadsels door de interpretatie van ons menselijk bestaan, om te begrijpen dat we één zijn met het omringende landschap dat we beschermd moeten houden.

Haar buitenkunstwerken zijn gemaakt met natuurlijke materialen en gemotiveerd door milieubescherming. Soms bouwt ze grootschalige kunstwerken, bepaald door de gegeven omgeving, en soms experimenteert ze gewoon met natuurlijke elementen in op onderzoek gebaseerde installaties.

Nature Art 2024

“Het Oneindige Canvas van de Natuur”

Door gebruik te maken van de intieme, cirkelvormige ruimte omgeven door bomen, presenteer ik een gigantisch, organisch wezen dat af en toe boven de grond opduikt en dan weer verdwijnt. Het dennenappeldak roept de vacht van een dier op, de textuur van een gigantisch tapijt, of zelfs architectonische daken. Ik heb ervoor gekozen om dit niet specifiek te benoemen, omdat de natuur onze verbeelding en verbale uitdrukkingen overstijgt. Dit werk is volledig gemaakt van natuurlijke materialen die ter plaatse zijn gevonden, zonder het gebruik van enige elektrische apparaten.

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STUDIES:

2011-2013 MA (Master Degree) Partium Christian University - Fine Art Department, Visual Communication, Graphic Art, Nagyvárad, Romania 
2008-2011 BA (University) Partium Christian University - Fine Art Department, Graphic Arts – Nagyvárad, Romania
2009 BA (part-time, scholarship program) Hungarian Fine Arts Academy, Graphic Art, Budapest, Hungary

RESIDENCIES / SYMPOSIUMS / ART EVENTS (SELECTION)

2024 Germany, Darmstadt, 12. International Forest Art Path - “Art Nature Water" (upcoming)
2024 France, Mont Ventoux - Savoillan, Grandeur Nature, Les Transhumances Artistiques (upcoming)
2024 France, Vence, Museum of Vence, “Le Refure des Fées” contemporary art residency (upcoming)
2024 Romania, Lazarea Art Center 50 years Anniversary (upcoming)
2024 South-Korea, Gokseong, Seomjingang (SIEAF) Experimental Art Festival and Village Workshop
2024 Belgium, Hamois, Sentiers d'Art en Condroz-Famenne
2024 France, Wattwiller, Pur la Fête de L’eau, edition
2024, Visual Art Festival (upcoming)
2023 South-Korea, Gokseong, Seomjingang (SIEAF) Experimental Art Festival 2023
2023 France, Briançonnais - Puy-Saint-André, Les Transhumances Artistiques 2023, Grandeur Nature
2023 France, Champagne, Vign'Art Contemporary Art and Land Art Festival
2023 Switzerland, Engelberg, Landart Pfad Gerschnialp Engelberg, Kulturspuur
2022 South-Korea, Gokseong, Seomjingang (SIEAF) Experimental Art Festival 2022
2022 Turkey-Adyaman, Kommagene Biennale
2022 France- Saint Julien-Saint Alban-Ardéche, L'art dans l'échamp – Land Art residency
2022 France-Crevoux, Parcours Des Fées – Land Art and Arhitecture Residency
2022 Romania-Transylvania, Gyergyoszentmiklós, Egyfeszt Art Festival
2022 Romania-Transylvania, EKÉP International Arts Festival
2021 South-Korea, Gokseong, SIEAF Seomjingang International Experimental Art Festival 2021
2021 Germany, Darmstadt, International Forest Art Centre, Global Nomad Art Project (GNAP) Nature Art Stories
2021 Romania-Transylvania, Gyergyószentmiklos, “Egyfeszt” Art Festival, urban art installation
2020 Mongolia, Global Nomad Art Project (GNAP)
2020 Lithuania, Zagare Land Art Residency
2019 Mongolia-Murun Khentii, Mongolian-Transylvanian Artist Exchange Program
2019 Romania-Transylvania,Olasztelek, Mongolian-Transylvanian Artist Exchange Program
2019 Hungary-Velence, Venice Lake Symposium
2019 Austria-Salzburg, Nata Vienna Land Art Residency
2019 Italy, Global Nomad Art Project (GNAP)
2018 Iran-Tehran-Nazerabad, Rah Art Residency
2018 Hungary-Gömörszőlős, Értem Residency and Symposium
2017 India-West Bengal-Suri, The Golden Thread, Narrative Movement International Artist Residency
2017 Romania-Transylvania, Szárhegy, Global Nomad Art Project (GNAP) Eastern Europe
2017 South Korea-Gonju, Yatoo International Artist in Residency Program
2017 India-West Bengal-Komdhara, Mirror-Light-Shadow, Narrative Movement International Artist Residency
2017 Romania-Transylvania, Székelyudvarhegy, Pulzus Art Camp
2016 Romania-Transylvania, Nyárádszereda, Zereda Art Camp
2015 Romania-Transylvania, Olasztelek, Living Spaces, Nap Workshop
2014 Romania-Transylvania, Szárhegy, Szabadon Szárhegyen International Act Camp
2009 Hungary-Eger-Noszvaj, International Nature Art Camp SELECTED SOLO

EXHIBITIONS:

2018 Iran-Teheran, Jaleh Gallery, exhibition title: Beyond Inside
2018 Hungary-Budapest, Műcsarnok – Kunsthalle, Institution of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, installation title: Time can be recorded
2017 Romania-Sepsiszentgyörgy, Transylvanian Art Center, exhibition title: The Fingerprints of our Ancestors
2017 Romania-Oradea, Gallery of the Partium Christian University - Fine Art Department, Retrospective Exhibition
2016 Romania-Kézdivásárhely, Vigado Gallery, exhibition title: Natural Gestures

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 France, Beaux Lieux, Expo Beaux Lieux exhibition of the preselected project proposals
2023 Switzerland, Engelberg, Kulturspuur Nature Art Exhibition
2023 South-Korea, Gokseong, Retrospective exhibition of the 20th anniversary of SIEAF Festival
2023 France, Briançonnais - Puy-Saint-André, Opening live exhibition of Les Transhumances Artistiques
2023 France, Champagne, Opening live exhibition of Vign'Art Contemporary Art and Land Art Festival
2023 France, Beaux Lieux, Expo Beaux Lieux exhibition of the preselected project proposals
2022 Japan – Thukuba, Tsukuba Biennale
2022 Turkey – Gaziantep International Nature Art Photography Exhibition
2022 South Korea, The 4th Independents Korea, International Art Festival
2022 Romania-Transylvania, EKÉP International All Arts Festival documentative exhibition, Partium Christian University
2022 Romania -Kolozsvár, Bánffy Palace, "Tíz, tíz, tiszta víz" documentative exhibition of PKE University, Hungarian Days in Kolozsvár, cultural festival.
2021 South-Korea, Gokseong, SIEAF Seomjingang International Experimental Art Festival, the final exhibition
2021 Germany-Darmstadt International Forest Art Centre, Nature Art Stories
2020 Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Global Nomad Art
2020 South Korea-Gonju, Moving Nature Art Exhibition-Yatoo
2019 Romania-Oradea, gallery of Partium Christian University - Fine Art Department, Mongolian-Transylvanian Artist Exchange Program final exhibition
2019 Mongolia, Zanabaazar Museum of Fine Art, Mongolian-Transylvanian Artist Exchange Program final exhibition
2017 Poland-Krakow, International Print Triennial
2017 Hungary-Budapest, Erlin Gallery, Narrative Movement group exhibition
2016 Romania-Sepsiszentgyörgy, Transylvanian Art Center - 4. Graphic Art Biennale of Szeclerland
2016 Hungary-Budapest, Kunsthalle (Műcsarnok) Institution of Hungarian Academy of Arts, Branches, Nature Art Variations
2015 Romania- Székely Muzeum Gallery, Idő és Tér
2015 Romania, Miercurea Ciuc, Secler Muzeum, “Szárhegy 40” collection of Cultural And Art Centre of Lazarea
2014 Romania-Sepsiszentgyörgy, Transilvanian Art Center, 3. Graphic Art Biennale of Szeklerland
2014 Croatia-Zagreb, 5th Croatian Biennale of Illustration
2014 Hungary-Győr, Balassi Intézet, Madach 150, fine art competition and exhibition
2013 Hungary-Debrecen, Sesztina Gallery, Szent Matrix exhibition
2013 Romania-Sepsiszentgyörgy, Magma Contemporary Art Space, Give me five
2013 Hungary-Debrecen, Modem-Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre, Kirakat Art Attack
2013 Romania-Sepsiszentgyörgy, The Anatomy of Autonomy
2013 Romania-Hungary, Partium Christian University - Fine Art Department collection, Alklmazott Víziók

CURATORIAL WORKS:

2019 Mongolian-Transylvanian Artist Exchange Program. Mongolia/Romania
2021 EKÉP International All Art Festival with SIEAF Korean Art Group and EKÉP Art Association. Romania

ARTIST STATAMENT

I am a Hungarian visual artist from Transylvania, I was born in 1986 in Gyergyószárhegy. I graduated from high school of fine arts, then I obtained a university degree in graphics and a master's degree in visual communication. Since 2013, when I finished my institutional education, I work mostly in environmental art, conceptual art, and site-specific installations. My outdoor artworks are created with natural materials and motivated by environmental protection. Sometimes I build large-scale artwork determined by the given environment, and sometimes I just experiment with natural elements in research-based installations. I am also working on site-specific installations in galleries, where my intention is to find a "way out" and guide the audience's interpretation beyond the walls, back to Nature. "Eszter Vámosi" an art historian once stated: "Réka Szabó's installations want to get out of the galleries. They are timeless and limitless. Her play with light and space extends beyond walls." In its cunning way, nature is simple, but these simplicities appear in riddles. Working in Nature my most interest is solving these riddles through the interpretation of our human existence to understand that we are one with the surrounding landscape which we must keep protected.

BIOGRAPHY

Réka Szabó is a visual artist, working mostly in the fields of environmental art, conceptual art, and site-specific installations. She has a university degree in graphic art and a master's degree in visual communication. Since 2013, when she finished her institutional education, she has presented several exhibitions and participated in numerous international art events, residency programs, and art festivals around the world.