July program

In July Before Exhibition Gallery introduces Enikő Kontor Hungarian artist.

Enikő Kontor was born in 1983 in Budapest. Her early artistic studies were supervised by József Kárpáti and György Kungl. She graduated in 2003 as a Béla Gábor Awarded decorateur, than she has worked in Orosz Pálné Agócs Lilla’s workshop for two years. In the Moholy- Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest her masters were: György Fúsz , Éva Kádasi , Péter Kemény, Ferenc Koleszár,Barnabás Máder és Júlia Néma.

During her studies at the university she has created unique objects with hand building from flat slabs of clay and by throwing. The love of huge block-like forms has led Enikő Kontor to find her unique style. Beside the formal solutions her attention has turned to ceramic glazes, especially to wooden burnt glazes. During her studies she was part of several exhibitions: 2007- Moholy- Nagy Days in Moholy- Nagy University Art and Design, 2008- Interior furnishing exhibition in Zalaegerszeg, 2009- „Face to face” exhibition int he Palace of Art in Hungary, 2010- „Szilikát bukfenc közben” in Tűzraktér Independent Art Center.

In 2010, after her final exams, she spent a summer in Siklós, where she took part in two important  artistic events: the „Colors” Symposium and the Symposium of the Freshly Graduates. In the autumn she established an artist collective with three fellow artists, called Creative group in which she works together with Diána Fülöp, Tünde Ruzicska and Anita Molnár. They also became members at the Association of Young Artists in Arts and Crafts. In March, 2011 they had their first common exhibition called Metamorphoses.

The present exhibiton called ...and there is no point... introduces the newest works of the artist. The black concrete objects hide a very personal message behind the abstract facade.

Opening: 7th of July at 6 pm

On view till 5th of August

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June program

In June Before Exhibition Gallery introduces Diana Artus and Bettina Hutschek German artists.

The Stories from the City exhibition focusing on New York as a surrogate for city and city life and thus proposing works that directly or indirectly are linked to New York. The city to the artists is an imaginary place where people can imagine a better life. The city as place for mental projections, connected to promises, fears, ideals ....   in that way, New York is the image of the "ideal city", along with: "if you can make it here, you can make it everywhere", New York embodies the city as a promise where everything is possible.

Bettina Hutschek presents Letter from Here / Unmarked Space and NEWYORK:

In Unmarked Space long shots of Brooklyn streetscapes reveal perspectives of streets and sidewalks. A female voice-over is reading a letter to a fictitious grandmother, whose husband's traces were lost in the United States. The search for this figure becomes a surrogate for the narrative, which deals poetically with the question of desire, projected in the mythical “land of the free”, and in contrast its day-to-day reality. Personal memory and collective memory mix up with fragments of legends and observations of reality. Through this palimpsest of text and image, the city of New York and its myths become an open projection space which is included in the narrative, but at the same time questioned by both fictitious, personal and legendary elements.

Still from Letter from Here / Unmarked Space

In form of a performative conference, Bettina Hutschek tells the story of New York.

The city is described as a hyper structure situated between the real, the fictive and the imaginary. In “NEWYORK”, all memories are stored in the dust which is being digested and controlled by the dust-mites. The form of a scientific lecture is infiltrated by poetry and fiction. NEWYORK is part of an open series of performative city portraits. It exists as performance-lecture and as independent video.

Still from NEWYORK

Diana Artus presents Nightfall and Inner Outer Space:

Inner Outer Space focuses on the veil or glass behind that the world is hiding – these images are blurred and interrupted through scratches suddenly ripping them up. Arranged like an abstract subway ride they guide the viewer into the broken and dirty reality of urban everyday life.

Inner Outer Space

Nightfall is a series of postcards from New York presenting the illuminated skyline of Manhattan. The artist erased information painting over parts of the cards with permanent marker. What remains is the psychedelic colored shape of the city as a hallucination. 

Nightfall

Opening: 9th of June at 7pm
On view: till 8th of July

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