Mark Fridvalszki |
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BIO |
Mark Fridvalszki (born in 1981 in Budapest, lives and works in Berlin) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2011 and was a postgraduate Meisterschüler student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig (2014–2017). Fridvalszki is the co-initiator and graphic editor of the publishing project and cross-disciplinary collective Technologie und das Unheimliche or T+U (since 2014). |
Archeo-futurology, the excavation of visual remains of lost futures and modernist visions in a post-futuristic, atemporal age, has become the prime method in the art of Mark Fridvalszki. After the uncanny sediments of Cold War aesthetics, visionary yet threatening intersections of deep past and deep future from speculative geology to post-apocalyptic "haggard geometry" that defined the first decade of his work, this archeo-futurological impulse has brought a 180-degree turn: paranoia has been replaced by utopia, claustrophobic bunker-existence expanded into vertiginous virtual perspectives, grayscale imagery gave way to a psychedelic palette, future-fears turned into future-fascinations. The meta-collages, composed of visual materials of two distinct but in many ways parallel futuristic periods – the years around 1968 as the culmination point of "Popular Modernism" and the years of 1989 with a special emphasis on the Rave movement's struggle against the neoliberal invasion of cultural and political imagination – are the sensual results of a seemingly paradox strategy of digging up the past in search of the future, unearthing the still potent utopian impulses repressed by the antimodern consensus. Fuelled by a nostalgia for the future, what Fridvalszki creates are artistic devices for a spectropolitical strategy to summon the exorcised ghosts of Modernity in order to break through the temporal claustrophobia of our presentist age. |
Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács |
Education: |
2014 – 2017 Meisterschüler, postgraduate studies at Academy for Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB), Media Arts 2011 Diploma with distinction at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2008 – 2011 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Graphic Arts and Printmaking 2004 – 2008 University of Applied Arts Vienna, Graphic Arts and Printmaking |
Membership: |
Since 2019 Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK), Berlin Since 2009 Membership of the Studio of Young Artist Association (FKSE), Budapest |
Collective: |
Since 2014 Technologie und das Unheimliche (T+U) |
Solo shows, projects (selection): |
2022 Works 21–22, Horizont Gallery, Budapest 2022 A World Without Any Future?, Statement no. 16 w/ Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, A 2021 Ad Futura, Ad Inexplorata, ISBN books+gallery, Budapest 2021 Forward and Up!, intervention in public space, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin 2020 Future Perfect, Institute of Contemporary Art Dunaújváros, ICA-D, H 2020 Escape to Forever, Gallery TIC, Brno, CZ 2020 Homeless Between Yestermorrows, Horizont Gallery, Budapest 2019 Duo presentation at Miart, w/ Horizont Gallery, Milano 2019 An Out of this World Event IV., Horizont Gallery, Budapest 2019 An Out of this World Event III., Karlin Studios, Prague 2018 Solo presentation at Paris Internationale, w/ Horizont Gallery, Paris 2018 An Out of this World Event II., LLPlatform, Budapest 2017 Material Study (Sonic), feat. Sam Conran, Super+ Centercourt, München 2017 Take Me Back, feat. János Iván Kárpáti, Artkartell Projectspace, Budapest 2017 9,81, Art+Text Gallery, Budapest 2016 Dream, Relax & Dream, w/ Simon Elias Meier, Speculative Spaces, Leipzig 2016 APPARATVS, w/ Aleksandr Delev, The Museum, Leipzig 2016 New, Grey, Polished Chrome, Chimera-Project Gallery, Budapest 2016 Marshalling Inc., operated by T+U, Zönotéka, Berlin 2015 Only Ruins Left, HIT Gallery, Bratislava 2015 T+U vol. III. Enigma, Booklet Launch & Show, Project Space Akademie Solitude, Stuttgart 2014 Please mother, can't we go some place where there isn't any sky?, Labor, Budapest |
Group shows, projects (selection): |
2021 Shortlist at Esterházy Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest 2021 Iskra Delta, 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, MGLC, Ljubljana 2021 Gdańsk 2080. Futurological Congress, Narracje Festival #12, Gdańsk, PL 2021 Peaks, Pics and Other Inconsistencies, Galéria P. M. Bohúňa, Liptovský Mikuláš, SK 2021 Man in the Cave, Blansko Gallery, Blansko, CZ 2020 Flagge zeigen, interventions in public space, Storkow, DE 2020 Leaning on the Past, Working for the Future, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna 2020 Close Friends, B2 Gallery, Leipzig 2020 The World Is Flat and Square, Raum Vollreinigung, Berlin 2019 Shortlist at Esterházy Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest 2019 Conditio Inhumana, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest 2018 Global Control and Censorship, operated by T+U, MODEM, Debrecen, H 2018 Reading the Cities, outdoor sculpture project around Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz, Leipzig 2018 If you are manipulated, manipulate back!, Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam, DE 2018 Where Do We Go From Here, Galerie Miroslava Kubíka, Litomyšl, CZ 2018 :-(, D21 Kunstverein, Leipzig 2018 DOME, Zeiss-Grossplanetarium, Berlin 2017 Rosebuds - Hidden Stories of Things, D21 Kunstverein, Leipzig 2017 Shortlist at Esterházy Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest 2017 Leopold Blood Art Award 2017, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest 2017 The Pit and the Pendulum, OFF-Biennale II., 2017, Pécs, H 2017 Unseen, Chimera-Project Gallery, Budapest 2017 Vienna Contemporary w/ Chimera-Project Gallery, Vienna 2016 Interference, Trafó Gallery, Budapest 2016 Neuro Gym - Reality Research Festival 2k16, organised by Kitchen Budapest, Budapest 2016 Solstice, Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest 2016 INTERMARIUM, BWA Sokół Gallery, Nowy Sącz, PL 2016 Vienna Contemporary w/ Chimera-Project Gallery, Vienna 2016 The Portent of Light, Gallery Meetfatory, Prague 2016 Volkshymne, Gallery Nod, Prague 2015 Shortlist at Esterházy Award, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest 2015 Inverz, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest 2015 Bewahren Speichern Präsentieren, Lage Egal, Berlin 2015 Insecurity State by T+U & Corporation, OFF-Biennale I., Lärm Club, Budapest 2015 Enigma, Mzin, Leipzig 2015 Accumulation of Matter, Lehrter 17, Berlin 2015 Around Analogies, w/ T+U, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 2014 The Thunder Lizard Was Never Extinct, Zönotéka, Berlin 2014 Pensive Pictures, Goodbye!, Higgs Field, Budapest 2013 My Little Cloud, Dovin Gallery, Budapest 2013 Gemischter Satz, NÖ Dokumentationszentrum für Moderne Kunst, St.Pölten, A 2012 The Stars Look Different Today, Dovin Gallery, Budapest 2012 SEJT, MODEM, Debrecen, H 2012 Isolation, w/ Peter Lowas, Senatsreservenspeicher, Berlin 2012 LOOP, Virág Judit Gallery, Budapest 2012 Lichenisierung, Moe, Vienna 2011 Friss 2011, Kogart Gallery, Budapest 2011 Budapest Áramlás, Virág Judit Gallery, Budapest 2011 Papír Panoráma, Virág Judit Gallery, Budapest |
Awards, prizes: |
2022 Working scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Neustart Kultur 2021 Nomination for Esterházy Award, Budapest 2019 Nomination for Esterházy Award, Budapest 2018 Working scholarship, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (KdFS) 2017 Nomination for Leopold Bloom Art Award, Budapest 2015 Nomination for Works.io Artist of Year 2009 Nomination for Walter Koschatzky Kunstpreis, Vienna 2007 Vivatis Holding Award, Vienna 2007 Stiegl Award, Vienna |
AiR, projects: |
2019 Futura, AiR, Prague 2018 7th Sympozium Litomyšl, curated by Jan Zálešák, Litomyšl, CZ 2018 The Last Amazonian Congress, curated by Lucia Tkáčová, Polana Forest, SK 2018 Schafhof, AiR, Freising, DE 2018 Ebenböckhaus, AiR, München 2015 Meetfactory, AiR, Prague 2014 Igor Metropol, AiR, Budapest |
Bibliography (selection): |
Kajet Journal 5, On the Future, featuring images, thematic cultural journal, 2022 Kajet Journal, The Future of, featuring images, thematic cultural journal, 2022 Flóra Barkóczi, Utópista „deejaying“ a posztinternet kultúrában, critique, Artportal, online art magazine, 2022 Łukasz Białkowski, Wesoły śpiew technoszamanów, critique, featuring image, Szum Magazine, PL, 2022 Ármin Tillmann, A többlettudat öröme, critique, Artportal, online art magazine, 2022 Endre Cserna, 68 89 21–22 420, critique, Artmagazin, online art magazine, 2022 Utca & Karrier 06, Phoenix, featuring images, thematic cultural magazine, 2022 Iskra Delta, 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, catalogue, 2021 Bertalan Eged, Esztétikus kísértetidézés, avagy bozótharc Mark Fisher sötét erdejében, Apokrif, literary magazine, 2021/3 Király Péter, A jövőbe tekinteni, a jelenben élni, a múltban keresni, critique, Prae, online cultural journal, 2021 Attila Sirbik, Szellemek utáni áhitat, interview, Magyar Narancs, weekly political-cultural journal, 2021/12 Maximilian Wahlich, Poppige Kunst fürs cleane Foyer, critique, rt-in-berlin, online art magazine, 2021 Bea Istvánkó, Tökéletes formák, tökéletes vonalak, critique, Új Művészet, art magazine, 2021/02 Free Berlin by Errant Bodies Press, featuring image, thematic newspaper, 2021 Zemlényi-Kovács Barnabás, A hantológia hontalansága, critique, Café Bábel 81: Techno, thematic essay journal, 2020 Utca & Karrier 05, Gold, featuring images, cultural magazine, 2020 Balkon, Inside Express, featuring images, art magazine, 2020/06 Attila Sirbik, Szövevényes mindmap, critique, Új Művészet, art magazine, 2020/06 Tayler Patrick Nicholas, A múltra támaszkodva dolgozni a jövőért, critique, Új Művészet, art magazine, online, 2020 Attila Sirbik, A jelen mint a víz felszínén remegő, gradiensekben pompázó 4K olajfolt, critique, Új Művészet, art magazine, online, 2020 János Schneller, Talán csak nosztalgia…, critique, Új Művészet, art magazine, online, 2020 Memory and Longing – Hungarian and Romanian Art from Gábor Hunya's Collection, catalogue, 2019 Utca & Karrier 04, Flames, featuring images, cultural magazine, 2019 Sympozium Litomyšl 07, Where Do We Go from Here, catalogue, 2019 The Hub 01 by Marko Gutić Mižimakov, featuring images, cultural magazine, 2019 Attila Sirbik, Deep time – Retrográd mozgás, hibrid álláspont, critique, Új Művészet, art magazine, online, 2019 Balkon, Inside Express, featuring images, art magazine, 2018/04 D21 Kunstverein, Rosebuds: Hidden Stories of Things, catalogue, 2018 Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, Otherworldly Euphorias, critique, Artmagazin, online art magazine, 2018 Műértő, featuring images via tranzit.org, art magazine, 2018/06 Am Strand 02, Endlich Wolken, featuring images, cultural magazine, 2018 Leopold Bloom Art Award, catalogue, 2017 Márió Z. Nemes, Futurum Perfectum, critique, Artkartell, online art magazine, 2017 Róza Tekla Szilágyi, A technorégész, critique, Artkartell, online art magazine, 2017 Eszter Márkus, Y-generációs absztraktok, critique, Artportal, online art magazine, 2016 Márió Z. Nemes, The Simulacrum Bleeds Matter, critique, Artlocator, art magazin, 2016/03 Balkon, Inside Express, featuring images, art magazine, 2016/09 Gallery of Contemporary Art BWA SOKÓŁ, Intermarium, catalogue, 2016 Attila Sirbik, Totális most, critique, Artmagazin, art magazine, 2016/04 J.A. Tillmann, A légószürke szépsége, critique, Prae, online art magazine, online, 2016 Szilvia Fekete, A polírozott króm ötven árnyalata, critique, Élet és Irodalom, cultural magazine, 2016/14 Attila Sirbik, Beszélgetés Fridvalszki Márkkal, interview, Balkon, art magazine, 2016/01 Hajnal Szolga, Belülről túlhajtva. A T+U projektje Berlinben, critique, Artportal, online art magazine, 2015 T+U blog takeover, Litera, online cultural magazine, 2015 Szilvi Német, Totális most, critique, Artportal, online art magazine, 2014 Balkon, Inside Express, featuring images, art magazine, 2013/07-08 Emese Mucsi, The Stars Look Different Today, critique, Balkon, art magazine, 2013/01 Esterházy Art Prize, catalogue, 2011 24th Triennial Exhibition of Graphic Art Miskolc, catalogue, 2008 |
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