Contemporary photography

Awards

2014 Budapest, winning the INSIDER-award, launched by Balkon contemporary art magazine for the first time

2011 Winning the opportunity to make an exhibition at the Nessim Gallery within the frame of ‘Átlátás’ talent development project, organized by Studio of Young Photographers for the first time

2008 Germany, Cologne, Epson Art Photo Award ’07 – winner, member of the “best class” (Jury: Andreas Gursky and Thomas Weski)

2007 Budapest, ‘Füst-szív’ – winning the award jointly with István Illés, the most valuable social message category at the @RC video competition

Mind over matter 01, 02 – 2008 – giclée print – Exhibition size: 70×46 cm.

Our relationship with nature and with ourselves has been at the centre of my interest for a long time, especially since we have lost our awareness of the given topic.

Parallel dimension 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 – 2009 – giclée print – Exhibition size: 70×46 cm.

Imaginations and images of dreams about a world where I wish to go.

nude 01, 02, 03 – 2009 – giclée print – Exhibition size: 70×46 cm

Series number: 5

Under the nude headline, I did not want to directly do photo shooting of intimate parts of the body. I was interested in the body as a self-operating system.

Privacy– 2009 – giclée print – Exhibition size: 70×46 cm.

MOME Diploma Thesis: Ideal – 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 – 2011 – giclée print

Exhibition size: 46 × 70 cm. Installation: black drying tweezers.

The photos portray Roma men in different male characters. In these photos, they personalize the usual expected qualities of males in our contemporary culture, such as the macho, the sensitive, the beautiful boy, etc. Despite their origin, I wanted to give them a chance to present themselves, because they rarely have the opportunity to appear in the portrayed roles in the actual social relations.

Supervisor: Gábor Arion Kudász; Consultant: Miklós Gulyás; Opponent: András Szilágyi

Intimate – 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 – 2011 – giclée print

Exhibition Size: 70 cm wide copy in 100 cm wide black passepartout with black frame.

Series number: 5.

The series has won an exhibition site at the Nessim Gallery, organized by the Studio of Young Photographers.

The photos of my series try to describe the strong and intimate relationship between two people, which has its own mutual interdependence and there is a complete exclusion of the outside world. The photos attempt to visualize intimacy within a relationship. I took the pictures with Roma men in my real home at that time. In order to portray their everyday being, I aimed to visually overshadow and hide their origin.

Gábor Fiala –Viola Kaulics (2013)

The series prepared for the exhibition of ‘Subjective History’ at Design Terminal:

The Tool

The photos of this series present portraits of the tools that could have direct or indirect influence on humanity, its history, personal destinies and life paths in the 20th century.
It can be a Soviet made PPS machine gun, which caused the death for anonymous people marching to war, or it can be a typewriter on the desk of János Kádár, or it can be other usage items and tools. We do not have an opinion on the “complicity” of these presented tools, rather the pictures naturally present their often worn out, depreciated form.
We do not know how much these objects tell about themselves, about their owners, whether they tell us any extra information about our history at all. Although, their personal legends highlight them and they have privileged importance in comparison with other simple and everyday tools. Their presence becomes a subjective reality and they can generate subjective emotions in our souls.

The choice of the technique itself, namely wet-plate collodion photography, gives an extra dimension for the viewers, thus assuring the presentation of these tools in a specific depiction that reflects the time of its production.

Our series is based on research. We have contacted many museums and individual collectors. However, licensing is a time consuming process and contributions were only partially implemented, or the photographed tool was not included into the final 4 photos of the fine art aspect. All the contacted institutions (Holocaust Memorial Center, Military History Institute and Museum, National Museum, Hungarian Natural History Museum, House of Terror Museum, etc.) were cooperative and helpful.

Purification (2014), part

The Inside express section of the Balkon contemporary art magazine introduces two young contemporary artists in every month from the Studio of Young Artists‘ Association.

The INSIDER Prize, founded by the Balkon, was firstly won by Viola Kaulics, Viktor Kótun and Csaba Szentesi in 2014.
As part of this event, the photos were exhibited in the Budapest Gallery.

Bow, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11 ,12

2016-2018, giclée print, 75×70 cm.

Series number: 3

On my pictures, I portray women with bow as an attribute of compliance requirement with femininity and social expectations. It is often a feature of “being beautiful” regardless of age. I use this bow of femininity on body parts, like mouth or eyes, thus visualizing face and self-expression.

Kapcsolat / ajánlatkérés

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