Winner
Ilona Németh
The Oskár Čepan Award
Archive
9. 7. 1998
Ilona Németh
CV
*1963 Dunajská Streda, SK
EDUCATION: 2014 – Professor, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava; 2007 – Docent, habilitation at Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem / Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest; 2006 – DLA, Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem / Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest 2003/2000 – DLA master’s course, Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem / Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest 1986/1981– Magyar Iparművészeti Főiskola Typo – grafika és könyvművészet szak/ Hungarian College of Applied Art, Department of Typography and Typographic Art, Budapest
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 1997 – Úton / On the Way (Bartusz, György), At Home Gallery, Šamorín; Personal Gynecological Surgery, Múzeum Vojtecha Löfflera, Košice; Magánrendelő / Private Gynecological Surgery, Fiatal Képzőművészek Stúdiója – Stúdió Galéria, Budapest; Söpörjük be a szőnyeg alá – Padló II. / Let´s Sweep it Under the Carpet – The Floor II, Gallery by Night (Deli, Ágnes), Fiatal; Képzőművészek Stúdiója – Stúdió Galéria, Budapest; 1996 – Feküdj rá! / Lay down!, At Home Gallery , Šamorín; Az út / The Way, At Home Gallery, Šamorín; Nádas installáció / The Reed Installation, Bartók 32 Galéria, Budapest; Labirintus / Labyrinth, Galéria Jána Koniarka – Synagóga (Centrum súčasného umenia), Trnava; 1995 – Vesszőfutás / Running the Guantlet, Vízpróba II. / Water Ordeal II, Óbudai Társaskör Galéria, Budapest; 1993 – Az én palettám / My Palette, Maďařské kulturní centrum, Praha; 1990 – Poznámky z labyrintu, Galéria Cypriána Majerníka, Bratislava..
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 1997 – Dialogues IV, Galerie U bílého jednorožce, Klatovy; Between Man and Women, Museum of Art, Žilina; Priestor / Space, Galéria Sýpka, Osová Bytíška; átHIDalás / BRIDGing, Mária Valéria híd / Brigde of Maria Valeria, Esztergom – Štúrovo; Cherchez la Femme 2, Szombathelyi Galéria, Szombathely; Gallery by Slide, Bartók 32 Galéria, Budapest; 1996 – Dawn of the Magician? Národní galerie–Veletržní palác, Praha; ´96 Nine Dragon Heads, International Festival of Environmental Art, Chongju National Museum, Taechong-Lake, South Korea; Interior versus Exterior or On / the Border of (possible) Worlds, Cosmos a.s, SCCA, Bratislava; Bábel, Synagoga na Palmovce, Praha; The Paradigm of Women, Museum of Art, Žilina; Sen o múzeu? Umenie 90. rokov. Oravská galéria, Dolný Kubín; Sen o múzeu? Umenie 90. rokov, House of Art, Bratislava; 1995 – Sen o múzeu? Umenie 90. rokov, Museum of Art, Žilina; Imaginace bolesti, Synagoga na Palmovce, Praha; Pars pro toto, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava; 1994 – Marginalia, Museum of Art, Žilina; EUROPE ´94, Junge Kunst aus Europa, Galerie M.O.C., München; 1993 – Transart Communication 2. Stúdió erté, Nové Zámky; Priestor ´93, Spa Island, Piešťany; Šedá cihla 34/93, Zámok Klenová, Klatovy; 1992 – Objekty a inštalácie, Museum of Art, Žilina; Súhry ´92, House of Art, Bratislava; Transart Communication 1. Stúdió erté, Nové Zámky; 6+6, Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava; 1991 – Ifjú szlovákiai magyar képzőművészek, Budapest Galéria, Budapest; 1990 – Cseh-szlovákiai Magyar Képzőművészek Társasága – Csoportos kiállítás, Duna Menti Múzeum , Komárno; 1989 – Kontaktus, Tölgyfa Galéria, Budapest; 1988 – Výtvarné hody, Čuňovo..
AWARDS, ARTIST RESIDENCES & FESTIVALS: 1998 – The 1998 Slovak Visual Arts Prize, The Foundation for a Civil Society, Bratislava; Open Europe Prize, Foundation of Sándor Márai, Bratislava; The award of the Association of Hungarian Artists in Slovakia, Dunajská Streda;
1998 – The Pollock – Krasner Foundation Foundation, New York; Kultur Kontakt Austria, Wien..
Statement
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Curatorial statement
lona Németh (1963, Dunajská Streda) is a multimedia visual artist, activist, curator, and professor whose activities resonate far beyond the borders of her native country. She studied typography and typographic art at the Hungarian College of Applied Artsin Budapest, graduating in 1986. She co-founded the Erté STUDIO in Nové Zámky where multimedia art festivals took place in 1987–1997. Her 1990s oeuvre is characterized by objects and spatial installations reflecting female experience seen through feminist lens. A prominent part of her works is taken up by realizations in the public space. Her artistic practice is based on a search for balance between personal experience of the life in a country hit by hard political times and the universal history of the Eastern Bloc countries from the year 1990 until the present. She was the head of the IN Studio, and,in 2014 –2019 also of the Open Studio educational program at the Intermedia Department of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. She is currently working on the international exhibition and research project Eastern Sugar, supported by the Creative Europe program and based on the eponymous solo exhibition that took place in Bratislava’s Kunsthalle in 2018. She won the Oskár Čepan Award in 1998 back when it was still known as the Young Slovak Visual Artist of the Year. She presented her work at the exhibition in Medium Gallery, together with the other finalists’ Marek Kvetan, Dorota Sadovská and Emöke Vargová.