Mónika Üveges
Mónika Üveges graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2019 with a degree in painting, and in 2021 she got a degree as an art teacher at the same university. She is a co-founder of SKURC Art Association and artist-run gallery. In 2022 and 2024 she was awarded the Derkovits Gyula Derkovits Art Scholarship.Her art is defined by the crossing of media. The merging of painting and sculpture results in objects that draw in their formal world from both designer objects and posthuman theories. She uses her various series with a feminine-toned melancholy cyclically releasing it in the form of rebirth following destruction.
INTERNATIONAL APPEARANCES AND AWARDS
Awards:
- 2024 _ Gyula Derkovits Art prize
- 2022 _ Gyula Derkovits Art prize
- 2020 _ Kahan Eva Foundation, Scholarship
Solo exhibitions:
- 2024 _ Skeletal Scenes, am projects, Budapest
- 2024 _ METABIOSIS, Szerkesztőség, Budapest
- 2023 _ Bouquet of, Cairo Contemporary, Budapest
- 2022 _ Melting Fire, Fest;Tisztít Gallery, Budapest
- 2022 _ skin deep, with Levente Radvánszki, NACO Gallery, Budapest
- 2021 _ VISCOSITY, Foton Gallery,Budapest
- 2020 _ HYPEROBJECT, Kahan Art Space, Budapest
ABOUT THE EXHIBITED OBJECT
Skeletal Scenes I. (Year)
The merging of painting and sculpture results in objects that draw in their formal world from both designer objects and posthuman theories. The skinlike slices of tulle are sensuously peeling off their chrome frames, reminiscent of the space age, as if the different pieces are layered in dramatic scenes, only to reveal the skeleton that sustains them as they decay, simultaneously questioning the anatomy of the human body and the autonomy of art.
