Eszter Szabo

Eszter Szabó, born in Hungary lives and works in Budapest. Her art explores two main areas: painting and video. Her 2D and 3D video-animations are based on her paintings which are water color on latex or oil on wood. She has her MA from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. She finished her post graduate studies at Le Fresnoy, in France. She took part in several workshops, study visits, in Salzburg Summer Acdemy with Shirin Neshat, Erasmus Scholarship in Le Mans (FR) in, and she also took part in residencies in Paris-Montrouge; trough JCE, and in Bielefeld with Artist Unlimited, (GER), New York, Brooklyn at Triangle Arts. She has had several solo exhibitions, including in Taiss Galerie, Paris, in Videopsace Gallery, Budapest; in Jozsa Gallery in Bruxelles and in Artists Unlimited Gallery in Bielefeld. She is also taking part in numerous group shows and art fairs different countires. (I.e.: New York, Indianapolis, Barcelona, Berlin, London, Paris, Rome/, Brussels, Klaipeda, Bratislava, Salzburg, Eisenstadt, Östersund) Her works are mostly small paintings and video animations that explore different aspects of everyday situations. She researches manifestations and the origins of public opinion. Vulnerability, inertia, weariness, unconcern is a general theme that returns in her work within different contexts.

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