Júlia Vécsei has been working with various types of media. But her interests first turned to new media, more exactly computer-based flash-video. Vécsei’s work in the early 2000’s often responded to everyday topics of urban life. Closely combined works of her are the Juligraph an online flash project, where you can rearrange the surroundings of the artist like you were playing with a dollhouse. Júlia Vécsei’s video and computer-based animations used to respond to the phenomenon of globalism, fondly using maps, and economical terminology together with random-generated situations. One of her first solo-shows wore the name „Capitalisation” reproducating a map of Budapest (the hungarian capital) with the typography of the word „capitalisation” itself.
Her video-animation and affinity to drawing escalates and combines in the work entitled „with the same scale” created in 2008. The artist draws exact maps of european states from the same amount of graphite dust and blows them away, as an allegory of unity and borderlessness.
Vécsei has been recently busy with the techniques of aquarelle and drawing as well. Her works – finely positioned between the registers of the sensual and of the concept – are articulating very personal and intimate stories, with a great affinity to combine aphorisme-like text in the manner of visual representation of zen-buddhism. The black and white drawings and the bit more colorfull aquarelles contain the minimal visual inputs what this kind of paper-based conceptualism needs. The works are not that humorous like what would be usual for her generation dealing with the same techniques, but because of this are tending to be more precise.
She’s combining aquarelles with different forms of installation art in her work „It has been cut somewhere” where she recycled an intimate story into a horror-installation. Her neighbour cut the tree which was planted at her birth in order to have a bigger panorama. She took this private experience and transformed it to an allegory of rootlessness, exhibiting bleeding pieces of a tree cast out of elastic silicon.
Júlia Vécsei since 2007 published 9 issues of her independent limited edition fanzine called „drawing paper” which is dedicated to drawing. The fanzines contain drawings of single artists or groups working together, without any text, thus enabling the zine to become an artwork itself without bearing the traces of journalism.
Áron Fenyvesi
EXHIBITIONS
BIOGRAPHY
STUDIES AND ACTIVITIES
2001 –
Member of the Studio of Young Artists Association
2006 – 2020
Editor and founder of klorofill, an independent publisher (rajzlap / Drawing-paper, készlet / Set, Spot)
1999 – 2020
klorofill (Art Company)
2012 –
Innen Zines, coordination
2008 – 2010
Member of the Gallery committee, Labor
2007 – 2010
Head of the Studio of Young Artists Association
2006 – 2010
Board member of the Studio of Young Artists Association
2002 – 2004
Hungarian Academy of Crafts and Design, Budapest, Management Institute, Art Manager Faculty
2001 – 2001
Diploma examination Media Art (MA)
1996 – 2001
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Intermedia Department
1991 – 1995
School of Fine Art and Design, Budapest, Department of Photography
PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS, WORKSHOPS
2021 –
Artists’ Colony, Ferenczy Múzeumi Centrum, Barcsay Múzeum, Szentendre (HU)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Winterreise (with Zsolt Tibor), Budapest Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2018
Presence, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
2016
Reality Exercises, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
Open Studio, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart (GER)
2015
The Promise, OFF-Biennale Budapest, OFFice, Budapest (HU)
2014
Swing Existence, Paksi Képtár, Paks (HU)
2013
Down on the Square, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
With Measure, Liget Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2011
Proof, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
2010
Die Korrektur, Ateliers Höherweg, Düsseldorf (GER)
Cube mute, vierwände kunst festival, Ateliers Höherweg, Düsseldorf (GER)
Aftermath, Dinamika Gallery, Pécs (HU)
Cube mute (with M. Esterhazy, J. Fodor), Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf (GER)
Particles, (with Kamilla Szíj), Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
2008
Open Studio, Paperman, Karlín Studios, guest studio, Prague (CZ)
2007
measure, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
Somewhere it had been cut, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Reconstruction, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Bratislava (SK)
2005
CAPITALIZATION, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2002
Anne Brégeaut, Júlia Vécsei, Espace culturel les Dominicaines, Pont-l’Eveque (FR)
Don’t help me, C3 Gallery, Budapest (HU)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Winter Listing, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Contemporary Hungarian Graphic Exhibition, 11th International Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Arts - online exhibition
Delineo Ergo Cogito, Vasarely Museum, Budapest (HU)
2020
Finally We Can Learn Something, Kincsem Palace (organised by Kisterem), BudapestWinter Listing, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Köztes hely - a valóság és a psziché között, Selection of Paper Works from
Private Collections, Gallery Weekend Budapest Pop-up Exhibition, Société,
Budapest (HU)
Luppart x Unicef, Brody House, Budapest (HU)
2018
Salon, Exhibition of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Barcsay Hall, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (HU)
2017
Action&Painting, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen (GER)
The Formula of the Present, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, A Media
Art and Media History exhibition by C³ Foundation, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Listing VI, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (AT)
2016
Solstice, Panel Contemporary, Zsófi Faur Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Listing V, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
Line, Latarka Gallery, Budapest (HU)
What Kind of Creature is an Artist?, The 2016 Traditional Annual Exhibition of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest (HU)
38 Women, VII. Sándor Péterfy street 42, Budapest (HU)
2015
Patron, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Esterhazy Award 2015, National Museum, Budapest (HU)
The Lake of Memory, Budapest Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Playground, Macar Kültür Merkezi, Istanbul (TR)
The Lake of Memory, Pegazus, Szentbékkálla (HU)
Listing IV, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
Eat Art Masterclass 2, Food And Memory, Tradition, OFF-Biennale Budapest, Budapest (HU)
Klorofill Night, Independent Contemporary Art Scene in New York, Screening and Talk, Book Launch, OFF-Biennale Budapest, Lumen, Budapest (HU)
AIR - Sri Lanka / Hungary, Artists in Residence 2013/2014, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (AT)
Underline, Drawing Experiments, MAMÜ, Budapest (HU)
2014
Patron, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest (HU)
There is everything, Latarka, Platán Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Nykarleby recall – Coming Back, BOTHNIA BIENNALE 2014, Rådhusgalleriet, Nykarleby (FIN)
Domesticity V, Kayu, Bali (ID)
Listing III., Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
Pandamonium Preview // Interpixel, Media Art from Shanghai and Budapest, .CHB, Berlin (GER)
Open Studios, Triangle Arts Association, New York (US)
Call me on Sunday, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (AT)
Free-hand, Modem, Debrecen (HU)
2013
Gallery by Night, Typesetting, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Playground project, Stand Out Every Week, Contemporary Art in front of Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)
Listing 2013, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
4th Notes and Sketches meeting, Labor, Budapest (HU)
Do it (party), (with Kamilla Szíj), tranzit.hu, Budapest (HU)
My Little Cloud, Dovin Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Flash Art – Pop-up Art Exhibition, 8, Nagymező street, next to Ernst Museum, Budapest (HU)
2012
Patron, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Drawing.ok, Viltin Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Good Sign, Gallery by Night 2012, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Curators’ Network – Budapest / Critical Tinkering, portfolio-exhibition and presentations, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (HU)
Cell, Akvárium, Budapest (HU)
Cell, Modem, Debrecen (HU)
Cell, Cella Septichora, Pécs (HU)
Listing, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
Sans repères, Hungarian Institute, Paris (FR)
2011
Spicy Collection Selection, Hungarian Academy Rome. Rome (IT)
Background, Kisterem, Budapest (with J. Fodor, J. Sugár, Z. Szegedy-Maszák) (HU)
Exhibition of the artists shortlisted for the Leopold Bloom Art Award, Museum Kiscell - Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Speaks for itself, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Grafitri XXV, Mimetic machineries, Miskolci Gallery, Miskolc (HU)
3rd Notes and Sketches meeting, Labor, Budapest (HU)
Videa - Contemporary Women Video Art, Miskolci Gallery / M.ICA, Miskolc (HU)
2010
Drawing?, Exhibition House of the Budapest Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Liberation Formula II., donumenta 2010–Ungarn, Kunstforum, Regensburg (GER)
Ano_Lino 2010, Banská Stanica, Banská Stiavnica (SK)
Hablegény improvizációk – Hungarian Lettre Internationale event, Labor, Budapest (HU)
2nd Notes and Sketches meeting, Labor, Budapest (HU)
Contemporary drawing Košice-Prague-Budapest, Labor, Budapest (HU)
2009
Trieste Contemporanea, videospritz #4, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste (IT)
3rd Biennial of Quadrilateral - Angles and Intersections, International exhibition of new media art, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (HR)
Contemporary drawing Košice-Prague-Budapest, VICE gallery, Prague (CZ)
Contemporary drawing Košice-Prague-Budapest, Kasárne Kulturpark, Košice (SK)
Derkovits scholars, Ernst Museum, Budapest (HU)
Crosstalk, video art festival, Gödör Klub, Budapest (HU)
Paper Base, Irokéz Gallery, Szombathely (HU)
Notes and Sketches meeting, Labor, Budapest (HU)
Images Festival, Toronto (CA)
Nothing but AiR, Konsthalle, Vaasa (FIN)
2008
Move on, Futura - Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (CZ)
Indoor and Outdoor, Kisterem, Budapest (HU) (with János Fodor, Barbara Follard and student of the Space Diversion Work Group, organised by Antal Lakner)
Founded houses, Volksbank Gallery, Székesfehérvár (HU) (with Eike, Tibor Horváth, Gyula Várnai)
Derkovits scholars, Ernst Museum, Budapest (HU)
partition_, Modem, Debrecen (HU)
6éme Festival Signes de Nuit, Selection de la Video Art hongroise, Fondation Suisse, Cité Universitaire, Paris (FR)
without borders 4., Limes Gallery, Komarno (SK)
2007
metro gallery 2007, Budapest (HU)
Horror – Gallery by Night 07, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HU)
net.art2 – AniMotion, House of Future, Pixel Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Click, House of Future, Budapest (HU)
Intermodem workshop, Modem, Debrecen (HU)
On Air, A show substituting tv program, Institute for Contemporary Arts – Dunaújváros (HU)
Derkovits scholars, Ernst Museum, Budapest (HU)
2006
Peng! raum für kunst, Mannheim (GER)
City. Image. Narration., Impex (Dinamo), Budapest (HU)
Notes and Sketches, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Ez nem diszkó, Hattyú House Contemporary Exhibition Space, Pécs (HU)
Portfolio all, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HU)
techno-d, Institute for Contemporary Arts – Dunaújváros (HU)
2005
Private Matter?, Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)
Snapshot. Media Arts / 2005, Intro Festival, Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)
Green Wind, A selection of Video and Photo works by Young Artists, Info-Stand, Budapest (HU)
Active Image, Media Art in Hungary, NCCA, Moscow (RUS)
Gallery by Night 2005, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2005 Space Art, Media Art installations at the Millenaris, Budapest (HU)
2004
Game, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2003
Aura, After the Age of Technical Reproduction, media art exhibition, Millenaris, Budapest (HU)
Inelastic Collision, Institute for Contemporary Arts – Dunaújváros (HU)
2002
Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Dordrecht (NL)
Art Primeur 2002, Dordrecht (NL)
Systematica, SAIC, Chicago (US)
2001
Medi@terra 01. De-Globalizing/Re-Globalizing, mikroMuseum, Athen, Lavrion (GR), Sofia (BG), Belgrade (RS), Maribor (SLO), Osnabrueck, Frankfurt (GER)
“Je regretterais beaucoup si tu pensais que tu ne reçois ce à quoi tu as droit…”, FRAC, Basse-Normandie, Caen (FR)
Virose.pt
Diploma Exhibition, Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, 2001: science + fiction, Media Art Festival of the C3 Foundation, Barcsay Hall, Budapest (HU)
2000
Aritmia 2000, Institute for Contemporary Arts – Dunaújváros (HU)
Intermedia Symposion, Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)
Sony's Heart, Young artists online, Berlin (GER)
Intermedia/khm, Exhibition due to 10th anniversary of the Academy of Media Arts, Overstolzenhouse, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (GER)
Intermedia Inductive Point of Junction, Galeria Medium, Bratislava (SK)
1999
Intermedia Inductive Point of Junction, P60 Gallery, Budapest (HU)
“Kunst der neunziger Jahre in Ungarn”, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (GER)
Alibi Fashion, Trafo, House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest (HU)
Chromatic Etude, Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)
1998
Inter/Media/Art, Ernst Museum, Budapest (HU)
Staticnoise3Project, Dominican House, Pécs (HU)
Exposured World, I. National Week of Photography, Arts and Crafts Museum, Budapest (HU)
Internet Galaxis III., Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest (HU)
1997
Internet Galaxis II., Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (HU)
KLOROFILL (INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER) PROJECTS
rajzlap (Drawing-paper) (zine project)
2019
“If theory wouldn’t be enough”, Selection from the fanzine collection of Labor Gallery, ISBN Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2016-2018
Ukmukfukk Zinefest, Ankert, Budapest (HU)
2015
Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (GER)
Drawing-paper 16. IPUT, Basic Position
2014
Invisible Press, fanzine exhibition, Macar Kültür Merkezi, Istanbul, Turkey
The Screaming Mouse / Historical FANZINE Inventory, Higgs Field, Budapest
2013
MISS READ, The Berlin Art Book Fair, abc Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin
4th Independent Publishers and Zine Fair Vienna, Kunsthalle, Wien (AT)
2012
Világosan itt áll!, Exhibition of the Studio of Young Artists – 2012, ICA-D, Dunaújváros
Zine’s Mate, Tokyo Art Book Fair, Tokyo (JP)
3rd One Day Independent Small Publishers Fair, Kunsthalle, Wien (AT)
Cantieroteca Archivio del Cantiere, Careof, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (IT)
topo ! ©opy / The Shelf Library, DOK, Ghent (BEL)
2011
Unfree Freedom: An Exploration of Identity in Central Europe, Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago (USA)/p>
rajzlap 13 / 14 / 15 Gerhes Gábor / Svätopluk Mikyta (SK) / Szinyova Gergő, Labor,
Budapest
U-Fesztivál, Budapest
2010
Thanks for sharing!, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig (GER)
2009
rajzlap 12. Barnabás Vándor & Csaba Vándor, ahol bújtál onnan hunyok – hide and seek, Labor, Budapest
rajzlap 11. Dezső Szabó, Vintage Gallery, Budapest
rajzlap 10. Jan Serych, Beep Beep, Labor, Budapest
2008
rajzlap 9. János Sugár, Kisterem, Budapest
The Mechanics of the Canvas, Ernst Museum, Budapest
rajzlap 8. Société Réaliste, The Mechanics of the Canvas, Ernst Museum, Budapest
rajzlap 7. Eva Kotátková, The Mechanics of the Canvas, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Open Studio, Karlín Studios, residence studio, Prague (CZ)
rajzlap 6. Josef Bolf, Gallery G66, Brno (CZ)
Gallery_Tour, Leipzig (GER)
rajzlap 5. Tibor Horváth, Reaktor, Budapest
rajzlap 4. Judit Fischer, Reaktor, Budapest
2007
Studio Gallery, Budapest
Preview Berlin, Berlin (GER)
rajzlap 3. Miklós Mécs, Studio of Young Artists Association (FKSE), 3rd Atelier, Budapest
On Air, A show substituting tv program – Freeshop, Institute for Contemporary Arts – Dunaújváros
rajzlap 2. Beatrix Szörényi, Studio Gallery, Budapest
rajzlap 1. János Fodor, Kamikaze, KÉK, Budapest
Spot (zine project)
2019
“If theory wouldn’t be enough”, Selection from the fanzine collection of Labor Gallery, ISBN Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2016
Curated Tables by Peter Puklus at C/O Berlin Book Days, EMOP, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin (GER)
2016
FKSE.zip – Gallery by Night 2016, Mentés Másként, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2015
Klorofill Night, Independent Contemporary Art Scene in New York, Screening and Talk, OFF-Biennale Budapest, Lumen, Budapest (HU)
2008
Move on, Futura, Prague (CZ)
készlet (set) project
2015
Klorofill Night, Independent Contemporary Art Scene in New York, Screening
and Talk, OFF-Biennale Budapest, Lumen, Budapest
2007
Készlet 2. Miklós Surányi, Forma, Budapest
Készlet 1. Ádám Kokesch, Studio Gallery, Budapest
CATALOGUES AND ART BOOKS
Paperman, 2009, Kisterem
Spot Prague, 2008, Klorofill
Spot New York, 2015, Klorofill
HF (Homework), 2000 (with Adrian Kupcsik)
WW, 1999 (with Adrian Kupcsik)