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Sz.K. Berlin

Sz.K. Berlin, 2014
Projection of computer animation
Computer animation by Boris Vitázek

Location: Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, Germany
Photos by artist

Dilema Project

Dilema Project, 2011
*Endnote, video (30′)

Location: Ernst Museum Budapest
Photos by Endre Koronczi
Video by Endre Koronczi, Erik Mátrai
Editing byEndre Koronczi, Dóra Rudas-Hushegyi
Production by Kunsthalle / Műcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary

Endre Koronczi – Indisposition, video (8’30”)

“One of the dictionary definitions of “dilemma” describes it as “a situation necessitating a choice between two equal, especially equally undesirable, alternatives”. Németh had intended to turn the whole building of the Ernst Museum into a massive installation, yet the further she progressed the less she could identify with her own idea. She eventually changed her plans and the concept of the exhibition. It now aims to illustrate artists’ struggles with their own consciences, hence the title Dilemma. […] Dilemma provides plenty of material for debate. The exhibition is “accompanied” by two videos, in which the artist delivers a monologue about her work and her ideas. In fact the exhibition per se consists of a closed, empty room.” (Budapest Times)

Námestie Slobody Project

Tornado, 2011
Fog, 2011
Public art concept
Location: Freedom Square / Námestie Slobody, Bratislava, Slovakia
Organized by Public Plinth / Verejný Postavec, Bratislava
Visualisation by Martin Kochan

“While thinking about project for Freedom Square I was aware how overburdened with various layers of both past and present it is. Bohunka Koklesová wrote about the history of this place: „The square became a place, where the politics turned itself into rituals and falsely declared a vision of better tomorrows.“ With the political statements came along various props attuned to the visuality
of its moment in history.

I decided for a different approach:

Floating Gardens, Budapest

Floating Gardens, Budapest, 2011
Object in public space

300 x 400 x 90 cm (2 pieces)
Polypropylene (PP) objects, plants, natural materials
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, City Park Lake, Budapest, Hungary

For rent – 2 small gardens that need tending – each garden is fully planted and 12 square meters in area – on the City Park Lake between 22 May 2011 and 4 September 2011. Applications may be made before 1 April 2011 (e-mail address).

“Ilona Németh also pursues an environmental theme by making two floating ‘guerrilla’ gardens, which are to be tended by a pair of volunteer horticulturalists over the summer.” [translocal.org]

In cooperation with Marián Ravasz, architect, Zsolt Bankó, garden architect and Oázis kft., garden architects

Mirror, Pécs

Mirror, Pécs, 2010
Public art

535 x 788 cm
Mirrors, metal construction, hardboard
Location: Kossuth tér, Pécs, Hungary
Architect: Marián Ravasz
Photos by Marián Ravasz

Finding the Ideal Place for a Statue

Finding the Ideal Place for a Statue, 2010
Public art, performance
Location: Transart Communication – Public Dialog, Komárno / Komárom, Slovakia
Photos by Marián Ravasz

NZ Public Art

NZ Public Art, 2010
In cooperation with: Szilvia Németh, sociologist
Public art

150 x 100 cm
32 metal signs
Metal plates, reflective adhesive foils
Location: Nové Zámky, Slovakia
Photos by József R. Juhász

Mirror, Győr

Mirror, Győr, 2009
Public art

535 x 788 cm
Mirrors, metal construction, hardboard
Location: Honvéd Liget, Győr, Hungary
Architect: Marián Ravasz
Photos by Marián Ravasz

“In 2009 Ilona Németh, an artist of Hungarian origin living in Slovakia, declared in an interview that the question of nationalism was unavodaible. Being invited to participate in a countrywide public art project in Hungary, she installed a huge mirror next to the statue of a turul bird, erected in the main square of the Hungarian town of Győr in 1902.6 Because the mythical turul bird stands for the historical Hungary, and has become the symbol of ‘Great Hungary’ and all the mythologizing that come with it, it serves as the main symbol of extreme right-wing nationalists. With the help of the mirror, Németh made the inhabitants of the city aware of the changing message of public monuments in different political regimes, and directed attention to the tensions that are currently inherent in such symbols; she forces the passerby to confront these related problems.”

Edit András, Springerin

2014 – 2015: Private Nationalism PN CZ, SK, H, D, PL @ Praha, Košice, Pécs, Dresden, Krakow

Private Nationalism, 2014-2015
March 27 – April 30, 2014
Kunsthalle Košice, Slovakia
Curators: Ilona Németh, József R. Juhász, Michal Štofa

Other exhibitions: 21.2. – 15.3. 2014, Praha; 8.5. – 15.6. 2014, Pécs; 18.7. – 28.9. 2014, Dresden, 15.2. – 30. 3. 2015, Krakow
Curators: Lenka Klodová, Ivan Mečl, Ilona Németh, József R. Juhász, Michal Štofa, Rita Varga, Márton Pacsika, Nadine Bors, Andrea Hilger, Anna Lebensztejn, Lidia Krawczyk

On view by Ilona Németh: Retour (2013, with Jonathan Ravasz), and Zsófia Meller (2012), Middle of Europe (2014)
Photos by Boris Vajtovič (Kunsthalle Košice)

Diary

2013
Work in progress
59,4 x 84,1 cm
Paper, mixed media

Exhibition Room

Exhibition Room, 1998
The Floor IV.
Interactive multimedia installation

200 x 800 x 50 cm (1998), 150 x 600 x 40 cm (2005)
Wood, reflectors, electronics, sensors, light effects, mirror
The 2005 version is the property of the Galéria Jána Koniarka, Trnava
Photos by Mária Baloghová, Lajos Kalmár

“Exhibition Room is an interactive installation, in which the visitor who steps on the podium placed in the middle of the room gets into the spotlight for a minute, into the center of attention, thus crossing from the private to the public sphere. The visitor is perplexed by the suddenly initiated sound and light effects […] All the while, Matt Bianco’s lame hit is blaring from the reproductors, there’s clapping and colorful lights – apart from prompting self-examination, also reflects on the manipulative behavior of the media, the beauty- and entertainment industry, the false self-images inducated by them, the desires and exhibitionism.”

Krisztina Szipőcs

Handiwork, 2006
Lightbox, video

In cooperation with Csaba Czibula, Marián Ravasz

Donaumonarchie Project

Gyula Szabó, 2006
Middle of Europe, 2006

240 x 500 cm
Billboards
Photos by Marián Ravasz

“I was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, went to school in Czechoslovakia, married in Hungary, live in Slovakia. I have never moved out from my birthplace. Szabó Gyula

(Július Szabó, October 17, 1916 – February 15, 1995, Kližská Nemá)”