The Wall 1.

The Wall 1., 1995
Site specific installation

240 x 120 x 1000 cm
Mudbricks
Location: Synagogue na Palmovce, Prague, Czech Republic
Photos by Petr Zhoř

Labyrinth

Labyrinth, 1996
Site specific installation

Diameter: 12 m
Sandbags
Location: Galéria Jána Koniarka, Trnava, Slovakia
Photos by Martin Marenčin

The Reed Installation

The Reed Installation, 1996
Site specific installation

260 x 600 x 1400 cm
Reed, wire, wire netting
Location: Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Technician: István Süke
Photos by Martin Marenčin

Middle of Europe

Middle of Europe, (2009-in progress)
Installation
Map, stone tablets
Dimension variable
Photos by Marián Ravasz

Middle of Europe, NYC/Brooklyn, 9.10.2009
Location: Alma on Dobbin Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Other locations:
Horažďovice (CZ), 3.6.2010; Moscow (RUS), 15.10.2010; Rome (ITA), 10.11.2010; Budapest (HU), 1.12.2010; Bratislava (SK), 29.6.2011

“The project Middles of Europe focuses on how statements thought to be exact and scientific in nature become relative in light of national identity. Centered around a map, it shows and ironically undermines the efforts of various nation states to “find” the geographic center of Europe on their own territory. While the geographic middle of Europe could theoretically be unambiguosly determited by science, at the moment nine European countries have got a monument demonstrating that the middle is in that particular country. It is always telling when and in what situation a country searches for and finds the center in itself. For example in 1992 Slovakia, exactly when it was getting ready for independency, erected such a monument in Kremnica hoping to testify that the new state is not a periphery, but rather a center. The map contains all the nine centers of Europe pinpointed on it, and also indicates when the claims were made.”

Sz.K., Rome

Sz.K., 2010
Installation

Stucco on wall
Location: VM21 Gallery, Rome
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 native village. Szabó Krisztina”

8 Men – Timea

8 Men – Timea, 2009
Video (15’14”)
Video, editing by Csaba Czibula

The video entitled 8 Men presents the peculiar history of part of her family. She attempts to reconstruct the tragic fate of the family in the past 25 years from the point of view of a woman named Tímea, her mother and her daughter. The location is Ekecs, a village in southern Slovakia, where her father originates from.

Zsófia Meller

Zsófia Meller, Košice, 2012
Interactive installation
Intelligent glass, foil, metal stand, electronics

Video: interview with Ágnes Heller (10’30”)
Video editing by Attila Hegyi, Dóra Rudas-Hushegyi
In cooperation with Marian Ravasz, architect
Location: Eastern Slovak Gallery Košice / Východoslovenská galéria, Slovakia
Photos by József Rosta


Zsófia Meller, Brno, 2012
Location: The Brno House of Art / Dům umění Brna, Brno, Czech Republic
Photos by József Rosta


Zsófia Meller, 2012
Interview with Ágnes Heller
Video (10’30”)

Grandstand 1.

Grandstand 1., 2012
“Greetings from Košice to Bruce Neumann”
Site specific installation
Steel construction, wood, seats

“Priestor Identity is the work of well–known Slovak artist Ilona Németh (1963), who brings a modern take on the connection of large historical changes and family stories at the Východoslovenská galéria Košice in Košice, which also reference the continuous interference of politics into culture. This is a public display of intimacy and the creation of a unique spatial identity in terms of individual, lineage and territorial identity. The author herself has systematically focused on objects, installations and new media. Priestor identity offers a unique presentation in the form of six videos, a series of photographs, objects and a central installation, created just for the non-exhibition part of the gallery’s premises in the ante-room of the historical wing. The exhibition is held within the context of the exhibition’s theme of the greater central European region.”

Location: Eastern Slovak Gallery Košice / Východoslovenská galéria, Košice, Slovakia
In cooperation with Lelátó Kft. Budapest
Photos by József Rosta

Grandstand 2.

Grandstand 2., 2012
“Greetings from Brno to Bruce Nauman”
Site specific installation
Steel construction, wood, seats

Location: The Brno House of Art, Brno, Czech Republic
In cooperation with Lelátó Kft. Budapest
Photos by József Rosta

River

River, 1996
Land art

Length: 60 m
Pigments, rocks
Location: Lake Taechong Park, South Korea
Photos by József R. Juhász

Sz.K., Warsaw

Sz.K., 2009
Installation

100 x 100 cm
Stucco on wall, photography
Location: Heppen Transfer Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
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 native village. Szabó Krisztina”

Mirror, Košice

Košice, 2013
Public art
535 x 788 cm
Mirrors, metal construction, hardboard
Location: Námestie Osloboditeľov, Košice, Slovakia
Architect: Marián Ravasz
Photos by the artist

Floating Gardens, Košice

Floating Gardens, Košice, 2013
Object in public space
300 x 400 x 90 cm (2 pieces)
Polypropylene (PP) objects, plants, natural materials
Location: Tyršovo nábrežie, Košice, Slovakia

Rent a garden for free
A garden sized 3,5 x 4,5 metres is available for rent at the Mlynský náhon, Tyršovo nábrežie, Košice, Staré mesto, from May 1 to October 30, 2013, for free in return for the keeping of the plants.

In cooperation with Marián Ravasz, architect & Zsolt Bankó, garden architect

The Gate

The Gate, 1992
Installation

240 x 500 x 180 cm
Hardboard, metal construction, natural materials, knives
Property of the Zbierka Prvej slovenskej investičnej skupiny, a. s. Bratislava
Photos by Marián Ravasz, Ladislav Sternmüller

“The work comprises two high walls; twigs are attached to one of them and kitchen knives are stuck into the second one. A spectator, who has to pass the corridor between the two walls, must face a very suggestive situation of constraint, threat or aggressiveness. This art work stands at the author’s step-out to the installations and settings where she used natural materials. Such creation of corridors and passages culminates in her works Stena a Labyrint /Wall and Labyrinth/ (Synagogue of GJK Trnava 1996, sandbags, 60 tons).” [www.gjk.sk]