Orsi Horváth

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Do the cold Venus, oil, spray paint on canvas,200 × 120 com, 2018

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Winter, 100 x120 cm, oil on canvas, 2019

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I know I've started to think about cars, 60 x 80 cm, oil on satin, 2018

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Summer's almost long, 200 x 150 cm, oil on canvas

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You say hi, I say bye

Shimmering black islands, covered mountains, glowing horizons - disturbing longings are what Orsi Horváth creates with her latest works. Taken alone and in relation to each other, the paintings have a narrative feature; they seem to belong to a world that is different, future or parallel to the present. They are both Utopian and Dystopian, for greeting something new means saying goodbye, with pain and fear standing beside joy. In this world, she mixes figuration and abstraction, certainty and uncertainty: Is she beautiful? Is she good? Better than the ones we know? It is difficult to determine, because in these views of the new, the present is not brushed off (dismissed, excluded) but painterly (aesthetically) circulated (scattered, dispersed). Orsi Horváth reflects surface structures, folds them, transforms the familiar into the unknown and thus provides images of the idea of ​​what is not yet. Her colour scheme makes it crystal clear that a return to the supposedly innocent nature is not imagined here. Certainly, Horváth's out-of-the-way landscapes do not show human figures; But, they do not choose the emergency exit via nihilism and post-humanity. Because everywhere in them traces of the human are present: as objects and even more in the language of form. The artist writes in an email that between hi and bye, ‘the mountain, the silk and the plastic wrap formally rhyme’. But something is missing… The idea of ​​what is not yet there is the knowledge that something is missing. It contains a negativity. The attempt to start a new life, to affirm positively something completely unseen - and untouched nature is one of them - tends towards ideology. If the future is to be presented, the suffering of the present must be included as the motivation of this idea. The better future itself remains the un-word, the un-place. Orsi Horváth's pictures do not show a concrete future, rather they visualize the certainty that something should be different. From the negativity, they feed the hope that it can be different, better. Thus, they are as dark as they are fascinating, as abysmal as they are confident. Orsi Horváth’s series was created in Leipzig, starting with Holiday and M. Sinai; only “The Atom” was painted in Budapest. After six years in Leipzig, she is now moving back to Hungary.

Carolin Krahl

English translation: Petra Lehmann

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earth, wind and..., 50 x 60 cm, oil, textile paint on satin, 2018

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Truck, oil on satin, 60 x 80 cm, 2018

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Statue park, 150 x 100 cm, oil on canvas, 2018 (exhibition view from “you say hi, I say bye, 2018)

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you say hi, I say bye - exhibition, Armadillo Gallery (TAKT Berlin l Leipzig l Academy l Artist Residency), Leipzig, 2018,  photo credit: Gábor Hollós

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Creaturliness, oil on satin, 100 x 120 cm, 2018

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Fresh Windows, textile paint and oil on satin, 50 x 100 cm, 2018

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Still the sea, 50 x 60 cm, oil and spray paint on canvas, 2018

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Installation view of “Ideas of shipwrecked” at the exhibition of Herkunft_Zukunft, a room that... Spinnerei, 2018

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Deconstructing M. in black, 40 x 50, oil on canvas, 2018

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Deconstructing M. 40 x 50 cm, oil, ink on silk, 2017

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CV

Website: orsihorvath.com

[email protected]

born in 1983, Budapest

Education 2012 - 2014 Masters: Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Media art, Professor Alba D’Urbano and Oliver Kossack Leipzig, Germany

2003 - 2008 Diploma: Hungarian University of Fine Art, Painting, professor András Halász, Budapest, Hungary

Solo exhibitions

2018

- you say hi, I say bye, Armadillo Gallery, Leipzig, Germany

2016          

- little resistance, little pathology, with Sasha Povzner, in Project space of Takt Artist Residency, Berlin

- Shine and Shinability, Műveleti Terület, Budapest, Hungary

2015

-  An insect falls into gunpowder, Gachang Art Studio, Daegu, South-Korea - Eastern promises, Gallery Potemka, Leipzig, Germany

2014

- ‚Gardening, Gardening, Gardening, DEATH!’ Golden Masters, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig

- Oh ok, with Oliver Kossack, Büro for Cultural Translations, Leipzig, Germany

2013

- The most fun without laughing with Roman Schultze, Room 365, Leipzig

2011

- Atelier exhibition, Kunststiftung im Baden Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany - 8 happiness, Ludwig Inzert, Project Space of Ludwig Museum, Hungary, with Balázs Juhász, Budapest, Hungary

2010

- Faludy, Petőfi Sándor Literature Museum, Budapest, Hungary 2009

- Human/ Non-human, Műveleti Terület Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Group exhibitions

2018

-RAF, Atelier Pro Art, Budapest

-Herkunft_Zukunft, a room that… Spinnerei, Leipzig

2017

- YG, exhibition organised by Gallery Godot, Budapest, Hungary

- Kepestia Collection - Exhibition of the nominated artists for the Kepesita Art Prize 2017, Budapest, Hungary

-Supervision, Lange Strasse, Frankfurt

2015

- Object is Meditation and Poetry Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany

2014

- Eurokrem presents „The Art is not present”, 48 Hours Neukölln, Berlin, Germany

2013

- Time frame, room 365, Leipzig, Germany - Eurokrem Presents Eurokrem, Al Quads, Leipzig, Germany

- Protest drawing – with Dan Perjovschi at Galerie für Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig

- Blood on Hermann’s beard, HGB, Leipzig, Germany - Imaginary Museum Egyiptian Museum, Leipzig, Germany 2012

- Seven days, Gozsdu court, basement “C”, Budapest, Hungary

2010

- Uue Maailma Seltsiga / New Word Company, Tallinn, Estonia

- You are standing in puke, exhibitor and curator, Bakelit Multi Art Center, Budapest, Hungary

2009

- Tűzraktér Brezsnyev and Boulevard Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Art

Residencies, scholarsips

2018

Work Stipend, NKA Nemzeti Kulturális Alap / Hungarian Cultural Fund

Leveld Kunstartun, Norway

a room that… Spinnerei, Leipzig

2017

a room that… Spinnerei, Leipzig

2015

- International Artist Residency Program, Daegu Foundation for Culture, Gachang Art Studio, Daegu, South-Korea

2011

- Artist in Residence Program of Budapest Gallery, Stuttgart, Kunststiftung in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Workshops, nominations

2017 - nominated for the 2017 Prize of Kepesita Collection

2013 - Protest Workshop with Dan Perjovschi, Leipzig, Germany 2011 - Workshop with Ruti Sela, Budapest, Hungary 2010 - JRD Workshop, Včelince, Slovakia

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Deconstructing Marx IV, 50 x 41 cm, oil on canvas, 2017