Marta Balla

I consider myself a contemporary nomad, a ‘seminaut’ described by Nicolas Bourriaud, a person that surfs between present and past, and all existences available to her. She samples and re-mixes; she translates, reveals, and tries to decipher the panorama of current cultural, sociological, psychological and political mixture of codes and signs. I’m an artist that examines the question ‘Where should we go?’ rather than being attached to the questions of origins. I’m an artist that questions her own identity through her experiences. I detach myself and float as a rhizome, and experience the world through floating roots that act as detectors. I’m quite happy to feel free and without being tangled up in roots. I’m a natural path builder, connecting modes of expressions and communication.

Currently lives and works in Budapest.

2016 –
Wesley János University, Budapest, Hungary
Postgraduate Specialization in Art Therapy

2007 – 2012
University of Applied Sciences, Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain
Master of Fine Arts in Painting

SOLO EXIBITIONS

2017
Memory Patterns, Fonó Cultural and Music Centre, Budapest, Hungary

2016
Natura(l)Collage, Kelet Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
Invisibles, Viewpoint.Migration, eReSZ Kultúr Pont, Budapest, Hungary

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017
“Thou art that”, Puccs Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
“Where isn’t love cold?”, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary

2016
cARTc Contemporary Art Fair, Gregensen Art Point, Budapest, Hungary
Final Group Show, SIAC, Artist Residency, Splitska, Croatia.

2015
cARTc Contemporary Art Fair, Gregensen Art Point, Budapest, Hungary
Kollázs, Kollazs, Four Seasons Hotel , Budapest, Hungary.
Final Group Show, SIAC, Artist Residency, Splitska, Croatia.
Rites of Passage, Sporting Club Russafa, Gallery and Studios, Valencia, Spain.
Art Forward, Hotel Rum, Budapest, Hungary.

2013
“Yo expongo en la Reina Sofía” (“I exhibit in the Reina Sofia”), exterior walls of the Reina Sofia Contemporary Museum, Madrid, Spain.

2012
“Ideas en proceso” (Ideas in Process), Puchol Gallery, Valencia, Spain.
“Proyectos expositivos 2011/2012”, Museum of Arte Virreinal (Casa Humboldt), Taxco de Alarcon Centro, Mexico.
The Sketchbook Project, Tour 2012, Brooklyn Art Library, New York, United States.
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