Melinda Ilona Dovak

"Budapest-born Melinda Dovák (1991-) pursued her studies in Munich and graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2018. Dovák’s artistic vocabulary is a sensitive personal reading of new abstraction which recycles art historical icons as well as minutiae. Her DJ sets executed in acrylic, spray, and twisted canvas mix loud and rowdy techno with transparent Trompe-l’oil lies. Her large-scale paintings shaded by spray-paint model different layers of reality while her crumpled canvases soaked in glue and her objects recycling spent images are reborn as studio litter and firebombs, re-sculpting two-dimensional painting into experimental sculpture." by Rieder Gabor

2013-2018 Hungarian University of Fine Arts - faculty of painting Professor: Orshi Drozdik
2015-2016 Kunstakademie der Bildenden Kunste München Professor: Jorinde Voigt

2019
Encrypted tales – New Zero Art Space, Yangon, Myanmar, solo, upcoming
2018
Artkartell Project Space – On the rocks curator: Gábor Rieder
Layers of reality - Kubik, Budapest, Hungary, solo curator: Flóra Gadó
Confuseless - Art+Text Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, curator: Gábor Rieder
Parallax Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
2017
Painted space, constructed canvas - Urania Palace, Cluj Napoca, Romania, solo
OMDK – M21 Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
Rozsnyói Malom residency program, Roznava, Slovakia
2016
Final exhibition ADBK – Akademie Der Bildenden Künste, München, Germany curator: Jorinde Voigt
Kepesita Collection-Jack London prize- shortlist curator: Áron Fenyvesi
2015
Harmad, negyed év – B32 Galéra, Budapest, Hungary
Ari Kupsus rezidencia program – Amadé Bajzáth Pappenheim castle, Iszkaszentgyörgy, Hungary