Csilla Szabo

Csilla Szabó, fine art photographer and analogue B&W printer, born in Budapest, lives and works in Berlin.
Parallel to her commissioned printing work, she’s been diligently creating her own photographic works of art. She has been exhibiting her work through Europe, her works can be found in different art collections such as that of the Ritz Carlton Hotel Budapest and in private collections in New York, Paris, Hong-Kong, Berlin, and Budapest.

"I work with analogue cameras and shoot black and white film. My attention has turned towards photographing abstract still lifes, or rather, I find myself taking pictures of light itself, using objects to capture the play of light and shadow and the visual rhythm between these two siblings, the sometimes faded border between them, their reflections, opacities. Play is essential to my practice. I am continually falling in love with shapes, forms, beautifully broken things.

I approach my subjects with an analytic attitude, later creating larger-than-life-sized images of tiny wonders in the darkroom. In this way I am able to showcase the minute details invisible to the naked eye, revealing a hidden world that speaks in the intuitive language of emotion, unlike its hardened opponent, the int...

Apprentice at Jeff Cowen, Berlin 2008-2013
Práter Utcai Photo School, Budapest 2005-2007
Private Drawing School, Budapest 2003-2005

2023
Exhibition (group show) ‘Moving Stills’
in Levels Gallery, Berlin

2022
Exhibition (group show) ‘Unguarded moments’
in Hofgrün Galerie Berlin, Germany

2021
Exhibition (solo show) “Getting to know Adel”
Sonntagsklub Berlin, Germany

2021 autumn
Fish & Clouds Exhibition
Lokal Art & Projectspace, Berlin

2020 winter
Wiederwachen Group Exhibition, Berlin

2020 winter
MELT!
Producers' Gallery, Berlin

2018 autumn
Demonography
Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin

2018 spring
Tbilisi Art fair, Tbilisi, Georgia

2016 spring
Csilla Szabo photographic works
Stilspiel Designraum, Berlin

2015 winter
Light and Shadow
Group show in PH21 Gallery, Budapest

2015 summer
Oase
Group show in Povvera Projektraum, Berlin