Beata Kozak

Born and educated in Hungary, but lives and works in Italy, in Bassano del Grappa.
Beata Kozak, who has lived in Italy for more than 20 years after completing her academic training in Hungary, found herself torn between different cultures, but this cultural diversity has allowed her to turn all this into virtue.
My artistic research focuses on the theme of landscape, external landscape and internal landscape.
For me, painting does not mean imitating reality, but it also means dealing with the pictorial material and interpreting it and transforming it into colors and shapes to then open the mind for new sensations.
The fluid material that I apply in my works allows me to build lyrical landscapes where I try to recover that ancient connection that binds man to nature. Starting from a profound search for the self - which is indispensable for my works as well as the poetic and literary texts that my works often feed on - I explore the ductility of water, the places of memory, the different angles of reality, creating timeless reflections, without space, and where the gaze is lost in the silence of listening to one's own self.
Creation is a long process, and sometimes it takes a long time to give the right shape to that thing that...

1998-2003 Degree in modern literature with a curriculum in Byzantine art history, University of Padua, Italy
2003 Palladian architecture course (Scamozzi and Palladio), Vicenza, Italy
2004- 2005 Master at the University of Ferrara, Italy
2016-2017 Creative writing course "Dancing Words", Milan

2016 - Performance, Bassano del Grappa (VI) - Italy 2016 - Solo exhibition, Bassano del Grappa (VI) – Italy
2016 - Solo exhibition, Asti – Italy
2016 - Solo exhibition in Villa Fabbris, Thiene (VI) – Italy
2017 - Solo exhibition, The theater del Monte of Treviso – Italy
2017 - Solo exhibition, The theater Olimpico of Vicenza - Italy
2017 - Installation, workshop of poetry, Villa Ca’Sette, Bassano del Grappa (VI) - Italy 2018 / 2020 - Permanent exhibition in Villa Ca’Sette, Bassano del Grappa (VI) – Italy