Vanda Berecz

During my university years I studied fashion design, and specialized on leather accessories early on. In the past 12 years I established my own studio, and focused my attention on sharpening craft skills, while creating bags and other accessories mainly for women. Rather than following fashion trends, my approach to creating objects has always been very sculptural. I enjoy experimenting with shapes, structures and unusual outlooks.

I like to think of my art as half poetry, half mathematics. The colors, textures, curves and organic shapes come from my emotional states, but the strict geometry and carefully calculated number and size of the elements, as well as the periodically repeated patterns are purely mathematical. Working with leather also requires a rather perfectionist approach. Everything needs to be well prepared and calculated before execution, because leather is easy to shape, but it doesn’t allow you to make mistakes. It’s a fascinating material, for me it represents truly feminine qualities: soft but resistant, adaptable yet very strong.

My artistic routine is concentration, repetition, and being fully immersed in the slow pace of creation. I’m inspired by spirituality, natural growth processes, biology, and man-made...

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
fashion design

Awards:

֍ 2024 Hungarian Academy of Arts, scholarship for contemporary artists
֍ 2023 National Cultural Fund of Hungary, scholarship
֍ 2021 VII. International Triennial of Textile Arts, Hungarian Design Council's Award

Solo exhibitions:

֍ 2023 Origin of Nonexistent Species, FISE Gallery, Budapest (HU)

Group exhibitions:

֍ 2024 International Biennial of Paper & Textile Art, Den Breughel Cultural Community Center, Haacht (BE)
֍ 2024 'I feel...' group exhibition, FISE Gallery, Budapest (HU)
֍ 2024 VIII. International Triennial of Textile Arts, Szombathely Gallery, Szombathely (HU)
֍ 2024 In the language of flowers, MANK Gallery, Szentendre (HU)
֍ 2022 Twist / current / flow, Klebelsberg Cultural Centre, Budapest (HU)
֍ 2022 Common space, Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)
֍ 2022 Twist / current / flow, MANK Gallery, Szentendre (HU)
֍ 2021 VII. International Triennial of Textile Arts, Szombathely Gallery, Szombathely (HU)