Mónika Kárándi

My art derives from those elements of my life, that I grab from my daily routine and
everyday life as well as from the one-off unrepeatable moments. Through my highlights these elements become part of an – untill then not existing – complex but fictive pictorial form. These highlights are most of all symbols that typify the then sensations, emotions and memories of mine, and that become part of a personal symbolic system which grounds the style of my works.

These collage-like spaces created with a subjective selection slowly fade away, reduce to simple forms, that let the viewer a step more in, divesting him or her of their occasional outsiderness. At this stage geometric elements meet organic forms and the featuring of different factural qualities become important as well. Here I mean the dialogue between a more geometrical swimming pool with the greenery around it, or the repetitive pattern of tyles with the undulation of the water and so on. Sand often appears as an imaging instrument, sometimes as in its own nature, sometimes as a colored texture. I am trying to keep the beauty of the void that the spaces ful?lled with emptiness provide and share it with the viewer. There is more in common life then what we meet.

2009 - 2014 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary.
Master of Fine Arts in Painting

2012 - 2013 Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain.

2008 - 2009 Eszterhazy Karoly University of Applied Sciences, Eger, Hungary.

Solo Exhibition:
2019 - Dancing in the moonlight, Klauzál13, Budapest, Hungary
2017 - Laguna, Pince, Budapest, Hungary
2015 - Inside, Art Forward, Budapest, Hungary.
2011 - "Puppies Woodstock", Körönd Bookshop and Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

Group Exhibition:
2019 - Púder Vol.2/ Synthetic Entity, K11, Budapest, Hungary
2018 - HighFive!, Belgrád rkp., Budapest, Hungary.
2018 - 65th Autumn Exhibition in Vásárhely, Alföldi Gallery, Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary.

2018 - Ezek a legszebb éveink?/ Time of our lives?, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary.
2018 - Confuseless, Art+Text Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
2018 - Púder, Tinta Art Café, Budapest, Hungary.
2017 - MFG30, MFG-B Gallery, Debrecen, Hungary.
2017 - Private Oasis, MAMŰ, Budapest, Hungary.
2016 - UP!, Helium Contemporary, A38, Budapest, Hungary.
2015 - There must be a window above every couch!/Minden kanapé fölé kell egy ablak!, Hermina Galéria, Budapest, Hungary.
2015 - Art Project - HotelRum, Hotel Rum, Budapest, Hungary.
2014 - Gender Brush/Gender ecset III., Barcsay terem, MKE, Budapest, Hungary.
2013 -We can be a model for a landscape also/ Modellkedést tájképhez is vállalunk, Mozsár kávézó, Budapest, Hungary.
2013 - Feminin-Maszkulin, Műterem Galéria, Debrecen, Hu...