Kata Soós

Kata Soós is a versatile artist. She is a painter a cultural anthropologist and also a filmmaker. Her works are enigmatic, they do not surrender to our interpretations easily. We need time to unravel Kata’s artistic standpoint. The theme of her paintings are the objects of our everyday life: shabby washing-up bowls, hospital spaces, paper bags: the seemingly uninteresting milieu around us. Kata Soós is interested in the non-trivial behind the trivial. She is a genuine anthropologist. The Other and herself as an artist are in the focus of her films: how she sees the Other or how the Other allows her/himself to be seen. Human beings are not actually depicted in her paintings, yet it is human life that she attempts to explore. The iron is till hot, the vessels are messy, so you have just been on the spot a moment earlier. Soós can grab the fragment of the second that almost no one is capable of: the moment of passing. You have just disappeared from the picture. Kata is able to paint your or my absence, and me, who is looking for you can find you and myself in front of the telephone booth or in the hospital bed or before the lonely flowerbed.

Author: Enikő Bódis, cultural anthropologist

2011 Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE) DLA Degree
2004 Diploma, MKE, Faculty of Painting
2003 student of CEU Summer University, „The Roma” (Bringing Together Historical, Anthropological and Linguistic Approaches)
2002 - 2003 Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE), majoring in Intermedia
2000 student of HESP Summer University, „Roma society, culture and education”
2000 - Member of the Studio of Young Artists Association (FKSE)
1999 - 2006 ELTE University of Budapest, Faculty of Social Studies, majoring in Cultural Anthropology
1998 - 2004 Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE), Faculty of Painting

Selected solo exhibitions :

2014 Laundry, A38, Budapest
2011 Recital, Printa Gallery, Budapest
2008 „Propéra/ Next”, Lumen Gallery, Budapest
2007 „Propéra/ Next”, Can Xalant, Mataró, Spain
2007 „Flash, brush, chips” Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
2006 „Gaz a tout les etages”, Galerie du Tableu, Marseille
2005 „Call the Floor Expert!” Meander Gallery, Budapest
2004 „Houses, Gas Pipe, and Phone Booth” K. Petrys House, Budapest