Üveges Mónika

Mónika Üveges searches for the new sensuality staying inside the boundaries of easel or panel pictures, extending the classical material use of painting. In these objectified relief-like works she engages with the idea of the human body’s metamorphosis, the liminality in which ‘in’ and ‘out’ are present at the same time by ‘the open body’. Additionally in her paintings different organic and inorganic materials show great importance: silicone, synthetic resin, straw, crops, parched plants, tar, ash, debris, fur, pig bladder and intestines. These materials become symbols when abstracted, at the same time they carry a circulating energy through the dichotomy of decomposition and fermentation. We associate it with perpetual fluctuation, hence we can talk about sort of a lyrical imaging. The use of caducous materials appear in her art referring to human life.

2013 -
Hungarian University of Fine arts, Painting

2007 - 2012
Secondary School of Applied and Arts School, Visual Arts, Photo

19.12.1992. Budapest
Studies


2013 – 2019 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, painter
2007 – 2012 Secondary School of Applied and Arts, photography
Awards

Magyar Foundation of North America’s Hungary Emerging competition 2019 – 2020 top 10
In memoriam Paul Klee különdíj, Vértes Agórája, Tatabánya 2019
Amadeus, Unilever alkotói ösztöndíj , Budapest 2018
Fundamenta Amadeus, alkotói ösztöndíj, MKE Barcsay terem 2017
University Art and Design in Cluj Napoca, Erasmus ösztöndíj 2017
Domanovszky Endre díj I. hely, Budapest 2013
Camera Obscura II. hely csapatban, Mai Manó Ház, Budapest 2008
Exhibitions

solo
Implied Body, Telep Galéria, Budapest, 2018
Collusion with Nóra Szabó, Öreghegyi Közösségi Ház, Székesfehérvár, 2019
group

2019
Apocalypse, 1111 block, Kende u.1 Bp
By Anxious Image, MAMŰ Gallery, Bp
Open Doors Vol1, Skurc group, Népsziget Art Market, G808, Budapest
66. Autumn Exhibition of Vásárhely, Hódmezővásásrhely
Time / Picture, Spring Exhibition of Young Artists, MANK, Szentendre Bloody Mary, MAMŰ Galéria, Budapest Art Week

2018
Pszeudo Random III, MAMŰ Gallery
High Five! Belgrád rakpart, Budapest
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