Krisztina Czika

Hungarian-born Amsterdam-based artist, Krisztina Czika, has always felt herself irresistibly drawn to the material world, to what you might call the stuff of life. Even as a student in Budapest and later in the Netherlands, she zoomed in instinctively, fascinated by how everything was put together. In her work she began to experiment with many different kinds of physical materials, focused not solely on their palpable characteristics, but equally on the stories and emotions they carried within them; concerned with both the physical and the metaphysical.
This material fascination has consistently inspired wholly idiosyncratic research and has influenced both the focus and the form of Krisztina’s subsequent art and conceptual design work.
Krisztina is inspired by everyday objects — once again, the stuff of life. These objects may take the form of seemingly mundane pieces of technology, seemingly useless waste products or even just the materials from which either of these things are made. Each project begins with the identification and exploration of a particular object, substance or material. Often, because of the very commonplace nature of its role in our lives, this tends to be something that is generally overlooked, or even loo...

2013 - Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (BA Design Lab)
2012 - Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (Orientation Year)
2010 - Fashion and Trade School of Crafts, Clothing And Textiles, Budapest

2020 "Visiting Mermaids", Embassy of Art, Amsterdam NL
2020 “Between Lockdowns”, BIG ART 2020, Zaandam, NL
2019 “Beauty Dinner”, Neo Futurist dinner, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL
2019 “Beauty Lunch”, Buro Imaginaire, Bank, Hungary
2019 “Dissolve In Space”, Group show “Absurd Beings on Skin”, Amsterdam, NL
2019 “The Eating Of Humans”, Neo Futurist dinner, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL
2018 “Echo Of Existence”, Residency at ateliers’89, Oranjestadt, Aruba
2018 “Echo of Naarden Vesting”, Group show “The Space Makers”, Galerie Pouloeuff, Naarden NL
2018 “Malleable”, Design Kwartier, The Hague, NL
2018 “The Set Of Matter Varies”, OBJECT Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2018 "The Embodied Sacred", Group show, Worm S/ash Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2018 "Sketched And Staged", Group show, Room2.07, Amsterdam, NL
2017 “What The Hair Are We Doing?”, Selected, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Thesis Salon: CRYPT FEELING, Boekmanstichting, Amsterdam, NL
2017 “Higher”, Group show, StudioLO, Berlin, GE
2017 "The leftover of the shame I felt", Absurd Beings, Amsterdam, NL
2017 "This is not a VARDERA", OBJECT Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2016 Speeltuin, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, NL, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Uncut, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de B...