Born: 1978
Budapest
Hungary
member since: 2019
While Anikó Robitz uses photography as a medium, her works can be appropriately understood from the visual vantage point of fine arts. Her works can be approached with ease by those who are familiar with the novel visual vocabulary of form developed in the 20th century, which can be linked primarily to abstraction, Suprematism and Minimalism, i.e., signalling a departure from anthropocentric representation. It is a departure from all that fine art photography, addressing a main stream public with its own genres – such as landscape, still-life, genre, portrait and nude photography, etc. – all stemming from the classification of genres or approaches pertaining to traditional art forms, with their history being linked to the once-unified world view.
Even though Robitz’s photos may seem to suggest at first glance that the artist is a studio photographer, the world of her works is by no means a constructed, staged world. Only the framing of the scene by the camera shows the characteristics of construction, whereas the dramatic sujet occurs out there in real life. In order for the artist to find her true field of work, she sets out – or rather takes a plane – in the manner of so many thousands of tourists, who incessantly record billions of shots, tainting the last remaining virgin spots in the world.
In some sense, Robitz is also a tourist; she joins the endless row of travellers, but she is interested in something that only she is able to notice on this planet when seeing the world-famous sights. This is what makes her work unique. In addition, instead of interpreting reality as the majority of photographers do, she creates a new world out of the hidden features of the existing world. She discovers the visible in the invisible, and makes the unknown known, because she has a key that no one else possesses.
2011 - Milton Friedman University – Faculty of Arts – Film studies BA
2006 - Szellemkep School of Photography – analog photography + darkroom
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019
TOBE Gallery, “Holographic Memories” Budapest, Hungary
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin “Light, Form, Photogram” with Minyo Szert, Berlin, Germany
2018
Art Market Budapest – Special guest artist of the Visegrad Contemporary Festival – Budapest, Hungary
2017
Liget Gallery “Taking Out” with Dezso Laszlo-Kiss, Budapest, Hungary
2016
Korunk Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Godot Gallery “Supreme” with Minyo Szert, Budapest, Hungary
2015
Harom Het Galeria “Circles” Budapest, Hungary
2013
FUGA Budapest Centre of Architecture “Urban Landscape No. 6 – Light/Structures” Budapest, Hungary
2012
Defo Labor “Space Observers” with Ildiko Peter, Budapest, Hungary
Art Club "Danube Dialogs – Budapest/Novi Sad" with Pavle Jovanovic, Novi Sad, Serbia
2011
Telep Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Magyar Muhely Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2010
Galerija Photon “Deep Surfaces” Ljubljana, Slovenia
Nessim Gallery “Trio” with Akos Czigany, Budapest, Hungary
A.P.A.! Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2009
CDA Gallery, Graz, Austria
Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin “Urban Landscapes” Berlin, Germany
2008
Polish Institut – Mu-Vesz Pince “White Pictures” Budapest, Hungary
Arcus Gallery, Vac, Hungary
2007
Orokmozgo Cinema “Passive House” Budapest, Hungary
PHOTOSUPREMATISTS SHOWS:
Balint Szombathy established the Photosuprematists group in 2013. It is motivated by the historical moment of 2013 being the 100th birth anniversary of Suprematism, the art movement established by Kazimir Malevich.
2017
Balassi Institute Brussels, Belgium
2016
Balassi Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia
Galerija Photon Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015
Hungarian Culture Institute, Stuttgart, Germany
Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Photon Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
2014
Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, Hungary
Csikasz Gallery, Veszprem, Hungary
GROUP SHOWS:
2019
Vasarely Museum “Bauhaus 100”, Budapest, Hungary
Artphoto Gallery “Kerekes-Barabas Project” Budapest, Hungary
MUPA - Palace of Arts “Bauhaus Contemporary” Budapest, Hungary
2018
Vasarely Museum “On The Edge Of Geometry” Budapest, Hungary
Harom Het Gallery “Noise Of The Image” Budapest, Hungary
2017
TOBE Gallery “Guelcome” Budapest, Hungary
Vasarely Museum “Found Geometry” Budapest, Hungary
Fotogalerie Wien “Abstractions” Vienna, Austria
2016
Vasarely Foundation “Regards sur la Ville” Aix en Provence, France
Alma Gallery “Echoes: City, Society, Conflict & Self in Hungarian Photography” New York, NY, USA
TOBE Gallery “Triangle” Budapest, Hungary
2014
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art “LACDA 2014 Top 40” Los Angeles, CA, USA
Vasarely Museum “Space As Space” Budapest, Hungary
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art “LACDA Ten Years Anniversary Retrospective” Los Angeles, CA, USA
2013
Galerie Centrum – Cultural City Network Graz “Arrivals / Departures” Graz, Austria
MAMU Gallery “Malevich Looks Back” Budapest, Hungary
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art “LACDA – Ninth Anniversary Exhibit” Los Angeles, CA, USA
2012
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art “Cinematorgraph” short video, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Hive Gallery “Created dreams" Los Angeles, CA, USA
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art “LACDA Eighth Anniversary Retrospctive” Los Angeles, CA, USA
2011
B55 Gallery “Geomix 2.0” Budapest, Hungary
Nessim Gallery “Vectors” Budapest, Hungary
2010
Centralis Gallery “Women Only” Budapest, Hungary
Nessim Gallery “Absence" Budapest, Hungary
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art “LACDA 2010 Top 40” Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje “Okolje Consulting Art Collection” Celje, Slovenia
PHOTONIC MOMENTS SHOWS by Photon Gallery in 2008 – 2009:
Salon Galic, Split, Croatia
Magacin Galerija, Belgrade, Serbia
Fotogalerie des Rathaus, Graz, Austria
Korotan Art Center, Vienna, Austria
Photonic Moments, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia
ART FAIRS:
2019 – FRAME - Art Market Budapest - Bauhaus Contemporary
2019 – Photo London - TOBE Gallery
2018 – Photo Basel - Photon Gallery
2018 – Art Photo Budapest - As a special guest artist of the Visegrad Contemporary Festival
2018 – Fresh Paint Tel Aviv, Israel - TOBE Gallery
2017 – Fotofever Paris - Photon Gallery
2017 – MIA Milano - TOBE Gallery
2017 – Art Photo Budapest - TOBE Gallery
2016 – Artmarket/Artphoto Budapest - TOBE Gallery
2016 – Artmarket/Artphoto Budapest - Photon Galerie Wien
2013 – Fotofever Brussels - Inda Gallery
2011 – Artmarket Budapest - Galerija Photon Ljubljana
2010 – Contemporary Istanbul - Nessim Gallery
2010 – C. A. R. Contemporary Art Ruhr Essen - Nessim Gallery
2008 – Vienna Fair represented - Photon Ljubljana
PRIZES, RESIDENCIES
2014 – Centre Europeen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, France
2011 – Residency at Estonian Artist Association, Tallinn, Estonia
2009 – Cultural City Network Residency in Graz, Austria
2008 – Pecsi Jozsef Scholarship, Budapest, Hungary
2008 – Cultural City Network Graz Award, Graz, Austria
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