LOLA KOVÁCS
Lola Kovács
visual artist
lives in Budapest, Hungary
"Nature, the universe, human beings, blood, plants and many other things appear in her pieces as mystical events. Organic forms are given extra life while dead or artificial things seem to be filled with energy and will. Myths, elements of spiritual tradition and moments of culture history fill the cognitive dimensions. " Tünde Bognár
"When Lola Kovács magnifies and then cuts out a particular detail, she immediately highlights and places in a new dimension a special surface constellation. She does not simply make the meaningful details of the physical and biological body grow, but she places details, faces and eyes into a space almost conceivable as some sort of a landscape. She does something like turning the anthroposophical view into theosophy with the help of and on the level of visuality, that is to say, she seems to be able to visualise easily and generously an entirely syncretic and purely theoretical way of thinking into practice. Her method of creating the giant detail immediately finds averages and evens things up, or to put it into more sublime words she lends universal significance to her subject, she initiates adjective into epithet. Within her pictures the ordinary and the metaphysical merge. " István Hajdu
photo József Rosta
CV
Solo exhibits
2021 Alchemy, Neon Gallery, Budapest
2020 Hot Mirror, Neon Gallery, Budapest
2019 Lost Border- with Teréz Szilágyi, Fuga, Budapest
2018 Hair, Fészek Gallery, Budapest
2017 Pops up and doesn't sink in, Gödör Club, Spicc Studio, Budapest - with Donáta Gajzágó
2016 In regard, Vízivárosi Gallery, Budapest - with Norbert Kotormán
2015 Vertigo, Fészek Gallery, Budapest
2011 The Roman Cat, Fészek Gallery, Budapest
2010 Joy and Despair, Léna'Roselli Gallery, Budapest
2010 UpsideMirror, Budapest Gallery - with Teréz Szilágyi
2008 Protection, Fészek Gallery, Budapest
2005 Crow, City Exhibition Hall - Deák Collection, Székesfehérvár
2005 Raiffeisen Bank Gallery, Budapest
2003 Resonances, Ateliers pro Arts, A.P.A.!, Budapest
2003 Painters' View, St.art Gallery, Budapest
2001 Hail to the Guests, Fészek Gallery, Budapest
2001 Artists' Colony Gallery, Szentendre
1999 Horror Temporis, Fészek Gallery, Hermann Hall, Budapest
- has exhibited at major national venues as well as at international group shows in
London, Dublin, Rome, Venice, Frankfurt, Vienna, Munich, Sofia, Abu Dhabi, New York, Trieste, Zagreb, Brussels, Ljubljana and Hanoi
Works in Public Collections
Imago Mundi Collection - Luciano Bennetton Foundation
Ludwig Museum - Contemporary Museum, Budapest
MNG - Hungarian National Gallery
Paks Museum
Raiffeisen bank Collection
Strabag Collection
Public Art
FLOW - by Lola Kovács and Teréz Szilágyi
1,8x18 meters, painted glass and plexi glass with led lights in metal frame commissioned by Nyíregyháza College - Kodály auditorium in 2009 (art-universitas project) Hungary
Education
1996-98 Postgraduate studies, MKF - Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
1992-96 MKF - Hungarian University of Fine Arts, painting
1991-96 ELTE University, Budapest, English
Scholarships, Residency and Prizes
2019 Art Circle Slovenia
2013 Artist residency in Saudi Arabia as a guest of the Saudi Ministry of Culture
FINALIST of MYARTSPACE SCOPE MIAMI COMPETITION 2010
Award of the Ministry of Culture, One-Weeker, Műucsarnok, Budapest
2003 Strabag Prize for Painters - First Prize
2002 2 months residency at the Hungarian Academy in Rome, Italy
2002 1 year residency at Ateliers pro Arts, A.P.A.!, Budapest
2001 Barcsay prize
1998-2000 Derkovits scholarship
1997 2 months residency in Stuttgart (Leonberg), Walz Foundation