Puklus Péter
Studied photography at the Moholy-Nagy University of Fine Arts in Budapest and new media design at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris. Puklus is also exploring new areas outside the field of photography. By combining sculptures, objects, paintings and installations, he creates a complex visual language that is based on emotions, associations and collective memory. He has published four photo books, including The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, which was nominated for the 2016 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award. His photo project, The Hero Mother – How to Build a House won the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2017/2018. He has taken part in numerous international group exhibitions in Budapest, Brussels, Freiburg, Tallinn and Utrecht. He has had solo shows in Hungary, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Poland and other countries. He lives and works in Budapest. He is represented by Glassyard Gallery (Budapest), Robert Morat Galerie (Berlin) and Klotz Shows (Brussels).
Péter Puklus no longer wants to divide photography into genres, and chooses instead to employ it as a kind of visual alphabet to conceptually approach one larger-scale project or another, which he complements with the genres of sculpture, painting and installation art. His conceptual and performative studio works allude to the ‘creative gesture’ of the photographer and the classical ideal of the artist’s freedom:If I claim to be a photographer, that, from my perspective, is raising walls around myself. Or I say I’m free and I use whatever medium I want. I can go on and take photos for the rest of my life, if that’s what I want, but I don’t want the medium to define me.
(Péter Puklus)
Nemes Márton
Keresztesi Botond
Dallos Ádám
Néma Júlia
Julia Nema is a ceramic artist, designer and painter based in Budapest, Hungary. She creates mainly tableware, architectural and fine art works, and has received numerous commissions from exclusive restaurants for bespoke tableware. She has been awarded the Ferenczy Noemi Award and the Hungarian Design Award. She has been featured in international publications related to ceramics, including F. Olsen’s The Kiln Book (2011), and is author of the first and only book on wood-fired ceramics to be published in Hungary. She holds a PhD in Liberal Arts from Moholy–Nagy University of Art and Design. Julia Nema’s works have been exhibited across Europe, as well as in Japan and the United States.
Fazekas Dániel
The Romanian born Hungarian artist is living and working in Budapest. Studied graphic arts at the Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts and Graphic arts at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. In 2018 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome with a scholarship. He participated in several group exhibitions in Budapest, in B32 Gallery in 2018, in Térkép Gallery in 2022. And had a solo exhibition in 2023 where he showed the latest painting series dedicated to two main motifs: the coin and the smile. He participated in the Moosey Residency Program in Norwich and contributed to a group exhibition at Moosey Gallery in 2023.
Góth Martin
Familymember of Heart & Cherry, Martin Góth graduated in painting from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 2019 and 2020. In 2019 he was awarded the Peter and Irene Ludwig Prize. His works are part of the Collection of the Central Bank of Hungary, as well as several private collections.
Magyarlaki Bence
He lives and works in Paris and graduated in 2017 with a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London. She has exhibited in the UK, France, Morocco, Portugal, Turkey and Australia. His work has been nominated for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards (2017) and The International Takifuji Art Award (2017). His sculptures are dynamic representations of a body bending in on itself or intertwined with another. His Body Schema series explores the psychological and social aspects of body image, self-understanding and identity formation. His sculptures carry transformation in themselves, while reflecting on issues of sexuality, identity, fragility, power and social change through them.
Moizer Zsuzsa
Zsuzsa Moizer currently lives and works in Hungary and Germany. She is known primarily for her oil paintings and watercolours, but her work also includes sculptures and installations. After her university years, she painted self-portraits in which she portrayed anthropomorphic figures of herself in the skin of various animals. From the beginning of her career, she has been dominated by the sensitive medium of paper. She used watercolour but in recent years has switched to pencil. The human body and its metamorphoses remain the starting point for her line drawings, which are characteristically soft in tone.
Fridvalszki Márk
He lives and works in Berlin. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2011 and was a postgraduate Meisterschüler student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig (2014–2017). “The meta-collages, composed of visual materials of two distinct but in many ways parallel futuristic periods – the years around 1968 as the culmination point of “Popular Modernism” and the years of 1989 with a special emphasis on the Rave movement’s struggle against the neoliberal invasion of cultural and political imagination – are the sensual results of a seemingly paradox strategy of digging up the past in search of the future, unearthing the still potent utopian impulses repressed by the antimodern consensus.”
Quotes by Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács from the book Youhu, 2022