Numinous

Judit Kis is an intermedia artist and researcher based in Budapest and Berlin. Her performative videos and virtual diaries reflect on the experiences and traumas that shape our identities, personal boundaries, and behavioral patterns. Her practice combines digital content with installations of objects and often expands into participatory performances and community engagements. She has a collection of bricks from different materials that are engraved by words reflecting both their composition and human traits. She creates sculptures in the size and shape of a brick to play with the symbolic meaning of building units or blocks. The sculptures can reflect social constructions, limited beliefs and used as metaphors to display the elements of identities and the burdens of repetitive patterns. 

Judit Kis is an intermedia artist, who studied fine art and curating at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest and at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Currently she is pursuing a doctoral degree to explore the social impact of self-defining and self-revealing performances with a focus on self-care, mental health, alternative healing methodologies and ecological sustainability. She received the ACAX – Leopold Bloom and Young Visual Art Award in 2020 and the Derkovits Art Grant in 2019 with an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Budapest. In 2021, she completed a studio residency at Residency Unlimited and Artist Alliance inc. in New York City. She had solo exhibitions in 2022 entitled; Surrender at Kahan Art Space in Budapest and Vienna and a duo show with Tamás Ábel; Strategic Stillness at the American Hungarian Library in New York. In 2023, she participated in group exhibitions; Queer Art Spaces at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, The Sanctuary at Motherboard Artspace in Vienna, La sustancia de la revelación at Studio Croma in Mexico City and Handle with Care at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. Judit Kis was the first recipient of the Art & Ecology residency program at MQ, Museumsquartier in Vienna.