This Spring, Bianka Chladek, is the artist in residence at the Studio of Young Artists’ Association in Budapest. The works she produced and reworked during her stay will be presented in the frame of a group show with members of FKSE as well as the work of other artists based in Central Europe.
The date of this show coincides with an important event in the history of FKSE: The archive will be donated to the MTA (Academy of sciences) to become a part of written history.
With Step by Step we want to play with the notion of this archive as a container of memories and facts. Before digital methods of storage, it would consist of boxes filled with papers. It was a modular system of keeping the past in an organised way. The boxes pile up, because memories keep coming and dust keeps setting on them. Whoever has visited FKSE knows how much room paper can take.
Before their departure to MTA, we will use these blocks of data to build an architecture for the visitors to encounter the works of Katalin Kortmann-Járay & Karina Mendreczky, Klaudia Januško, Csilla Bartus, Jan Bražina, Diana B. Gil, Janina Weißengruber and the ones of the artist in residence Bianka Chladek.
The exhibition will take the archive as a building point, not a reference, and will thread a story written in the quotes and calendar pages that have inspired the artists in their production. It is also the last opportunity to feel the stack of memories as they have been for many years: dusty but accessible to everyone.
To be spontaneous is to patch up work. To work as an artist in residence is to patchwork. The exhibition will re-use, adapt and repurpose the boxes and objects that set the precedent to access memories – mine, yours, ours – somebody’s, we look inside and then compose step by step, patch by patch.
When the exhibition will be done the archive will be gone, what remains will be the pictures (archived as bits) and the memories in space.
Exhibiting artists: Katalin Kortmann-Járay&Karina Mendreczky, Klaudia Januško, Csilla Bartus, Jan Bražina, Diana B. Gil, Janina Weißengruber, Bianka Chladek