MARK FRIDVALSZKI |
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| Mark Fridvalszki (1981, Budapest, lives and works in Berlin) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2011 and continued his postgraduate studies as a Meisterschüler at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig from 2014 to 2017. He is the co-initiator and graphic editor of the art collective Technologie und das Unheimliche (T+U), active since 2014. | |
| Mark Fridvalszki explores the relationship between human perception, culture, and the creative spirit through archival imagery and the principles of collage. By recontextualizing visual and intellectual layers from the past, his works address what is absent in contemporary life: the fading of everyday transcendence and the accelerating logic of late capitalism. The images cultivate a heightened attentiveness while subtly evoking a haunted sense of cultural memory, opening up possibilities for imagining alternative futures. His thinking is organized around three recurring metaphors: UFO (the cosmic and unknown), Jazz (collective, improvisatory thought and shared attention), and Acid (inner sensitivity and the subtle interconnections between material and immaterial realms). These metaphors invite viewers to revisit the past, perceive contemporary cultural and spiritual voids, and glimpse potential futures. Fridvalszki’s archeo-futurological collages draw from a continually expanding archive of pigment transfers, silkscreens, and digital prints sourced from books, printed matter, and vintage collections. The resulting compositions form a layered, nostalgic aura that reflects on lost cultural sensibilities while encouraging new forms of attention, experience, and collective imagination. |
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| Education | |
| 2014–2017 Meisterschüler, postgraduate studies at Academy for Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB), Media Arts 2011 Diploma with distinction at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2008–2011 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Graphic Arts and Printmaking 2004–2008 University of Applied Arts Vienna, Graphic Arts and Printmaking |
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| Membership | |
| Since 2019 Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK), Berlin Since 2009 Membership of the Studio of Young Artist Association (FKSE), Budapest |
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| Collective | |
| Since 2014 Technologie und das Unheimliche (T+U) | |
| Exhibitions (selection) | |
| 2025 The Future Is Out There with Marko Tadić, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (solo) Born in Transition, Studio Hanniball, Berlin Born in Transition, AQB Project Space, Budapest 2024 Geisterknochen by T+U, Trafó Gallery, Budapest (solo) Uforia, Vintage Galéria, Budapest (solo) Industry, a project by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Uferhallen, Uferhallen, Berlin 2023 Greetings From Tomorrow, Galerie SPZ, Prague (solo) Home Page w/ Anna Tudos, /rosa, Zentrum für Netzkunst (ZfN), Berlin (solo) Archives of Futures III by Montag Modus, Tanzfabrik Berlin Imagine a Breath of Fresh Air, Teatr and Galeria Studio, Warsaw Constellation, Yuan Art Museum, Chongqing; Being Art Museum, Shanghai 2022 Meeting of the Spirits, Szentendre Gallery, Szentendre (solo) Unforeseen Forces of Occulture (U.F.O.) by T+U, The Július Koller Society, Bratislava (solo) A World Without Any Future?, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (statement) Works 21–22, Horizont Gallery, Budapest (solo) I Went Through That Door and I Never Came Back, MeetFactory, Prague Geisterpop/ulation, Kunstverein Eisenstadt Zero Point, Artrooms Moravany, Moravany nad Váhom 2021 Forward and Up!, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (solo intervention) Ad Futura, Ad Inexplorata, ISBN books+gallery, Budapest (solo) Iskra Delta, 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, MGLC, Ljubljana Esterházy Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest Gdansk 2080. Futurological Congress, 12th Narracje Festival, Gdansk Peaks, Pics and Other Inconsistencies, Liptovská Galéria, Liptovský Mikuláš 2020 Future Perfect, Contemporary Art (ICA-D), Dunaújváros (solo) Escape to Forever, Gallery TIC, Brno (solo) Homeless Between Yestermorrows, Horizont Gallery, Budapest (solo) Flagge zeigen, Storkow (intervention) Leaning on the Past, Working for the Future, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (online) 2019 An Out of this World Event III, Karlin Studios, Prague (solo) Conditio Inhumana, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest Research Network/Connections, Schafhof, Freising 2018 If you are manipulated, manipulate back!, Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam :-(, D21 Kunstverein, Leipzig Dome, Zeiss-Grossplanetarium, Berlin 2017 Take Me Back, Artkartell Projectspace, Budapest (solo) 9,81, Art+Text, Budapest (solo) Rosebuds – Hidden Stories of Things, D21, Leipzig Leopold Bloom Art Award, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest 2016 New, Grey, Polished Chrome, Chimera Project, Budapest (solo) Interference, Trafó Gallery, Budapest Intermarium, BWA Sokół Gallery, Nowy Sacz The Portent of Light, Gallery Meetfactory, Prague 2015 Only Ruins Left, HIT Gallery, Bratislava (solo) Inverz, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest Bewahren Speichern Präsentieren, Lage Egal, Berlin Accumulation of Matter, Lehrter 17, Berlin Around Analogies w/ T+U, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart |
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| Awards, prizes | |
| 2022 Working scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Neustart Kultur 2021 Nomination for Esterházy Award, Budapest 2019 Nomination for Esterházy Award, Budapest 2018 Working scholarship, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (KdFS) 2017 Nomination for Leopold Bloom Art Award, Budapest |
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| AiR, projects | |
| 2022 Ferenczy Museum, AiR, Szentendre 2019 Futura, AiR, Prague 2018 7th Sympozium Litomyšl, Litomyšl 2018 The Last Amazonian Congress, Poľana Mountain 2018 Schafhof, AiR, Freising 2018 Ebenböckhaus, AiR, München 2015 Meetfactory, AiR, Prague |
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| Collections | |
| 2023 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Artothek, Berlin 2022 Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest 2022 Ferenczy Museum, Szentendre |
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| Bibliography (selection) | |
| Magdaléna Michlová, ’’About Dirt, Memes and Hope’’, in →artalk.cz, 26.7.2023; in →blokmagazine.com, 28.8.2023 Other Knowledge, ed. by Tereza Jindrová, Eva B. Riebová, MeetFactory, Prague, 2022 Youhu: The New Generation of Hungarian Contemporary Art, ed. by Gábor Rieder, Zita Sárvári, Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest, 2022 On Easternfuturism – Kajet Journal 5, Winter 2022 Mark Fridvalszi, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, ’’Mark Fisher in Stalin City’’, in →The Future of … 1, published by Kajet Journal and Dispositiv Books, 2022 Flóra Barkóczi, ’’Utópista ’’deejaying’’ a posztinternet kultúrában’’, in artportal.hu, 22.5.2022 Łukasz Białkowski, ’’Wesoły śpiew technoszamanów’’, in →Szum Magazine, 2022/36. Ármin Tillmann, ’’A többlettudat öröme’’, in artportal.hu, 27.4.2022 Endre Cserna, ’’68 89 21–22 420’’, in →Artmagazin Online, 20.4.2022 The Iskra Delta Project Catalogue, ed. by Tjaša Pogačar, Nevenka Šivavec, 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 2021 Bertalan Eged, ’’Esztétikus kísértetidézés, avagy bozótharc Mark Fisher sötét erdejében’’, in Apokrif, 2021/3. Király Péter, ’’A jövőbe tekinteni, a jelenben élni, a múltban keresni’’, in →prae.hu, 26.6.2021 Attila Sirbik, ’’Szellemek utáni áhitat – interjú Fridvalszki Márkkal’’, in Magyar Narancs, 2021/12. Maximilian Wahlich, ’’Poppige Kunst fürs cleane Foyer’’, in →art-in-berlin, 27.2.2021 Bea Istvánkó, ’’Tökéletes formák, tökéletes vonalak’’, in →Új Művészet, 2021/2. AVE 6, in →Ave Magazine, 2020/1. Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács, ’’A hantológia hontalansága’’, in →Café Bábel Nr. 81: Techno, 2020 Attila Sirbik, ’’Szövevényes mindmap’’, in →Új Művészet, 2020/6. Tayler Patrick Nicholas, ’’A múltra támaszkodva dolgozni a jövőért’’, in →Új Művészet, 2.9.2020 Attila Sirbik, ’’A jelen mint a víz felszínén remegő, gradiensekben pompázó 4K olajfolt – interjú Fridvalszki Márkkal’’, in →Új Művészet, 2.9.2020 János Schneller, ’’Talán csak nosztalgia …’’, in →Új Művészet, 10.3.2020 Where Do We Go from Here, ed. by Jan Zálesák, Jen Kratochvil, 7th Sympozium Litomyšl / Galerie Miroslava, Litomyšl, 2019 →Rosebuds: Hidden Stories of Things, ed. by D21 Kunstraum Leipzig e. V., Lena Brüggemann, Francis Hunger, Fabian Reimann, Leipzig, 2018 Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, ’’Otherworldly Euphorias’’, in Artmagazin, 2018 Nemes Z. Márió, ’’Nosztalgiakocka’’, in artkartell.hu, 17.11.2017 Róza Tekla Szilágyi, ’’A technorégész’’, in artkartell.hu, 29.1.2017 Eszter Márkus, ’’Y-generációs absztraktok’’, in artportal.hu, 12.1.2017 Márió Z. Nemes, ’’The Simulacrum Bleeds Matter’’, in Artlocator, 2016/3. →Intermarium, ed. by Łukasz Białkowski, Piotr Sikora, BWA SOKÓŁ Gallery of Contemporary Art / SOKÓŁ Małopolska Cultural Centre − Institution of the Province of Małopolska, Nowy Sącz, 2016 Attila Sirbik, ’’Totális most’’, in →Artmagazin Online, Nr. 88, 2016/4. J.A. Tillmann, ’’A légószürke szépsége’’, in →prae.hu, 4.7.2016 Szilvia Fekete, ’’A polírozott króm ötven árnyalata’’, in Élet és Irodalom, 2016/14. Attila Sirbik, ’’Beszélgetés Fridvalszki Márkkal’’, in Balkon, 2016/1. Szilvi Német, ’’Totális most’’, in artportal.hu, 16.12.2014 Emese Mucsi, ’’The Stars Look Different Today’’, in →Balkon, 2013/1. |
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