Galerie Krinzinger & Krinzinger Schottenfeld curated by Rita Kálmán & Lívia Páldi
„Sensory Tales“

Rita Kálmán is a freelance curator currently based in London. She is the initiator of the Dot.To.Dot visitor program, Budapest.

Lívia Páldi is a curator and art historian currently based in Budapest working for BTM-Kiscelli Museum Municipal Gallery. Previously, she was curator at Project Arts Centre, Dublin.

The exhibition takes its starting point from the understanding of fluid and transformative existence, relations and presences. It brings together artists with diverse mixed media practices whose collaborative and individual works interrogate the contemporary condition through the somatic and explore the relationship between bodies and the organization of space. Informed by queer ecologies, feminism, critical anthropology, re-envisioning collective futures and infrastructures the presentation revolves around notions of radical joy and intimacy, abundance, vulnerability and resilience. Sensory Tales features a line-up of artists from different generations, backgrounds and geographies whose practices share a nuanced and transformative treatment of their chosen media challenging us to reconsider how we read and understand facets of reality and identity. The works enter into conversation on many levels as artists come from different political, sociocultural and economic contexts. They have each developed an expansive visual vocabulary that might involve or be inspired by textual experiments, poetry or fiction. Their concept-based inquiries often connect to critique of dominant ideas around gender fluidity, desire, sensuality as well as implicit and explicit violence or misuse of power. The dominating genre of the exhibition is paper based work but the selection includes crafted objects, sculptures and costumes. Though the pieces and series presented employ various strategies they each embody a commitment to continually challenge our ways to question existing systems of meaning and understanding knowledge.