ABOUT
Krisztina Bóka (1997, Hungary) is a visual artist living in Budapest. She has been a member of the Studio of Young Photographers (FFS) since 2021. She graduated from Sculpture MA at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2023. Before that, she studied sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata and free art at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg on Erasmus+ scholarships. She also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, specializing in Intermedia, under a CEEPUS Mobility Grant. She is currently on an Erasmus+ internship in Vienna at Photo Cluster.
Her art is object and idea-based, she likes to work with materials and often interprets her sculptural issues through the tools of photography especially analog ones. Her work is conceptual and experimental, the medium is secondary to her and the focus is often on the process of creation. In her work strong sense of questioning the notion of apparatus, a reflection on the medium. She draws inspiration from observations of everyday life.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Homeward K11 Labor, Budapest
Clean yard, tidy house exhibition of Anikó Süttő & Krisztina Bóka, Nádor Galéria, Pécs
2023
From this side: a photograph, From that side: a sculpture Foton Galéria, Budapest
2021
Andrá tutto bene! Kálvária, Epreskert, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, BOOK FAIRS (SELECTED)
2024
A Clipping Frame Golf Club, Wien
Experimental Time Foton Galéria, Budapest
PRO FORMA–Abstract Tendencies in Hungarian Contemporary Photography Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
I have got used to myself enough House of Lucie, Budapest
Homesick Auróra, Budapest
2023
With fresh eyes Galerija Flu, Belgrade
Border_less Artbook Days Arter, Istanbul
Photo Wien Book Days, Vienna
Prosthesis Mamü, Budapest
2022
Folded together, bound together. Leporello, Rome
Hab a tortán Galéria Fx, Bystrica
Jahresaustellung ADBK, Nuremberg
Terítve Parthenón-fríz Terem, Budapest
The freedom of illusion MAMÜ, Budapest
Jenő Barcsay Study Grant Parthenón-fríz Terem, Budapest
2021
Consistent Griffiths-story Budapest, Parthenón-fríz Terem, Budapest
Who? With? Whom? Where? When? Foton Galéria, Budapest
2020
The word passing by Gaba. Mc young Gallery, Macerata
2019
XXII. National Biennal of Medal Art Sopron
Fundamenta-Amadeus scholarship exhibition Barcsay Terem, Budapest
2018
Summer sculptures in winter Parthenón-fríz Terem, Budapest
2017
Essence Széphárom Galéria, Budapest
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATIONS
2024 FFS art camp, Kővágóörs
2024 BAR, Szólád
2023 FFS art camp, Kővágóörs
2022 From Biccherne to contemporary artist’s book Siena
2019 The Hungarian Gathering Hello Wood, Tokaj
MEMBERSHIPS, GRANTS
2021 Studio of Young Photographers
2020 Jenő Barcsay Study Grant
2017 Jenő Kerényi Distinction
INTERNSHIPS
2024- Photo Cluster, Wien
2023-24 Ludwig Museum Budapest, Museum Education Department
2023 EKF Veszprém, Magnum Photos Workshop, assistant
2023 FUTURES Annual Event, Capa Center, assistant
2020 Art Market, Photon Gallery Vienna, assistant
STUDIES
2023-24 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Teacher of Fine Arts MA
2023 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Intermedia, Ceepus Mobility Grant
2021-22 Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, Free art, Erasmus+
2019-20 Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata, Sculpture Erasmus+
2017-23 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Sculpture artist MA