Godot Catalyst Award 2022 – Winners
Winners of the 2022 Godot Catalyst Award
We are delighted to inform you that the results of the first Godot Katalizátor Díj application have been unanimously decided by the professional jury.
Grand prize: Mrs Andrea Dudás, Fajgerné
Finalists: Luca Gőbölyös, Gábor Kerekes, Olga Kocsi & Eszter Ágnes Szabó, Barbara Nagy, Klára Petra Szabó, Anna Szigethy
In the current year, out of 162 applications, the professional jury selected the prize winner and 6 finalists.
Congratulations!
Zsűri members:
Sebastian Baden, curator, Műcsarnok Mannheim, appointed head of the Frankfurt Schirn Kunsthalle (from July 2022)
German Kinga art historian, associate professor at the Moholy‑Nagy University of Art
Borbála Laczkovich art historian, director of the Godot Contemporary Art Institute
Löbenwein Norbert collector, festival organiser
Csaba Nemes Fine artist, Associate Professor at the University of Pécs
A Godot Contemporary Art Institute With this aim he established an award supporting contemporary visual artists, to aid the burgeoning career paths of domestic contemporary visual artists who are turning 35. In the art scene it fills a gap. Godot Catalyst Award the artists' creative process alongside the exhibition opportunity, a substantial amount (1 million forintIt is also supported with an honourarium. The award’s particularity, among other things, lies in assigning the actively involved audience in the award process an opinion‑shaping role. The passive spectator becomes an active participant and can influence which finalist artist receives the 500.000.- forint admission fee..
The group exhibition of the 2022 Godot Katalizátor Award finalists was titled **HETEROTOPIA – minőségi tér**.
Heterotopia – Qualitative Space
The exhibition of the Godot Katalizátor díj finalists has been given the name HETEROTÓPIA, that is, a qualitative space, in the Foucauldian sense. The collectively descriptive label, rendered with sensory precision, points to how differentiated and human‑relationship‑defined our wider and immediate surroundings, our living space, really are.
Artists with heightened sensitivity and openness had already resonated with global “external” events that affect society as a whole before those events occurred. Consequently, most of the chosen works—primarily dealing with spatial sociological or self‑reflective themes—carry a sharp, up‑to‑date relevance. Among the diverse intermediate and conceptual projects several adopt a narrative approach, which we also sought to follow during the curation of the exhibition. One work transitions into another, while the works placed together engage in dialogue with each other and with the audience.
FAJGERNÉ DUDÁS ANDREA: Housewife's Catalyst
Exhibitions:
HETEROTOPIA – a quality space: 2022 March 24 – April 10 // Opening: 2022 March 24 . 19: 00 tickets: https://www.gica.hu/tickets
Opening: 24 March at 7 p.m.
Opening: Rozina Pátkai
FAJGERNÉ DUDÁS ANDREA – Housewife's Catalyst: 2022 May 5 – August 7