Represented artist

Gallai Judit Ágnes

festészet · installáció · videó · performansz

A creator who explores the cultural archetypes of femininity and the questions of identity through painting, installation, video and performance.

Gallai Judit Ágnes (Debrecen, 1988.) has as her defining theme the culturally defined archetypes of femininity that span across ages. The mythological figures that come to life in her pictures appear with the artist’s own face, suggesting the timeless nature of self‑analysis and the search for identity. The dominant red in her work carries, alongside personal attachment, culturally embedded messages such as symbols of life‑death, blood, femininity and sexuality.

Besides painting, his installations, video works and performances are also tools of artistic expression, in which the striking use of colour is likewise evident. The artist often reveals his nakedness in nature by dyeing his skin red, making space for artistic revelation. Gallai’s surreal works are born from the hybridisation of human and animal bodies, and from a fusion of realistic and sacred painterly details.

Works at byGodot

Earlier professional biography

Full biography and exhibition history

1988, Debrecen

Studies:

2017 – 2018 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, fine arts teacher, Budapest

2012 – 2017 Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, painter, Budapest

2015 Higher School of Art and Design Marseille‑Mediterranean (ESADMM)

2011 – 2012 Eszterházy Károly College, visual representation, painter, Eger

Individual exhibitions:

2022 NOCTURNAL NARRATIVE, Godot Labor Gallery, Budapest

2020 TRIA MALA: Fire, Sea, Woman, Új Műhely Galéria, Szentendre

2019 KÁLI'S LANGUAGE, B24 GALLERY, Debrecen

2018 INNER RED, ONKAF Gallery, New Delhi, India

Group exhibitions:

2022 Derkó 2022, Műcsarnok, Budapest

2022 My Place, Manyi - Cultural Workshop, Budapest

Day of the Dead, Digital Alfeñique Fair, Toluca, Mexico, 2021

2021 UNBOXED, MODEM, Modern And Contemporary Art Centre, Debrecen

2021 Transgenerational Effects, Fire Station, Valley of the Arts, Kapolcs

2021 Garten Balaton, Contemporary Art Base, Lovas

2021 Godot Contemporary Auction, Godot Gallery, Budapest

2021 Fake Exhibition, Godot Laboratory, Budapest

2021 Art in a Box, MODEM, Debrecen

2020 Art Market, Godot Gallery, Budapest

2020 Resident Art Fair, APA / Ateliers Pro Arts Art Centre / A.P.A. Gallery, Budapest

2020 European Diversity Card signing ceremony, Mexican Embassy, Budapest

2020 Godot ART Fair, Goldberger Contemporary Arts Institute, Budapest

2020 Kol-Labor, Godot Labor Gallery, Budapest

2020 Anomália/Animalia, The Red Door, Budapest

2020 Contemporary Public Space, ArtGarden Festival, MANK, Szentendre

2020 Resident Art Garten, Contemporary Art Base, Lovas

2020 Protection, Rugógyár Gallery, Budapest

2019 ANYAG, MODEM, Modern and Contemporary Art Centre, Debrecen

2019 RAF, Resident Art Fair, APA / Ateliers Pro Arts Centre / A.P.A. Gallery, Budapest

2019 Artmessenger, Contemporary Arts Fair, Kubik coworking, Budapest

2019 YG ART FAIR, Goldberger Kortárs Művészeti Intézet, Budapest

2019 Resident Art Garten, Kortárs Művészeti Bázis, Lovas

2019 Self Observatory, Momentán Courtyard, Valley of Arts, MANK, Kapolcs

2019 ZiggY Art Fair, Pintér Galéria, Budapest

2019 Budapest Bizarre, LOFT B111, Budapest

2018 Ab ovo, Goldberger Contemporary Art Institute, Budapest

2018 YG ART FAIR, Goldberger Contemporary Art Institute, Budapest

2018 Resident Art Fair, APA Galéria, Budapest

2018 LATARKA Contemporary Art Fair, Patyolat Test Market, Budapest

2018 High Five, Belgrád rkp. 27, Budapest

2017 New Wave, B24 Gallery, Debrecen

2017 YG ART FAIR, Godot Gallery, Zsilip, Budapest

2017 Contemporary Craft Art Fair, Latarka, Budapest

2017 Óriási, H2O Gallery, Debrecen

2017 Entrance, Budavári mikve, Art Moments, Budapest

2017 Esszencia, B24 Galéria, Debrecen

2017 SZIGET Festival, Godot Gallery, Budapest

2016 Variations in Natural Art, Műcsarnok, Budapest

2016 Godot Pop‑up, Godot Gallery, Budapest

2016 Kavalkád, Living Gallery, Budapest

2016 Arts Fair, Latarka, Budapest

2016 Cost Festival, Patyolat, Budapest

2016 Scholarship award ceremony, Ari Kupsus Gallery, Budapest

2015 Opening, Living Gallery, Budapest

2015 ESADMM, Marseille, France

2015 ENTRE AUTRE: “Fête foreign”, Galerie MAD Marseille, France

2015 Open Day, Sandarbh International Residency, Partapur, Rajasthan, India

2014 Gender brush, Barcsay room, Budapest

2013 Visual Arts, A38, Budapest

2013 ARTplacc, Tihany

2013 Feminin Maszkulin, Műterem Gallery, Debrecen

2012 Youth House, Debrecen

2011 MFG 25 Gallery, Debrecen

2011 My Box, Debrecen

2009 Ferenc Medgyessy Memorial Museum, Debrecen

Awards:

2022 Derkovits Gyula Art Scholarship

2017 Godot Gallery Mezőszemerei Artist Village award

2016 the Godot Gallery Mezőszemerei Museum Award

2016 Ari Kupsus Gallery “Lora Barnabai” Award, Monaco

2016 Ari Kupsus Gallery ‘Krisztina Kernács & Tamás Nemes’ award

2016 Ari Kupsus Gallery ‘Eliane Pickermann’ award, France

2015 Erasmus scholarship, Marseille, France

Artist residencies, residency programmes:

2021 Godot Gallery Artists' Settlement, Mezőszemere

2019 ANYAG, Debrecen International Artists' Colony, Debrecen

2019 Godot Gallery Artist Colony, Mezőszemere

2018 Godot Gallery Artists' Colony, Mezőszemere

2017 FRISE Artists' House, Hamburg, Germany

2017 Minimum Party, Tiszástő, Romania

2017 Godot Pop up, Mezőszemere

2015 Erasmus Program, ESADMM, Marseille, France

2015 Sandarbh International Artists Residency, Partapur, Rajasthan, India

2014 Nature Art Symposium, Noszvaj

2013 ARTplacc, Tihany

2012 Assistant, Geumgang, Nature Art Biennale, Gongju, South Korea

Publications:

2020 Luca Cserhalmi: Human‑arced god‑statue, Life and Literature, Fourteenth year, 34 number, 2020 August 19 https://www.es.hu/cikk/2020-08-19/cserhalmi-luca/emberarcu-istenallat.html?fbclid=IwAR1K8tcEbco84hzficRc8UteAM4047CU98JtTuANmQjc1bi4NnucDwkOjPY

2020 Kocsis Katica: Breaking Through the Female Deities – The Paintings of Judit Ágnes Gallai https://kultura.hu/gallai-judit-agnes-noi-test/?fbclid=IwAR1e4qV8UiHrwcGVnI9qngYGv7382rysaBBVsvVfT1zlnkIg53YXA5Fdkro

2020 Short encounters podcast: People defend themselves with art, Part Four: Gallai Judit Ágnes: The red 50 shade, conversation with Bánki Ákos and Schneller János, Resident Art Budapest

https://soundcloud.com/kortarstalalkozasok/gallai-judit-agnes-a-voros-50-arnyalata?fbclid=IwAR07gq4mn-RPNSfMNLSRTRVEvoesV-70PYyqs3xCHep-maHtGwlrYYPY-Rc

2020 Ványa Zsófia: This is My Body – the art of Judit Ágnes Gallai

https://orszagut.com/cikk/a-het-alkotoja-17-het?fbclid=IwAR1hxzB1-us0JhBEeSCGdFVjlFfEiabubtMIadup1P68ScYDn3FsANUKKIY

2020 Fülöp Tímea: Mythic Transgressions – Anomalies of Becoming Human and Animal, New Art

https://www.ujmuveszet.hu/2020/10/mitikus-transzgressziok/?fbclid=IwAR1MHWht46xdapgjABaWBnZ9nMWxqG2JDGk3r8sGPtT7lTIfOc2_qOVOli4

2019 Annamária Batka, Piruló Feminizmus, interview with Gallai Judit Ágnes, visual arts, Contemporary Visual Arts, Resident Art Fair, Budapest

https://kortarskepzo.blog.hu/2019/12/01/pirulo_feminizmus_968fbclid=IwAR2_WPWHNp4MoTaJi4pxnzuopJ1NFHcNdDMm1QcdBwWMjDd1xgMumKrWmis

2019 Nagy T. Katalin: Lilith, Káli, Hekaté, Gallai Judit Ágnes Exhibition, ÚjMűvészet, 2019 March, 26-27. page

https://www.ujmuveszet.hu/2021/04/13827/

2019 Annamária Szabó: Káli’s language is radiant abstractionhttp://tiszatajonline.hu/?p=122710

2017 Gallai Judit Ágnes: Photoshopping the World, NOW/HOW, Artists’ Conversation on Hyperculture, Hamburg, 22-23 pages

2016 Lajos Lóska: Branches, New Art, 2016 September, 42 page

2016 Nature Art Variations, Publisher: Műcsarnok Nonprofit Kft., 61., 62., 178 page