Judit Lilla MOLNÁR
"At the heart of my work are the existential, psychological and social challenges facing my generation. In my large-scale installations, often reminiscent of the world of playgrounds, I seek to address the dilemmas of "being an adult" through art. For me, play is both a formal inspiration and a conceptual anchor: a symbolic tool that can represent complex processes and relationships in an elemental way. My art is shaped at the interface of personal experience and social experience, sensitive to the systemic forces that determine individual life paths. I complement my conceptual thinking with conscious formal experimentation; the power of situational dynamics to create meaning is important to me. In my work, I open a dialogue with the viewer on general human and social issues, starting from individual experiences."
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Born: Eger, 1991
Lives and works in Budapest.
EDUCATION
2019 - 2023 Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE), Budapest - Doctoral School
Thesis Supervisor: Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák
2015 - 2016 Budapest, Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE), Budapest - teacher of fine arts
2013 - 2013 Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HfBK), Dresden, Germany - Sculptor (Erasmus)
2010 - 2015 Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE), Budapest - Painter
2009 - 2010 Eszterházy Károly College (EKF), Eger - Basic course in Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Snakes and Ladders, The Space - Contemporary Art Gallery and Management, Budapest
2024
Trainsition, STOPS AND STATIONS, Bad Aussee Train station, Austria
Underconstructions / Im Aufbau, afo – architekturforum oberösterreich, Linz, Austria
Outside-the-box 2., Székesfehérvár Community and Cultural Centre, Székesfehérvár
2023
Outside-the-box, ISBN book+gallery, Budapest
2021
I do it on purpose! - Intervention in the shop window, Puccs Contemporary Art, Budapest
Planned Accident, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2019
Barriers in our minds, Óbuda Circle, Budapest
Parallel Strategies, Šopa Gallery, Košice, Slovakia
2017
My target was in Mooste, FKSE 2 Studio, Budapest
Individual goals and common interests, Hungarian Workshop Gallery, Budapest
2015
You can't eat ice cream in a uniform /Donka Gergellyel joint exhibition/, Móra Ferenc Museum, Szeged
You can't eat ice cream in a uniform /Donka Gergellyel joint exhibition/, Labor Gallery, Budapest
2012
Little Black Wedding, CDFŰ Kultúrpince, Budapest, Hungary.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
How old are you? Exhibition of the MODEM Public Collection from a generational approach, MODEM, Debrecen
LISTENING | Focus > Europe V, Schafhof – European Art Forum Upper Bavaria, Freising, Germany
2023
Islands and their potential, AQB Project space, Budapest
„kammer_flimmern” OSTRALE Biennale O23 – 14th International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts, Dresden
2022
Positive Bestiary/ Project833, Csongrád Gallery,
Borderline 2.0, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
Patterns - embroidery in contemporary art, Deák 17 Gallery, Budapest
Exploration - Restoration, FKSE, Studio Geléria, Budapest
Renewal, Main Monastery Exhibition Hall, Pannonhalma
Borderline, MODEM, Debrecen
2021
Patron 2021, Q Contemporary, Budapest
BREATHTURN – Ostrale Biennale for Contemporary Art, 13th International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts, Drezden
Remaining leftovers, FKSE, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Art unboxed – behind the glass, MODEM (showroom), Debrecen
Art in a box, Main Square MODEM container, Debrecen
2020
Move your body – show attitude, Stadt Galerie Lehen, Salzburg
MMXX // archive // time capsule, FKSE, Stúdió Galéria, Budapest
2019
Patron 2019 - Contemporary Art Fair, FKSE, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
Short List 2019 Esterházy Art Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
SETUP, MAMÜ gallery, Budapest
Home / Art project about housing, ex - Home Store, Budapest
FKSE+ 2019, Art+Text Gallery, Budapest
2018
Design Resistance, MODEM, Debrecen
HighFive!, Belgrad rakpart 27., Budapest
Are these our best years? - Early career perspectives, MODEM, Debrecen
Therapy, Central Gallery, OSA Archive, Budapest
House Blessing, Labor Gallery, Kunstküche, Budapest
From Paper to Cloud, Labor Gallery, Budapest
Open Space - Exhibition of the Mezőszemerei Artists' Colony, Arkt Art Supply, Eger
2017
Patron 2017 - Contemporary Art Fair, FKSE, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
Living Hungarian Painting 2017 - The HAL, Bálna, Budapest
Tallinn Art Week 2017, Freedom Square, Tallinn
Last Layer II, Udvarház Gallery, Veresegyháza,
MFG30, MFG_B gallery, Debrecen
GAME staple II, MODEM, Debrecen
Private Oasis, MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest
2016
Patron 2016 - Contemporary Art Fair, FKSE, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
Survival strategies, Labor Gallery, Budapest
Emerging Adulthood, FKSE, Studio Gallery, Budapest
MAMÜ Társaság Gyermely Artists' Colony exhibition, K.A.S. Gallery, Budapest
What is a visual artist? FKSE's traditional annual exhibition, Labor Gallery, Budapest
President street, Bartók 1 gallery, Budapest
2015
Patron 2015 - Contemporary Art Fair, FKSE, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
Studio corner, István Csók's painting in the mirror of our contemporaries, Barcsay Hall, Budapest
Aperitif, LAOS, Budapest
Quotation mark - Painting Day exhibition, Bálna, Budapest
Eurasian Solidarity, Konkuk University Gallery, Seoul
Gallery by Night/ I. Future Art Salon, FKSE, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Diploma 2015, Barcsay hall, Budapest
Reflections - MOVING and COlLab solo exhibition, MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest
Art in Motion, MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest
2014
PROTEKT, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
The most - The FKSE's annual exhibition of traditionalists, Ráció Kiadó, Budapest
Parkfiktion 2, Bunker Gallery, Budapest
Opening exhibition, City Shop, Budapest
Parkfiktion, Bunker Gallery, Budapest
Ari Kupsus competition exhibition, Ari Kupsus Gallery, Budapest
Amadeus competition exhibition, Barcsay Hall, Budapest
Ludwig scholarship application, Barcsay Hall, Budapest
Working Title, MAGMA, Sepsiszentgyörgy
III Mazars Gallery Art Exhibition, Mazars Gallery, Budapest
Veronika's canvas, Godot Gallery, Budapest
Gender brush III, Barcsay Hall, Budapest
2013
Patron 2013 - Contemporary Art Fair, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
Dammbruch/2, Ve.Sch, Vienna
Feminine-masculine, Műterem Gallery, Debrecen
Gallery by Night/ Spelling, FKSE, Studio Gallery, Budapest
AUS, Erasmus exhibition, HfBK Galerie, Desden
DOUBLETHINK, amaTár, Budapest
Salon in Progress, MÜSZI, Budapest
Ludwig competition exhibition, MKE, Budapest
LINEUP, Exhibition of new members of the MAMŰ Society, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest
28/31, Exhibition of new members of FKSE, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
2012
Mill Tour, Art Mill Modern and Contemporary Art Centre, Szentendre
Fresh 2012, Kogart house, Budapest
Gender brush II, Paks Picture Gallery, Paks
2011
Amadeus competition exhibition, Barcsay Hall, Budapest
Gender brush I., MKE lobby, Budapest
AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS / NOMINATIONS
2024
Esterházy Art Dating Prize - winning entry with curator Krisztián Gábor Török
2022
Budapest Gallery Artists Exchange Programme
ÚNKP scholarship
Ludwig Research Fellowship
2020
ÚNKP scholarship
Inside express award
Contemporary Trianon Competition - Grand Prize
2019
Esterházy Art Prize 2019 / short list
2018
MODEM award 2018 / short list
2017
Budapest Gallery Artists Exchange Programme
2016
Union-Amadeus Residency Programme
2014
Republic Scholarship
Amadeus Creators' Fellowship ( two-time award)
2012
Amadeus grant for young creators
Erasmus scholarship
RESIDENCY PROGRAMMES
2024
Amadeus Creator's incentiveSalt Lake Cities - STOPS AND STATIONS, 2024 European Capital of Culture Salzkammergut, Bad Aussee, Austria Prize
2023
afo – Architekturforum Oberösterreich, Linz, Austria
Schafhof – Europäisches Kunstforum Oberbayern, Freising, Germany
2019
K.A.I.R. - Košice Artist in Residence, Košice, Slovakia
2018
Salzburger Kunstverein – Stadt Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
2017
MoKS Residency, MoKS, Mooste, Estonia
MEMBERSHIPS
2012 - Studio of Young Artists Association, Budapest
ARTWORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Modem collection, Debrecen
Salzburg-Stadt Sammlung, Salzburg, Austria
MAGMA contemporary collection, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania
Fundamenta- Amadeus Art Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
PRINTED PUBLICATIONS
2023
"kammer_flimmern" exhibition catalogue O23 14th International Ostrale Biennale, pp. 194-195.
2022
Borderlinecase exhibition catalogue, pp. 40-45.
Attila Sibrik:Avoiding self-colonization - Interview with Tamás Don on the exhibition Borderline, New Art 2022./3, pp. 26-31 (double page image, pp. 28-29)
2021
Atemwende exhibition catalogue O21 13th International Ostrale Biennale, pp. 42-45.
Inside express, Balkon 2021./5, 1-2., 44-46. o.
Gergely Nagy: Synchronicity - Remaining Remnants, Balkon 2021./7, p. 24-26.
Tamás Don: Inner Games - Conversation with Judit Lilla Molnár, Újművészet 2021./1, p. 32-35.
2019
Short list 2019 Esterházy Art Award Catalogue, 33-34. page.
Inside express, Balcony issue 2019/11-12, pp. 1-2, 52-53.
2018
Are these our best years? exhibition catalogue, pp. 132-137.
Norbert Vass: I am young and tired - Are these our best years? New Art, November 2018, p. 18-19
Dani Veress: Never the worse - About the exhibition "These are our best years?", Apokrif Winter 2018, Vol. XI No. 4, No. 14, p. 59.
József Mélyi: Threshold Therapy, Műértő June 2019, Vol. XXI No. 6, p. 3.
Apokrif Summer 2018, Vol. XI No. 2, cover, p. 10.
Katalin T. Nagy: Individual goals, common interests; exhibition of Judit Lilla Molnár, 19 October - 10 November 2017, Hungarian Workshop, 506th year, No 183 - 2018/1, pp. 60-62.
2017
Katalin T. Nagy: Individual goals, common interests; solo exhibition by Judit Lilla Molnár, Újművészet 2017/11 p. 57.
2016
Inside express, Balkon 2016/3 no., 1-2 o.
2014
II National Watercolour Triennial catalogue, p. 90.
Judit Csatlós: What we can do - Interview with Katalin Tímár and Marta Czene Most - about the annual exhibition of the FKSE, Balkon, 2014/11-12, p. 38.
Imre Bukta: Team Building in Mezőszemeré - Creative Camp for "artistic" students, New Art XXV. issue 05, September 2014, p. 21.
Working Title group exhibition catalogue, contemporary medium 2014/03, p.27.
Dani Veress: Salt for the mind, sugar for the eye (on Judit Lilla Molnár's experiments in textual art), Apokrif 2014/1, spring issue, pp. 54-56.
2013
Lajos Lóska:On Common Ground - Exhibition of the new members and guest sculptors of MaMű, New Art XXIV., issue 04, April 2013, p. 36.
2012
Veress Dani: Generational cross-section, Flash Art Vol. I No. 05, September-October 2012, p. 93.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
2024
https://artkartell.hu/palyazat/690-molnar-judit-lilla-under-construction-im-aufbau
https://kultura.hu/megvannak-az-esterhazy-art-datin-idei-nyertesei/
https://www.prae.hu/news/44913-molnar-judit-lilla-es-torok-krisztian-nyert-az-esterhazy-art-dating-palyazatan/
https://amu.hvg.hu/2024/05/25/molnar-judit-lilla-es-torok-krisztian-nyerte-az-esterhazy-art-dating-dijat/
2023
https://artkartell.hu/bigpicture/585-molnar-judit-lilla-outside-the-box-isbn?fbclid=IwAR0Y6MlVxCrEcTiuWMdor4Vdt5g3N2QMo1nPAZxrBIZrD0LDzNeUOoOutiE
https://www.saechsische.de/dresden/kultur/kammerflimmern-bei-der-ostrale-5869481.html?fbclid=iwar09zjwxfsyi27skfjufd4aqsiabxr26qekznguqnmu3cejrfgoo2wzfah4
https://www.isbnbooks.hu/2023/09/15/molnar-judit-lilla-outside-the-box/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ck0-zPFeM
2022
https://hypeandhyper.com/hatareset-kozep-kelet-europai-identitas-fiatal-kepzomuveszek-munkaiban/
https://ujmuveszet.hu/nyilik/kiallitas/mintazatok/
https://www.artmagazin.hu/articles/pszeudoposzt/megujulas_az_allandosagban
https://pannonhalmifoapatsag.hu/megujulas-kortars-idoszaki-kiallitas/
2021
Fábián Takács: RE-PRINT! Judit Lilla Molnár: Tervezett véletlen című tárlata a Budapest Galériában
Fábián Takács: Sometimes you have to play not only chess but also limbo in your mind
Tayler Patrick Nicholas: Interview with Judit Lilla Molnár
Secondary Archive
2020
Edvy Athina: ON THE CONDITIONS OF NATIONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT - Interview with Judit Lilla Molnár
Apocryphal quarantine special issue
The artists of the Bartók Quarter: Judit Lilla Molnár
