JUDIT KIS and CHRISTIAN ROTHMALER in dialogue
MOM x DOXA present
part 1 of the international dialogue series ‘Call Hamburg Call Budapest Call’
Vernissage: 2 November 2024, Saturday, 6pm
Guided tour with the artists and the curators: 6 November 2024, Wednesday 6pm
Dream workshop with Judit KIS: 10 November 2024, Sunday, 3PM (max. 7 p.)
(registration via e-mail: mom-doxa@gmx.de)
Finissage: 10 November 2024, Sunday 5pm
On view: 3–10 November 2024
Opening Hours: Thurs – Sun, 5pm – 7pm
Artists: Judith KIS (HU), Christian ROTHMALER (DE)
Curators: Franziska GLOZER (DE), Emese MUCSI (HU)
Despite a long-standing European neighborhood, the Budapest art scene and the Hamburg art scene know little about each other, as Emese Mucsi, director of the DOXA art space (Budapest), and Franziska Glozer, part of the curatorial collective MOM art space (Hamburg), observed. From their joint conversation, conducted in German, Hungarian, and English, the idea emerged for an exhibition format that is as strikingly simple as it is effective. ‘Call Hamburg Call Budapest Call’ is a series of dialogue exhibitions in which a Budapest-based artist meets a Hamburg-based artist. The two curators and the two artists together organize an exhibition at MOM art space and shortly afterward a second exhibition at DOXA art space. On different levels, an artistic dialogue intertwines with the mutual exploration of the respective artistic practices and art scenes of the two cities.
Judit Kis is pursuing a doctoral degree to explore the social impact of self-defining and self-revealing performances and as part of her research she spent time in Mexico to study the teachings of oneirology—dream studies—through Calea Flora. Stones are an integral part of her multimedia art, which create spaces for reflection, dreaming, and healing. The position of the subject, evident in her earlier video works, remains central; however, her interest does not only soothe this central „me,“ but also build paths to move beyond or through any predetermined or historical boundaries. Her work seeks to transform perception by empowering one’s own resources.
Rothmaler’s painterly universe, with its fantastic motifs – like the hand with 7 fingers – traverses a contemporary image-culture that is run un-ratio-logically. Well known in Hamburg, his new stone studies now may take us by surprise, even though they continue his admiration for the art of painting. In these highly realistic depictions of stones, you cannot miss the homage to the art form of a nature’s sketch. At the same time, the stones float in a lapis lazuli blue lava of watercolor and are far from the stones we walk on.
Is there a shared compound of mineral aesthetics in these artistic methods? And what role do the WORDS play in the works of Judit Kis and Christian Rothmaler?
MOM art space 