Franciska Zólyom

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Franciska Zólyom (* 1973 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian art historian and exhibition curator . She was the curator of the German contribution to the Venice Biennale 2019.

life and work

Zólyom studied art history in Cologne and Paris from 1997 to 1999. At the same time she curated exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig in Budapest, among others by Jiří Kolář : Collages (with Richard Drury, 1998), Cindy Sherman : The Complete Untitled Film Stills (1998); Rondo. Works by Central and Eastern European artists (1999) and the retrospective of Orshi Drozdik (with Dóra Hegyi, 2002). In Budapest's public space, the actions Right: Here: Now with temporary monuments in the urban space (since 2004) and Cinemascope with art installations in the Atrium Filmtheater (Átrium Film-Színház, 2004) go back to her.

She spent a rave scholarship from the Institute for Foreign Relations (IfA) at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin. Here she realized projects such as Stan Douglas : Le Détroit (2001) and Berlin North. Contemporary artists from the Nordic countries in Berlin . (2003/2004). From 2006 to 2009 she was the director of the Institute for Contemporary Art in Dunaújváros, Hungary (Kortárs Művészeti Intézet - Dunaújváros), where she presented various site and context-specific exhibitions with international artists such as Gilbert Hage , Tamás Kaszás , Tilo Schulz , Sean Snyder , Tehnika Switzerland .

Zólyom has been director of the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK) in Leipzig since 2012 , where she has realized projects with, among others, Céline Condorelli, Andreas Fogarasi, LITTLE WARSAW, Experimental Jetset, Dainius Liškevičius and myvillages.org. She is also a member of the University Council of the Bauhaus University Weimar and of the Saxon Cultural Senate . In 2006 she was a founding member of the Hungarian section of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA).

In January 2018, Franciska Zólyom was appointed curator of the German contribution to the Venice Art Biennale 2019 by the acting Federal Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel . She presented works by the artist Natascha Sadr Haghighian .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Venice Art Biennale 2019. Since then I have been looking forward to it all the time. Franciska Zólyom in conversation with Timo Grampes. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, January 23, 2018
  2. ^ Opening Hours. Art Hall of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, Budapest
  3. ^ Artist for German pavilion - surprise coup. In: Monopoly magazine. Elke Buhr, October 25, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Zólyom, Franciska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest