Orshi Drozdik
Orshi Drozdik (born February 15, 1946 in Abda , Hungary ) is a Hungarian performance and conceptual artist as well as a painter and graphic artist. She lives and works in Budapest and New York.
Life
Drozdik attended the Pedagogical College in Szeged from 1965 to 1969 , where she studied drawing and hungarology . From 1970 she studied at the Budapest University of Fine Arts , where she was initially a student of the painter Szilárd Iván (1912–1988) and the graphic artist Károly Raszler (1925–2005) and finally from 1974 to 1977 she was part of the graphic master class. Between 1976 and 1978 she worked with the post-conceptual Hungarian artist group Rósza.
In 1978 Drozdik left socialist Hungary and traveled to Canada via Amsterdam and finally to New York City in 1980. There she worked with the artist group Colab . She taught at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia (1989–1990, Department of Sculpture), New York University (1991–1993, Fine Arts), University of California, San Diego (1994–1995, Fine Arts) and the Central European University in Budapest (1997/99, Gender Studies ).
In her installations, performative and conceptual works, Drozdik often deals with basic feminist questions, such as the normative representation and perception of the female body. She belongs to the first generation of feminist artists in Hungary.
Work
In her early works Individual Mythology (1975–1977) and Nude Model (1977), starting with the role of mostly female nude models in classical art education, she questions female identity anew. By making herself the protagonist of the work, i.e. identifying with the model, a reinterpretation from a passive object to an active subject succeeds. In the photographic series Individual Mythology , she also replaces the static poses with dance movements. In this act of liberation Drozdik identifies with pioneers of modern dance, whose choreographies she emulates.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1994: Manufacturing the Self, the Hairy Virgin, Sao Paulo Biennale
- 2001/2002: Adventure and Appropriation 1975–2011, A Retrospective, Ludwig Muzeum , Budapest
- 2002: Passion after Appropriation, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Pavillon, Zagreb
- 2009/2010: Gender Check. Role models in the art of Eastern Europe, mumok Museum of Modern Art and Ludwig Foundation Vienna / Zachęta National Gallery
- 2011: The Other Venus, Modem Center for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen
- 2018/19: Medea picks up! Radical women artists behind the Iron Curtain, Albertinum (Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau)
literature
- László Százados: Drozdik, Orshi (Orsolya) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 29, Saur, Munich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-598-22769-8 , p. 518.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Susanne Altmann et al. (Ed.): Medea picks up! Radical artists behind the Iron Curtain, exhibition cat. Albertinum (Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau), Dresden 2018/19 . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2019, p. 94 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drozdik, Orshi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drozdik, Orsolya |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian performance and concept artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abda , Hungary |