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Om Bori   *born in Berlin.

  

graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MA. Intermedia Studies) and the Berlin University of Arts (Meisterschülerin, Fine Arts).

She is represented by Art of Future, a member of the the Studio of Young Artists’ Association in Budapest and the Saloon Network in Berlin.

 

Bori´s work combines still and moving images with different narratives genres, from memoir to documentary through to song and tale. It explores the intersection of visual and verbal exposition by means of videos, animations, drawings, objects, rhythms and algorithms. Point of departure are studies of a milieu, place or landscape and the human and nonhuman relations enfolding therein. Conceptually, it directs attention to how structural forces steer individual and collective lives, and how the individual and the collective attempt to resist such structural determination, whether through labour, hope, love, migration or madness.

 

Recent results are a two-channel video installation about the life story of a schizophrenic woman (Der Apparat, 2020); a three-channel video installation about the symbolic and geographical significance of the Danube river in the intergenerational history of a central European migrant family (Maria Josefin Margarete, 2019); and an algorithm-created graphic rendering of Hundrieser's sculpture "Berolina" as a mythical figure of female invincibility (I won ́t be this way very long, 2018).

education

   

2024

Master of Education, Faculty of Fine Arts, Berlin University of the Arts /

Department of Education and Psychology, Free University of Berlin

2021

Meisterschülerin - Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Berlin University of the Arts

2019

Absolventin - Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Berlin University of the Arts

2014

Intermedia Art, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
2008

A-levels, Fine Art Secondary School, Budapest

 

 

scholarships & awards

   

2024

Artist in residence - Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Stadt Salzburg

2023

PROMOS scholarship, mobility grant by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

2023

Artist in residence, Guthmann Akademie, Kulturamt Spandau

2020

OFFCITY Artist in residence, Pardubice

2019

AIR - Artist in residence Niederösterreich, Krems an der Donau

2017

BARTR Art Residency, Budapest

2014

Best of Diploma, Barcsay-Hall, Hungarian University of Fine Arts,

Budapest

nominated:

2022

President’s Fine Arts Award, Faculty of Fine Arts, Berlin University of the Arts

2021

Karl-Hofer scholarship, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft

2020

14th InOut Festival Prize,

Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk

 

shortlisted:

2023

TÓTalJOY Prize

2021

ACAX Leopold Bloom Young Visual Art Award

2021

Gyula Derkovits Fine Arts Scholarship

2019

DECODE Architecture and Art Prize

 

      UPCOMING:

      House of Arts and Literature | soloshow | Pécs | HUN

       Motherboard space | groupshow | Vienna | AUT

       E-WERK Luckenwalde | groupshow | Brandenburg | DEU

 
solo & duo | group | biennales || screenings ||| performances ||||

solo & duo

2024

Aqueous Creatures, Appendix Art Hub, Künstlerhaus Salzburg (AUT)

Women/Water/Bodies, duo show with Wura-Nathasa Ogunji, Liget Gallery, Budapest (HUN)

2023

3,267 footsteps, Kunstraum Juraplatz, Biel/Bienne (CHE)

2022

women–water-bodies, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin (DEU) vimeo.com/interview 

pure water, DAS KAPiTAL project space & art association, Berlin (DEU)

2021

tellmetale, MŰTŐ exhibition space, Budapest (HUN) artportal.hu/magazin/az-orulet-es-a-taj-sznobriado-tajekoztatasi-fokozat 

bodies of water, University of Ghana, School of Arts (GHA)

2019

upstream danube, Kunstquartier Krems, AIR – artist in residence, Krems an der Donau (AUT)

matrilines, Gallery by Night, The Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HUN) artmagazin.hu/ajanljuk

2018

I won't be this way very long, Art+Text Gallery, Budapest (HUN) artkartell.hu/budapesttol-berolinaig 

group

 

2024

YOUR WATER OUR WATER, DELPHI_space, Freiburg | aqb art centre, Budapest | U10 Art Space, Belgrade (DEU | HUN | SRB)

stiction, Kunstzentrum E-WERK Luckenwalde (DEU)

2023

Satelliting Groundfloor, Okay Artspace, Athens (GRC)

Family history eludes appropriation - Om Bori, Olivia Kovács, Christina Werner, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Budapest (HUN)

Unveiling_Lerántjuk a leplet, Liget Gallery, Budapest (HUN)

Queering Democracy - Binálé, Digital Art Biennal, Kristály színtér, Budapest (HUN)

DRAGONER 1.0, Super Contemporary Arts Fest, Dragoner Areal, Berlin (DEU)

videoaktion #4, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin (DEU)

Wo gehen wir denn hin?, Gutmann Akademie, Gotisches Haus, Berlin (DEU)

Berlin Art Week: Im Prozess, Gutmann Akademie, Gutshaus Neukladow, Berlin (DEU)

2022

Preis des Präsidenten der UdK Berlin: Nominiertenausstellung, Universität der Künste, Berlin (DEU)

sleeping promises, feldfünf - Projekträume im Metropolenhaus, Berlin (DEU)

KunstKaufen, Charlotte-Salomon-Saal, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Universität der Künste, Berlin (DEU)

Return to the real, Art of Future platform, Metaverse (MVRS)

2021

Om Bori, Veronika Burger, Christina Werner: Autoarchive Reloaded, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna (AUT) sn.at/mechanismen-von-erinnerung

nothing ever happened (yet), Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (DEU)

Karl-Hofer Stipendien: Nominiertenausstellung, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin (DEU)

Berlin Art Week: Visceral Collectivities, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DEU)

Berlin Gallery Weekend: Parken ist Bewegung, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DEU) tagesspiegel.de/tipps-zum-gallery-weekend

PATRON, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Q Contemporary, Budapest (HUN)

2020

Architecture/moving image, 14 In Out Festival, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk (POL)

Budapest Art Week: MMXX // archive // time capsule, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HUN)

Hungarian Month of Photography: Experience Exchange, MyMuseum Gallery, Budapest (HUN)

Closed door, 1111 Gallery, Budapest (HUN) youtu.be/m2/petofiTV

Abwehrmechanismen, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DEU)

Festival delle Arti Contemporanee, Factory Athena, Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, Firenze (ITA)

2019

International Video Art Forum, Society of Culture and Arts in Dammam (SAU)

9th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo (EGY) medinaportal.com/we_eat_it_dead

Exhale - Berlin Art Week decompression, Zönotéka artspace, Berlin (DEU)

Stadtgesichter, nomadicArt, Berlin (DEU)

2018

Unstitched Resources: A dialogue, Studio 106 - Art Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)

Stúdió '18 – Szalon / A jövőt végképp eltörölni, Barcsay-Hall, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (HUN) artmagazin.hu/ajanljuk

Working title 2, MAGMA Contemporary Art Space, Sfântu Gheorghe (ROU)

Bunt, lebendig und fantastisch ohne happy end!, Kunst- und Kultursalon Bar Babette, Berlin (DEU)

Die Kant. Der bewegliche Imperativ, Uferhallen, Studio 13, Berlin (DEU)

Parallax View, Parallax Forum, Acadamy of Fine Arts Katowice, Katowice (POL)

Systems / Shaking / Sounding, HUMlab- X, Faculty of Arts, Umeå University, Umeå (SWE)

Beyond Words: An international multidisciplinary event, Artspace Tel AvivTel Aviv (ISR)

LOCOMOTION, Audioriver Festival, NoveKino PrzedwiośniePłock (POL)

distance, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (POL)

Through the landscape, The 6. Dzielnica galleryŁódź (POL)

Sound Systems, Vox Electronica-Festival, Lviv Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv (UKR)

Areas of the posthuman and ecology, Adam Mickiewicz University Institute of European Culture, Gniezno (POL)

heroes, passing the way, hacking of the system, Zakład Karny w Wołowie, Prison in Wołów (POL)

Scrolling, Le Cube - centre de création numériqueParis (FRA)

Pokaz i spotkanie, Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu”, Toruń (POL)

2017

17th Media Art Biennale WRO 2017 - DRAFT SYSTEMS, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw (POL) issuu.com/wroartcenter/wro2017_catalogue

Timelapse, Technische Universität, Berlin (DEU) morgenpost.de/In-den-verborgenen-Gaengen

new members exhibition, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Labor Gallery, Budapest (HUN)

f***k_hegyeshalom_dok, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HUN) issuu.com/balkon-2016-9

Videoproject, Biennial of video art, Galerie 5 de l’université d’Angers, l’artothèque d’Angers et l’association 24+1, Angers & Nantes (FRA)

Speisekino Moabit 2017 #14, nomadicArt, Center for art and urbanistics, Berlin (DEU)

add rnd to chaos, 34th Chaos Communication Congress, Leipziger Exhibition GroundsLeipzig (DEU)

On parallel universes, artificial feelings and the natural(?) beauty, BSMNT artspaceLeipzig (DEU)

art conditions/work conditions, Center for leisure and creative workMyslakowice (POL)

2016

Encounter, Deegar Platform, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran (IRN)

Klaustrophilie, Galerie oqbo - Raum für Bild Wort Ton, Berlin (DEU)

2015

ARTE Video Night 7, Maison Européenne de la Photographie/International Contemporary Art Fair, Paris (FRA) youtu.be/artevideo

RANDOM:15, K11 Arts and Cultural Center/ RANDOM Gallery, Budapest (HUN)

Filmideo, 10th Annual Film and Video Screenings, Index Art Center, Newark, New Jersey (USA)

Traverse, International Video Festival, Les Abattoirs – Museum of modern and contemporary art, Toulouse (FRA)

Oodaaq, International Art Festival, Le Café du Cinéma & Ateliers de la ville en bois, Nantes (FRA)

myshow, Gallery Man, Ross & partners, Berlin (DEU)

2014

Best of Diploma, Barcsay-Hall, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (HUN)

Change, Labor Gallery, Budapest (HUN)

2013

Risk Factor – Intermedia 2.0, MODEM - Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen (HUN)

Strassz Performance, YESYES!zine release, Warte für Kunst, Kassel (DEU)

Media Analysis VII., Intermedia Department & Labor Gallery, Budapest (HUN)

publication

2021

Om Bori: Maria Josefin Margarete, Forum, Camera Austria International, Graz, 2021_154 

https://camera-austria.at/zeitschrift

Om Bori: Mine, eigenart-magazine, Berlin, 2021_6

https://eigenart-magazin.de/mine

Om Bori: Berlin Zoo Station Simulacrum, Visions of the Future, eigenart-magazine, Berlin, 2021_1

https://eigenart-magazin.de/berlin-zoo-station-simulacrum

2018

Om Bori: Hegyeshair, Served sliced - Texts and visual works from Professor Neugebauer´s class, Press of the University of Arts Berlin, 2018

https://www.udk-berlin.de/fileadmin/2_dezentral/Universitaetsbibliothek/Universitaetsbibliothek/PDF/biku-publ.pdf

Om Bori: 3267 footsteps, inside express, 2014, Balkon - Contemporary Art Magazine, Budapest, 2018_3

http://balkon.art/home/print/balkon-2018-3/

2016

Hegyeshalo_ f***k summer workshop at the border, a conversation between Om Bori, Katalin Erdődi, Attila Menesi and György Orbán, Balkon - Contemporary Art Magazine, Budapest, 2016_9

https://issuu.com/elnfree/docs/balkon-2016-9

2014                 

Om Bori: 2103 metres, 3267 footsteps, 22 minutes: rhythm, performance, narration in the urban everyday, Budapest, 2014

https://katalogus.mke.hu:443/hu/record/-/record/bibMKF00152789

lectures / talks

2023

Panel discussion, Erfahrungen und Herausforderungen für Frauen in der Kunstwelt heute, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Artist talk, Family history eludes appropriation, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Budapest

Artist talk, Im Prozess, Gutshaus Neukladow, Berlin

Artist talk, Wo gehen wir denn hin?, Gotisches Haus, Berlin

2022

Symposium, Guthmann Akademie - pleinair, Guthaus Neukladow, Berlin

Artist talk, women-water-bodies, K.I. Büro Kunstvermittlung Berlin e.V., Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin

Artist talk, pure water, DAS KAPiTAL project space & art association, Berlin

2021

Round table & artist guided tour, Autoarchive Reloaded, Künstlerhaus Wien

Lecture, bodies of water, University of Ghana, School of Arts, Accra

2020

Lecture, Architecture/moving image, Centre for Contemprorary Art, Łażnia

press

interview: künstlerhaussalzburg                    <- Aqueous Creatures

review: artportal                                                 <-   Unveiling_Lerántjuk a leplet

article: fotogeschichtenzeitschrift                    <-   Maria Josefin Margarete

article: salzburgernachrichten                           <-   Autoarchive Reloaded

review: artkartell                                                    <-   I won't be this way very long

interview: raumfuerdrastischemassnahmen.    <-   women–water-bodies

recommendation: artportal                                  <-   tellmetale

recommendation: artmagazin                            <-   matrilines

arte videonight: artetv                                        <-   3,267 footsteps

lahmacun radio: lahmacunradio                     <-   upstream danube

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