Olivér Horváth, Kitti Gosztola, Szilvi Német | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Olivér Horváth, Kitti Gosztola, Szilvi Német

Kitti Gosztola lives and works in Budapest. As an artist, she examines the relationship between natural sciences (in narrower sense botany and zoology) and visual arts. The ecological, socio-political and cultural-historical aspects always get a prominent role in her research-based works. Her site-specific projects are created with the assistance and collaboration of different scientific institutions and organisations.

Olivér Horváth is interested in the entanglements of art, design and politics and in the twilight zones of mediums. A critic, he is also active in SDWG/Téreltérítés, a collective bending the theories and praxes of spatiality.

Szilvi Német is a Budapest-based art historian, curator and critic currently working at Kitchen Budapest (media lab). She is the project leader of the annual Crosstalk Video Art Festival  former project manager of Higgs Field artists-run space and ex-director of Dovin Gallery. She is reguarly publishing at tranzitblog, Artlocator and Artmagazin. Her research topics stretch the post-digital practices and nationalism studies.

Grain of Salt

01.05.-01.09.2017.

The discipline of biology came of age during the second half of the 19th century, at the same period when emerging nation states were filing confronting claims to territorial authority and knowledge. The forming network of Biological Stations all over the world meant to colonize the last unknown enclave, the vast seas and oceans for the scientific reason, while they also served the cause for imperialistic drive of state expansion and acquisition. Rijeka / Fiume constituted Hungary’s only coastal town, condensing the whole topos of the sea and the harbour, from science and commerce to cultures and fantasies. Our research focuses on the entanglement of methodological nationalism in the natural sciences on the one part, and political myth-making on the other in the turbulent era of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and after its dissolution. While the empire aspired to become a maritime power and join the global game for control, the lost empire and its successor state (Hungary) maintained this ostentatious desire by overcompensating for its loss.  

SKC Gallery

→ www.skc.uniri.hr/projekti/galerija-skc/

SKC (Student cultural centre) Gallery is located in OKC Palach and led by students from the University of Rijeka. Gallery’s programme covers topics during a three-month period in which a certain problem is discussed and mapped. Except exhibitions, the gallery has a goal to experiment with other forms (lectures, workshops, public debates, screenings, etc.). For every three-month period a hybrid catalogue – magazine is published. By its nature, it’s opened for various collaborations with production partners, civil associations and institutions. Part of the programme is left for other student projects and guest exhibitions. The primary goal of the gallery is to offer a cultural programme in which the users will actively take part in its creation, to open space for critical dialogue and develop a quality cultural platform.