Gosztola Kitti mainly focuses on the aesthetic and social dimensions of the construction and politics of natural sciences. Her works range from tackling craftsmanship and materialities through works based on archival research to projects focusing on socio-political issues – from reinterpreting the cow appendix membranes once used in Zeppelins through reevaluating invasive species with participants outside the artworld to a long-running investigation into Hungary’s marine imaginations.
EXHIBITIONS
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2015 – 2017
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Doctoral Programme, Budapest (HU)
2007 – 2012
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Budapest (HU)
2006 – 2007
University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary Master of Fine Arts in Painting
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, MEMBERSHIPS
2019 –
Esterházy Art Award shortlisted, Budapest (HU)
Ivan Juritz Prize listed, London (UK)
2018 – 2020
Derkovits Gyula Scholarship
2017 –
Smohay Prize, King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár (HU)
Klára Herczeg Prize, Studio of Young Artists' Association (SYAA), Budapest (HU)
New National Excellence Program Scholarship, Ministry of Human Resources, Hungary
2013 –
Essl Art Award CEE shortlisted, Budapest (HU)
2008 –
Studio of Young Artists’ Association Membership, Budapest (HU)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
State of All the Land, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
2019
Flashforward, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
2018
Ruminatio, King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár (HU)
2014
Right Tree Right Place II, Liget Gallery, Budapest (HU)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Wild Garden Utopia, Volkskundemuseum Wien, Vienna (AT)
2022
Plant Kingdom, Budapest Gallery, Budapest (HU)
From József Rippl-Rónai to Dóra Maurer. Selection from the Modern Collection of the Municipal Gallery, Vaszary Galéria, Balatonfüred (HU)
Grounding ~ Seeding, tranzit.sk, Bratislava (SK)
Our Heritage – Selection from the Balázs-Dénes Collection, Q Contemporary, Budapest (HU)
2021
A Slower Dawn! – Vanishing Points 4.0, Trafó Gallery, Budapest (HU)
How to Be Together, Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara (RO)
Overview Effect, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (RS)
Invisible Spectra, Pannonhalmi Főapátság, Pannonhalma (HU)
Sketch, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
2020
Finally We Can Learn Something, Kincsem Palace (organised by Kisterem), Budapest (HU)
Errant Sound, Dystopie Festival, Berlin (DE)
2019
Esterházy Art Award Hungary 2019, Ludwig Museum – Contemporary Art Museum, Budapest (HU)
Web of Wet, Trafó Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Upon Us All Equally, Sala Omnia, Bucharest (RO)
Flashforward, Kisterem, Budapest (solo) (HU)
Conditio Inhumana, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2018
Ruminatio, King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár (solo) (HU)
Listing VII, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
Traveling with Blind Map, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
City vs. Nature, Deák17 Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Found exhibition – Lemuel Gulliver’s Remembrance, Artpool P60 Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2017
Alloy, Contemporary Art Institute, Dunaújváros (HU)
Xtro realm, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HU)
The Flying Kayak, OFF-Biennale Budapest 2, MTA Konkoly Observatory, Budapest (HU)
Grain of Salt, SKC Gallery, Rijeka (HR)
Listing VI, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
Klára Herczeg Prize, Labor Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2016
Botanics and Politics, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)
#Bartók, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (HU)
On the Edge, Tabacka Gallery, Košice (SK)
Accumulator, Budapest Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2015
Everybody has a dream/ everybody has a mistake, Miskolc Gallery, Miskolc (HU)
Artifcial Landscapes, Latarka Gallery, Polish Institute, Budapest (HU)
Syntopia, OFF-Biennale, Dover Language Center, Budapest (HU)
Change is Rare, AmA Ház, Budapest (HU)
2014
Anthropoflora, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HU)
On Paper, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Right Tree Right Place II, Liget Gallery, Budapest (solo) (HU)
Natural Studies, Faur Zsófia Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2013
Liget 30, Olof Palme House, Budapest (HU)
Nominees’ Night (ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2013), Hungarian House of Photography in Mai Manó House, André Kertész Hall, Budapest (HU)
RESIDENCIES
2020
Q21 AIR, MuseumsQuartier, Wien (AT)
2019
Brno Artists in Residence, The House of Arts, Brno (CZ)
The Morning Boat Residency, Jersey (JE)
Visegrad Artist Residency Programs (VARP), Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava (SK)
Budapest Gallery AIR program / Atelier Künstlerhaus, Salzburg (AT)
2017
Kamov Residency, Rijeka (HR)
2013
Artist Residency, MoKS, Mooste (EE)