Judit Fischer graduated in painting from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and completed her doctoral studies at the University of Fine Arts in 2018. In her medially diverse conceptual practice she deals with the issue of representation. For the representation of typically everyday, negligible objects, she primarily chooses the mediums of drawing, watercolour, and weaving. Often depicting artistic props, everyday objects, and products of mass consumption that are discarded after a short period of use, her scale-identical ‘still lifes’ can be seen as ironic takes on academic art, both in subject and technique.
In recent years, Fischer’s watercolours in varying sizes have become a characteristic format, capturing objects in the artist’s environment. The choice of objects themselves is idiosyncratic, unexpected, and humorous, and how they are executed is highly realistic, precise, and narratively sensitive. Through the paintings, motifs from the artist’s personal life are also expressed, since, as she became a mother, her watercolours also include objects (small toys, doll biscuits) related to parenthood. In addition to drawings and watercolours, she also enjoys working with a variety of craft techniques such as paper weaving and tapestry, which is how she came to creating latch-hook rugs, the result of which is a tapestry depicting large-scale painting palettes. In her collaborative creative practice, she also draws attention to the everyday intersections between life and art in the form of actions.
EXHIBITIONS
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2012 – 2018
DLA training, Doctoral School, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
2010 – 2011
Media Design MA, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest
2001 – 2006
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Budapest
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND MEMBERSHIPS
2015 –
Erasmus Scholarship, University of Leeds, Leeds
2011 –
Erasmus Scholarship, École Duperré, Paris
2010 –
Budapest Gallery, artist exchange programme, Cité des Arts, Paris
2005 –
Member of Studio of Young Artists Association
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Mundane Romance, Hampton by Hilton, Budapest
2021
Beautiful Is Beautiful, Kisterem, Budapest
2017
I’m too sercli, Liget Gallery, Budapest
2013
The Sun Rests Here, Inda Gallery, Budapest
2011
Allgood (with Judit Navratil), Inda Gallery, Budapest
2009
Tawaii, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
Lowercase Life, Studio Gallery, Budapest
2008
Balassi Institute, Bratislava
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Cuteness Factor, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
What the Rug?, 1111 Gallery, Budapest
2022
Fischer Family, 2B Gallery, Budapest
Tompa eszünk / élünk (as AMBPA), Culinary Institute of Europe, Budapest
2021
Permanent Residual, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Sketch, Kisterem, Budapest
2020
Finally We Can Learn Something, Kincsem Palace (organised by Kisterem), Budapest
2019
Listing VIII., Kisterem
2018
GameOmetry, Vasarely Múzeum, Budapest
Common Affairs, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
WTF a halványlila gőzben (as AMBPA), Hidegszoba Studio, Budapest
2017
Autostop (as AMBPA), ZKU, Berlin
POCO (as Virág Judit Galeri), Telep Gallery, Budapest
Miskolc Graphic Triennial (as Les Faux Fauves, with Gábor Kristóf), Miskolc
2016
12-es kapucsengő (as Virág Judit Galeri)
DADA100, Barcsay Hall, Budapest
Discomfort on a tolerable degree (as Les Faux Fauves, with Gábor Kristóf), Povvera, Berlin
Ébredni alszom, lefeküdni kelek fel, FKSE, Budapest
Mindenkinek van egy álma, mindenkinek van egy tévedése, FKSE, Budapest
2015
Gibberish (with Judit Navratil and Zsófia Szemző), Inda Gallery, Budapest
2014
Revolution without movement (as AMBPA), Tranzit SK, Bratislava
Parallel Spuren, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
Párhuzamos nyomok, Barcsay Hall, Budapest
2013
Konceptualizmus ma – Konceptualizmus Magyarországon a kilencvenes évek elejétől (as AMBPA), Art Gallery Paks, Paks
Liget 30 (as AMBPA), Olof Palme House, Budapest
2012
In Duplo, FKSE, Budapest
Világosan itt áll! – Annual exhibition of FKSE (as ILONA SE), ICA-D, Dunaújváros
Overlapping Biennial (as AMBPA), Bucharest
Run-down Objects (as AMBPA), Fuga, Budapest
Stone, Paper, Scissors, Miskolc Gallery, Miskolc
2011
Dogodek (as AMBPA), The Event Ljubljana Graphic Biennal
Joy and Disaster, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
No one belongs here more than you (as AMBPA), Kunsthalle, Budapest
Joy and Disaster, SMAK, Gent
Sans vous rien ne se fera (as AMBPA), Mains d’Ouvres, Paris
Better being a virus than catching a cold (as AMBPA), FKSE, Budapest
Grafittrixx, Mimetic Constructions, MICA, Miskolc
Travelling artists exhibition (as AMBPA), Basel, Vienna, Budapest
Speaks for Itself, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
2010
The Big Deal (as Újszövetkezet), Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Games (with Kinga Énzsöly), Museum of Győr, Győr
Where do we go from here, Wiener Secession, Vienna
Köz-egek, Ludwig Inzert, Budapest
Drawing?, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2009
Tell everything once (with Anikó Lóránt and Beatrix Szörényi), Balassi Institute, Prague
Paperbased, Irokéz Gallery, Szombathely
What makes Europe, 2. Biennale Katowice, Sektor Sztuki, Katowice
Exhibition of Derkovits prize winners, Ernst Museum, Budapest
An Immediatistic Potlach (as AMBPA), Budapest Gallery, Budapest
Typopass (as AMBPA), Platán Gallery, Budapest
Contemporary drawing, Kosice
Contemporary drawing, Prague
Academy Printa, Budapest
2008
Drawing Paper, Reaktor, Budapest
Gallery Limes, Komarno
Unsellable 2, Reaktor, Budapest
Exhibition of Derkovits prize winners, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Arte BA, Buenos Aires
What’s up? (as AMBPA), Kunsthalle, Budapest
Mechanics of the Canvas, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Re:Fresh, Kogart, Budapest
Averziós terápia (as AMBPA), ICA, Dunaújváros
Without Name, Gallery Miskolc, Miskolc
Blow, Liget Gallery, Budapest
Periferic 8 (as AMBPA), Iasi Biennial, Iasi
Gallery by Night, FKSE, Budapest
Exhibition of Herczeg Klára prize winners (as AMBPA), Labor, Budapest
Juditz, Forma Gallery, Budapest
2007
First 4 exhibitons of AMBPA, FKSE, Budapest
Plague in Pest, studio exhibition in FKSE, Budapest
Forma 1 (as AMBPA), Gallery by Night, FKSE, Budapest
Dear Painter! Paint for me, with heart and mind…, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Beni soit qui bon y pense, Studio Protokoll, Cluj Napoca
2006
Best of diploma, University of Fine Arts, Budapest
Fresh Europe, Kogart, Budapest
Fresh Europe, Hungarian Institue, Brussels
Salon, Kogart, Budapest
ICA stand, Boulevard Festival, Budapest
Girls, Gallery Boulevard and Brezsnyev, Budapest
COLLABORATIONS
2005-
Association of Mouth and Brain Painting Artists of the World (AMBPA), with Miklós Mécs