JUDIT FISCHER

born in Zalaegerszeg, 1981
lives and works in Budapest

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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

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