Hungarian multidisciplinary artist Reka Lorincz works across contemporary jewellery design, conceptual sculpture, moving image, and text-based art, as well as energetic healing. Her work examines universal themes within contemporary human existence through a personal lens, such as productivity, agency, potentiality, embodiment, and non-linear systems of knowledge, drawing on collective consciousness and the interconnection of mind, body, and spirit. Resisting one-dimensional categorisation, she sees the different pillars of her practice as parts of the same, fluid web of concerns and interpretations, manifested and transmitted through different media. These in turn feed into one another and inform the artist’s own life and practice.
EXHIBITIONS
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2012 –
Gemma Drapper workshop, Antwerpen
2011 –
Sympozium – Atelier Em, Bratislava
2010 – 2012
Semmelweis University / Menthal Health and Organization Development, Budapest
2007 –
Ted Noten workshop – BIAD, Birmingham
2000 – 2005
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) / Art and Design teacher, Budapest
1999 – 2004
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME) / Product Design, Budapest
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2011 –
Jewellery of the Year / Special prize: „I love you, Barbie” necklace
Jewellery of the Year / II.: „Shopping Madonna” necklace
2008 –
Kozma Lajos prize
2006 –
Kozma Lajos prize
2004 –
Jewellery Journey – Around the world, Shanghai
2002 –
Erasmus grant – ELISAVA, Barcelona
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Body Lotion (solo exhibition), Kisterem, Budapest
Shine! (group exhibition), Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Reversed Objects (group exhibition), Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Spoznaj šperk / 30 rokov medzinárodných sympózií umeleckého šperku v Kremnici (group exhibition), Stredoslovenská galéria - Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Opera Omnia (group exhibition), Museum of Coins and Medals, Kremnica, Slovakia
Body to Inhabit (with Dorottya Vékony), Kunsthalle Kosice co Vunu Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia
A Collector's Journey: Susan Grant Lewin and the Art Jewelry World (group exhibition), Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami, Coral Gables (Miami), FL United States
Jewellery not only jewellery (group exhibition), Putti Gallery, Riga
Wearing Red: Ignite The Fire (group exhibition), Patina Gallery - Santa Fe, NM, United States
Different Persons (group exhibition), Kunsthalle, Kosice, Slovakia
2023
Handle with Care – Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Delight! – House of Arts, Veszprém
Pearl – Platina Gallery, Stockholm
Everything is More Than Meets the Mind – Torula , Győr (solo show with Dorottya Vekony)
2022
Schmuck Munich – solo show / with Galerie Biro
New York Jewellery Week – Charon Kransen Arts
Keep Freud Guessing (solo show) – Galerie Biro, Munich
Contemporary Metal Art Biennale – Vilnius
Craft Trend Fair – Gallery O, Seoul
2021
Freak skulls and a mad family / Platina Gallery Stockholm
LA Art Fair / with Charon Kransen Arts
New York Jewellery Week / with Charon Kransen Arts
Solo show with Galerie Biro, Munich
2020
Jewellery not Only Jewellery – Putti Gallery, Riga
Power – Galleri Sebastian Shildt, Stockholm
Los Angeles Art Show / with Charon Kransen Arts
Art Palm Beach / with Charon Kransen Arts
2019
Dezemberausstellung – Galerie Biró, Munich
SOFA, Chicago / with Charon Kransen Arts
NYC Jewellery Week / with Charon Kransen Arts
FRAME – Platina gallery @ Handwerksmesse, Munich
Le Stanze del Possibile. Jewellery variations and inspirations on Italo Calvino’s “Six memos for the next Millennium” – Hannah Gallery, Barcelon / curated by Nichka Marobin
Jewelry is like food. If you eat it you will want more – Galerie Biró, Munich
Kilkenny Castle and National Design & Craft Gallery, Ireland
Diversity Galore – Atta Gallery, Bangkok, curated by Charon Kransen
Viewpoints – Platina Gallery, Stockholm
Precious – Galleri Sebastian Shildt, Stockholm
2018
NYC Jewellery Week / with Charon Kransen Arts
SNAG, Portland / with Charon Kransen Arts
Design Resistance – MODEM, Debrecen
DIY Magic – FERi, Budapest
SOFA, Chicago / with Charon Kransen Arts
The Metamorphosis of Pearls in Contemporary and Conceptual Jewellery – Gallery Putti, Riga
Next to the skin – WCC-BF gallery / Mons
European Prize for Applied Arts exhibition – WCC-BF Gallery, Mons
Schmuck2018 – Galerie Biró Junior, Munich
The Language of Things – The Dowse Art Museum / Petone Settlers Museum, New Zealand
Charismatic Ordinariness – CEU, Budapest
2017
Pearls Upside Down – Galeria Reverso, Lisbon FORM, Miami / with Charon Kransen Arts
SOFA, Chicago / with Charon Kransen Arts
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious – Gallery Putti, Riga
tog_ther – Kunstpavillon, Munich
SCHMUCK2017, Munich
The frame that blinds us – APA Gallery, Budapest
2016
Reproduced Paradise – Villa Váncza, Budapest
Connection with the clouds – Gallery Putti, Riga
(Illusion) Interior – Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest
SCHMUCK2016 / The Box – Galerie Biró Junior + Platforma,Munich
2015
“festlisch” – Galerie Biró Junior, Munich
Contemporary Past – Gallery Putti, Riga
SCHMUCK2015 / Projekt #3 – Galerie Biró Junior, Munich
SCHMUCK2015 / On the elementary power of Jewellery – Maximilians Forum - Passage für Kunst und Design (Gisbert Stach-chal), Munich
2014
Play Hard! – Brody Studios, Budapest
Dream as Morning – Gallery Putti, Riga
Rule The World – Friends of Carlotta, Zurich
Shanghai Design Week, Shanghai
2013
Schmuck You! – Galerie Biró Junior, Munich
It is snowing a little – Gallery Putti, Riga
YES NO BLACK WHITE – Brody Studios, Budapest
Gallery Iang, Seoul
2012
What's in a frame – 3 stations, Munich
Galerie für Schmuck, Flensburg
Sterling Gallery, Budapest
Filter Gallery, Budapest
Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Schmuck wander – Slovak Institute, Berlin
2011
Made in Hungary – Kunsthalle, Budapest
Brooch – Sterling Gallery, Budapest
What is this! – Faur Zsofi Gallery, Budapest
2010
Equilibrium: Boday as Site – Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, Texas
I love you – Sterling Gallery, Budapest
Jewellery of the Year – Kunsthalle, Budapest
2009
MOME MILANO – Palace of Arts, Budapest
SaloneSatellite, Milan
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam
2008
Sterling Galéria, Budapest
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
Custard Factory, Birmingham
2007
Salone Satellite, Milan
Aire – Galerie Isidro Miranda, Buenos Aires
Fashion Show – Museum of Ethnography, Budapest
Jewellery Show – Kunsthalle, Budapest
New Generation – Sterling Gallery, Budapest
2006
Air – Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
SIERRAD Award New Traditional Jewellery – Amsterdam RAI, Amsterdam
Plastic-Works – Museum of Ethnography, Budapest
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
2005
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
2003
Design Biennale, Saint Etienne
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen, HU
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, HU
Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest HU