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© 2024 bori benkő
Driven by curiosity about the underlying structure and connections of all natural phenomena - from scientific methods of understanding the world - to complex navigation of human emotions, her art practice is expressed in a variety of media; movement, perception and transformation are recurring themes within her multidisciplinary practice.
Bori holds a master’s degree from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (2003) and has travelled extensively with international art grants and research projects, exhibiting in Europe, Asia and Australia.
She moved to Australia in 2020.Since then she has been developing ideas that relate to an ongoing affinity with mathematics and physics – especially in relation to that which is not visible to the naked eye.
2001-2003
1997-2000
1992-1996
1990-1992
scholarships
2007
2006
2001
1992-1996
exhibitions / awards
2024
2023
2022
2013
2012
2006
20052004 2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
work experience/ projects
2021 - current
2009 - 2013
2006 - 2007
Master’s Degree - Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest,Hungary
Undergraduate Degree - Hungarian University of Fine Arts,Budapest, Hungary
Diploma in Printmaking and Graphic Arts - Secondary School of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Art, Budapest, Hungary
Specialist Fine Art Studies - Nicolae Tonitza Secondary School of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania
Darmasiswa Scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts Denpasar, Indonesia
Darmasiswa Scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts Bandung, Indonesia
Erasmus Scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts Cuenca, Spain
George Soros Scholarship - Printmaking & Graphic Arts Studies, Budapest
Perth Royal Art Prize /Finalist/ Wilkinson Gallery, Perth,WA
National Works on Paper / Finalist / Mornington Peninsula Reginal Gallery, VIC
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery acquisition of 42 folds to the moon
Fremantle Biennale 2023 – Signals, Resonant - PS Art Space, Fremantle, WA
Emergence - M2 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
EQUS Quantum Art Prize / First Prize / Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems
Joondalup Invitation Art Prize / Finalist / Whitford City Shopping Centre, Perth
Tikvah - Mossenson Gallery, Perth, WA
Artist in Residence - Alila Soori, Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia Lineage - Solo Exhibition - Alila Soori Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
Hangar Interurban - Gallery Kara, Ankara, Turkey
15th April 'First World Art Day' - Public art work, Ankara, Turkey
Mamah Oday - Documentary film broadcast on Indonesian National TV
Geo 2 - Geological Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Portré - Goethe Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Krém 2003 - MEO Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Zwei - Goethe Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Situaciones - Multidisciplinary festival for young artists, Cuenca, Spain
5pm - public space internetion, Andrassy Street, Budapest, Hungary
Backgammon - public space internetion, Andrassy Street, Budapest, Hungary
Leaves - public space internetion, Andrassy Street, Budapest, Hungary
12pm - public space internetion, Budapest, Hungary
Klub VH - European Centre, Budapest, Hungary
Projection - Gresham Palace, Budapest, Hungary
Danube - on the Danube, Budapest, Hungary
Geo - Geological Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Ship - Special Prize - Bercsényi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Quodlibet – First Prize - Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Homage a Brancusi - Epres Garden, Budapest, Hungary
Grey by colour - Epres Garden Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Fest - Hangar Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
Assistant – Exhibition Installation - Art Gallery of Western Australia
Studio Assistant to Eveline Kotai - creating the 26m mixed media painting commission by Chevron, and a large drawing at Art Gallery of WA – Looking Out, Back, In
Art Tutor at - Fremantle Arts Centre, WA / Children's School of Contemporary Art - Heathcote Cultural Precinct, Perth,WA / John Curtin College of the Arts - Fremantle, WA
Research & development of organic paints and pastes for painting and screenprinting - Java/Bali, Indonesia
Research and development of pre & post mordanting techniques - Java/Bali, Indonesia Research in colour extraction from plants and colour setting with minerals - Batik Warna Alam, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Research in traditional Indonesian weaving techniques - colaborations with Master weaver Bapak Imam at his workshop - Denpasar, Bali
Direction and editing of documentary film 'Mamah Oday', on traditional Indonesian herbal medicines - Bandung, Indonesia