Greta Magyar
2015–18 Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel (Master of Fine Arts)
2017 Rome University of Fine Arts, Printmaking Department
2013–14 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2010–15 Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel (Bachelor of Fine Arts)
Lives and works in Kiel
In Greta Magyar’s work, the use of printing crafts and techniques plays a specific role: the artworks exhibited combine unusual techniques of copper intaglio printing, using everyday industrial materials such as packaging with techniques of drawing and ink painting as well as collage. However, bricolage is not her purpose. Her interest is rather in the incorporation of time into the process. She reckons with the individual steps that this process needs: elaborate technical preparations or, like collage in some cases, a laborious finishing.
If one compares the large-format panel painting cultivated by Magyar with the medium of printing, it is apparent how she lets herself be guided by the inherent will of the respective medium and the requirements and history of the material. She seeks the challenge of the limits of the respective medium and yet yields nothing in terms of precision where the process demands it.
Magyar’s experiences from her extensive work with biological systems in the context of collaborative projects with science gives her a deep understanding of tropism as a biological phenomenon.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Wenn wir die Spuren der Zeit beschreiben, Galerie Cube +, Kiel
2021 Zwischen Linie und Fläche, Kanzlei Take/Maracke, Kiel
2021 Landesschau, Ostholstein-Museum, Eutin
2020 Atelierstipendiat*innen 2018–2020, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark, Kiel
2020 Elegante Formatierungen, Galerie 1214, Berlin
2020 Kollision der Künste, Wandarbeit im Außenraum, Bischofswerda
2019 Pienkow Artist Residency, Galeria Pienkуw, Zmudz, Poland
2019 Mulhouse 019 biennale d’art contemporain, France
2019 Spring and the Free Growth of Everything, Huiyuan Garden, Hefei, China
2019 Anknüpfungspunkt, Raum linksrechts, Hamburg
2019 Nordwestkunst, Kunsthalle, Wilhelmshaven
2018 prozess, xpon-art Galerie, Hamburg
2018 Masters die Vierte, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark, Kiel
2017 Gastspiel, Brunswiker Pavillon, Kiel
2017 KielHolen, Kunstverein, Marburg
2017 First International Print Biennale Yerevan, Armenia
2016 Das Museum in der Nussschale, Stadtmuseum Pinneberg
2016 Babylove, Festung Hohensalzburg, Salzburg
