SZILVIA BOLLA
SZILVIA BOLLA

LOG3: Interceptor at Plicnik Space Initiative, London, UK

Installation by Amélie Mckee & Melle Nieling
8 November – 21 December 2024

Beatrice Vorster, Szilvia Bolla, Sabrina Ratté, Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou

Vigil: Death & the Afterlife at Semester.9, Loods6 & Shipton, Amsterdam, NL

Curated by Isabella Greenwood
22 November - 7 December, 2024

Bora Akinciturk, Maksud Ali Mondal, Honey Baker, DaddyBears, Doron Beuns, Ernest Bessems, Lily Bloom, Szilvia Bolla, Kate Burling, Šimon Chovan, Jamie John Davies, Folkert De Jong, Necker Doll, Leon Scott-Engel, Phoebe Evans, Ella Fleck, Max Otis King, K.T., Kobel, Anna-Lena Krause, Nataliya Zuban, Harry Hugo Little, Andrei Nițu, Tomasz Skibicki, Bregje Sliepenbeek & Salomé Wu

Veils of Impermanence at Gossamer Fog, London, UK

12 October – 10 November 2024

Elli Antoniou, Szilvia Bolla, Christina Cushin, Xavier Robles De Medina, Elinor Haynes, Eve Stotesbury, Viktor Timofeev

Running Up That Hill at Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, HU

Curated by Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács
Design by Áron Lődi
22 March - 24 May 2024

The art of Szilvia Bolla, which started with abstract anti-photographs reacting against the depressive overconsumption of pictures, now arrived at a post-photographic praxis that tackles the subject of depression itself. As depression is both individual and social, biological and political, the exhibition Running Up that Hill confronts the aesthetic and political dimensions of personal, transgenerational as well as systemic depression of a depressive economical-ideological system. The audio-visual installations, reconstructing autobiographical and symbolic mnemotopes, the pharmaco- kinetic sculptures of bodies deformed by the biopower, in addition to the neurograms based on the analogy between the photograph and the skin, are assembled as points in a depresthetic and psychopolitical manifesto.

Formal problems and problem-forms of Bolla, dismantling the dichotomies of the visible and the invisible, the material and immaterial, the dead and the alive, previously discussed in a photo-ontological and photo-critical context, here are reprogrammed to create a network of connections from Kate Bush to Walter Benjamin, from spectropolitics to Secession, or from black metal to material feminism.

The exhibition was supported by Stroom Den Haag.

LOG3: Interceptor at Plicnik Space Initiative, London, UK

Installation by Amélie Mckee & Melle Nieling
8 November – 21 December 2024

Beatrice Vorster, Szilvia Bolla, Sabrina Ratté, Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou

Vigil: Death & the Afterlife at Semester.9, Loods6 & Shipton, Amsterdam, NL

Curated by Isabella Greenwood
22 November - 7 December, 2024

Bora Akinciturk, Maksud Ali Mondal, Honey Baker, DaddyBears, Doron Beuns, Ernest Bessems, Lily Bloom, Szilvia Bolla, Kate Burling, Šimon Chovan, Jamie John Davies, Folkert De Jong, Necker Doll, Leon Scott-Engel, Phoebe Evans, Ella Fleck, Max Otis King, K.T., Kobel, Anna-Lena Krause, Nataliya Zuban, Harry Hugo Little, Andrei Nițu, Tomasz Skibicki, Bregje Sliepenbeek & Salomé Wu

Veils of Impermanence at Gossamer Fog, London, UK

12 October – 10 November 2024

Elli Antoniou, Szilvia Bolla, Christina Cushin, Xavier Robles De Medina, Elinor Haynes, Eve Stotesbury, Viktor Timofeev

Running Up That Hill at Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, HU

Curated by Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács
Design by Áron Lődi
22 March - 24 May 2024

The art of Szilvia Bolla, which started with abstract anti-photographs reacting against the depressive overconsumption of pictures, now arrived at a post-photographic praxis that tackles the subject of depression itself. As depression is both individual and social, biological and political, the exhibition Running Up that Hill confronts the aesthetic and political dimensions of personal, transgenerational as well as systemic depression of a depressive economical-ideological system. The audio-visual installations, reconstructing autobiographical and symbolic mnemotopes, the pharmaco- kinetic sculptures of bodies deformed by the biopower, in addition to the neurograms based on the analogy between the photograph and the skin, are assembled as points in a depresthetic and psychopolitical manifesto.

Formal problems and problem-forms of Bolla, dismantling the dichotomies of the visible and the invisible, the material and immaterial, the dead and the alive, previously discussed in a photo-ontological and photo-critical context, here are reprogrammed to create a network of connections from Kate Bush to Walter Benjamin, from spectropolitics to Secession, or from black metal to material feminism.

The exhibition was supported by Stroom Den Haag.