Szilvia Bolla (b. 1992, HU) is an artist working between Budapest, Hungary and The Hague, The Netherlands. She explores the intimate and vulnerable exchange between humans and artefacts through sculpture, installation and photography. She refers to her practice as cryptophotographic, which stems from the post-medium condition and the fluidity between image and object ontologies. Within her practice, she tackles matter as a vibrant agent, whether material or immaterial, visible or invisible, living or dead engaging in evoking narratives of survival and critical thinking concerning the body, politics and technology. After graduating from the Fine Art Photography course at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, she completed the MA Photography course at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, and studying Spatial Design at the Universitat der Kunste Berlin.
She is currently enrolled at the MFA program of Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

In recent years, Szilvia Bolla’s work has been presented at Gossamer Fog, London; the Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw; Berlínskej Model, Prague; Semester 9 and the Unseen Photography Festival, Amsterdam, as well as the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She has been an artist in residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2019), the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York (2022), and the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2023). Since 2021, she’s been part of the Alagya artist collective. They construct new possible forms of literacy to decode planetary life in the capitalocene through writing, storytelling, and installation.

 

Szilvia Bolla (b. 1992, HU) is an artist working between Budapest, Hungary and The Hague, The Netherlands. She explores the intimate and vulnerable exchange between humans and artefacts through sculpture, installation and photography. She refers to her practice as cryptophotographic, which stems from the post-medium condition and the fluidity between image and object ontologies. Within her practice, she tackles matter as a vibrant agent, whether material or immaterial, visible or invisible, living or dead engaging in evoking narratives of survival and critical thinking concerning the body, politics and technology. After graduating from the Fine Art Photography course at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, she completed the MA Photography course at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, and studying Spatial Design at the Universitat der Kunste Berlin.
She is currently enrolled at the MFA program of Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

In recent years, Szilvia Bolla’s work has been presented at Gossamer Fog, London; the Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw; Berlínskej Model, Prague; Semester 9 and the Unseen Photography Festival, Amsterdam, as well as the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She has been an artist in residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2019), the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York (2022), and the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2023). Since 2021, she’s been part of the Alagya artist collective. They construct new possible forms of literacy to decode planetary life in the capitalocene through writing, storytelling, and installation.