b. 1992, Budapest, Hungary
Lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands and Budapest, Hungary
EDUCATION
2024-2026 MA Fine Art, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2017-2019 MA Photography, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, HU
2013-2016 BA Hons, Fine Art Photography, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, AWARDS
2025 Research Grant - Stimuleringsfonds, NL
Professional Development Grant - Platform ACCT, NL
Klára Herczeg Award - SYAA, HU
2024 Residency - Brno House of Arts, Brno, CZ
Spot Grant - Stroom Den Haag, NL
2023 Fellowship - Akademie Schloss Solitude, Eastern European Network Fellowship, Stuttgart, DE
2022 Residency - Petrohradska kolektiv, Prague, CZ
Residency - International Studio & Curatorial, Program (ISCP) - Visegrad Fund, New York City, USA
2019 Residency - Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
2018 Erasmus Scholarship, Spatial and Object Design - UDK Berlin, DE
Campus Mundi Scholarship - Studio Rachel de Joode, Berlin, DE
Futures Photography Award, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, HU
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Upcoming solo show at Lower Cavity, Holyoke, USA
2024 Running Up That Hill, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, HU
2022 Wormhole with Gioia di Girolamo, Galleria Bianconi, Milan, IT
2021 First Songs of Sympoiesis , Alagya with Áron Lődi, Létminimum Bázis, Budapest, HU
2019 My Body Is Your Body Too with Alex Selmeci, VUNU Gallery, Košice, SK
2017 Safe Space, Tobe Gallery, Budapest, HU
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Upcoming group exhibition, Arter, Istanbul, TR
Soaking In Each Other - Endocrine Regimes, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, HU
Klára Herczeg Award Exhibition, SYAA Gallery, Budapest, HU
Maffioli Art Group Prize Exhibition, Scalpel Building, London, UK
2024 Post Fascism, Semester 9, Amsterdam, NL
The Dark Side Of The Sun, Acb Gallery, Budapest, HU
Double Cast, Berlínskej Model, Prague, CZ
Veils of Impermanence, Gossamer Fog, London, UK
LOG3: Interceptor, Plicnik Space Initiative, London, UK
Vigil: Death and the Afterlife, Semester 9/Shipton Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Like You & Me, Young Hungarian Photography. Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, HU
2022 The New Generation of Contemporary Art, Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest, HU
TOOL ACTIVITY, Kunsthalle Kosice, SK
From “Abstraction” to Abstraction, Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Warsaw, PL
This Is A World Where Nothing Is Solved, Promise of Kneropy, Bratislava, SK
Jacuzzi Of Despair, Svetova1, Prague, CZ
But All The Foam Turned Into Glue, Jedna Dva Tri Gallery, Prague, CZ
Global Crises, Local Relationships, Easttopics, Budapest, HU
Kezdetben volt a kert II., ELTE Botanical Garden, Budapest, HU
Survival Kit, U500 Festival, Budapest, HU
The Garden of Gods I, SXSW, Austin, US
Garden of Gods II, Vellum Gallery, Los Angeles, US
BAITBALL (02), Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT
2021 Enter The Funky Jungle, AQB Project Space, Budapest, HU
Biomimicry Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2020 MMM, Art Quarter Mines, Budapest, HU
The Days Are Just Packed, The Pool, Istanbul, TR
2019 Rhizome Parking Garage, The Wrong Biennale
New Magic Wand, Hotdock Project Space, Bratislava, SK
ENTKUNSTUNG | VERKUNSTUNG, Austrian Kulturforum Berlin, DE
Imaginary Spaces, Designtransfer, Vorspiel, Transmediale, Berlin, DE
2018 Excavating Darkness, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, HU
Unseen Photography Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Trafó smART! XTRA, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, HU
PUBLICATIONS
2024
(Hungarian) Zemlényi-Kovács Barnabás: Az antidepresszió esztétikája. Esszé Bolla Szilvia Running Up That Hill című kiállításhoz, Artmagazin.
Hanna Julia Erdősi: Six Questions for Szilvia Bolla, Tique.
2023
Like You & Me, Young Hungarian Photography. Hungarian House of Photography.
(Hungarian) Jeneses Ádám: „Nem a fotográfián keresztül vizsgálom a világot” – beszélgetés Bolla Szilviával, Punkt.
2022
Youhu: The New Generation of Hungarian Contemporary Art. Kieselbach Gallery.
From Abstraction to Abstraction, Stefan Gierowski Foundation.
2021
(Hungarian) Cserna Endre, Szilágyi Róza Tekla: “Mindig a fotó egyfajta destrukciójával foglalkoztam.” Interjú Bolla Szilviával. Artmagazin Online
Michalina Sablik: 10 Artists from Hungary to follow. Contemporary Lynx.
2020
Róna Kopeczky: Secondary Archive - Platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe.
2018
Entkunstung Journal II., Entkunstung.
b. 1992, Budapest, Hungary
Lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands and Budapest, Hungary
EDUCATION
2024-2026 MA Fine Art, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2017-2019 MA Photography, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, HU
2013-2016 BA Hons, Fine Art Photography, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, AWARDS
2025 Research Grant - Stimuleringsfonds, NL
Professional Development Grant - Platform ACCT, NL
Klára Herczeg Award - SYAA, HU
2024 Residency - Brno House of Arts, Brno, CZ
Spot Grant - Stroom Den Haag, NL
2023 Fellowship - Akademie Schloss Solitude, Eastern European Network Fellowship, Stuttgart, DE
2022 Residency - Petrohradska kolektiv, Prague, CZ
Residency - International Studio & Curatorial, Program (ISCP) - Visegrad Fund, New York City, USA
2019 Residency - Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
2018 Erasmus Scholarship, Spatial and Object Design - UDK Berlin, DE
Campus Mundi Scholarship - Studio Rachel de Joode, Berlin, DE
Futures Photography Award, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, HU
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Upcoming solo show at Lower Cavity, Holyoke, USA
2024 Running Up That Hill, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, HU
2022 Wormhole with Gioia di Girolamo, Galleria Bianconi, Milan, IT
2021 First Songs of Sympoiesis , Alagya with Áron Lődi, Létminimum Bázis, Budapest, HU
2019 My Body Is Your Body Too with Alex Selmeci, VUNU Gallery, Košice, SK
2017 Safe Space, Tobe Gallery, Budapest, HU
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Upcoming group exhibition, Arter, Istanbul, TR
Soaking In Each Other - Endocrine Regimes, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, HU
Klára Herczeg Award Exhibition, SYAA Gallery, Budapest, HU
Maffioli Art Group Prize Exhibition, Scalpel Building, London, UK
2024 Post Fascism, Semester 9, Amsterdam, NL
The Dark Side Of The Sun, Acb Gallery, Budapest, HU
Double Cast, Berlínskej Model, Prague, CZ
Veils of Impermanence, Gossamer Fog, London, UK
LOG3: Interceptor, Plicnik Space Initiative, London, UK
Vigil: Death and the Afterlife, Semester 9/Shipton Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Like You & Me, Young Hungarian Photography. Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, HU
2022 The New Generation of Contemporary Art, Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest, HU
TOOL ACTIVITY, Kunsthalle Kosice, SK
From “Abstraction” to Abstraction, Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Warsaw, PL
This Is A World Where Nothing Is Solved, Promise of Kneropy, Bratislava, SK
Jacuzzi Of Despair, Svetova1, Prague, CZ
But All The Foam Turned Into Glue, Jedna Dva Tri Gallery, Prague, CZ
Global Crises, Local Relationships, Easttopics, Budapest, HU
Kezdetben volt a kert II., ELTE Botanical Garden, Budapest, HU
Survival Kit, U500 Festival, Budapest, HU
The Garden of Gods I, SXSW, Austin, US
Garden of Gods II, Vellum Gallery, Los Angeles, US
BAITBALL (02), Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT
2021 Enter The Funky Jungle, AQB Project Space, Budapest, HU
Biomimicry Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2020 MMM, Art Quarter Mines, Budapest, HU
The Days Are Just Packed, The Pool, Istanbul, TR
2019 Rhizome Parking Garage, The Wrong Biennale
New Magic Wand, Hotdock Project Space, Bratislava, SK
ENTKUNSTUNG | VERKUNSTUNG, Austrian Kulturforum Berlin, DE
Imaginary Spaces, Designtransfer, Vorspiel, Transmediale, Berlin, DE
2018 Excavating Darkness, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, HU
Unseen Photography Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Trafó smART! XTRA, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, HU
PUBLICATIONS
2024
(Hungarian) Zemlényi-Kovács Barnabás: Az antidepresszió esztétikája. Esszé Bolla Szilvia Running Up That Hill című kiállításhoz, Artmagazin.
Hanna Julia Erdősi: Six Questions for Szilvia Bolla, Tique.
2023
Like You & Me, Young Hungarian Photography. Hungarian House of Photography.
(Hungarian) Jeneses Ádám: „Nem a fotográfián keresztül vizsgálom a világot” – beszélgetés Bolla Szilviával, Punkt.
2022
Youhu: The New Generation of Hungarian Contemporary Art. Kieselbach Gallery.
From Abstraction to Abstraction, Stefan Gierowski Foundation.
2021
(Hungarian) Cserna Endre, Szilágyi Róza Tekla: “Mindig a fotó egyfajta destrukciójával foglalkoztam.” Interjú Bolla Szilviával. Artmagazin Online
Michalina Sablik: 10 Artists from Hungary to follow. Contemporary Lynx.
2020
Róna Kopeczky: Secondary Archive - Platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe.
2018
Entkunstung Journal II., Entkunstung.