ARRIVALS>SLOVAKIA: ILONA NÉMETH
14 September to 29 October 2006
In her first UK exhibition, artist Ilona Németh will transform the lower gallery space at Modern Art Oxford with her mysterious mud-brick installation, The Wall. Visitors will walk through the partially enclosed structure, which has been constructed on site with 450 mudbricks. First exhibited in 1995 in a disused synagogue, the bricks were made with local mud and straw following a process used by the rural Romany population in Slovakia. For the Oxford exhibition, the bricks are being hand-made in the Chilterns.
Ilona Németh is the seventh artist to feature in ARRIVALS>NEW ART FROM THE EU, a series of exhibitions over two years at Modern Art Oxford and Turner Contemporary, Margate introducing the work of artists from the expanded European Union. For more information visit www.modernartoxford.org.uk
The corresponding project is a collaboration between Turner Contemporary and Billboart Gallery Europe presenting Lucia Nimcova’s project with the Nayland Area Action Group and new work by Lucia Tkacova and Anetta Mona Chisa. The exhibition comprises nine works that will appear on three billboards in Margate’s Nayland area between 25 September and 26 December 2006. For further details please call +44 (0)1843 280268/ info@turnercontemporary.org or visit www.turnercontemporary.org
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Note to Editors
Born in 1963 in Dunajská Streda, Slovakia, Ilona Németh lives and works near Bratislava. She studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest – DLA master’s course (2000-2003) and the Hungarian College of Applied Art – Department of Typography and Typographic Art, Budapest (1981-1986). In 2003 she was awarded the Prize of the Ludwig Museum, in 2001 the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education presented her with the Munkácsy Mihály Award and in 1998 she was awarded the Slovak Visual Arts Prize by The Foundation for a Civil Society, Bratislava, the Open Europe Prize and the award of the Association of Hungarian Artists in Slovakia.
She has exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Slovakia, Hungary, The Czech Republic, Italy, Japan, Germany, New York, the Netherlands, Sweden, South Korea between 1988 and 2005, including key solo exhibitions Németh Ilona at the Közelítés Galéria, Pécs in 2005 and Retrospective at the Gyori Városi Múzeum, Gyor in 2004. The Wall represents her first solo exhibition in the UK. Her work is represented in collections in the Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava City Gallery, Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Žilina and the Kortárs Magyar Galéria, Dunajská Streda. For more information visit www.ilonanemeth.sk