Artist statement
My artwork takes a critical view of cultural and political issues. I answer these questions with analyzing myself. My artworks are self-critical, either. My work explores the varying relationships between analyzing and interpretation. I prefer uncomfortable and challenging things. Having engaged subjects as immediate environment and sight, surrounding history and history adaptation in addition to of course self-analyzing.
While I am using a variety of media and processes in each project my system of methods is consistent. Although, there may not always be material similarities between the different projects they are connected by recurring issues and subjects.
Each project often consists of multiple works, and different media. During research and production new areas of interests arise and lead to the next body of work.
Bio
Anna Barnaföldi was born in Budapest, Hungary. She was attended Hungarian University of Fine Arts, receiving an M.A. as media artist in 2015. Later she attended Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design, receiving M.A. as visual and design teacher in 2018. Since 2011 Barnaföldi’s objects, videos and projects have been exhibited at museums, including 2011 Crosstalk Video Art Festival; 2014 Holocaust – Memory and Literature at PetÅ‘fi Literary Museum, Budapest; 2015. Timebased, New Budapest Gallery; 2018 Forgetting Memories, Barcsay Hall.
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She had solo exhibition “Science Montage” at Kunstraumarcade, in Mödling, Austria in 2017; and “Letters” at Hungarian National Museum, Budapest in 2018.
Barnaföldi had been stayed residency programs in Krems, Austria in 2017, and she had won the scholarship from Peter und Irene Ludwig Foundation in Boston, US, in 2019.
Since 2011, Anna Barnaföldi is a member of the Studio of Young Artist Association (FKSE) in Budapest, Hungary.
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Present days Barnaföldi has just finished her Doctoral Program at Hungarian University of Fine Arts. In her research of the doctoral program, she analyzed the mutual layers of science promotion in the context of the lecture genres.
She is also working computer arts, digital culture and IT as a teacher in a middle school program in Bicske, Hungary.
