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Kata Krasznahorkai is a Berlin-based art historian and curator working as a researcher at the University of Zürich in the ERC-research project Performance Art in Eastern Europe (1950-1990). History and Theory. Krasznahorkai studied art history in Budapest, Berlin, Vienna and Hamburg and defended her PhD at the University of Hamburg about “Walter De Marias Lightning Field between Art, Technology and Nature” 2015.She published and lectured extensively on the interrelation between performance art and state security, e.g. ”Wie Spitzel unser Wissen über Kunst vermehren” in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung(2012) or “Heightened Alert: The Underground Art Scene in the Sights of the Secret Police “ in: Art Beyond Borders(2015), „Surveilling the Public Sphere. The First Hungarian Happening in Secret Agents Reports“ in Performance in the Second Public Sphere(2018) and „Black or White Black or White? Angela Davis, Bobby Seale und Black Power zwischen Staatssicherheit und Happenings im Ungarn der 1970er Jahre“ [forthcoming].
Krasznahorkai is currently curating the exhibition „Artists& Agents. Performance Art and the Secret Services“ together with Sylvia Sasse and Inke Arns at the HMKV Dortmund opening in the Fall 2019. She is also preparing a mongraph on the interrelation between the State Securit Services and performance art.
2010-2016 she was a project director and curator at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB). 1996-2003 Krasznahorkai worked as a curator at the Ludwig Museum Budapest, After moving to Berlin 2003 she worked with Laszlo Glozer and was a researcher for the show “Peter Zadeks Menschentheater” at the Akademie der Künste Berlin.
Krasznahorkai is a permanent correspondent to Balkon-Magazine for Contemprary Art; Műértő – The Hungarian Art Connoisseur and member of AICA-Hungary. She was awarded with the DAAD-research grant and the Herder Award of the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. as well as with the research grant of the Liebelt-Foundation.
Krasznahorkai is the chairperson of the Berlin-based nonprofit organisationCritique&Culturee.V. empowering Eastern-European artists and art professionals in Berlin.
University of Hamburg, Hamburg
PhD, Art History, defended September 2015, publication: “Spitze der Blitze. Das Lightning Field zwischen Bild- und Technikgeschichte“, edition metzel, 2018.
Dissertation: “The Form and Material of Land Art. Walter De Maria`s Lightning Field and Robert Smithson`s Spiral Jetty between Art, Nature and Science”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Monika Wagner. Second advisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Fehrenbach
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Postgraduate Studies in Art History, September 2002- September 2005
Thesis: El Lissitzky and the Fourth Dimension in Art, Seminar by Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp.
University of Vienna, Vienna
Theory of Science and Cognitive Science, September 2005-January 2006, Seminar by Prof. Dr. Markus F. Peschl
Eötvös Lorand University of Sciences, Budapest
MA, Art History, June 2003
Thesis: “Ion Grigorescu. Life and Work”, First advisor: Prof. Dr. László Beke, Secondadvisor: Dr. Annamária Szőke
Research fellow at the Slavic Seminar at the University of Zurich in the project “Performance Art in Eastern Europe 1950-1990. History and Theory”
Senior curator and project director at the Collegium Hungarcium Berlin – June 2010 – October 2016
Freelance curator Sept 2008 – June 2010
Assistant curator to Laszlo Glozer, Sept 2007 – Sept 2008
Researcher at the Akademie der Künste Berlin for the exhibition “Peter Zadeks Menschentheater”, March – Oct 2007
Research internship at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sammlung Marzona, Jan 2006 – March 2007
Curator and museologist at the Ludwig Museum Budapest, Sept 1999 – Sept 2003
Assistant curator at the Ludwig Museum Budapest, Jan 1996 – Sept 1999
“Spitze der Blitze. Das Lightning Field zwischen Bild- und Technikgeschichte“, edition metzel, München, 2018. [monography]
"Surveilling the Public Sphere. The First Hungarian Happening in Secret Agents Reports", in: Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere: Event-based Art in Late Socialist Europe (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) Routledge, New York, 2018. P. 127-138.
“Black or White? Angela Davis, Bobby Seale und Black Power zwischen Staatssicherheit und Happenings im Ungarn der 1970er Jahre, in: Forum Modernes Theater (forthcoming).
“Mach ein Stuhl! Tamas St. Auby und Tehching Hsieh”, in: Vera Wolff, Kathrin Rottmann (ed), kritische berichte, 2016/3, S. 34-43.
“Tamás St.Auby`s Strike, in: Work, Friederike Sigler (ed.), Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art, London : Whitechapel Gallery Ventures Limited ; Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2017, p. 131.
“Das Happening vor Gericht”, in: Sandra Frimmel, Mara Traumane (ed): Kunst und Literatur vor Gericht, forthcoming (March 2018).
“Kein Land in Sicht. Der Klimawandel, der BND und das Ende der Land Art”, in: Frank Fehrenbach, Mathias Krüger (ed), Der Achte Tag. Naturbilder in der Kunst des 21. Jahrhunderts, deGruyter, München, 2016, p. 59-75.
“Heightened Alert: The Underground Art Scene in the Sights of the Secret Police—Surveillance Files as a Resource for Research into Artists’ Activities in the Underground of the 1960s and 1970s” , in: Bazin, Jérôme, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, and Piotr Piotrowski (ed), Art beyond borders: artistic exchange in communist Europe (1945-1989), Central European University Press, 2015. P. 125-139.
„Geheimdienst und Underground. Wie Spitzel unser Wissen über Kunst vermehren“, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 07.1. 2012, „Bilder und Zeiten“, Z3.
„Marching on the streets is saying it – only louder! On the Performance „The Curfew“ at the OFF-Biennale Budapest of Katarina Sevic and GergelyLaszlo“, Archive Journal, January-February 2018, Archive Kabinett, Berlin.
“Valami bűzlik”.[ Something stinks],A Manifesta 12 Zürichben, in: Müertö [The Art Connoisseur], Juli/August 2016.
„A Black Mountain kód” [The Black Mountain Parabel], Black Mountain College – Ein interdisziplinäres Experiment 1933-1957, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, in: Müertö [The Art Connoisseur], Juni 2015.
„David Bowie behálózva“ [David Bowie – The Spider in the Net], David Bowie Retrospektive, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, in: Müertö [The Art Connoisseur]
Paragone és Masterplan. Múzeumháború Berlinben. (Paragone and Masterplan – Museums-War in Berlin), Műértő, [The Art Connoisseur], May 2013
„Nyolc Perc“ [Eight MInutes], Seeing is Believing. Kunst-Werke Berlin, in: Müertö [The Art Connoisseur]November 2013
Kompass. Die Judith Rothschild Drawing Collection, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, in: Műértő – The Art Connoisseur, March 2011
Dezertáló műgyűjtők,[Collectors on the run], Neues Museum Berlin,in: Műértő – The Art Connoisseur, February, 2010
A halott dolgoktól való félelem. Pictoplasma fesztivál Berlinben (Angst vor toten Dingen. Pictoplasma in Berlin), in: : Műértő – The Art Connoisseur, May, 2009
“A Lightning Field felé” [On the way to the Lightning Field], Balkon – Contemporary Art Magazine, Dezember 2009
60 Jahre, 60 Werke: hatvan év művészet a Német Szövetségi Köztársaságban,[60 Years – 60 Works. Sixty Years of Art in the Federal Republic of Germany], Martin-Gropius-Bau, in: Műértő – The Art Connoisseur, June, 2009
Bilderträume: Ulla és Heiner Pietzsch gyűjteménye,[The Dream of Images – The Collection Heiner and Ulla Pietsch], Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin,in: Műértő – The Art Connoisseur, May, 2009
“I reject temporality….”. An interview with Józef Robakowski, in: Fair – Zeitung für Kunst und Ästhetik, April, 2009
Rothko/Giotto, Gemäldegalerie Berlin, in: Műértő – The Art Connoisseur, April, 2009
“The No Pussy Blues in Berlin”, Re.Act.Feminism.Performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute, Akademie der Künste Berlin, in: www.tranzit.blog.hu, 2009
Giacomettis Eyes- Giacometti, der Ägypter, Altes Museum Berlin in: Műértő – The Art Connoisseur, February, 2009
Tamás Komoróczky. The Berlin Years, in: Ausst. Kat. „Tamás Komoróczky“, Pécs, 2008.
“Képreszállás-Rothkót nézni és nem hinni” [Seeing Rothko but Not Beliveing], Mark Rothko - Retrospektive, Hamburger Kunsthalle, in: Balkon – Contemporary Art Magazine, June-August 2008.
Kata Krasznahorkai (ed):“Critique and Crisis. Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité reconsidered”, Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2015.
„Experiment. Chronologie zum Leben und Werk von Ion Grigorescu“ In: „Ion Grigorescu. Am Boden“, Retrospektive im Salzburger Kunstverein, Ausst.Kat., Salzburg, 2007
Kata Krasznahorkai (ed): Mona Vatamanu – Florin Tudor. Living Units, Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art, 17 June – 31 August 2003, Budapest, 2003
Kata Krasznahorkai (ed): Kicsiny Balázs. Munkavégzés folyamatban. Work in Progress,Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art, 23. Oktober – 2. Dezember 2002, Budapest, 2002
Kata Krasznahorkai (ed): Tamas Szikora. Boxes, Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art, 25 September 2001 – 28 October 2001, Budapest, 2001
Biographies in: Peter Weibel (ed) Beyond Art. A Third Culture: A Comparative Study in Cultures of Art and Science in 20th Century Austria and Hungary, Passagen Verlga, Vienna, 1997 (G), 2005 (EN).
Publication grant, Liebelt-Stiftung, Hamburg, 2017
Travel Grant of the Susanne and Michael Liebelt Foundation to the United States, 2009
Travel Grant of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation to London, 2009
Herder Award-Grant of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, 2005-2006
DAAD Postgraduate Grant, 2003-2004
Member of AICA Hungary 2009-
Grey Room. Exhibtion, Workshops, Lectures, Film, Performance, various locations, Berlin November 2017 – February 2018.
The State, performance by Alexander Manouiloff at the OFF-Biennial Budapest, 29 September 2017
Montag Modus Performance series (co-curated with Lena Szirmay-Kalos), Collegium Hungaricum Berln, May 2015 – Oct 2016
Rituals Festival (co-curated with Léna Szirmay-Kalos and Endre Vazul Mándli), Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, 13-17 June 2016
Entropy Works, Performance and Exhibiton project with Hajnal Németh, Borsos Lőrinc, Andrea Éva Győri, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin,25-28 May 2016
Approximation, 168-h Performance Project with Martin Sonderkamp and Darko Dragicevic, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, 29 Oct – 1 Nov 2015
Critique and Crisis. LIberté, Égalité, Fraternité reconsidered (in cooperation with the German Historical Museum and the Council of Europe) Exhibitions,Talks, Films, Educational programs and performances 2012-2015 with Bankleer, Libia Castro/Ólaffur Ólafsson, Jakup Ferri, Ion Grigorescu, Raphaël Grisey, Tibor Horváth, IPUT/Tamas St. Turba, Tamás Komoróczky, Katarzyna Kozyra, Jaroslav Kysa, Imre Lepsényi, István Máriás aka Pista Horror, Olivia Pendler, Dan Perjovschi, Societé Réaliste, Katarina Sevic/Gergely László, subREAL, Ulrich Vogl
Hands on Fassbinder (with Saskia Walker, Hannes Brühwiler and Janos Can Togay), a one-year-project on the legacy of R.W. Fassbinder, 11 May – 18 Nov 2012
State of Images. Gábor Bódy and Zbignew Rybczynski, (coordination), Akademie der Künste Berlin, 27 Oct 2011 – 1 January 2012
The Romani-Elders Project for the 7. Berlin Biennale by Timea Junghaus, (coordination), Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, 2 June 2012
Mauer Absurd, Exhibition with photographs by Peter R. Asche, Peter Brüchmann, Udo Hesse, Hartmut Kieselbach, Barbara Klemm, Herlinde Koelbl, Arild Kristo, Andrèas Lang, Karl-Ludwig Lange, Bernard Larsson, Hans Pieler und Hans-Peter Stiebing, Collegium Hunagricum Berlin, 28 aug – 28 Sept 2009
Exhibtions at the Ludwig Museum Budapest: