Tünde Újszászi conducted her studies at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in Budapest, where she finished with a MA Textile Designer degree (2010). During this period she also had a chance to spend a semester at the Aalto University in Helsinki, which further enriched her scope of vision and helped in forming her visual language (2009). Later she continued her academic path as a student of Arts and Design Teacher department finishing with Masters degree (2013). Her works were featured in several group exhibitions in Helsinki, München, Lugano, Guimarães and one of the works became part of a public collection of Contexile Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal.

Topics that Tünde is exploring in her oeuvre are the illusion of permanence and the ever-changing nature of all our surrounding, which she examines through  large-scale, woven installations and through series of paintings. Tünde’s primary inspiration as a visual artist is the material itself and the possibilities it beholds. It is the process of form creation and the way these pieces occupy the space that she is intrigued by. In her works Tünde examines the notion of time and the state of presence. The fiction of permanence, the conservation and stopping of time are expressed in the installations as a desire, which is rooted in her fear of the unknown and passing away.

Tünde Újszászi was born in 1987 in Szentes, Hungary. Currently works in Tahitótfalu.

 

SOLO EXHIBITION

2019              

Objects | Galerie Pugliese Levi, Berlin

 

MAIN GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

Transparency I Galerie Pugliese Levi, Berlin

2019

Context I GIM - House, Gödöllő, Apol Temesi & Tünde Újszászi

Almost nothing I Galerie Pugliese Levi, Berlin

Kő - Papír - Olló I RGR Gallery, Budapest, Éva Köves, Ágnes Hardi, Tünde Újszászi

2017

States of Mind I Pegazus, Szentbékálla

2016 

Contextile 2016 | Palacio Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal

ArtPlacc 2016 | Tihany

Essenceless I Mono Art & Design Gallery, Budapest, Tünde Újszászi & Ákos Rajnai

The starting lineup | Karinthy Saloon, Budapest

2015                

Refuge I Kepesita Collection, Flux Gallery, Budapest

Design Affair | Nádor Gallery, Pécs

FISE Textile | Bartók32 Gallery, Budapest

2014                

YICCA 2014 I Innovation Lab, Lugano, Switzerland

Visegrád4 Symposium | Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Český Krumlov

LOOP chair collection I Design Week, Möbelkunst, Budapest

Moholy - Kozma Grant Holders | Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

2013                

TEXTILE+ selected exhibition | Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

EXIT | FISE Gallery, Budapest, Csilla Szilágyi & Tünde Újszászi

2012                

Handwerk & Design | International Handwerksmesse IHM, Munich

BKV Prize 2012 | Galerie für Angewandte Kunst, Munich, Commendation

TEXTILE+ I 4th Triennial of Textile, Art Gallery, Szombathely

FISE 30 | Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

Moholy - Kozma Grant Holders | Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

2011                

Music for my eyes | Design Terminal, Budapest

2010                

Continual moment | Sokszem Gallery, Budapest

2009                

RYIJY?, RUG?, RYA? | Cabel Factory, Helsinki

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Contextile, Guimarães, Portugal

 

SCHOLARSHIPS

2018                

National Cultural Fund of Hungary (NKA) Supporting a new artwork

2014

National Cultural Fund of Hungary (NKA) Supporting a new artwork

Artist Residency Visegrad4 Symposium | Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Český Krumlov

2013; 2011        

Lajos Kozma Crafts and Design Grant | Hungary

2010                

Republican Scholarship | MOME, Budapest

 

PRIZES

2014                

Young International Contest of Contemporary Art | Lugano, 2. prize

2012                

BKV Prize | Munich, Commendation

2011                

Nationwide Art Student Conference | Sopron, Experimental Sculpture, 2. prize

2010                

Hungarian Patent Office | Industrial Property Documentation of the Diploma project, Commendation

 

PUBLICATIONS

10 Jahre BKV-Preis catalogue 2016, Dr. Monika Fahn, Prof. Dr. Thomas Raff, Tünde Újszászi (78-79. p.), ISBN 978-3-929727-72-2

Contextile 2016 catalogue, Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal, Tünde Újszászi: Triangle (104-105. p.), ISBN 978-989-96552-4-9

YICCA 2014 catalogue, International Contest of Contemporary Art, Tünde Újszászi: Delta (24-25. p.)

Symposium 2014, Hommage Á Jiří Kolář (1914-2002) catalogue, Hana Jirmusová Lazarowitz, ISBN 978-80-86789-18-7

Textile Forum Magazine 4/2012, Digital Design, Tünde Újszászi: Painted canvas (2. p.), ISSN 1431-3529