CURATORS
MMPRAXIS CURATORIAL PLATFORM
The MMpraxis curatorial platform is a Berlin-based mobile institution that facilitates events, discussions and research projects around live art. It organizes exhibitions and events at the intersection of performing and visual arts with a focus on choreography, time-based media, and performance art. MMpraxis was founded in 2019 by curator and dramaturge Léna Szirmay-Kalos, choreographer Jasna Layes Vinovrški and art historian Dániel Kovács. The participants of the platform change depending on the project.
DÁNIEL KOVÁCS is an art historian, curator and critic. He studied art history at the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest, and the La Sapienza University in Rome. After spending six years as editor and chief editor at hg.hu, he became associated with the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest and the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. He is a Member of Board at the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center, and co-founder of the Translations of Modernism collective. From 2015 to 2018, was working as program director at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, with Montag Modus as a main element in the program structure. Since late 2018, he has been working in Budapest again as a freelance curator. He is curator of the Hungarian pavilion at the 2020 Biennale di Venezia. JASNA LAYES VINOVRŠKI is a performer, choreographer, teacher and eternal student of life. She grew up in Zagreb, Croatia, but has been living and working abroad since the disintegration of Yugoslavia. At the beginning of the 90s, she studied in Essen, at the Folkwang Hochschule, and after her graduation she worked as a dancer and performer for 12 years with various European choreographers. During that period, she created her first shorter choreographies, from which the solo work Which Club? was awarded several times. After moving to Berlin in 2008, together with her partner Clément Layes, she founded the company Public in Private, where the two artists are developing separate choreographic signatures, but in close artistic support to each other. Their works have been regularly presented in Berlin as well as internationally. Next to her artistic work, Jasna is engaged in creating alternative platforms for Berlin artists, particularly coming from the performance field. From 2014 to 2017, she co-organized an experimental art platform in Flutgraben Atelier house called 3AM, and from 2019 on, Flutgraben performances. LÉNA SZIRMAY-KALOS is a Berlin-based independent dramaturge, curator and critic from Hungary. She is co-founder of the MMpraxis collective and the artistic director of the performance series Montag Modus. She studied Cultural Theory and Business Administration at the Humboldt University of Berlin, History and Culture of Science and Technology at the Technical University of Berlin, Curating in Performing Arts at Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg and Curatorial Practice at Kunst, Musik und Design University (KMD) Bergen, Norway. From 2015 to 2018, she worked as a curator at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (CHB). Since 2019, she has been working as an independent curator and conceptualizing events at the intersection of the visual and performing arts.