Monika Sigeti - installations

Monika Sigeti

Monika Sigeti Born on

May 26. 1979, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.

1998. Secondary school for design, Bogdan Suput, Novi Sad, Serbia.

2003. Bachelor degree, Department of visual arts, Painting, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia.

2011. Master degree, New art media - intermedia exploring, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia.

As a multimedia artist has participated in many art projects. She is working with different mediums like collage, drawing, painting, ceramic, making photographs, art videos, animation, installations and web projects. Also she`s designing handmade clothes, handbags and other fashion accessories. She leads a creative workshop with children. Her previous work has been published in several publications.

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GROUP EXIBITIONS 2009 - 38th Novosadski Salon, Micro Maneuver, Novi Sad, Serbia - BEHIND THE BARRIER, Contemporary Photography from Novi Sad, Fotogalerie im Grazer Rathaus, Austria - Žena okom žene, the position of women in Vojvodina - on the road to gender equality, photo exhibition, group ExPosition and The Gallery Of Photo/Cinema Association Of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia 2008 - 37th Novosadski Salon, Gallery Zlatno Oko, Novi Sad, Serbia - Paint of state – state of paint, project Art in Vojvodina Now, cities of Vojvodina, Serbia - Smell, try, write, Night of Museums, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia - Youth Pallets, Vrbas, Serbia 2007 - Third International exhibition of Art flags, Novi Sad, Serbia, - Lollypop – Body & Consumption, Museum Of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia 2006 - Youth Pallets, Vrbas, Serbia - Gallery SULUV, Novi Sad, Serbia 2005 - TERMINAL 005, balkanart festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia - Exhibition of Illustrations H.C. Andersens fairy tales, Gallery/library of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia 2004 - ANTI THESIS: Art in Vojvodina on the end of XX and beginning XXI century, Umjetnička galerija Bosne i Hercegovine, Sarajevo, BIH 2003 - Step Forward, Gallery Zlatno Oko, Novi Sad, Serbia - 32nd Novosadski Salon, Gallery Podrum, Serbia - REAL PRESENCE 3 - Generation 2003, international workshop, Museum 25 Maj, Belgrade, Serbia - ART IN VOJVODINA - New position... move over, The Center for Visual Culture Zlatno Oko in cooperation with Museum Of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Serbia - Female Handwriting, paintings, Gallery Podrum, Novi Sad, Serbia - Woman, photography exhibition, The Gallery Of Photo/Cinema Association of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia 2002 - 31st Novosadski Salon, Gallery Spens, Serbia - 3rd Biennal exhibition of photographs of students from The Academy Of Arts, Novi Sad: gallery ART-GET in Belgrade and Oslo, Norway 2001 - Inside The Circle - Galerija likovnog Kruga, Petrovaradinska tvrđava, Novi Sad, Serbia - Photographs published in Publikum calendar - LIFE for 2002, Belgrade, Serbia - XI Biennale of students’ drawings, Studentski grad, Belgrade, Serbia - 41st Golden Pen of Belgrade and 6st International Biennal of Illustration Gallery Progres, Belgrade, Serbia 2000 - EXIT festival, video works, Novi Sad, Serbia 1997 - Autumn painting salon, Vrbas, Serbia

SOLO EXIBITIONS 2010. Accumulation - subject is placed in the false reality, installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbia 2008. She’s in Parties, interactive installation, part of Smell, try, write, curator Svetlana Mladenov, Night of Museums, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia 2008. Women, collages, Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia 2006. At Home,.. Living,.. Enjoying, mixed media, Gallery Tableau, Novi Sad, Serbia

PUBLICATIONS - PROJEKAT Umetnost u Vojvodini, maj - decembar 2008, ISBN 978-86-905137-3-4

- NOVOSADSKI salon (37 ; 2008 ; Novi Sad) Telo u novom milenijumu, ISBN 978-86-7931-138-2

- Lilihip - telo i konzumacija = Lollypop - body & consumption, 2007, ISBN -10 86-847773-31-4

- MADE In Novi Sad, (savremena umetnička scena), 2006, ISBN 86-909377-0-6

- ANTI TEZA Umetnost u Vojvodini na kraju XX i početkom XXI veka, Muzej savremene likovne umetnosti, 2004, ISBN 86-84773-06-3

- KORAK. KORAK NAPRED.. DVA KORAKA NAPRED...

Umetnost u Vojvodini: Naj/Mlađi, Ne/Poznati, Ne/Prepoznati, Posebno izdanje Časopisa za kritiku, istoriju i teoriju umetnosti ANOMALIJA, Muzej savremene likovne umetnosti, Novi Sad, 2005, ISBN 86-84773-09-8

Accumulation subject is placed in the false reality photography and collage instalation (2010) >>>

These photographs represent different compositions which I formed creating mini installations in front of natural light. They are made of papers and small elements from my surrounding, including my self-portraits printed on paper and cut afterwards. Every installation I photographed separately and disarranged it after to make another. Visual appearance of photography was affected by weather changes and time of day.

Combination of light and papers, which are overlapping with other elements, makes weightless and movable pictures. All of these dazzling colors, shadows, light projections and lacy structures transmit rhythm of my emotions. I present my intimate, seemingly isolated world. Contemporary life and information availability overrun our individual reality.

Technique: Color digital Photography (without digital processing in Photoshop or other) Photo format: 50x75cm and Hanging Collage installation Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2010.

Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia

She’s in parties installation, Night of Museums (2008) >>>

Collages are part of the installation set up as hanging objects in space. I used colored cellophane so collages will become more transparent. Colored shadows appear on the walls caused by beams of light that pass through the cellophane. Shadows repeat collage, but not complete, singling out certain segments (forms).

Technique: cellophane, various thin or thick papers, glossy or mat and thin pen drawing Format: width 100cm, height varies from 305 - 210cm Exposed in the Night of Museums, project: Smell, try, write, curator: Svetlana Mladenov Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2008.

Women collage installation (2008) >>>

The installation consists of ten collages made of thin transparent paper. They require light behind them to be viewed completely. Collages are like fabrics due to their wrinkles and junctures and female bodies are shown on them. I have presented an intimate space of women. Women are an integral part of each collage and the main topic, treated as objects of manipulation of time in which they live, the modern absurdity. Often duplicated, merged and deformed, they reveal consciousness of women, their fear and facing with themselves and changes. They are lost in the time limits and brought into a state of rigidity, the destruction of individuality and uniqueness. Restraint before the aggressive act, tension, contiguity with madness, stillness and harmony, all is carried with them.

Technique: papers of different transparency and quality Collage format: approx 100x70cm Gallery of the Cultural Center of Novi Sad, 2008.

At Home Living, Enjoying multimedia exhibition (2006) >>>

Installation view, Gallery Tableau

Collages (2001 – 2006) Collages allow me access to more delicate issue, they show more poetical details of life. The medium I use is a thin, transparent colored cellophane paper in combination with other papers and drawings. My collages usually occur after a specific series of photographs. This method allows me to take photographic material prepared as a motive, as a starting point and basis of the real tactile, modified version.

2001/02. These small collages of paper (A4, A5) for the theme used by men, effeminate and androgynous in the interior or exterior were made after a series of photographs The Play with Man using the same motif. I used a thin, easily volatile paper that fades to light. It is drawing in combination with different types of glued paper.

2005/06. The following is a continuation of last series, which incorporates both in At Home Living, Enjoying (My retrospective multimedia exhibition, Tableau Gallery, May 2006). The motif extends to relations between men and women, living in two, daily life, travel, entertainment, frustration. Format remains the same.

Gallery Tableau, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2006.

Home interactive ambiental installation and performance, International workshop Real Presence (2003) >>>

We decided to play and act in the project called Home, interactivelly connecting with the visitors in which they could follow the making of our artificial home, or accuratelly the replacement of the exsisting one. That space was a reflection of our inner feel of the familiar interior-house-home. That construction made of fabrics and found furniture, as well as our own accessories which were purposly brought to contribute the whole feel of a cosy and welcoming home. Those were nostalgic recalls of our childhood and a farewell to the certain period of our lifes.

In unfamiliar and new space, durring 10 days, we were playing with athmosphere and performing different actions. We were sewing our dolls’ dresses, baking cookies for our guests, making our bed in which we were playing with flowers, photographing the process, spontaniously capturing the moments and exibiting them afterwards. Our time-defined, but comfortable space let and welcomed visitors in. There were no walls but visitors were weary to come in. Just the few of the brave came in. The project culminates on the last day, of the opening with the arrival of more members of public, when the video Home was filmed.

Other people entered our little and intimate world.

The Museum of the 25th of May, Belgrade, Serbia, 2003 Organisation: Biljana Tomić Participants: Monika Sigeti, Cecilia Hajzler