Working within the medium of sculpture, installation and sound, Bence Magyarlaki’s practice seeks to uncover the connection points between architecture and body politics, while exploring themes such as intimacy, body memory and sexuality. Sculpture is defined by the artist as a memento to an embodied architecture that we ingest through the various layers of conditioning that our bodies endure under our current capitalist, binary, heteropatriarchal system. Magyarlaki’s work gives form to this embodied architecture: the socio-political, psycho-sexual, spiritual and mental construction of the self that regulates its extention: a constantly evolving-moving-desiring body.
Bence Magyarlaki (b. 1992) is a Hungarian artist currently based in Paris. Magyarlaki graduated with first class honours from BA (Hons) Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London in 2017 and has since been exhibiting internationally in the UK, France, Morocco, Portugal, Turkey and Australia. Their latest body of work has been supported by Montresso Art Foundation in Marrakesh. Their work was nominated for The MullenLowe NOVA Awards (2017), and The International Takifuji Art Award (2017).
Born in 1992 in Hungary
Lives and works in Paris
EDUCATION
2014–2017 BA (Hons) Fine Art – 1st Class Honours – Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, London
2013–2014 Moving image and media design, 91. Stúdió, Budapest
2011-2013 General Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023
UPCOMING: (Non)Violent Protectors – Montresso Art Foundation, Marrakesh Magyarlaki Bence: Szobrok/The Body
Schema series, Heart & Cherry Limited Editions, Budapest, Hungary
Szobrok – Body Schema Series, Miko utca 3, Budapest, Hungary
2021
Uranus, Waiting Room, Martch Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
Baudrand-Magyarlaki, duo with Edith Baudrand, Galerie IAWT, Paris, France
(entre-deux) CORPS, duo with Isabel Alonso-Vega, Montresso Foundation, Marrakesh, Morocco
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
You-Hu, Young Generation of Hungarian Artists, collective exhibition, Kieselbach Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
2021
AMUSE – BOUCHE, Galeria Foco, Lisbon, Portugal
2020
INTIMACY: Jerico Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
Fragile Surface, Fluid Mass: Martch Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2019
Prototypes – MAH Gallery, London, England
In Limen, Memory – Teatro Romano, Lisbon, Portugal
S2 Third Base Residency Exhibition – Third Base Studios, Lisbon, Portugal
Capitulo I. – Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita (AMAC), Barreiro, Portugal
2018
Feedback group exhibition, The Switch Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
Anexo 6, Lisbon, Portugal
UX deconstructed, curated by Carolina Grau, UX Art Space, Lisbon, Portugal
2017
Twilly’s Minimalist Playground – Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Painting Beyond Itself (curator), 14TH CINEMA, London, England
Film in Performance – Performance in Film (curator), 14TH CINEMA, London, England
“Come” Degree Show I. – Central Saint Martins College, London Big Space – Central Saint Martins College , London, England
RESIDENCIES
2019 – 2022
Jardin Rouge Residency, Marrakesh, Morocco
2019
Third Base Artist Residency, Lisbon, Portugal
PUBLICATIONS
2023
Radical Craft. Contemporary Craft & Design in Europe, Direktorenhaus – Museum für Kunst Handwerk Design, edited by Pascal Johanssen, Berlin, Germany
2022
YOU HU, Young Hungarian Contemporaries, Kieselbach Galeria, edited by Zita Sàrvàri, Budapest, Hungary
2021
(entre-deux) corps : Bence Magyarlaki / Isabel Alonso Vega, #20 série Jardin Rouge, Artists in Residence, published by Montresso Art Foundation
AWARDS
2017
The MullenLowe NOVA Awards (nominated)
The International Takifuji Art Award (nominated)
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BENCE MAGYARLAKI
AT SATURN’S CUSP
03/14/2024 - 04/20/2024
