Flóra Kőszeghy graduated in 2006 as architect at the Architectural Faculty of the Technical University of Budapest. Since 2004 she has worked in several important offices in Hungary. She started at the office of Erick van Egeraat dutch architect as she was only a student. Later she worked at Zoboki and Demeter Architectural Studio. At Tiba Architecture Studio she was one of the lead architects of the Telekom and T-ySystem’s Headquaters Office Builiding in Budapest. She also worked for Peter Kis, and had projects with Judit Z. Halmágyi, Dezső Ekler, and several other important architect in Hungary. Since 2018 she runs her own office, the Studio Kőszeghy, where she designs large and small scale projects with her team.
Meanwhile Kőszeghy is a painter, since her grandmother was the student of Aba Novák, the great Hungarian painter. She has learnt a lot from family traditions, but in the last 10-15 years she was doing experiments following her own artistic concepts. During the last 6 years she had several exhibitions in Budapest, Debrecen, Barcelona and in Vienna too. Her own point of view is easily recognisable, not only by the colors and the painting method, but after the mood of the paintings. The hardy or not even recognizable enlarged details change even the atmosphere of the exhibitions space. Since 2018 she is experimenting with the extension of the paintings into space. These large installations represent Kőszeghy’s aim to connect architecture and art in a conceptual approach. She mixes the different mediums in an extraordinary way.
She is member of the TÁP Theater, which is one of the most important alternative theater company in Hungary, where she is painting on stage in one piece and designing stage set in the other. In her former works she mixed film and painting, just like bringing literature together with painting, by cutting parts of written texts as titles for paintings. With the use of the different mediums her focus is on the change in the spatial-virtual thinking in our age.
Education:
2011 – The Doctoral School of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture – Absolutorium
2006 – Archietcural degree at BME Budapest
2004 – Ecole d’architecture de Paris la Villette
Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Új Műhely Gallery – Szentendre – Analogues
2020
Kahan Art Space Budapest – Spatial cuts vol.3. ..LAS
2019
Kahan Art Space Budapest – Spatial cuts vol.2. OD
Karinthy Szalon Budapest – Techno Organic Creatures
Massolit Books and Café Budapest – Spatial cuts vol.1. DRI
Valid World Hall – Barcelona – Non continuum
2018
FUGA – Logical Being
2017
P28 Gallery – Literal Biopsy
2016
House|is – Watertower Gallery Debrecen
Typisch – Szatyor Art Space Galéria
Vivant – Hungarian Architects Chamber
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / FAIRS
2021
Art Market Budapest – Baker Howard Contemporary Gallery
Hungarian National Paintings Day Exhibition – Szolnok
2020
Gallery Max – Secret gardens
Art Market Budapest – Magyar Műhely Gallery
2019
Valid World Hall – Barcelona – O.F.N.I.
Kunsthalle Budapest – Tér-erő
2018
Cultiris Gallery – Proportion Putto XXL
Vajda Lajos Studio Szentendre – Primek Primissima
2017
FUGA – Látványtér
Collegium Hungaricum Vienna – Ausgleich
Artquater Budapest – [email protected]
Csíkszereda – Primek Primissima
Andrássy 66 – Artlocator Issue 4
Osztrák Cultural Fórum – Ausgleich
Yurtanzuhany Galéria – Primek Primissima
Educational activities:
BME Architectural Faculty:
– Architecural Design – Basics of Architecure 2006 – 2011
– REsidental building Design: 2009, 2011
– Workshops: 2008, 2011
– Concrete workshop – Leltár 2013
University of Debrecen – Mentor at the Creative Design Days
Seminars:
2012 – Introduction of the Városmajor – BME
2013 – Budapesti Metropolitan University: Bubble structures Symposium
2016 – BME Geoinformatic Faculty: Eleven
Publications:
Gábor Szilágyi_ Logical Being: Flóra Kőszeghy’s paintings
Judit Lang: Dimensions of Flóra Kőszeghy / Építészfórum, 2018.12. Online
Zsófia Márton: Insignificant delatils / Új Művészet, 2019.03. Kunszt Online
Attila Sirbik: Building is demolition / Új Művészet, 2019.08. Kunszt Online
Daniel Lichterwaldt: Interview with Flóra Kőszeghy / Les Nouveaux riches Magazine 2020.12.06. Online
Flóra Kőszeghy:Toward the architcture of the impossible / Új Művészet XXI Year, 3. Edition
Flóra Kőszeghy: REvolution of the livingmachine-people / Új Művészet XXI Year, 4. Edition
Contact: [email protected]