FlóraGadó
(1989) is a freelance curator and Ph.D. student based in Budapest. She
graduated in 2015 from Eötvös Loránd University with an MA in Art Theory.
Currently, she is enrolled in the faculty’s Ph.D. program in Film, Media and
Cultural Theory. Her research topic is the strategy of artistic re-enactments
in contemporary art, focusing on Central-Eastern Europe.
Between 2014–16 she was the gallery assistant at
Chimera-Project Gallery, currently she works as a freelance curator. She
curated several exhibitions for example in the Studio Gallery (Mindsets,
Ongoing Histories), 2B Gallery (Lilla Szász:Our house) and
Labor (Zsófia Keresztes: Holyland).
She also organized exhibitions in the region, for
example at Tabacka Gallery (Košice) and IGLOO Gallery (Jihlava). In 2014-15 she
was part of the organizing team of OFF-Biennale Budapest and since 2016 she is
the member of the research group Open Museum, which focuses on
participatory and collaborative practices in museums. In Spring 2016 she spent
one month in Rennes with the GENERATOR residency program and in 2017 she
received a grant by ERSTE Stiftung and La Caixa and took part in a 10-day curatorial
travel grant in Spain.
She contributes critiques and reviews to several
online and offline magazines and she is the vice president of the Studio of
Young Artists’ Association. She lives and works in Budapest.