Flóra Gadó

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.