Rita Koszorus

Rita Koszorus (b. 1989, Bratislava) focuses on the pragmatic and metaphorical “search for home and certainty” within broader socio-political and personal contexts. A shared experience of losing one’s sense of belonging—shaped by professional, personal, environmental, social, and political pressures—generates a collective longing for safety and stability. Her work explores themes of nomadic existence, remembrance, memory, and absurdity through painting, installation, collage, and soft sculpture, with an emphasis on perceiving time as a bodily experience of material. Her visual language merges abstract forms with surreal visions.

Residency dates: 30. 3. – 30. 5. 2026

RESIDENCY PROJECT

Within the framework of the MeetFactory residency, Koszorus approaches the project as research into the space between delusion and safety, while reflecting on nomadic existence. She develops her practice through painting, sewing, and video, creating scenographic environments that translate the embodied qualities of her abstract paintings into immersive spatial situations. This process involves experimenting with new materials and skills, as objects take on performative roles in dialogue with the body. The principle of illusion functions as both a visual and conceptual tool for constructing a sense of safety—something continuously sought in the home, in relationships, in love, and even in conceptions of death.

EDUCATION

2013    Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE), Budapest (HU)
Painting — prof. Imre Bukta, Péter Kiss

2014    Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD), Bratislava (SK)
Painting and Other Media (Studio +-XXI) — prof. Daniel Fischer

2010    Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD), Bratislava (SK)
Printmaking and Other Media (Free Printmaking Studio) — prof. Robert Jančovič

2008    School of Applied Arts of Josef Vydra (ŠUP), Bratislava (SK)
Propagation Art — prof. Milan Bočkay, Marián Meško

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025    A Place Between, Kvalitář, Praha, Czech Republic (CZ)
2025    Ephemeral Onsets, At Home Gallery, Šamorín, Slovakia (SK)
2024     Sometimes I’m Happy Vol. 2, Backhaus Projects, Berlin, Germany (DE)
2024    Sometimes I’m Happy, Open Studio, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France (FR)
2024    A Home Full of Doors, VILTIN Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (HU)
2023    Stay Forever, with Ján Jánoš, Atelier HORA / Station Contemporary Art Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia (SK)
2023    What We Built and What Was Built for Us, with Andreas Werner, VILTIN Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (HU)
2023    I’m Thinking of You, Galerie Synagoga, Hranice, Czech Republic (CZ)
2022    It’s Better with You, Nová vlna, Trenčín, Slovakia (SK)
2022    You Make Me Brave, Instituto, Porto, Portugal (PT)
2022    Hadal of My Aquarium, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia (SK)
2022    Standing on One Leg, with Juan Nazar, Ostrava, Czech Republic (CZ)
2022    For a Minute There I Lost My Fear, Pradiareň 1900 / Cvernovka, Bratislava, Slovakia (SK)
2022    Snow in Summer, Hájovňa, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia (SK)
2022    Overlaps, with Ádám Dóra, Hegyvidék Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (HU)
2021    The Search for Mnemosyne, Atelier XIII, Bratislava, Slovakia (SK)
2021    Tapestry Collage, with Kristína Šipulová, Alcova, Milan, Italy (IT)
2021    Desire of Yesterday, GUEZ, Nové Zámky, Slovakia (SK)
2020    schMERZraum 2.0, Galeria Cin-Cin, Bratislava, Slovakia (SK)
2020    schMERZrot gelb blau, Rumanský Art Centre, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia (SK)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025    Festival of Contemporary Art, FSUP, Prostějov, Czech Republic (CZ)
2025    Waiting for a Larger Sun, Hoast Gallery, Vienna, Austria (AT)
2024    Abstract Narratives, Fridman Gallery, New York, United States (US)
2024    To Dwell in Possibility, Vorfluter, Berlin, Germany (DE)
2024    Picture Practices, QContemporary, Budapest, Hungary (HU)
2023    Creatures of Mine, Klauzal Project Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (HU)
2023    La Noche Blanca de la Cultura, Aracena, Spain (ES)
2023    Speculative Properties, Studio Adalbertstr. 9, Berlin, Germany (DE)
2022    Salon d’Automne, Paris, France (FR)
2022    Printing, Still, Epreuve d’Artiste Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium (BE)
2022    Absurdity Is My Favorite Feeling, VILTIN Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (HU)
2022    Past Tense, Juan Nazar, KSTN, Berlin, Germany (DE) (installation intervention)
2022    Painting – VUB Foundation Award for Young Artists, Galéria Nedbalka, Bratislava, Slovakia (SK)
2022    Microtomy, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (HU)
2022    Swaying on the Edge, swaying.online
2022    On the Paper…, Galeria 19, Bratislava, Slovakia (SK)

AWARDS
2021–2020 Painting    VUB Foundation Award for Young Artists, Galéria Nedbalka, Bratislava, Slovakia (SK)

all information is accurate as of March, 2026