JUCI KELE

・ARTIST STATEMENT・

I'm JUCI /jutsi/. I dance. I paint. I design.

Painting is important to me for a long time. I began painting my feelings as a teenager.

As an architect, I was always enchanted by textures, surfaces, proportions and colours.

Motherhood started a new stage in my life. My daughters hold a mirror in front of me and owing to it. I can find myself again just like in dancing, meditation, self-recognition and love.

While I'm painting I feel like I’m in a dream-world of fairies, elves and strange, but cute creatures. In my pictures, a world of dream and soul comes to life sometimes through fairy creatures, sometimes just in a non-figurative way.

My repetitive topics are meditative states, freedom, loneliness, our uniting with the infinite in their profoundness, and the duality of longing and arriving.

Though my pictures are based on my own experiences, I think the feelings rising from them can be common to all of us.

That's my diary, for you.

・BIO・

1981.08.30. ・ Born in Budapest, Hungary

1994 - 2000 ・Toldy Ferenc High School

2000 - 2007 ・Master degree in Architecture at Budapest University of Technology and Economics

2003 - 2008 ・Iparterv Zrt. - junior architect

2005 - 2010 ・Alan D. Olin, Redwood City, California, USA - architect

2007          ・Pi-HUN - architect

2008 - 2010 ・Pálffy Építész Studio - architect, interior designer

2009 - 2013 ・Beside my two daughters - full-time mom

2011 - 2012 ・BKSZC - goldsmith training

2013 - 2014 ・Defo Design Galery - architect, interior designer

2014 - 2017 ・Hannabi Sofa - furniture designer

・EXHIBITIONS・

・solo・

2015 ・”dream, tale, reality” - first solo exhibition, Tranzit Art Cafe, Budapest

2017 ・”piknik” - second solo exhibition, PIKNIK Manufaktúra, Nagymaros

2018 ・”eyes closed” - third solo exhibition, Farger Kávézó, Budapest

・group・

2007 ・BME Architect Diploma Award - group exhibition, Budapest

2007 ・ALUTA - group architect exhibition, Budapest

2008 ・MÉK - group architect exhibition, Budapest

2009 ・"I give you hope and future" - group exhibition, Barabás Villa, Budapest

2018 ・Mama D’s Coffee - group exhibition, WI, USA

2018 ・Vad Art Kiállítás V. - group exhibition, Budapest

2018 ・2nd Annual Colors Exhibitions - group exhibition

・AWARDS, COMPETITIONS・

2004 ・Winner design of the building of the Hungarian Embassy in Washington DC  - co-designer

2004 ・Winner design of the Zagreb Embassy building - co-designer

2005 ・ Purchase the plans of the Érd Police Department building - designer

2007 ・Diploma Award Budapest University of Technology and Economics

2007 ・Aluta Student Award  - 1st Prize

2018 ・2nd Annual Colors Exhibitions - comp. - group exhibition