Alexandra Hegedűs was born in 1991 in the small town of Csongrád and grew up in Szeged. She attended the Tömörkény István Secondary School of Art, one of the most important art schools in the country. It was here that he first studied painting, drawing, textile art and art history. He wanted to study the special genre of textile sculpture after high school, but in the absence of such a home opportunity, he started attending the Faculty of Arts at the University of Pécs.
At university, Alexandra studied painting, art history, art anatomy and art psychology, among others. She spent a semester at the art college in Venice. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, mainly in Pécs, Budapest and some small towns in neighbouring countries. He won third place in the painting section of the National Student Conference, the Fundamenta Amadeus Program scholarship in 2013 and 2014, the Kriszbacher Ildikó University scholarship in 2015, and finally the New National Excellence Program scholarship in 2016.
Alexandra began experimenting with unconventional materials in her painting with the encouragement of her faculty and her master, Peter Somody, and continues to do so to this day. She graduated in Fine Arts with a thesis on textile sculpture. Afterwards, her attention turned to art socialisation and museum education in the Faculty of Teacher Training, where she worked with the Janus Pannonius Museum and some local schools. Alexandra exhibited her paintings of that time under the title Alak-Anyag at the Reggeli Bar in Pécs in 2017.
The following summer she worked in museum workshops and then moved to the United States with her husband. During her two years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she worked as a teaching assistant and volunteered at the Milwaukee Art Museum. She had the opportunity to exhibit her work at the Riverwest Art Walk, an event that has been held since the 1970s.
In 2019, after a few months in Milan, where she had an exhibition at M.A.D.S Gallery, she returned to Hungary and settled in Budapest. Since September 2021, she is a museum educator at the Hungarian National Gallery.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 National Student Conference - Art Section, Eger, HU
2013 Fundamenta Amadeus Program exhibition, Nádor Gallery, Pécs, HU
2014 Art Moments Central European Visual Arts Festival, Budapest, HU
2015 Living Castle art camp final exhibition, Daniel Castle, Olastelek, RO
2016 ArtPort 20 - "Artem non odit nisi ignarus", Zsolnay Quarter, m21 Gallery, Pécs, HU
2016 DiploPort Diploma Exhibition, Zsolnay Quarter, m21 Gallery, Pécs, HU
2016 Master and his disciples, Muzeja Slavonija, Osijek, CRO
2016 Entrée 2016 - Diploma Exhibition, Várkert Bazaar, Budapest, HU
2018 RAA Annual Members' Exhibition, Jazz Gallery/RAA, Milwaukee, USA
2018 53212 Studio and Gallery Walk, The Vibe and Jazz Gallery/RAA, Milwaukee, USA
2019 M.A.D.S Critics Award exhibition, MADS Gallery, Milan, IT
2021 6th Godot Art Fair, Godot Institute of Contemporary Art, Budapest, HU
2022 7th Godot Art Fair, Godot Institute of Contemporary Art, Budapest, HU
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Experiments, VNA Gallery, Pécs, HU
2017 Alak-Anyag, Breakfast Bar, Pécs, HU
2019 Artisjus Székház, Budapest, HU
2021 Brushless strokes, Golden Bastion, Lónyay-Hatvany villa, Budapest, HU
Looking back, I think my art has always been about a kind of exploration, research, experimentation. At first I was interested in observing and mapping the world, and later in using a wide variety of materials and techniques. At first, the abstract genre gave me the freedom to experiment with materials and techniques, but at the same time I tried to put the results of my experiments into 'recipes' to use for more thoughtful project work. The essence of my works for 2020 is the play of layering, of covering and translucency of different coloured varnishes, glues, painted and embroidered surfaces. The organically sprawling shapes created by the different materials appear in regular circles or squares in the middle of regular square or circular canvases. This regularity is intended to create harmony in chaos, while at the same time pushing the boundary between the organic and the geometric pair of opposites. The organic shapes on the canvas are placed in space by a painted shadow, indicating that they are multi-dimensional forms, a kind of entity. They exist alone in spaces of different colours, separated, floating, as if some were distant planets. It is because of this unconscious similarity that the images were eventually given their titles after exoplanets.
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