Koller Margit

szobrok, installációk, videók és fotók

CV

Sculptor
Budapest, 1991
Founder of Parallel Hungary Collective with Varga Tünde

I typically do not create autonomous artworks, but rather construct situations at the intersection of sculpture and architecture: I open doors, windows, and passageways, block paths with walls, and build staircases—always on a scale capable of engaging the human body.
My main interest lies in exploring the spatial dimensions of our relationship to ourselves, to community, and to freedom and power structures. I currently experiment with sculptural and architectural forms that are not only made for the eye but are composed for full somatic experience.
The spatial aspects of becoming a mother, the intricate networks of female communities that support maternal well-being, and the division of intimate and public space between the strong and the vulnerable have recently become key sources of inspiration for my work.
My daughter was born in 2023.

You can follow my latest works through my Instagram.

Studies

2016-22

Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Doctoral School (DLA studies)
Dissertation: The non-autonomous artwor. Site-specific installation, environment and total installation
Closing show: Between your for walls
Supervisor: dr. habil. Valéria Sass DLA

2014-15

HUFA, Faculty of Fineart Teacher

2013

Erasmus Program, Academy of Fine Arts (AVU), Prague
Monumental Art Class, Faculty of Intermedia,
Professor: Jiří Příhoda

2009-15

HUFA, Faculty of Sculpture
Professors: Valéria Sass and Ádám Szabó

Solo shows

2022

Between the Four Walls, studioexhibition and mastertalks, Budapest

2019

Suspended, Óbudai Társaskör Gallery, Budapest
Scale (with Ágnes Hardi) Artus Studio Gallery, Budapest
Pass it on (with Manuel F. Contreras) 2B Gallery, Budapest 

2018

Three Doors (Parthenon-friese Hall, Budapest)

2014

Timetrack (Labor Gallery, Budapest)
Hesse’s Permanency (HUFA)

Selected group exhibitions

2025

Mooom, MAMŰ, Budapest
Mom is an artist, Dad is a curator, FKSE, Budapest
Wait, I’m planting this one too, 2B Gallery, Budapest (HU)  

2024

Remembering the Presence, MODEM, Debrecen (HU)
Waldsee, 2B Gallery, Budapest (HU)

2023

Presence/Absence, exhibition of Parallel Hungary Collective, 2B Gallery, Budapest (HU)

2022

The faces of the Concrete 7.0, Nick Gallery, Pécs (HU)
Door, 2B Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Valéria Sass and her guests, HUFA, Budapest (HU)

2021

Sculptor Profs of Strawberry Garden, HUFA, Budapest (HU)
Existenz Chapter 2.: Traces, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (HfBK), Dresden, Germany (DE)

2020

Hortus Conclusus – Velence-lake Symposium, Main Square of Sepsiszentgyörgy, Romania (RO)

2018

Time of Our Lives? (MODEM, Debrecen)
Memories of Forgetting – Photo / Model 2. (DLA exhibition, Barcsay Hall, HUFA)

2017

Farm Atelier (PINCE, Budapest)
Salt (Kunstküche, Budapest)
Paramnesia (with 6D group, Budapest Gallery, Budapest)

2016

DLADLA100 (DLA exhibition, Barcsay Hall, HUFA)
Pictures and Pixels (Kunsthalle, Budapest)
Borderline Case (Parthenon-frieze Hall, Budapest)
Accident (with 6D group, Omnivore Gallery, Budapest)
The Plot Thickens (Kunstpodium-T, Tilburg, Netherland)
Aperitif (L’Art Open Studios, Budapest)
Side by Side in the Middle (with 6D group, Omnivore Gallery, Budapest)
Best of Diploma (Barcsay Hall, HUFA)
Five and more (Artus Gallery, Budapest)

2014

Spaces of Uncertainty (Barcsay Hall, HUFA)
Young Artists at Nagyatád (Nagyatád)
Your Own Reality (House of Arts, Gödöllő)
Hole (Fészek Gallery, Budapest)

2013

56,3 square meters (Fészek Gallery, Budapest)
National Art Conference (Eger)

Works in Public Collections

Without threshold (2015, my diplomawork) is at the collection of Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros (HU) since 2022

Public Art

2021

Is it open? – a huge concrete door sculpture at Szigetmonostor, Hungary, made at the 5th Artcamp of Monostor

2018

3rd place (with dr Balázs Almási landarchitect) of the public art competition called Ottlik-garden

2015

3rd place (with 6D Group) of the public art competition about The Revolution of 1956, Budapest

Awards and Scholarships

2022

Finalist with Parallel Hungary Collective at Art Transfer prize, Ludwig Museum, Budapest

2020-21

Postdoctoral Scholarship Program

2019

National Excellence Program

2018

Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation Researcher Scholarship, New York
Géza Ottlik Park – Public Sculpture Competition of Budapest 3rd place with land-architects

2017-18

National Excellence Program

2016

Monument of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 – Public Sculpture Competition of Budapest, 3rd place with 6D group and architects

2015

Vígh Tamás Award (for the best sculpture diplomawork)

Symposiums and Workshops

2021, 22, 23

Arcus Temporum Festival, Pannonhalma, HU

2021

Concrete Sculpture Symposium at Szigetmonostor, HU

2017

International Lake Velence Symposium, Hungary
‘SzITA’ Land Art workshop, Hungary

2015

Apprentice/Master project, Tillburg, NL

2014, 15

Woodcarwing Symposium, Nagyatád, HU

2013

Student Workshop with AVU at Brno, CZ

Academic career and teaching

2020-2023

project assistant at the EU4ART Allianz (European Universities Project) at Hungarian University of Fine Arts

2016-2020

Assistant lecturer at Hungarian University of Fine Arts (HUFA), Sculptor Department
courses:  The Free Spirit of Sculpture, Professional Presentation in Foreign Language

2017

Teacher at Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts, Budapest

2015-16

Teacher at Ferenc Medgyessy Secondary School of Fine Arts, Debrecen

Curatorial activities

2023

Presence / Absence – with dr. Varga Tünde aesthete, exhibition of the Parallel Hungary Collective
Opened – Empty shops for rent-festival, with Parallel Hungary Collective

2021

Phalanstery: The Memory of the Phalanstery – with dr. József Mélyi, arthistorian, regional exhibition of EU4ART at more venues

2020

Parallel Hungary – with dr. Tünde Varga aesthete, group exhibition of Stipendium Hungaricum students of HUFA Doctoral School, HUFA Aula

2019

Error – with dr. Valéria Sass, group exhibition of students of the Free Spirit of Sculpture course, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest

2018

Two-a-side – with dr. Valéria Sass, group exhibition of students of the Free Spirit of Sculpture course, MAMŰ Gallery and HUFA

2017

Farm Atelier– group exhibition of SziTA Land Art Camp, Pince Gallery, Budapest
Rootzone – group exhibition of students of HUFA, Óbudai Társaskör Gallery, Budapest
Paramnesia – exhibition of the 6D group, Budapest Gallery

Bibliography (in English)

  • Diósi / Horváth Lóczi / Koller / Szakál – art catalogue of the cARTc Cultural Foundation, 2019
  • Time of our Lives? Starting perspectives – catalogue powered by MODEM, 2018
  • Memories of Forgettin, catalogue of HUFA, 2018
  • Rootzone, 2017, Budapest Artweek
  • Paramnesia, 2017, Budapest Gallery webpage
  • DLADLA100, 2017, catalogue by HUFA 
  • The Plot Thickens, 2016, Kunstpodium T Archive