Mira Dalma Makai
(1990 - )
Mira Makai Dalma, ceramic artist, belongs to the young artist generation that is started to reshape the form of the Hungarian art scene throughout the last couple of years. Makai’s organic statues resemble human organs or marine creatures and her thick, tangling organism-like ceramics put Makai’s works to a prominent and distinctive place among contemporary artists. As well, her works are part of private collections in Europe and have been exhibited nationally and internationally in Austria, Romania and Germany.
Makai experimented and tested out her own incineration technique and pigment use which combined end up creating vivid, dynamic, still smart, and elegant compositions. She also draws upon a variety of techniques, which she acquired from her studies in the printmaking department at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
Some words from the artist on inspiration and methodology:
"I collect inspiration for my latest sculptures from many places. I condense my favourite patterns I found during my virtual or real reflections into my work. Thus, it can happen that a character, basically from Chinese mythology, mixes with the language of the cartoon form and appears in rhyming colours with the world of current running shoe fashion. It gives me a lot of formal freedom that the use of these ingredients is often not pre-planned, often basically not even conscious, the fragments essentially mix spontaneously by me and meet each other in a given job. So, decoding the connections after the firing process is also a kind of game for me and carries the already mentioned surprise experience."
STUDIES
2011 - 2016 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Printmaking
2014 - 2015 Summer semester, Akademie der Bildenden Künste
München, Germany
AWARDS
2017 II. National Ceramics Quadriennal - creative scolarship
2015 Esterhazy Art Prize
2014 Erasmus Scolarship
2014 Creative Scholarship for the Litograph workshop of Vác
LINKS
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Keramik und Grafik, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich
2018 Unseen Creatures, Art+Text Budapest, Budapest
2018 V4 Art Connects: Structures/ Illusions/ Interactions, Budapest
2017 Real Hungary, Collegium Hungaricum Wien, Austria
2017 Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien,
Graz, Austria
2017 Graphic Triennal Miskolc- XXVII., Miskolc Gallery,
Miskolc, Hungary
2017 II. National Ceramic Quadriennal, Modern Magyar Képtár,
Pécs, Hungary
2016 4th Graphic Art Biennal of Szeklerland, MAGMA,
Sepsiszentgyörgy, Romania
2016 Glaze and gut, solo with Adam Dallos, Art+Text Gallery,
Budapest, Hungary
2016 Mermaids and Color Fields, A38, Budapest, Hungary
2016 Painting in the open air, Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria
2016 Standing in front of objects, Erika Deak Gallery,
Budapest, Hungary
2015 Esterhazy Art Award 2015, Hungarian National Museum,
Budapest, Hungary
2015 Mindeközben, Partizan, Budapest, Hungary
2015 Jahresausstellung, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München,
Munich, Germany
2014 3rd Graphic Art Biennal of Szeklerland, MAGMA,
Sepsiszentgyörgy, Romania
2014 The Idol is falling!, Partizan, PPCenter Budapest, Hungary
2014 Graphic Triennal Miskolc- XXVI., Miskolc Gallery,
Miskolc, Hungary